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7 Festive Cookie Recipes for the Holiday Season

Is there anything more festive than turning out batch after batch of holiday cookies? Here are seven recipes, featuring different flavours and techniques, to offer to loved ones and make them happy.

SHORTBREAD: ONE DOUGH, THREE COOKIES

1. Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Butter gives shortbread their crumbly, crunchy and melty texture, whereas icing sugar ensures that the crumbs are as fine as they can be. Straight out of the oven, these cookies are impeccable. Once frosted, they’ll melt in your mouth.

2. Lemon and Candied Cherry Shortbread Cookies

The subtle notes of the candied cherries balance beautifully with the more fragrant notes of the lemon.

3. Limoncello Shortbread Cookies

The addition of limoncello to our lemon shortbread cookie recipe gives these sablés a less sweet, more grown-up flavour.

4. Vegan Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles are soft cinnamon cookies that are normally made with butter and eggs. Our vegan version uses date purée and brown sugar instead; they act as a binder in place of the egg and white sugar, as well as oil for the fat, making these cookies soft and chewy. The kids will love shaping the cookies into balls and rolling them in the cinnamon sugar.

5. Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

Thanks to butter, these cookies are just as crisp as langue de chat cookies, and even slightly more plump. The cocoa in the dough and the dark chocolate in the icing give them their sweetness. As a final touch, crushed candy canes add a minty freshness and the colours of the season.

6. Matcha and White Chocolate Petit Fours

Aligned four at a time, these little rosettes made using a piping bag will be a feast for both your eyes and taste buds. With a dough similar to that of shortbread (except that these don’t need to be refrigerated), they have the colour of tea plant leaves and a refined taste thanks to matcha tea. The touches of white chocolate at the top will temper the bitterness of the tea, transforming these treats into bakery-worthy cookies.

7. Jam and Coconut Crunch Cookies

These thumbprint cookie-inspired treats are baked in a muffin pan. It’s therefore not required to chill the dough beforehand, given that they’re spread out in the cavity. In the oven, they’ll rise and take their shape.Thanks to the jam and the coconut crumble, each bite will be the perfect combination of chewy, fruity and crunchy.

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