Christmas Cookies are a hot topic this time of year. Vegan Christmas cookies are especially sought after. Twitter and Facebook are abuzz with the most popular recipes online. Cookbooks excite the holiday spirit with shortbread cookies, sugar cookies and gingerbread men. Christmas cookie exchanges, Christmas parties at school and holiday parties galore, all with the most delicious cookies imaginable.
The Most Popular Christmas Cookies
Christmas cookie recipes can be found in baking cookbooks at the library, on your bookshelf, or in the grocery store. As a matter of fact, the month of December is when all the little cookbooks pamphlets come out in the supermarket. Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart and Good Cook to name a few. Most of them have gorgeous photos so you can see what the cookies are supposed to look like after they're done.
Gourmet Food Magazines
Glossy magazines filled with all sorts of Christmas cookie recipes abound. Publications like Martha Stewart's Living, Fine Cooking, Better Homes and Gardens magazine, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Cook's Illustrated, Cooking Light and Cuisine magazines all have tasty Christmas cookie recipes.
Find Christmas Cookies Recipes Online
Some of the top online sites and blogs have oodles of recipes. Go online and enter a search for "Christmas cookie recipes". It will bring you to over 20,000,000 results. The top online publications seem to be BHG.com; marthastewart.com; sunset.com; yankeemagazine.com; finecooking.com; goodhousekeeping.com and many more.
Blogs and websites dedicated to baking, with a focus on Christmas cookies are joyofbaking.com; foodnetwork.com; allrecipes.com; simplyrecipes.com; tasteofhome.com and marthastewart.com. Tastespotting and Foodgawker websites each have pictures photos linked to blogs with delicious goodies. Just click one of the photos and it will bring you right to the recipe. Most of them have a print option so you can keep the cookie recipe forever.
Vegan and Gluten Free Christmas Cookie Recipes
Publications Vegetarian Times and Veggie Life always have plenty of recipes to choose from. Online sources vegancookies.com; veganbits.com and veganyumyum.com. And for the gluten-free crowd that still want to enjoy their Christmas cookies, there's celiac.com; glutenfreegirl.com and gingerlemongirl.com.
Christmas Cookie Cookbooks
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Here's a list of the best-selling Christmas Cookie Cookbooks from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
- The Martha Stewart Living Christmas Cookbook by Martha Stewart Living Magazine (2003)
- Rose's Christmas Cookies by Rose Levy Beranbaum (2008)
- Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season by Lisa Zwirn (1998)
- Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook (2009)
- A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies by Dede Wilson (2003)
- Joy of Cooking Christmas Cookies by Irma S. Rombauer, Ethan Becker, and Marion Rombauer Becker (1996)
- Christmas Cookies Are for Giving by Kristin Johnson and Mimi Cummins (2003)
- Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse by Liv Hansen and Kaye Hansen (2005)
- Christmas Cookies, Candies and Cakes by Editors of Woman's Day (2008)
- FamilyFun Cookies for Christmas: 50 Cute & Quick Holiday Treats by Deanna F Cook (2009)
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Written by Donna Diegel
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