It’s time to bake and eat all the cookies you can handle. I train for holiday cookie season in the same manner and dedication as runners train for marathons. Weeks leading up to Halloween, I’m buying bulk supplies of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter.
My mixer is working overtime, my oven rarely has a break, and the dishwasher is always filled to capacity. You would think I’m getting ready to feed a giant army of cookie monsters. I am.
They’re called family, friends, and neighbors. This year, I’m spreading the cookie love to you with this holiday cookies giveaway package!
I’m super excited and honored to be included this special Holiday Cookies magazine collaboration with Bake From Scratch and feedfeed. I contributed four holiday recipes, including those guava cream cheese cookie sandwiches photographed above with the star cut-outs!
This magazine features 67 exclusive recipes from 29 exceptional bakers. (FYI: those peppermint s’mores with chocolate graham crackers on the cover are by Cloudy Kitchen.)
There’s a little something for everyone: paleo and gluten-free recipes, tutorials on how to decorate cookies with royal icing, exotic flavored cookie combinations, as well as beloved classic favorites.
I’ve already started baking my way through the magazine. So far I’ve made the Sweet and Salty Monster Cookie (page 113) and Double Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies (page 51). Both amazing and delicious. (More info about the recipe contributors towards the end of the post.)
Here’s what three lucky winners will receive in the Holiday Cookies giveaway package:
- Special Holiday Cookies issue collaboration with Bake From Scratch and feedfeed.
- Ghirardelli Chocolate: premium baking chips, unsweetened cocoa powder, premium caramel sauce, 70% cacao baking chocolate
- GIR (Get it Right): mini spatula, ultimate spatula, and ultimate flip
- Desserts: More than 140 of Our Most Beloved Recipes from the editors of Food and Wine
- Birch Benders: classic and chocolate chip pancake & waffle mix
- Plus a few more surprises… like sprinkles and cookie cutters!
These are the Guava Cream Cheese Cookies I contributed to the Holiday Cookies issue. It’s my spin on Linzer cookies. Using the delicious flavors of Cuban pastelitos de guayaba, I’ve turned them in this familiar looking cookie.
The cookie dough is made with cream cheese, and the baked cookies are sandwiched with guava jam. It’s a family favorite in my house.
The recipe for this Sweet and Salty Monster Cookie was contributed by Molly Adams, senior food editor at feedfeed. This monster cookie will satisfy any cravings.
It has it all: peanut butter, chocolate candies, chocolate chunks, pretzels, and even potato chips! I made a batch of this over the weekend to enjoy while binging on season two of Stranger Things!
The recipe for these Double Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies was shared by Mary Ann Dwyer of The Beach House Kitchen.
I love these cookies! The photograph above shows the cookies before they’re dipped in melted chocolate and topped with additional crushed peppermint. They’re soft and chewy and perfect for the holidays!
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There are two ways to enter this giveaway:
- Leave a comment with your favorite cookies to bake and/or
- Leave a comment on this Instagram post.
Fine Print: Enter as many times as you’d like! To participate, you must be 18 years or older and reside in the 50 United States. Giveaway ends Wednesday, November 8 at 11:59 PM PST. Three winners will be chosen at random and notified via email the morning of November 9. Winners will have 24 hours to respond.
Disclosure: The products listed in this giveaway were generously provided to me by the brands mentioned in the post. These are products I genuinely love and use in my kitchen. As always, all opinions expressed here are my own. I will personally be mailing out the giveaway packages to the winners.
I love making classic oatmeal raisin cookies the best!
Shortbread cookies are my total favorite…to bake and to eat! So darn good!
love a soft fudgy snickerdoodle
If it has peanut butter involved, I will make it.
I love to bake the classic chocolate chip cookies.
Snickerdoodles are a family favorite!
My favorite would be pecan short bread.
I bake chocolate chip cookies at least once a week, so they definitely rank as my favorite!
Gotta be snickerdoodles!
I love and make so many cookies throughout the year, but I would say my chocolate chip with dark chocolate and and fleur de sel are legendary as well as my soft and chewy ginger cookies. I make both of these year round as they are requested so often.
Molasses cookies are my favorite to eat but my favorite to bake are classic chocolate chip even for the holidays! You can’t go wrong with good ole’ chocolate chip.
Always look forward to your articles. Love baking.
The cookies I get the most response from are made from a cake mix. Chocolate chocolate chip or my oatmeal raisin cranberry. You
oatmeal chocolate chip!!
YUM!!! I love the classic chocolate chip cookies best probably, but I will of course eat just about any and every cookie out there!!!
My favorite to bake this time of year is oatmeal scotchies, and that is primarily so I can eat handfuls of butterscotch chips.
I like to bake chocolate chip cookies.
White chocolate macadamia cookies are my favorite to bake.
Plain old sugar cookie!
My favorite cookies to bake are Zesty Lime Cookies. It’s a lime shortbread cookie with lime glaze.
Cutout cookies; sugar cookies with mix-ins such as chopped dates, M&M’s or red hots, and caramel pillow cookies are my favorite this time of year. Thank you for your site!
A friend gave me her snickerdoodle recipe once and I just love rolling the balls of dough in cinnamon sugar! I still have not perfected the thumbprint she always managed to get in hers though.
Chocolate chip cookies!
Our favorite cookies are chocolate chip.
I love chocolate chip oatmeal cookies!
Raisin cookies
I love Joy the Baker’s milk chocolate cookies and cream cookies. They’re so good!
Anything my little 3 year old is up to making with me! We bake sugar cookies as well as chocolate chip and protein cookies for daddy!
I like to bake lemon sugar cookies.
My favorite cookie to make and give is an Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie. People go nuts about the surprise inside!
I love to bake classic chocolate chip cookies!
Salted caramels!!
My fav. Holiday cookie is Butter Balls and cutouts.
I love to bake Chocolate Chip cookies!!
I like caramel stuffed chocolate cookies.
I love to bake frost and decorate a drop sugar cookie any time of year
I love to make and decorate sugar cookies!
I love Oatmeal Raisin
My favorite cookies are a Christmas cookie. It’s close to a molasses cookie but with m&m.
Snickerdoodle cookies are a fave in our house.
yum! i love making pb cookies
My favorite cookies are from an old Pillsbury cookbook – Lunchbox Crunch. They have coconut, corn flakes, oatmeal and nuts.
I love trying new cookie recipes but my all time fave is a classic choc chip with walnuts
I love baking any cookies with brown butter!
Chocolate Mint Cookies are my fave
I like ginger snaps
I love making Mexican Chocolate slice ‘n’ bakes!
I love thumbprint cookies made with marionberry jelly, and snickerdoodle coolies.
Snowball cookies are my favorite.
Love to bake gingersnap crisp and lemon cookies.
I love to make jam thumbprint cookies with walnuts.
My favorite cookie to bake (at least for the holidays) is mint chocolate crinkles!
Butter and jam thumbprints!
Chocolate chips cookies every dang time
My favorite cookies to make and eat are a sugar cookie with an Andies mint in the middle, they are so good.
My favorite cookies to bake are Coconut Macaroon Blossoms (coconut cookies with Hershey kisses placed in the middle). My mom doesn’t like coconut or cream cheese but will always eat these cookies.
My moms orange-almond shortbread cookies!
Fast and easy chocolate chip cookies.
i like to bake sugar cookies and frost them with sprinkles.
I love baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
Love to bake classic chocolate chip cookies. Most everyone likes them!
Love shortbread cookies, so simple but so so delicious
I’m thrilled to have been chosen a winner and received my gift package today. What an amazing collection. When I received the cookbook I’ll post pictures and share with everyone. I’ll also make a recipe or two and share as well. Thank you so very much to all the brands who participated
Anything to do with PUMPKIN is the only way to go!! Want to make that one with the big pretzel in the middle because it looks yummy too.
Gingerbread-people cookies! Fun, festive and delicious… I always make them for Christmas.
I like to make peanut butter cookies
DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CRINKLE COOKIES (THEY’RE SO SOFT AND CHOCOLATELY AND GOOD!!!)
I love to make meringue cookies!
I make a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough for my husband so that every night he has fresh hot out the oven cookies.