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Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipes

From Diana Rattray,
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Butter Cookies, Bourbon Balls, Shortbread, and More

Here some of my favorite cookie recipes for the holidays, including a variety of delicious butter cookies, sugar cookies, the ever-popular Southern Bourbon balls, shortbread, spice cookies, filled thumbprints, and more.

1. Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Logs

Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Logs
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These delicious chocolate-dipped shortbread logs are made with butter, brown sugar, flour, flavorings, almonds, and melted chocolate for dipping. A wonderful cookie for the holidays or special occasion.

2. Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies

Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies
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These cookies are easy to prepare, and they're egg-free. Drizzle melted chocolate over these shortbread cookies for the holidays. Use a food processor or electric chopper to chop the peanuts for this recipe.

3. Pecan Praline Cookies

Pecan Cookies
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These little cookies are packed with chopped pecans. Yummy buttery pecan cookies, made so simply with butter, brown sugar, and pecans, along with flour and vanilla.

4. Cranberry Orange Drop Cookies

Iced Cranberry-Orange Cookies
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These festive and delicious drop cookies are flavored with orange juice concentrate and filled with plump dried cranberries.

5. Raspberry-Filled Almond Cookies

Raspberry-Filled Almond Cookies
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These delightful cookies are made with a cream cheese cookie dough rolled in coarsely ground almonds, and they're filled with a dab of seedless raspberry jam. Feel free to substitute candied cherry halves for the filling in these cookies.

6. Sour Cream Cookies

Sour Cream Cookies
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Decorate these sour cream cut-out cookies with icing, colored sugar, or ground spices. Scroll down to see more Christmas cookie recipes.

7. Hazelnut Butter Cookies

Hazelnut Butter Cookies
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Delicious and easy hazelnut cookie recipe with butter, finely chopped hazelnuts, flour, powdered sugar, and vanilla.

8. Holiday Spritz Cookies

Holiday Spritz Cookies
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Butter cookies made with the cookie press, also known as Spritz Cookies. Spritz cookies can be challenging, but once your dough is the right consistency and you master the press, your cookies will be beautiful.

9. Bourbon Balls

Use bourbon or rum in these wonderful Southern treats. You'll love how easy these delicious cookies are to make.

10. Snickerdoodles

An old-fashioned spice cookie made with sugar and cinnamon, shortening, vanilla, and eggs.
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