Cookie Recipes

Snowball Cookies
Christmas Cookies and Memories
When I think of snowball cookies, I remember visiting my grandmother (we called her Grammy) at Christmas time. She would spend the entire month of December in the kitchen baking. I would sit on a stool and watch as she balled the dough with her age gnarled fingers and tell me stories of what it was like to have 9 kids in one house. Her Snowball Cookie recipe was the simple and traditional Snowball Cookie recipe. Today, there are many variations. Below you will find traditional Snowball cooki...

Cherry Vanilla Chip Cookies
White Chocolate and Cherries = Delicious
These easy to make cookies are a wonderful combination of cherries and white chocolate--mixed into one delicious cookie. This recipe is festive and colorful enough for Christmas cookies, but good any time of year. They make great Valentine cookies, too. I make them for the holidays every year. They're quick to make and they disappear quickly too! We love these cookies on Christmas Eve with a cup of hot chocolate, but they're equally good with a cold glass of milk, or all by themselves. I'm ...

Cashew Cookies
Cashew Cookies With Browned Butter Icing
These wonderful Cashew Cookies have been a Christmas tradition in our family for years. No one can remember where the recipe came from originally, or even who discovered it. We're just happy that someone found it, because Christmas just wouldn't be the same without these scrumptious cookies! These are soft cookies with lots of cashews mixed in, and they're topped with a decadent browned butter icing that adds the perfect rich, sweet accent to the not-too-sweet cookies. If you're a cashew lov...

Texas Christmas Lizzies
Fruitcake Cookies Are Great With Egg Nog!
I have been doing a lot of recipe research lately. One of the things I came across was a cookie recipe called Lizzies. I recalled a recipe (from when I was a kid) called Christmas Lizzies or Texas Christmas Lizzies. Lizzies are fruitcake cookies, made with lots of dried fruit, nuts, candied cherries, and whiskey. There are lots and lots of versions of this cookie, but I believe the first time the reipe appeared was in a Texas cookbook in 1952. I've included recipes for my version of Texas Ch...