Nothing smells better at holiday time than the warm and sweet scent of freshly baked cookies. Fire up your oven and try some of our best cookie recipes this holiday season. 

1. Hazelnut Chcocolate Sandwich Cookies

Hazelnut and chocolate are a classic cookie combination. Demerara sugar, with its crunchy crystals, gives these luxurious cookies a special texture.

2. Maple Walnut Shortbread

A fave Canadian combo -- maple and walnut -- makes a fab cookie.

3. Spiced Gingerbread Women and Men

Crystallized ginger gives these well-spiced gingerbread cookies a real flavour boost. Leave them plain or decorate them – before baking, simple adornments of currants, raisins or candied fruit can be added. Or, after baking, pipe on icing designs.

 

4. Chunky Choc Pile-Ups
These plump whole-grain cookies are less sweet and more filling than traditional cookies, so they make a yummy fuel-up any time of day. Heart-healthy, trans fat-free margarine and chunks of dark chocolate (healthier than regular chocolate chips) make this recipe good for you and just plain good.

5. Pomeranzen

Germany has a strong tradition of baking Christmas cookies, and these orange and hazelnut bites are one of scores of fabulous cookies that have been made for generations.

6. Sesame Rum Snaps

A new version of brandy snaps, these lacy, candylike cookies feature the sunny and warm tastes of sesame seeds, molasses and rum. 

7. Kumquat Spice Drop Cookies

Kumquats are the jewels of the citrus family. The unique sweet-tart flavour of these small oval fruits, which you eat skin and all, makes these cookies unique.

8. Honey Spice Almond Cookies

These combine the best of two worlds – spice cookies and nut cookies.

9. Swiss Lemon Butter Cookies

These simple Christmas cookies have authentic Swiss flavour.

10. Pistachio Vanilla Spirals

These cookies are rolled from a short and rich pastry dough into delicate and sweet spirals kissed with ground pistachios.