I love cookies any time of year but during the holidays is when it is most acceptable to eat cookies on a regular basis.
Cookies for breakfast? IF I HAVE TO!
Cookies for dinner? Jesus would want it that way!
Cookies at midnight? If it’s good enough for Santa, it’s good enough for me!
Listen, January is just around the corner.
We can eat carrots and low fat ranch dip then.
But for now, let’s eat cookies morning noon and night.
Are you out of cookie inspiration? I am here to help!
1- Rolo Cookies
I have written about my beloved Rolo Cookies for years because they are my happy place in cookie form. I have even started making these in the “offseason” because they make a really bad day much better. I hope they become your happy place cookie as well.
Head here for the full recipe.
2- Snickerdoodle Cookies
These award-winning cookies earned me a ribbon at the county fair when I was a tween. It’s a really good story, so you need to read the post if only for that. But make the cookies because they are amazing.
Head here for the full recipe.
3- Meringue Cookies
Literally three ingredients. If you thought you could never bake good cookies because you don’t know how to cook, start with this one. The only caveat is that you have to bake it for three hours. Use that time to wrap presents. Or get drunk on eggnog.
Head here for the full recipe.
4- Potato Chip and Pretzel Fudge
Oh sure this isn’t really a cookie but it’s good, crunchy, sweet AND salty. All ingredients for a perfect recipe.
Head here for the full recipe.
This last one isn’t my recipe but rather an old post about making cookies with Ella, and how it could be therapeutic for both her and me.
The funny thing is, I remember this day vividly. Ella stayed home from school because she was struggling (yet again) with well, school. Occasionally I would keep her home for a day for some mental preservation and this was one of those days. Now that she is homeschooled, every day is a mental preservation day for her, and that my friends, makes my heart sing.
Read here about our gingerbread cookie mental health day and for our favorite recipe as well.
What is your favorite holiday cookie? Share them with everyone in the comments!
A Grace Full Life 
These all look binge-worthy! I just bought some cream of tartar so I’ll have to make a few of these for sure! (Every time I go to use it, it’s always expired by two months without fail!)
My favorites are molasses ginger cookies, frosted cut outs and Valrhona chocolate chip cookies. I make choco rolo cookies but I’m definitely trying yours since it’s completely different!
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I want your choco rolo cookie recipe though because MY rolo cookie recipe has been letting me down.
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Big Batch Kris Kringle cookies! These are the only cookies I make during the holidays, or maybe all year.
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If you make those this year, I want some again!! Those are SO good! Maybe we should make Christmas cookies this week instead of a craft?
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There’s a chocolate chip cookie recipe out on the interwebs that uses vanilla pudding and it is the BEST chocolate chip cookie. It uses a ton of butter, and butter is the secret ingredient to life, so…maybe I should add a ton of butter to everything that ails me.
My grandma used to make something she called Scotcharoos, which were rice crispie bars with butterscotch and a chocolate fudge topping. I tried to make them once myself and utterly failed. What I wouldn’t give to eat one of hers again.
Look at that, you got me to read a cookie recipe post and I know I’m not even making any cookies this year. You are that good, girl.
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OOOH, I need the vanilla pudding cookies!! Now I need to google that.
Maybe we should just wear butter around our necks, like a big old butter necklace.
I have heard of those! My grandma used to make Special K candy with the cereal and peanut butter, oh my Lord.
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I will NOT make those meringue cookies, because I don’t understand wanting to eat sugary clouds, but everything else looks amazing! I’ll make the Snickerdoodles and Rolo cookies this week, you cookie-enabler.
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Sugary clouds are good. You can also eat like, ten of them, and it’s only ten calories or something.
Cookie-enabler was my name in prison.
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OMG Kari, you have me dying at your first paragraph…gotta listen to Jesus and Santa, right!?!? Great list, pinning. 🙂
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Amen. And Ho Ho Ho. 🙂
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These sound and look delicious. Especially love the sound of Rolo cookies, choc and caramel is my favourite combination!
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Mine too! It is so gooey good, you will love them! 🙂
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Christmas cookies are my favorite. I normally make at least a dozen of each of my favorites. Last year I made chocolate chip, vanilla chip (which is what we call white chocolate chip, because my son is adverse to anything chocolate), peanut butter blossoms, chewy peppermint mocha cookies, and toffee crunch brownies. I go a little overboard…
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There is NO such thing as going overboard as it pertains to Christmas cookies!
I am making some today with Ella, skipping the science project and calling it homeschool.
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Oh, you little temptress, you! So far, I have not made any Christmas cookies because I would eat them all. I’ll make some closer to Christmas and put them in the freezer beforehand (like that’ll help – snort). I think I’ll make Snowballs because those are my hubby’s faves, but I’m not sure what else.
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I love LOVE that you called me a temptress. I might make Mike call me that going forward. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party. Have a wonderful week!
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Thank you for taking the time to visit! Happy Holidays!
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Oh, it’s time to start baking. Thanks for sharing these recipes.
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These kinds of posts always motivate me! ❤️
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These all sound yummy!! Thanks so much for linking up at the #UnlimitedMonthlyLinkParty 7. Shared. I invite you to also link up this post at my Themed Linkup 6 – All Things Christmas for more views and shares 🙂
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Thank you for hosting!
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These sound delicious. Myself, I refuse to buy into diet culture. I spent 33 years of my life yo-yo dieting and trying to hate myself thin. It didn’t make me thin but it sure did make me miserable. I still fight with the eating disorder mindset, and I am great about starving myself if it is triggered. I prefer not to label food as good or bad, but diet food that tastes like cardboard is bad. These cookies are good!
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Amen. Life’s too short to eat fake food.
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