Cookies made for the holiday season can take on any number of themes and flavors, however peppermint and cinnamon are more common in the winter months than cookies with chocolate or peanut butter ingredients.
Gingerbread is also made frequently during the winter holidays, with gingerbread men a popular treat.
Popular Cookies
Though sugar cookies are popular year round, the holiday season affords the opportunity to festively decorate and shape cookies for thematic satisfaction. Shortbread cookies are also common. The Food Network features an almond shortbread that is cut to look like mini-pie slices.
Epicurious lists a series of favorite holiday cookies including Coconut Macaroons, Linzer, Almond Lace, Lemon bars and Pecan Sables. Epicurious: Editors Favorite Cookies
Pecan Sables
The Sables are made with sea salt and a European style butter. They are similar to Pecan Sandies.
Linzer Cookies
The Linzer cookie is made from a hazelnut-based dough which is cut out. Two layers of cookie sandwich a filling of raspberry jam that peeks though a holiday cutout.
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Though gingerbread men are a seasonal cookie, Gingersnaps are enjoyed year round
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Elaborate cookies such as trains and houses are baked and decorated for display before consumption
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