Desserts
15 Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes from the Yankee Archives
Add some sweetness to your holiday season with these 15 classic Christmas cookie recipes from the Yankee archives.
By Aimee Tucker|Dec 07 2021|
Coffee By Design | Portland, Maine
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years ago you published a recipe for raspberry shortbread cookies from the Viking Hotel in Newport Ri I have been trying to find it the dough was grated first before cooking
Hi MaryAnn. Can you provide a bit more information? Was the recipe from an issue of Yankee Magazine? A decade would be helpful if so. Or did it appear in a magazine supplement or perhaps a Yankee cookbook? I’ll do my best to track it down if I can get a little more info from you. Thanks!
I clicked on the recipe category listed below. I selected some recipes and tried to access them. Some of them I could access and some of them I could not. They came up as access denied.
Hi Marge. Thanks for letting us know! We’ve corrected the errors and you should now be able to view every recipe. Thanks!
I have lost my recipe for the pumpkin cookies that you printed before Thanksgiving. Is there any way I can get it? Thanks
Holiday Greetings,
Thinking back to a recipe from an issue of Yankee Magazine where cookies, I believe they were Scandinavan, and were shaped like fish. I loved the history they were quite unique. If you have information I would love to revisit the story and make the cookies again.
Warm wishes,
Lisa
Hello Lisa. We’d love to try and track down the recipe for you. Can you give a bit more information? What year (or even decade) do you think it was? Was there a memorable ingredient in the cookies? Were they like shortbread or gingerbread or were they chocolate? Our recipe archive is a bit cumbersome so any identifying details are enormously helpful. Thanks!
For Lisa, Several years ago there was a ginger cookie in Yankee Magazine called Valentine’s Day Cookies. The cookies in the illustration were fish shaped because the little girl particularly liked that shape. There doesn’t seem to be any reference to Scandinavia. I like the Yankee recipies so much that I cut the ones I want to keep and paste them in a notebook. Haven’t lost one yet.
Years ago, there was a recipe with something like walnut ball sandwiched with a chocolate filling. I kept that magazine for years (other great cookie recipes in it too), but seemed to have lost it in a move. I would love to have that recipe again!
That is called walnut butter ball we call them hamburger cookies!
Gee, I wish I could still bake. Hands are too bad to handle them now.
Thanks for sharing your recipes. I’m sharing with my Grand daughters.
I’d love ! To find a recipe from several years back ( not more than 10) for a ginger cutout cookie that was crispy, and the illustration was a pug cutout ~ can’t find it anywhere ???? help!
I meant pig cutout
I have lost my copy of Yankee Magazine that had an old-fashioned date-filled cookie recipe. It was probably from the 1990’s, though I suspect the recipe was much older. I had my fingers crossed that it would be one of the favorites. I remember the date filling had lemon (juice? zest?) in it, which made it taste wonderful.
Where can I get the recipes for these cookies?
Hi Margaret! If you click on the title of the name of the cookie it will take you to a new page with that cookie’s recipe. Happy baking!
I’d love to see these recipes in a cookie booklet !
By mistake I deleted the meringue cookie you published this week in another article. Can you reissue?
Hi there! This might be the recipe you’re looking for: https://newengland.com/today/food/forgotten-cookies/ Happy baking!
Please help me find the sugar cookie from the Mount Washington Hotel chef, probably between 1998-2007, PLEASE
ALL of these recipes sound delicious-how to choose a few to bake for gifts?! Thank you , YANKEE for publishing these! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Why don’t you show the recipe for the sour cream sugar cookies (trees with green frosting) that are pictured?
Hi Rhonda. If you’re coming from the promo in the magazine, the sour cream sugar cookie trees recipe was linked in the photo caption and can be found in the “How to Host a Cookie Swap” story. But I will also share it here: https://newengland.com/today/food/desserts/cookies-bars/sour-cream-sugar-cookie-trees/
Thanks for the recipes
I’m looking for 2 recipes I made with my mom when I was a kid in the ’60’s… First was a thumbprint cookie that we rolled in lightly beaten egg whites, then into shredded coconut and thumb prints were made midway through the baking process… we filled some of them with jam, but most were filled with a Hershey’s Kiss, –OR– half of Maraschino red or green cherries.
My mom was Slavic and I remember my dad typed her recipes on 3×5″ file cards, and the 2nd recipe was “Russian Rocks” and they reminded me most of Mexican Wedding Cake cookies, but those usually use pecans. I honestly don’t remember what was inside, but being poor, it must have been minimal–I cannot see her buying both pecans AND walnuts and I’m ruling out dates. She probably used walnuts, they were cheaper than pecans.
Any help with these two would be appreciated!
Looking for a lost cookie recipe made with cottage cheese, or cream cheese, with cinnamon type filling, and rolled into crescents. Any help would be appreciated.