French cookies recipes

Decorated cookies the grownups will love---they're loaded with toasted almonds and candied orange peel.

Citrus lovers will like this refreshing crispy cookie from Jocelyn Moritz of Waukesha.

Spices and candied fruit are in these chewy cookie squares.

Leckerli Cookies recipe

Almond raisin biscotti recipe.

The colors the fruits used in the cookies suggest those of the robes worn by the four ordres mendiants, monastic orders that originally lived on charity -- the Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans.

Almond-Raisin Biscotti recipe