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Cookies

Are cookies a food category? Yes! Life is too short to live without good cookie recipes.

You'll find our family favorite cookie recipes like Persian Rice Cookies, Healthy Cowboy Cookies, and Chocolate Chip Cookies with Honey.

Twisted Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies

Published: December 16, 2021 Last Modified: August 5, 2022

This recipe for Twisted Peppermint Cane Cane cookies is especially for my close neighbors, friends, and family that have taken home these cute, twisted, minty sugar-coated cookies over the years.  Peppermint Candy Cane cookies are light and creamy, sweet and delicious.  They are fun to create and even more fun to eat.    Is it…

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Easy Cut Out Cookies

Published: December 10, 2021 Last Modified: December 15, 2021

Easy Cut Out Sugar Cookies for Christmas and Persian Yalda

This is a recipe for thick, fluffy, buttery, easy cut out cookies.  Nothing says winter holiday fun like a pretty Christmas shape cookie.  These cookies are so tasty with a subtle hint of almond, leveling up the sugar cookie experience. Scroll down the end for a quick jump to the easy cut out cookies recipe…

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Healthy Almond Flour Heart Cookies

Published: February 12, 2021 Last Modified: January 7, 2025

healthy almond flour cookies

This recipe is for gluten-free, super soft sugar heart shape healthy almond flour cookies.  We cut down on sugar in the base of these cookies using only a few spoons of brown sugar and a spoon of maple or date syrup.   What better way to show someone you love how much you care than baking…

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Gluten-Free Persian Walnut Cookies | Naan Gerdooee

Published: March 4, 2020 Last Modified: December 14, 2020

Containing only 3 main ingredients, Persian Walnut cookies are probably the fastest, easiest cookies you’ll ever make.  These sweet, aromatic, bite-sized cookies are perfect with a cup of Persian tea.  Walnut cookies are often served for guests and during the Persian New Year (the first day of spring).

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Naan Berenji Persian Rice Flour Cookies

Published: December 1, 2019 Last Modified: July 28, 2022

Naans Berenji | Persian Rice Flour Cookies

Light and aromatic, Naan Berenji Persian Rice Flour Cookies are delicate, lightly sweetened, pretty cookies. Traditionally served around the Persian New Year and welcome any time of year!  Our recipe is low in sugar and naturally gluten-free.  Naan berenji is my favorite of all Persian cookies and sweets!  I can easily eat a whole plate…

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Healthy Cowboy Cookies

Published: October 22, 2019 Last Modified: February 17, 2025

This recipe for Healthy Cowboy Cookies is the perfect treat. These holiday cookies have chocolate, oats, nuts, cranberries, coconut, and a splash of rum! Each chewy bite will melt in your mouth! This recipe for Healthy Cowboy Cookies is a riff on Laura Bush’s popular recipe for Cowboy Cookies (also known as Laura Bush’s Texas…

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Filed Under: Better Breakfasts, Cookies, Dessert, Healthy Baking, Healthy Snacks

Persian Tea Cookies

Published: April 15, 2019 Last Modified: August 4, 2022

Persian tea cookies resemble snowball cookies seen around the Christmas holidays, also known as Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies.  Sometimes they are loaded with walnuts, other times pecans or almonds.  Whatever you call them and whichever nuts you choose, I love these cookies for their buttery, powdery yumminess.   It’s time to make a…

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Fig Oatmeal Cookies

Published: January 9, 2017 Last Modified: August 30, 2021

Fig Jam Oatmeal Cookies plated with fresh figs

The base of this cookie recipe, Fig Oatmeal Cookies, was originally posted on Oven hug in 2017 as Ava’s Oatmeal Cookies.  We’ve made these cookies dozens of times through the years.  In this revised edition I sprinkle in ground cardamom and press in a small spoon of fig jam in the centers.  The result is…

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