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Holiday Cookies

Chocolate Almond Pound Cake Cookies

A classic TS recipe that has been around for years!  A little almond and a little chocolate make the perfect cookie.

All you need in addition to Absolutely Almond Pound Cake mix is eggs, butter and chocolate almond bark.

Brown Sugar Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies (*)

Chocolate chip cookies made with our Brown Sugar Caramel Pound Cake Mix and combined with English toffee bits for the perfectly simple cookies.

Just add butter, egg, toffee bits and chocolate chips!

Chocolate Crackle Cookies

Classic chocolate crackle cookies are easier than ever with just four ingredients.

Classy Chocolate Pound Cake Mix, butter, eggs and powdered sugar are all that is needed

Sunny Lemon Thumb- print Cookies (*)

These lemon and fruit filled cookies are easy to prepare and a great mini dessert for company or your family.

Sunny Lemon Pound Cake mix is paired with butter, eggs, Rhubarb Strawberry Fruit Spread and slivered almonds.

Frosted Gingerbread Thins

Soft, yet crispy thin gingerbread cookies with cream cheese frosting.

The base for these cookies is Nana’s Apple Cake paired with the standard butter and eggs, plus molasses, ginger, cloves and canned cream cheese frosting.

Snickerdoodle Cookies (*)

Snickerdoodles are a classic American cookie known for their soft, chewy texture and distinctive cinnamon-sugar coating. You can easily make this treat  using our Cinnamon Sugar Crumb Cake Mix.

All you need is the mix, butter, and an egg.

Abso-lutely Almond Thumb-print Cookies

The perfect holiday cookie that your little ones will love to help with!

Similar to the Sunny Lemon Thumbprint cookies, this one just uses egg, butter and Rhubarb Strawberry Fruit Spread.

Nana's Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

This is the first Tastefully Simple Cookie I ever made – 14 years ago!

With one simple addition to Nana’s Apple Cake, oatmeal, you have delicious cookies. You will have to eat more than one.

Cherry & Pistachio Cookies (*)

Another Almond Pound Cake cookie recipe!   These use our standard Almond Pound Cake, add eggs, some butter, pistachios and dried cherries or cranberries for a festive cookie.

Peanut Butter Chip Cookies (*)

These easy drop cookies start with Classy Chocolate Pound Cake with an egg and butter.  Add peanut butter and white baking chips and roll into balls.  Best yet?  You can bake right away or freeze for later.

Rhubarb Straw- berry Chocolate Stars

Festive and tasty!  Add a star cookie cutter to your list to make these Classy Chocolate/Rhubarb Strawberry delights.   Newsflash!  You can also use Absolutely Almond Pound Cake to make these sweet stars.

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Another make ahead and bake later option, these Lemon Crinkle Cookies are great anytime of year.  Of course they make use of our Sunny Lemon Pound Cake.  For a holiday twist add a little colored sugar on the icing.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Bon Bons

A little more involved but oh so worth it.  Make sure you get the mini peanut butter cups.  They come in a bag are smaller than the miniature cups and are not wrapped.

All you need is the standard egg and butter, the mini peanut butter cups and chocolate chips.

 

Almond Bark Twisty Grahams

Here’s a new twist on a Christmas cookie classic – almond bark Twisty Grahams.

This is as simple as it gets!  Twisty Grahams, Almond Bark and colored sprinkles!

Chocolate Mint Cake Cookies

Chocolate and mint work together to create this delicious, cute Christmas cookie.

Note:  I make this a little different and it is actually easier.

I mix the Classy Chocolate Cake Mix with the egg and butter as directed but then add 1 drop of Peppermint oil.  I bake the cookie as directed but after cooling, I ice the cookie with standard store-bought white icing and top with crushed candy canes.

Snowman Truffles

For the adventerous! These adorable Snowman Truffles will be a hit at your holiday party.

The recipe makes use of Absolutely Almond Pound Cake.

 

Cakes to Cookies Assortment

The cookies above that have a (*) after the name of the cookie are featured in this assortment.

Save a few $$ when you get the assortment over purchasing these mixes individually.   It also comes with a colorful sheet with those recipes.

With the above recipes, you also have alternatives.  

Remember  you can also order the value option for Classy Chocolate Pound Cake, Absolutely Pound Cake and Sunny Lemon Pound Cake, in case you want to make more than one cookie using that mix!