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Mincemeat oatmeal cookies: chewy spiced drop cookies that pack the entire flavor of a Christmas mince pie into a hand-held bite. Brown sugar, molasses, oats, and a generous spoonful of mincemeat per cookie.

Buttery shortbread crust topped with gooey pecan-coconut filling creates bar cookies that taste like pecan pie without the fussy pastry work.

Cinnamon sugar cookies with a tender shortening-based dough, brushed with egg white and topped with a cinnamon sugar sparkle. Crisp edges, soft centers.

Swiss aniseed and lemon chrabeli cookies with their signature half-moon shape and three slashed edges. Crisp, slightly dry cookies that rest overnight before baking for traditional texture.

Vera's buttermilk cookies use powdered buttermilk and a half-sugar, half-sweetener blend for a lower-sugar tangy sugar cookie. Crisp edges, soft centers, ready in 35 minutes.

Raisin cookies use a boiled-water cooking method that plumps the raisins into the sweet brown sugar syrup before baking. No eggs, no butter required. Frugal Depression-era cookie that still satisfies.

This cookie base is used to make loads of cookie recipes. Crisp edges with soft centers, this cookie dough recipe is ideal for getting creative with your add-ins.

Brigette's almond crescent cookies bring together buttery shortbread, rolled oats, and finely chopped almonds, finished with a dusting of powdered sugar. A classic passed-down holiday bake.

Tender cream cheese cookies flavored with star anise, shaped into logs, baked, then sliced and toasted crisp for twice-baked slices that melt on your tongue.

Old-fashioned hermit cookies with molasses, raisins, chopped nuts, and a warm spice blend of cloves, cinnamon, and ginger. A chewy New England classic rolled and cut from thick dough.

If you have egg whites left over from other recipes, use them for making kisses. For the holidays you can dress them up by sprinkling some green sugar or red cinnamon hearts on each kiss to make them more festive.

Cherry pinwheel slices with a flaky sour cream pastry rolled around cherry pie filling, coconut, and pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. An elegant holiday cookie.

Old-fashioned hickory nut drop cookies with sour milk, raisins, and chopped nuts in a soft, cakey dough. A heritage Midwest recipe with buttery, wild nut flavor.

Thin, crispy oatmeal lace cookies with brown sugar, heavy cream, melted butter, and brandy-soaked currants. Delicate, caramelized wafers that shatter with each bite.

No-bake chocolate date and ginger fans made with crushed graham crackers, semi-sweet chocolate, crystallized ginger, and chopped dates. Set in a flan pan, chilled, and sliced into elegant wedges.

Pecan oat sandies are tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies rolled in powdered sugar with rolled oats and chopped pecans for chewy texture. Three dozen from one batch. The cookie tin classic with an oatmeal upgrade.