Holiday season is the best time to bake some decadent cookies. It is the time to involve your kids and family members to get their hands in baking the treats. This season also calls for a lot of unexpected guests. Cookies are the perfect little treat to serve with a cup of tea or coffee. Get on your ingredients, and check out these decadent and delicious cookie recipes fit for this season:
- Classic Gingerbread Cookies
The perfect start to holiday season baking. Start with grating 100 gm of ginger. In a mixing bowl, crumble some demerara sugar and room temperature butter. Add in 200 gm of flour and a pinch of rock salt. Now mix the wet ingredients: eggs and 2 tablespoons of whole cream into the batter. Form small balls out of the cookie dough and let rest for 2 hours. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees and store in airtight containers. When done, stack 5 cookies in a cellophane wrap and tie with a red ribbon. Get gingerbread cookies from Choko la, the best cake shop in Gurgaon.
- Spiced Shortbread Cookies
This classic cookie is a delicious accompaniment to chai tea latte. These delicate cookies are a treat and so easy to whip up in your own kitchen. To make the shortbread batter, mix flour, salt, cold butter, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, and chopped cranberries. Grate some orange zest. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes.
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
The ultimate decadent cookies for the Christmas season. For this recipe, start with mixing dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Add 2 tablespoon of Dutch-processed cocoa powder, 50 gm of dark chocolate chips, and mix well. Let the cookie dough rest for overnight. Roll out small balls and coat in icing sugar. Bake it at 350 degrees for 10 minutes until the sugar starts cracking. These cookies are fudgy and utterly delicious. You can buy chocolate chip cookies from Choko la online.
- Orange & Cranberry Cookies
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, orange zest, chopped dried cranberries, butter, cardamom powder, and form a dough. Refrigerate the dough for 2-3 hours. Form into small balls and bake at 350F for 10 minutes. These shortbread cookies are a perfect combination of holiday flavors. These cookies are best enjoyed with a cup of tea.
You can batch make the cookie dough in advance as it refrigerates well. Make big batches of these cookies as it disappears quickly. Store these cookies in airtight containers for about a week. These cookies also make for delicious homemade holiday gifts.
