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Soft banana oatmeal cookies with orange juice, raisins, and nutmeg, drizzled with a fresh orange icing. Makes 30 pillowy drop cookies that stay tender for days.

No-bake peanut butter bars with graham crackers, powdered sugar, and chunky peanut butter topped with melted chocolate. Tastes like a homemade Reese's cup in bar form.

Almond orange chocolate biscotti: toasted slivered almonds, orange zest, and chocolate chips folded into a buttery twice-baked Italian cookie dough with a splash of amaretto. Perfect with coffee.

Chewy drop cookies loaded with butterscotch and chocolate chips, sweetened with honey and a hint of almond extract. Made with egg whites for a lighter texture that still satisfies.

Soft, cakey chocolate drop cookies topped with a rich homemade chocolate icing. Made with real unsweetened chocolate and optional pecans, this bakery-style recipe yields 3 dozen.

Anise almond biscotti are twice-baked Italian cookies with toasted almonds and warm anise seeds. Crisp, dunkable holiday treats that keep up to 4 weeks. Makes about 2 dozen.

Hoernchen are German almond crescent cookies made with ground almonds, butter, and vanilla, dipped in colored sugar or sprinkles for a festive holiday cookie.

Indian Figlets are spiced drop cookies loaded with softened figs, warm cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, brightened with lemon zest. A chewy throwback cookie with bakery depth.

Stained glass candies are no-bake chocolate log slices studded with colorful mini marshmallows and walnuts. A gorgeous holiday candy that looks like stained glass windows when sliced.

Classic hermit cookies with brown sugar, cold coffee, raisins, nuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg. An old-fashioned New England drop cookie that's soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Classic rolled-and-cut Christmas sugar cookies sprinkled with colored sugar before baking. Crisp, buttery, and ready for stars, trees, and bells without any frosting required.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Millionaire shortbread: classic three-layer Scottish bar with buttery shortbread base, chewy homemade caramel, and dark chocolate top. Made from scratch with sweetened condensed milk and corn syrup for the proper caramel pull.

Zimtsterne, traditional German cinnamon stars made from ground almonds and hazelnuts bound with meringue and barely any flour, spiced with cinnamon and topped with a white icing. A chewy holiday classic.

No-bake white chocolate mousse cheesecake layered with crumbled shortbread, caramel cookies, and sun-dried cherries. A gelatin-set cream cheese filling with real white chocolate in a cookie-crusted mold.

Nut horns are Eastern European cream cheese pastries filled with a sweet walnut meringue filling. The dough chills overnight for a flaky, tender bite that melts in your mouth.