Ready to Bake Christmas Cookies? Check Out These Recipe Websites First!

If you are like most people celebrating the holidays, you are probably preparing to do your holiday baking. Many look forward to making Christmas cookies. It is a time to pull out those time-honored family favorite recipes and share them with family and friends. Just one bite of a Christmas cookie can often bring someone right back to their childhood memories!

But sometimes it is nice to add some new Christmas cookie recipes to your repertoire. Or perhaps you are going to be making a lot more cookies this year, and you need to make a larger variety of cookies. Or you want to try to make a type of cookie you have never made before - like bar cookies or no-bake cookies for example.

Fortunately there are quite a few websites that feature Christmas cookie recipes. You can find lots of recipes that will suit many different palates. But visiting these websites does come with a clear cut warning - it is very hard to select just one or two of the recipes that you see. So you are probably going to be inspired to make a lot more Christmas cookies this year! Happy baking!

Christmas-cookies.com www.christmas-cookies.com
This website has more than four hundred recipes to offer you. You can find recipes for bar cookies, candy and fudge, cookies in a jar, no-bake cookies, low carb cookies, ornamental cookies, refrigerator cookies, filled cookies, cutout cookies, candy (chocolate, fudge, hard candy, toffee). Be sure to check out their newsletter that you can sign up for that features new recipes, baking tips and special offers from the site. The website offers you lots of baking tips to make your Christmas cookies even more delicious and make baking all the more easy for you to do. They also explain how to host a Christmas cookie exchange party - something that is loads of fun at the holidays if you have never had one, or been to one.

Food Network's 12 Days of Cookies http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/newsletter/
This is really great. Starting in December the Food Network will e-mail you a Christmas cookie recipe every day for twelve days. If you also do a little hunting at the website, you can find the recipes from 2005, all twelve days of them. They have a wide variety of cookies that seem to be offered and you can see a sample newsletter when you go to sign up. They also have several other newsletters that may appeal to you - a Food Network Email Newsletter, a Food Network Store Newsletter and a Food Network TV Highlights Newsletter.

Martha Stewart Living - Christmas Cookies http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel172010
Martha Stewart Living lists about thirteen Christmas cookie recipes here, certainly some great classics - such as a Gingerbread Cookie Recipe and Basic Shortbread, as well as some twists on the traditional, including Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars and Congo Bars. These cookies are very attractive and look just delicious. The gingerbread cookies offered look like a great selection - she offers Basic Gingerbread Cookies to ice and decorate, as well as a recipe for Big Ginger Cookies and another for Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies. Certainly something here to please just about everyone.

Epicurious - Christmas Cookie Recipes http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/results?search=Christmas+Cookies
This website's section lists 149 Christmas cookie recipes. What is really great about this website is not only the wide selection of cookies available, but you can find Christmas cookies that have been in quite a few cooking magazines or cookbooks. Christmas cookies have appeared in places such as Gourmet magazine and Bon Appetit. You can find classic sounding cookies such as Almond Spice Cookies and Lemon Cookies. As well as unique sounding cookies like Chocolate and Almond Dipped Sandwich Cookies or Caramel Pecan Cookies.