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Rum Balls

Rum Balls – a classic holiday treat! Crushed cookies, ground pecans, and spiced rum make a delicious no bake dessert. Really cute in cookie tins!

Overhead shot of rum balls rolled in powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and chopped pecans

Holiday cookie tin season is my favorite season.

Especially this year when we can’t really hang out with people. So a cute cookie tin filled with delicious treats left on the front porch is a great way to make fun holiday memories with your family and friends. 

My cookie tins always have my favorite cranberry orange cookies, some kind of fudge (maybe eggnog or cookies and cream), and these rum balls! 

Rum balls are so easy and so delicious! They’re completely no bake so you really just have to combine all the ingredients, roll it into balls, and roll the balls into your desired toppings, like powdered sugar or chopped nuts. They’re a holiday classic and a must make!

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Butterscotch Pudding Cookies

Butterscotch Pudding Cookies – delicious and soft butterscotch cookies with butterscotch chips. A quick and easy cookie recipe!

Butterscotch Pudding Cookies - delicious and soft butterscotch cookies with butterscotch chips. A quick and easy cookie recipe!

Pudding cookies will forever be my favorite kind of cookie. And if you love a soft cookie like I do, pudding cookies are going to be your favorite cookie, too. 

They’re made with instant pudding mix which is how they stay soft for several days after baking. Plus, you can use any flavor pudding mix to get whatever kind of cookie you want.

My favorites are my Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies, Pumpkin Pudding Snickerdoodles, and these Butterscotch Pudding Cookies!

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies – the BEST recipe to get soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies! You will never make another chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies - the BEST recipe to get soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies! You will never make another chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Originally published February 8, 2012 and updated on January 18, 2020.

This is my alltime favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. It has been my go to for 8 years now – thankfully I documented it on this blog so I know exactly how long I’ve been obsessed!

They are soft and chewy and just the most perfect cookie if you are a soft cookie person like me. And the best part is that they stay soft. They’re not going to dry out and be crispy on day 2 or day 3. 

If you want another option for a chewy chocolate chip cookie, my Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies are amazing! 

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Christmas Confetti Cookies

Christmas Confetti Cookies – soft and chewy sugar cookies rolled in Christmas sprinkles. Santa is going to love these cookies!

Christmas Confetti Cookies - soft and chewy sugar cookies rolled in Christmas sprinkles. Santa is going to love these cookies!

I’ve been blogging for a long time and over the years I’ve claimed that many cookies were my favorite Christmas cookies but these Christmas Confetti Cookies are definitely my most favorite Christmas cookie ever.

Sprinkles just make everything better so Christmas sprinkles make everything a million times better. 

Plus, I love a soft sugar cookie. Don’t you? Just a buttery sugar cookie that practically melts in your mouth. The best. 

This is a really easy, simple recipe that would be great for baking with kids. Kids love sprinkles as much as I love sprinkles so I know they’d love rolling the cookie dough through a big bowl of colorful sprinkles.

And I’ve been told that Santa also really loves sprinkles. 

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Italian Sugar Cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies – soft lemon sugar cookies with a lemony glaze and sprinkles on top! These are a Christmas favorite and are so cute in cookie tins.

Italian Sugar Cookies - soft lemon sugar cookies with a lemony glaze and sprinkles on top! These are a Christmas favorite and are so cute in cookie tins.

I am so excited to post some Christmas cookie recipes finally!

I make these every year because everyone loves them. They are just the quintessential Christmas cookie to me. All my cookie tins includes Italian Sugar Cookies. Santa gets Italian Sugar Cookies. They just look like Christmas to me!

They are pillowy soft lemon sugar cookies with a sweet glaze and topped with sprinkles! And they’re so easy and quick to whip up. You’re going to love them!

I have a list of 30+ Christmas Cookies if you are looking for more ideas. And you definitely need to make my most popular Christmas recipe, Crockpot Candy! 

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Chewy Monster Cookies

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Chewy Monster Cookies – soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with oats, chocolate chips, peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms!

Chewy Monster Cookies - soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with oats, chocolate chips, peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms!
Hi guys! I feel like October is the start of cookie season. Right?

We’re all thinking about the cookies we plan on making in the next few months. Scouring Pinterest at all hours of the night for the perfect recipes to include in our cookie tins. I hear some people are also organized enough to start freezing dough this time of year, but that is not me. I will be making all my holiday cookies days before the holiday. 

Anyway. I’m sharing my favorite Chewy Monster Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe today. They are extra chewy and filled with all sorts of delicious things. You’re going to love them!

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Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies

Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies – soft cookies filled with coconut, pretzels, and M&Ms! The pudding mix keeps them soft for days. 

Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies - soft cookies filled with coconut, pretzels, and M&Ms! The pudding mix keeps them soft for days.

 

I am so, so, so ready for summer.

We’ve reached the point of the school year where we have standardized tests and giant projects due and award ceremonies every other day.

Which means summer is right around the corner.

We’re even pretty much done with soccer and the other parents are all, “You wanna get together and practice this summer?”

NOPE.

Anyway. I made cookies!

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Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies

Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies –  peanut butter cookied with chocolate chips and Rice Krispies! The Rice Krispies give the cookies a nice cruncy texture that everyone will love!

Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies - peanut butter cookied with chocolate chips and Rice Krispies! The Rice Krispies give the cookies a nice cruncy texture that everyone will love!

Hi guys!

I made cookies!

Because we are celebrating my kids going back to school after Spring Break!

We didn’t really do anything for Spring Break. It’s just been cold and blah and I haven’t wanted to go anywhere. We always go to the Waco Zoo on Spring Break, mostly because they have a Torchy’s up there and I like any excuse to get tacos. So we did that. And that’s it.

Zoo and tacos.

Wild Spring Break.

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Frosted Eggnog Cookies

 

Frosted Eggnog Cookies – soft eggnog cookies with eggnog frosting! Perfect for holiday cookie tins! 

Frosted Eggnog Cookies - soft eggnog cookies with eggnog frosting! A must make for the holidays!

Hi guys!

I hope you’re having a fantastic week! We really don’t have much going on this week which is nice after a months of soccer and football every night.

Oh! I did make my first holiday cookie tin of the year yesterday!

Christmas Cookie Tins

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Crockpot Crunchy Drop Cookies

Crockpot Crunchy Drop Cookies – Cap’n Crunch, Rice Krispies, and marshmallows coated in a peanut butter white chocolate! No bake and so simple! These are perfect for kids who want to help with Christmas cookies. 

Crockpot Crunchy Drop Cookies - Cap'n Crunch, Rice Krispies, and marshmallows coated in a peanut butter white chocolate! No bake and so simple! These are perfect for kids who want to help with Christmas cookies.

Okay first, I want you to know that I didn’t know what to call these so I asked my dear sweet precious boyfriend who suggested…

Deer droppings.

Why?!

Of all the things he could have said.

We’re not going to call them that. Please don’t call them that.

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Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies

Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies  – pistachio cookies with vanilla filling and a chocolate drizzle! The perfect Christmas cookie!

Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies - pistachio cookies with vanilla filling and a chocolate drizzle! The perfect Christmas cookie!

It’s Christmas cookie season!

How excited are you?!

And how was Thanksgiving?!

My kids were out of town and since I very rarely get a night without kids and I’m also always whining about the lack of poke in our tiny city, BF drove us 45 minutes Wednesday night so we could have a Thanksgiving sushi burrito and poke bowl. He had to work real Thanksgiving and I was happy not to cook a single thing this year.

And then I never left the house the rest of the weekend except to pick my kids up yesterday.

It was perfect.

Poke House, Round Rock TX- Hot Cheetos Sushi Burrito

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Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies

Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies – oatmeal cookies filled with everything but the kitchen sink! Chocolate chunks, white chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, walnuts, raisins, and coconut!

When we moved I realized I had a lot of mostly empty bags of chocolate chips.

A lot.

Same goes for pecans, shredded coconut, almond meal, bottles of vanilla, all the stuff I always think I’m out of when I’m out the store and apparently am never actually out of it.

Plus, 15 packages of almond bark even though I only use almond bark once a year for crockpot candy…? I don’t know, guys.

I guess everyone I know is getting crockpot candy for Christmas next year.

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M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies – soft and delicious cookies with chocolate chips and M&Ms! 

M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies - soft and delicious cookies with chocolate chips and M&Ms! I make these over and over!

I’m just not a cookie person.

I would choose cake, a slice of pie, a handful of gummy bears, pretty much any other sweet over a cookie.

The exception to that rule is the one or 2 times a year when the only thing I can think about is grocery store bakery M&Ms cookies.

You know the ones, right?

They’re super soft and somehow every grocery store in the country makes them exactly the same way?

Yeah, those.

When I get a random craving for one of them, nothing fixes it but getting those cookies.

I can remember leaving my house in a snowstorm in Colorado because I needed these cookies to survive the day.

Fritos and grocery store bakery M&Ms cookies are the only things that I was ever willing to leave my house for during a snowstorm.

Y’all remember those days? When I was too scared to drive in the snow so we would walk to school every day? Granted, it was a short walk but still. I was terrified to drive in the snow for the first several years we were there.

Anyway.
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Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies

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Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies – the perfect gluten free holiday cookie recipe! Tender cookies with orange zest and topped with a delicious sweet orange glaze.

Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies - the perfect gluten free holiday cookie recipe! Tender cookies with orange zest and topped with a delicious sweet orange glaze.

We had parent teacher conferences last month and during one of them my blog came up and we started talking about how I do a lot of paleo stuff and the teacher mentioned that she and her husband are gluten free so when her students bring in homemade treats for her, she typically has to pass them on to other teachers.

And I don’t know if I’ve told you guys but I love all my kids’ teachers this year. I love them.

So obviously gluten free treats needed to be made for her.

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Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies – the perfect sweet and salty cookie! Bacon is quickly candied in the oven and then added to the best chocolate chip cookies recipe!

Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies - the perfect sweet and salty cookie! Bacon is quickly candied in the oven and then added to the best chocolate chip cookies recipe!

This post originally published on September 30, 2011 and was updated October 23, 2017. It’s one of my oldest and favorite recipes. 

The first time I ever made these Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies – over 6 years ago – was the first time I realized what a food blogger weirdo I was.

Food bloggers love bacon.

Okay, yeah, everyone loves bacon but food bloggers love to put bacon in places where bacon usually doesn’t belong.

Cookies, ice cream, rice krispies treats, pretty much everything.

I mean, I have a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on a glazed doughnut pretty much every Saturday morning of my life.

And you can think that’s weird but I have made everyone in my life try them and no one’s complained yet.

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