Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season

By Lisa B. Zwirn and Lisa Zwirn

From basic sugar cookies to decadent chocolate treats, 5o easy-to-make recipes for holiday cookies (that can be enjoyed any time of year)

Filled with dozens of irresistible treats, Christmas Cookies offers the tastes and smells of the holiday season. Enjoy fragrant, delicious goodies filled with cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, chocolate, molasses, peppermint, honey, and maple syrup, all dressed in their holiday best with colorful icings, crystals, and dustings of powdered sugar. In its pages bakers will find beloved classics as well as new recipes for sure-to-become family favorites.

Taste the magic of this feastive season in delicious Meringue Kisses, Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies, Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, Frosted Lemon Rounds, Pecan Sandies, Walnut Stars with Chocolate Drizzle, Ginger Coins, Chocolate Mocha Sandwiches, Hazelnut Biscotti, Coconut Squares with Chocolate Glaze, and many, many more. This indispensable resource comes complete with tips for making ahead, decorating, storage, packing and mailing, and cookie-decorating parties.

Packed with festive recipes, sweets, and seasonal favoritesPerfect for Christmas gatherings, cookie swaps, and celebrationsBrings warmth and flavor to every holiday table

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061376965
• ISBN13: 9780061376962
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Holiday gift!

What a great Holiday gift! The recipes in this book are as delicious as the pictures depict! We are going to give these as pre-Holiday gifts so our family and friends can enjoy these great recipes throughout the Holiday season! Cheers to the author and photographer.

Appealing Christmas cookie book

Lisa Zwirn's book, Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season, is a wonderful addition to my collection of cookbooks. This attractive, beautifully photographed cookbook is filled with recipes of delicious treats your family and friends will truly enjoy. My family adores chocloate desserts of almost any kind, but I ventured out of the norm and tried the author's heavenly Lemon Squares. They were absoultley wonderful, full of intense flavor with a moist, tasty crust. The Coconut Macaroons, dipped in Chocolate is another delightful sweet. They were moist, chewy and very simple to create. A co-worker borrowed my cookbook and chose to make the Apricot Almond Bars. She brought these fruity, chewy almond bars into the office for everyone to enjoy and we devoured them in a day. I've given this gem of a cookbook to several friends and family members last holiday season and I received wonderful feedback. For the upcoming holiday season I look forward to trying numerous new recipes from Lisa Zwirn's superb cookbook. I highly recommend this appealing, well-written holiday treasure. By: Jane from Wayland, MA

A Great Cookies Cook Book and Gift for the holidays

This cookbook has many easy to follow recipes. The results, after making a couple, were delicious. The cooking steps were easy and able to be done without much difficulty. The photography was beautiful and gets you right into the holiday spirit. This not only is a great little cookbook, but can also be a great holiday gift for others to enjoy.

Yummy and creative!

Just looking at the pictures in this book is enough to make your mouth water. Let me just tantalize you with a few of the wonderful recipes in here: Rocky Road Bites (p 126), Sacher torte Bars (p 116), Apricot Almond Bars (p 106), Chocolate Carmel Thumbprints (p 97, )Hazelnut Biscotti, Pecan Butterballs (p 70), Eggnog Cookies (p 61) and Sugar Cookies with Stained Glass (p 49). In these tough economic times, I really appreciate a book like this. What could be nicer and more Christmasy than giving everyone a plate of your own homemade Christmas cookies? The recipes are great! You will really like this one.

A must have for bakers

This is the book for your holiday baking, that you'll also use year round. Every cookie has been delicious, from Eggnog Cookies to Chocolate Crinkles - there's a cookie here for everyone. Organized by cookie type, it also provides excellent tips for baking, chilling and freezing and storing - and best of all, packaging cookies for gift-giving. It makes a wonderful holiday gift to give along with the cookies!