30 Cookie Recipes and Other Gift Foods

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Each year, for many years now, my family has collaborated on a cookie gift package project. Each of us makes a number of them, and we get together one night to eat pizza and wrap up somewhere between 60 and 100 packages, which we then divide up for our families to distribute as gifts. As far as I know, there has never been a comprehensive list, and the variety of cookies has varied over the years as we discard some of the old recipes and add new ones. This past year, for a number of reasons, we decided to forgo the cookies in favor of chocolate rum cakes. At the last minute, I decided to try baking them on my own and I am happy to say that I was able to turn out 25 of them in the spare time I had during the last two weeks before the holiday season began. I was able to surprise the family and we had a pizza and cookie wrapping night as always.


The future of this family tradition is in jeopardy. I do not know if our generation will ever be able to do this again. My granddaughters love making cookies as much as I do, so for the sake of our family’s cookie tradition, I have compiled a list and will try to make sure that, eventually, all the recipes can be found on this blog. I hope that future generations will enjoy them as much as we and our friends have.

1. Chocolate Revel Bars
2. Chocolate Chip Cookies
3. Lemon Bars
4. Snickerdoodles
5. Gingerbread Teddy Bears
6. Mango Tea Cakes
7. Cashew Tartlets
8. Mini Pecan Pies
9. Toffee Squares
10. Lime Cornmeal Cookies
11. Coffee Pretzels
12. Cream Cheese Frills
13. Chocolate Ganache Cupcakes
14. Mini Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
15. Chanukah Sugar Cookies
16. Walnut Sandwich Cookies
17. Chocolate Cracks
18. Finnish Xmas Stars
19. Meltaways
20. Oatmeal White Chippers
21. Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
22. Peanut Butter Pinwheels
23. Peanut Butter Cookies
24. Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
25. Cinnamon Almond Cookies
26. Lemon Cheese Logs
27. Maids of Honor
28. Mini Peanut Butter Cheesecakes
29. Chocolate Candy Cane Rings
30. Checkerboard Cookies

In addition to these cookies, other items that have been included on the gift plates in past years have been an assortment of dessert breads:

1. Date Bread
2. Strawberry Bread
3. Zucchini Bread
4. Pumpkin Bread
5. Vermont Apple Raisin Bread
6. Peachy Pecan Bread
7. Apricot Bread
8. Chocolate Banana Bread

And a cheese ball.