Crescent Shaped Nut Sugar Cookies

Crescent Shaped Nut Sugar Cookies

These little cookies are full of flavour ! With few ingredients, they truly are easy to make. I suggest making them small, because they are rich. I used walnuts, but pecans, hazelnuts or almonds would do as well.  

Yummy Molasses, Cinnamon and White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Molasses, spice and white chocolate chip cookie

These molasses cookies are fun to chew on. They’re spiced with cinnamon, ground ginger and cardamon, which makes them a cozy cookie for the fall season. But the real treat is munching on the white chocolate chips sprinkled throughout.

Double Ginger Chocolate Cookies

Ginger Chocolate Cookie

Here’s a double ginger chocolate cookie you’ll definitely want to try. It’s a combination of a tasty chocolate cookie with chocolate chips and cocoa powder plus a ginger cookie, with molasses, spices and crystallized ginger. 

The cookie is like a blended family; the ingredients are from different recipes, but they all go together perfectly.

Ginger Spice Sugar Cookies

Ginger Spice Sugar Cookies

I love a good ginger cookie…especially when it’s rolled in sugar.

This recipe has a whole lot of spice, plus crystallized ginger for added ‘yum’. 

I’ve made them a few times; the first time with fresh ginger (because I didn’t have ginger powder) and it turned out just fine. So if you want, substitute the ginger powder with 1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger. 

Hopefully, these cookies disappear right away, but if not, they are easy to freeze.

Ginger Cookies

Chewy Coconut Macaroons

Chewy Coconut Macaroons

Mixing coconut with sugar and egg whites is always a good thing in our house. These  are super-fast to make and will be gone by the end of the day!  These coconut cookies are perfect for serving when friends arrive unexpectedly because they're quick to make.

Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

These are fun cookies to make and you can get the kids involved to make the indents in the middle of the cookies. I use raspberry jam, but you can use whatever jam you like or have in your refrigerator.

To dust the cookies with icing sugar, simply put some icing sugar into a small mesh sieve and sprinkle over the cookies. It’s not necessary, but makes the cookies look festive.

Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies

Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies

These treats look like cookies but have the texture of a carrot muffin. They are filled with oats, carrots, cinnamon, and raisins. Best of all, they come together quickly in one bowl!

Walnut Drop Raisin Cookies

Walnut drop raisin cookie

These are an easy, delightful cookie to make when you need cookies in a pinch. They are not too sweet and have a hint of cinnamon. They can be made them with and without raisins, both work for me.  

Delightful Date Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

Date Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

 I've made these date coconut cookies a few times, and they never disappoint. They have a lovely caramel cinnamon taste and...are also nice crumpled on top of a bowl of yogurt!

Chia Seed Oatmeal Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

 A super tasty cookie to eat for breakfast or a snack.  It's filled with oats, coconut, walnuts, chia seeds, wheat germ and dried cranberries. What's not to love about it?

Chia Seed Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Spice Cookies with Raisins and Walnuts

A nice light cookie with the crunch of walnuts and the sweet chewiness of raisins.  It's perfect for afternoon tea or coffee break. 

Somewhat Healthy Cookies

You are going to love these peanut butter cookies. They are yummy and delightfully light. They are “somewhat” healthy because of the wheat bran and wheat germ. Plus, they are loaded with raisins, nuts, coconut and dates. 

Shortbread Cookies

I’m not usually one to make shortbread, but I decided to go for it this year when I stumbled across a recipe written in my mother’s handwriting on a small, faded recipe card. It must be 50 years old…which proves how timeless shortbread cookies are.

Coconut Jam Cookies

 

Yummy Coconut Jam Cookies!

This is a buttery round cookie rolled in coconut and filled with raspberry jam. They are easy to make and delicious to eat.

Soft Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies

Gingerbread Cookies

If you have kids in the house, then this traditional gingerbread recipe is a must.

Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies

Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies

My mother collected recipes. She wrote them on white, lined recipe cards and stored them in a big square plexiglass recipe box. Many of the hand-written recipes had notes on them, along with the name of the friend who'd given it to her scribbled on the top. As well, she had a big recipe binder stuffed with recipes from newspaper and magazine clippings that were pasted onto thick pieces of paper for safekeeping. I found this recipe tucked away in the baking section, and is definitely worth a try. 

Belgian Cookies

Belgian Cookies

This is a recipe from my Mother-in-Law which had been passed down to her through the generations. It uses cookie cutters which you can find at any kitchenware store, dollar store or second-hand store. 

The buttery cookies are filled with jam and decorated with icing. This is a family favourite recipe and fun to make with the kids.

Cookies filled with raspberry jam and coated with icing

Hermit Gingerbread Cookies

Hermit Gingerbread Cookies

This recipe calls for nutmeg. You can buy either ground nutmeg or the whole nutmeg seed. The spice nutmeg is like the spice mace because they both come from the same evergreen nutmeg tree. Although nutmeg has a slightly stronger flavour than mace.

When the seed is split there’s a red lacy membrane around the seed. This is removed, dried, and ground into mace. The nutmeg seed is either sold whole or ground into nutmeg.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

In celebration of all that's good in the world here's a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe that's filled with chocolate! 

Chocolate Chip Cookies With Lots of Chocolate