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Peppermint Snowball Cookies

Christmas cookie season is here and everyone is looking for an easy-to-make holiday cookie. These Peppermint Snowball Cookies are the perfect treat. Everyone loves these Christmas cookies because they are delicious AND festive!

Love peppermint treats? Be sure to check out our peppermint stick ice cream and these peppermint Oreo cookies.

A holiday napkin with a few white chocolate peppermint snowball cookies topped with candy canes on it.

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I have been making these peppermint snowball cookies for years. I don't even remember when or where I found this cookie recipe. But it isn't the holiday season until we make one or two batches of these snowballs.

Snowballs are traditionally rolled in powdered sugar while they are warm. This makes them white like a snowball. But I like to dip them in white chocolate and sprinkle crushed candy canes on them instead.

These are one of my all time favorite cookies to make for Christmas because they melt in your mouth. You can also make these year round by just changing out the extract to another flavor and topping them with sprinkles. Or you can make them chocolate and stuff them with a Hershey's kiss like these chocolate bon bon cookies.

Why Make Snowballs

Peppermint snowballs are the perfect Christmas cookies for any gathering or party. Candy cane sprinkles make them so festive looking which is always fun for the holidays.

They are easy to make and taste so good. Each one is soft, buttery, and melts in your mouth.

You can use different flavors or colors of candy canes to give the rolled shortbread cookies a different look. Sprinkles are another great option.

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Merry Christmas!

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas from our family to yours. Enjoy every minute of laughter, love, family, and memories that you have this holiday season...and make sure you eat lots of cookies and fudge:-)

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

Strawberry Nutella Braid

This easy Strawberry Nutella Braid is an easy breakfast treat. The sweet filling will have the breakfast pastry disappearing in no time at all.

I think we are all ready for Christmas. Just a few little things left to do like wrapping the gifts and putting things in stockings.

Oh, and plan breakfast for Christmas morning. I'm thinking about some Nutella crescent roll braids like this.

Do you like easy breakfast recipes? We do too. Easy recipes are perfect for a day when you want to spend it relaxing in your jammies with your kiddos.

This is such a simple breakfast pastry that even the kids can help make one. Our daughter loves that we braid this just like we braid her hair. [Read more...]

Baked Biscoff Donuts

Frosting and candies make these baked Biscoff Donuts a fun holiday treat. Start a new Christmas tradition with these easy baked donuts!

M&M donuts made with Biscoff spread, sweet recipes, dessert recipes

One of the traditions we always did when our kids were little was to leave milk and cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.

And every year my husband tried to convince the kids that "Santa" would rather have White Castle burgers and Grape Soda. Our kids never believed him though, and so cookies and milk were always left by the tree.

As the kids got older, they just realized that "Santa" is really just mom and dad.

Although, one year we got them really good. It was the year they were 2, 4, and 6. The oldest was trying to convince the younger two that Santa wasn't real. We were ok with that. It wasn't something we have every really tried to convince our kids of. It was just a fun tradition.

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Peppermint Patty Gooey Cake Bars

Layers of chocolate and mint candies make these Peppermint Patty Gooey Cake Bars a fun and easy dessert treat.

The other day I wanted chocolate. I had to have something right away!

There is always some sort of candy in my baking cupboard, but I wanted something more than just a chocolate bar. I kept thinking about these Gooey Butterfinger Brownie Bars and how good they were.

As I dug through the cupboard, I pulled out a bag of York peppermint patties. Right away I knew another gooey bar needed to happen! [Read more...]

Marshmallow Frosty Hats

I don't know about you, but I love to wear hats in the cold weather. Curly hair does limit what types of hats I can wear though. Most times I end up with bad hat hair for the rest of the day...but the cute hats are so worth it.

The other day I was looking at my snowman collection...it multiplies every winter. I have tall ones, fat ones, funny ones...you get the point. Anyway, they are all wearing some sort of hat. And because I love cute hats, I had the fun idea to create a cute winter hat snack for my kids to take to their Christmas parties next week.

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Peppermint Mocha Cookies

These sweet Peppermint Mocha Cookies stay soft for days, making them the perfect treat to make for Christmas cookie trays or exchanges.

Peppermint Mocha Pudding Cookies - soft chocolate cookies loaded with chocolate chips and peppermint bits. Great recipe to make for Christmas cookie exchanges!

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As soon as Walmart started carrying the Andes peppermint crunch pieces, I have been baking with them. I love those pink chips! I also can't get enough pudding cookies. This past spring I made Peanut Butter Pudding cookies, and they became my all time favorite cookie. Until now...

I have had a jar of Nutella in my cupboard just waiting to be used. I subbed the spread for the peanut butter and added those yummy peppermint pieces for a new Christmas cookie.

As soon as I ate one fresh from the oven, I was in cookie heaven. These are my absolute favorite cookies now!

Peppermint Mocha Pudding Cookies - these chocolate fudge cookies filled with peppermint crunch chips will not last long.

I need to stock up on more of those Andes chips so that I can make these year-round. I knew these cookies would be the perfect ones to share in a cookie swap.

These delicious fudgey cookies stay soft for days, so they were a great choice to send out in the mail. Three dozen of these cookies went in the mail. Then I ate the rest while I waited to see what yummy ones I would get back.

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Candy Cane Pudding Parfaits

This week I wanted to make a fun and easy dessert for our family to enjoy after dinner. I had a box of candy cane pudding and a carton of Cool Whip frosting that I wanted to use together.

Another search of my cupboards and I also found some mini candy canes and some candy cane Oreos hiding in the very back. Don't you hide cookies too? If I keep them in plain sight, my family will eat them before I have a chance to get creative with them.

I even found these cute parfait glasses that I had forgotten about. (You know you have a prop addiction when you can't remember when you bought the said cute glasses.) But when they are only $.50 a piece, it is an ok addiction to have for the time being.

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Pineapple Filled Cupcakes

My daughter and I went to the post office last night to mail out some cookies. (Yay for fun cookie swaps btw) Do you know what we noticed? Not very many people decorate their houses for Christmas anymore. On our street there are only 6 houses with out door lights twinkling on their porches.

That may sound like quite a few, until you know that there are at least 50 homes on the 2 blocks of our street. And we didn't see very many throughout town as were were driving. Why are so many people Scrooge McMuffins when it comes to decorating with outdoor lights? When I was little I can remember house after house decked out for the holidays. (and I'm not that old) [Read more...]

Gingerbread Pudding Cookies

These soft Gingerbread Pudding Cookies are a fun cookie to add to holiday cookie trays! Soft cookies loaded with cinnamon and white chips won't last long!

A few weeks ago I participated in a Cookie Week with Nikki from Chef in Training. These gingerbread pudding cookies are what I brought to share on her blog.

I had to share them with you here too. They were absolutely delicious and disappeared so fast from my cookie jar. You can see my original post here.

This time of year I like to bake lots and lots of cookies. Well, really I like to bake cookies anytime of the year.

But at least during the holidays, people don't look at you funny when you bake 12 different kinds in one month.

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