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My aunt Chris has been making cookies for Christmas since before I can remember, first a handful of recipes for the family to enjoy before we all left for mass on Christmas Eve, then more — a lot more — at a standalone event a week or more before Christmas Day. In different years, she’s overseen as many as 14 varieties baked in a single day (using a single oven), by as many as five bakers (plus children), to serve as many as 60 (or more) people. For the record: We have never even come close to running out of cookies.
While the result is undoubtedly a colorful and delicious cornucopia of sugar and butter, what’s most impressive to me are the logistics of the marathon baking day itself. That is, wrangling the people, mixing bowls, ingredients, oven temperatures, spatulas, and cooling racks so that everything is done in time for our dinner of takeout Peruvian chicken, yet another family tradition. Key to our scrappy, one-day-a-year cookie processing plant are simple, quick cookie recipes like these. For every batch of pâte à choux, there’s also a peanut butter cookie we could make with our eyes closed. Lucky for us — and you — we don’t have to choose. Bake them all!
Chewy Sugar Cookies
Food & Wine / Photo by Jacob Fox / Food Styling by Kelsey Moylan / Prop Styling by Lexi Juhl
This quick variation on a classic sugar cookie will yield a chewy version with a crunchy exterior, slightly spiced with warming nutmeg, rather than the crispy version destined for elaborate icing (time you perhaps need to spend elsewhere),
Dried Cranberry and Chocolate Cookies
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Resulting in a cross between a chocolate chip cookie and an oatmeal cookie, this quick best-of-both-worlds recipe folds rolled oats and dried cranberries into the buttery, brown sugary flavors of chocolate chip cookie dough.
Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies
These flourless peanut butter cookies pack intense flavor into every bite. The proportions are easy to remember: a cup of peanut butter, a cup of sugar, an egg, a teaspoon of baking soda. Finely chopped peanuts or mini chocolate chips can be mixed into the batter for extra crunch or chocolaty morsels.
Slightly Chewy Ginger Cookies
John Kernick
This easy recipe turns out a toasty ginger cookie made with whole-wheat flour and sweetened with sugar and treacle, a pleasantly chewy take on shortbread.
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
Emily Farris
The monarch of American cookies, the GOAT, the archetype: Cookies don’t get much easier, or much better, than this.
Basic Butter Cookies
Made from just five ingredients including salt, these soft butter cookies can be baked straight away or popped in the freezer as dough balls to have at the ready for fresh cookies later.
Chocolate Chunk Cookie for One
Con Poulos
The holidays are supposed to be a season of giving — this year, extend the same care to yourself with this quick, easy, single-portion chocolate chip cookie. You deserve it!
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