🍪🎄What I’m baking this holiday season…🎄🍪

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It’s the weekend before Christmas, and you’d better believe we’re doing some baking and making sweet treats at our house. If you’re curious about what the family of a food blogger makes, I’ve got the details here…

From the desk of The Speckled Palate’s Erin Parker

Howdy, Reader,

We’ve talked about cookies already, but since we just finished The Sweetest Season and I shared a few new cookie recipes for this year, I wanted to send you the items we’ll be baking this coming week.

My family has baked cookies every Christmas since I was a kid, and it’s a fun tradition we’ve continued in our own home. It’s something where we get our girls involved, too, and they have a blast measuring, mixing and helping prepare (and decorate!) various cookies.

However, we’ve shaken up some of the traditional recipes my family made and added some new ones to the mix for fun.

Here’s what you’ll find in our kitchen this coming week:

• ​Potato Chip Cookies: If you’re a fan of sweet-salty desserts, this one is for you! This recipe comes from my Memother, and I’ve tinkered with it just a little throughout the years to downsize it and up the sweet-salty factor. The cookie dough is soft and studded with crunchy potato chips. It should go without saying that the combination is AMAZING. 10/10 recommend.
• ​Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies: This is a new recipe for TSP this year, and it was a smashing success. And it was so successful, in fact, that we’ve already used up our freezer portion of it. (So we clearly will need to make more.) Chocolate and peppermint is such a heavenly combination!
• ​Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies: Everybody knows and loves a Peanut Blossom, right? (Assuming you can, of course, enjoy peanut butter and chocolate.) This is a slight twist on the classic and involves dark chocolate Kisses… because why not?
• ​All-Butter Tea Cake Cookies: These are our go-to cut out sugar cookie recipe, and I particularly love them because they’re not too sweet. The dough is easy to work with and when paired with Easy Sugar Cookie Icing, these are always a home run to make and decorate with kids!
• ​Ginger Rosemary Shortbread Cookies: I made these cookies for a blogger cookie exchange years ago, and this recipe made me a life-long friend. The combination of ginger and rosemary makes for a beautiful balance in the buttery shortbread dough. These are also excellent for sharing.

If you need tips and tricks for hosting a cookie exchange, hosting a cookie decorating party or putting together a cookie gift box, I’ve written some tutorials for you, too.

What are YOU baking this season?

As always, happy baking!

Erin