These cookies are incredibly simple to make and are wonderful to serve and eat any time of the year.

Ingredients

To give these cookies their intense vanilla taste, I use vanilla bean paste – a syrup made using vanilla bean pod seeds and vanilla extract. Vanilla bean paste can be hard to find in stores, so I suggest buying it online. An alternative to using it is to substitute 1:1 with vanilla extract and add the seeds from one vanilla bean pod.

Many people think that lavender in desserts has to taste like dish soap; this couldn’t be farther from true here. It’s all about getting the quantity right – you want just enough to taste the lavender, but not so much that it is overpowering.

Ingredients

This recipes uses powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar. The powdered sugar gives the cookies a tender, sandy texture.

I learned this Zimtsterne recipe from Lilly of Lilly’s German Bakery. It’s a family favorite that she grew up with and I was so excited to get to bake this authentic recipe together with her in my St. Louis kitchen.

Ingredients

Zimtsterne are gluten-free cookies made without any all-purpose flour. The main ingredient is ground almonds. You can grind your own in a food processor or purchase almond meal.

They have my favorite sugar cookie texture – crispy on the outside and a little soft on the inside.

Ingredients

The ingredients for these cinnamon sugar cookies are all pantry staples – butter, sugar, an egg, vanilla, salt, flour, and cinnamon.

Pineapple is somewhat overlooked in the baking world outside of pineapple upside-down cake or cupcakes. The flavor doesn’t come through very well in pineapple recipes unless you have a lot of it.

These pineapple cookie bars truly makes pineapple the star with chunks of pineapple in every bite. If you love this tropical fruit, this pineapple bars recipe is a must-try!

I enjoy these hot out of the oven when the chocolate chips are nice and melty. But, they are also great days later!

Ingredients

There is nothing fancy about the ingredients in this recipe. I use a mix of white and brown sugar because I love the taste of brown sugar. If you don’t have any in the house, it’s fine to use all white sugar.

Serve these cookies in a basket and you may have people thinking you’ve brought them real peaches!

Ingredients for Fruit Cookies

The cookies themselves are made with basic baking ingredients like flour, butter, eggs, a lot of baking powder for a nice dome, and sugar. There are a few things to know:

Did you know that Biscoff stands for “biscuit” plus “coffee”? You can drink coffee with them, dip them in milk, or just eat them plain. You can’t go wrong!

Ingredients

These cookies are made entirely with pantry basics. What makes them special is the blend of spices. I updated the recipe (December, 2020) with new spice measurements after several people said the spices weren’t quite strong enough. I think the new amounts are perfect and I hope you’ll agree. I use a blend of cinnamon and nutmeg with just a touch of cloves and cardamom.

They are wonderful plain – the honey gives them an exceptional fruity and floral flavor! However, you can decorate them with sanding sugar (as I’ve done here) or ice them.

Ingredients

These cookies are made with just six ingredients and they are all basic pantry staples: all-purpose flour, butter, an egg, salt, vanilla extract, and honey.

Ginger molasses cookies have been around since the 1800s – and with good reason. They are easy to make, so festive, and don’t require rolling out dough or using any special tools like cookie press recipes do. I can’t even begin to fathom the number of these cookies that have been made over the past 100 years!

Ingredients

These cookies are made using pantry staples and gingerbread spices (ginger, cinnamon, and cloves).