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My aunt Chris has been making cookies for Christmas since earlier than I can bear in mind, first a handful of recipes for the household to get pleasure from earlier than all of us left for mass on Christmas Eve, then extra — much more — at a standalone occasion every week or extra earlier than Christmas Day. In several years, she’s overseen as many as 14 varieties baked in a single day (utilizing a single oven), by as many as 5 bakers (plus youngsters), to function many as 60 (or extra) folks. For the report: We’ve got by no means even come near operating out of cookies.
Whereas the result’s undoubtedly a colourful and scrumptious cornucopia of sugar and butter, what’s most spectacular to me are the logistics of the marathon baking day itself. That’s, wrangling the folks, mixing bowls, substances, oven temperatures, spatulas, and cooling racks in order that every little thing is finished in time for our dinner of takeout Peruvian hen, one more household custom. Key to our scrappy, one-day-a-year cookie processing plant are easy, fast cookie recipes like these. For each batch of pâte à choux, there’s additionally a peanut butter cookie we may make with our eyes closed. Fortunate for us — and also you — we don’t have to decide on. Bake all of them!
Chewy Sugar Cookies
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This fast variation on a basic sugar cookie will yield a chewy model with a crunchy exterior, barely spiced with warming nutmeg, moderately than the crispy model destined for elaborate icing (time you maybe must spend elsewhere),
Dried Cranberry and Chocolate Cookies
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Leading to a cross between a chocolate chip cookie and an oatmeal cookie, this fast best-of-both-worlds recipe folds rolled oats and dried cranberries into the buttery, brown sugary flavors of chocolate chip cookie dough.
Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies
These flourless peanut butter cookies pack intense taste into each chew. The proportions are straightforward to recollect: a cup of peanut butter, a cup of sugar, an egg, a teaspoon of baking soda. Finely chopped peanuts or mini chocolate chips could be combined into the batter for further crunch or chocolaty morsels.
Barely Chewy Ginger Cookies
John Kernick
This straightforward recipe seems a toasty ginger cookie made with whole-wheat flour and sweetened with sugar and treacle, a pleasantly chewy tackle shortbread.
Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies
Emily Farris
The monarch of American cookies, the GOAT, the archetype: Cookies don’t get a lot simpler, or significantly better, than this.
Primary Butter Cookies
Produced from simply 5 substances together with salt, these tender butter cookies could be baked immediately or popped within the freezer as dough balls to have on the prepared for contemporary cookies later.
Chocolate Chunk Cookie for One
Con Poulos
The vacations are purported to be a season of giving — this 12 months, prolong the identical care to your self with this fast, straightforward, single-portion chocolate chip cookie. You deserve it!

