5 festive cookie recipes to try
Photography by Yvonne Duivenvoorden
We all love homemade cookies at holiday time, but if you think it takes days of rolling, cutting and moulding to fill enough cookie tins for the season, we’ve got a delicious surprise for you. With our pick of bars, drop cookies and shaped cookies, all you need is an afternoon to do everything from measuring the nuts to transferring the last cookies from cooling racks to storage tins.
Cookie planner: Get ready
• Read the recipes.
• Set out butter and eggs to come to room temperature 1 hour before baking.
• Assemble ingredients for all cookies before starting.
• Toast and chop nuts for all recipes.
• Preheat oven.
• Measure ingredients for each recipe before beginning recipe.
• Make sure oven temperature is correct.
Start baking
1. Make, shape and first-bake dough for Macadamia Milk Chocolate Biscotti.
2. Make and bake Black Forest Cookie Bars.
3. Slice and second-bake Biscotti.
4. Make dough for Double Ginger Drop Cookies; refrigerate or freeze log, as in our variation, or drop by spoonfuls onto baking sheet and bake.
5. Make and bake Cappuccino Thumbprints.
6. Make and bake Oatmeal Orange Shortbread Bars.
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