Make 10 Holiday Cookies from One Dough!🎁 | Christmas Cookie Box

I'm sharing how to make 10 amazing holiday cookies from just one dough; such as 3 kinds of chewy cookies (chocolate chip, gingerbread, and chocolate), snowball cookies, piped cookies, cut-out cookies, icebox cookies, gingerbread man cookies, and Linzer cookies! Bake any cookie with this dough to create your special holiday cookie box for your family & friends.

📝The Ingredients:
🎄The Base Cookie Dough
(Makes about 800g | 28.2oz of the dough)
• Unsalted butter: 226g | 8oz or 2 US sticks
• Powdered sugar: 142g | 5oz
• Salt: 1/4 tsp
• Whole egg: 1 egg
• Egg yolk: 1 (Save the egg white for egg wash)
• All-purpose flour: 285g | 10oz
• Almond flour: 85g | 3oz
Egg wash:
• Egg white: 1

📌I baked 10 kinds of cookies today but of course, you do not need to make all of them. Pick the ones you want or different designs as you like!

🎄Divide the dough for the 3 flavors and make 10 kinds of cookies:
🌟Vanilla Dough
• The base dough: 400g | 14.1oz (1/2 of the whole base cookie dough)
• Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp

1. Snowball cookies
• Vanilla dough, 100g | 3.5oz (1/4 of the whole dough)
• Toasted pecans: 33g | 1.1oz (1/3 of the vanilla dough) or as much as you like - Mix in the dough and form balls.

2 Piped cookies
• Vanilla dough, 100g | 3.5oz (1/4 of the whole dough)
• Mixed nuts (optional): Attach them before you bake the cookies.
• Dark chocolate (melted): Pipe on the middle of the baked cookies.

3. Holiday wreath cookies
• Vanilla dough: 100g | 3.5oz (1/4 of the whole dough)
• Dried cranberries(optional): Attach them before you bake the cookies.
• Sprinkles: Attach them before you bake the cookies.

4. Chewy chocolate chip cookies
• Vanilla dough: 100g | 3.5oz (1/4 of the whole dough)
• Brown sugar: 16.6g | 0.6oz (1/6 of the vanilla dough)
• Baking soda: 1/8 tsp
• Chocolate chip: 33g | 1.1oz (1/3 of the vanilla dough)
- Set aside some to attach on top right before baking.
* I divided the dough into 15g | 0.5oz each. (Change as you like!)

🌟Gingerbread Dough:
• The base dough: 200g | 7oz (1/4 of the whole base dough)
• Molasses: 40g | 1.4oz (2 Tbsp)
• Ginger: 3/4 tsp
• Cinnamon: 3/4 tsp
• Allspice: 1/8 tsp
• Clove: 1/8 tsp
• All-purpose flour: 25g | 0.9oz (3 Tbsp)

5. Chewy gingerbread cookies
• Gingerbread dough: 100g | 3.5oz
• Brown sugar: 16.6g | 0.6oz (1/6 of the gingerbread dough)
• Baking soda: 1/8 tsp
• Granulated sugar to coat the dough and sprinkle on top
• White chocolate: Dip the baked cookies.
• Dried cranberries (optional): Attach the chocolate.
* I divided the dough into 15g | 0.5oz balls. (Change as you like!)

6. Gingerbread man cookies:
• Gingerbread dough: The rest of the gingerbread dough
• Sprinkles: Attach them before you bake the cookies.

🌟Chocolate Dough
• The base dough: 200g | 7oz (1/4 of the whole base cookie dough)
• Cocoa powder: 1 Tbsp + 1 tsp

7. Chewy chocolate cookies
• Chocolate dough: 100g | 3.5oz
• Brown sugar: 16.6g | about 0.6oz (1/6 of the chocolate dough)
• Baking soda: 1/8 tsp
• Milk: 1 & 1/2 tsp
• Dark chocolate: Dip the baked cookies.
* I divided the dough into 15g | 0.5oz balls. (Change as you like!)

8. Linzer cookies
• The rest of the chocolate dough
• Any jam of your choice: Pipe on the middle of the cookie and place a second cookie on top.
• Powdered sugar: Dust on the finished cookies.

9. Stars
• The dough from Linzer cookies
• Egg white (egg wash)
• Sprinkles: Brush egg white and attach the sprinkles before baking

🌟 With the leftover dough
10. Dried fruits & nuts icebox cookies
• Any leftover dough
• Dried fruits: As much as you like.
• Toasted mixed nuts: Mix in the dough and form a square log.
• Egg white (egg wash)
• Granulated sugar: Apply egg wash and attach the sugar around the log. Freeze and slice!

* Chill ALL the cut-out cookies completely before baking them to hold their nice shapes.

🔥 Bake at 345F | 174C for about 6-15 mins
* Adjust the time and temperature depending on the oven and the size of your cookies.
* Be careful not to bake the chewy cookies too long: With my oven, it only takes 6-7 minutes with the size.
* Bake the cut-out cookies until you see nice golden caramelization around the edge to enjoy the light crispy texture.

📖 Get the printable recipe from my blog!:

🎁Other cookies:
Christmas Tree Cookies
Chocolate Snowball Cookies

🎁Other holiday desserts:
Holiday Macarons | 4 Pies Flavors
Apple hand pies

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#holidaycookiebox #christmascookies

[PastryLivingwithAya]

Enjoy making all the kinds of holiday cookies with this recipe!!🎄- Make sure to chill the cut-out & piped cookie dough completely in a fridge until right before you bake them so that they spread too much in the oven.

[haingo]

I followed this whole recipe and I almost died of exhaustion standing up for like 5+ hours 🤣, but I now know how to strategize by prepping better. The cookies taste delish!

[ThiaCrow]

🎉🎉🎉”Bravo” … amazing from beginning to end results!!! Retired 32 yrs fellow Pastry Chef here 👍🍾

[oddzendz]

A new watcher here - I legit didn't believe this could be done without a bunch of extra fuss, and I have been TAUGHT. Girl, you schooled me. I will admit when I'm wrong. What a fabulous video, and so very helpful! Thank you!

[cnightingale]

This base cookie dough is very tasty. I’m a picky baker and I love these cookies. Not too sweet but super flavourful and buttery. I also love the instructions in this video. Beautifully done!

[amurri]

Just wanted to say, I gave this recipe a try to make some gift boxes for family. I've tried similar recipes on Youtube as well, but they never turned out well.

This recipe was super easy to follow, and you are right, the gingerbread dough especially was super soft, but a couple of minutes in the fridge and it was good to go. It was actually the first gingerbread flavoured cookie that I really enjoyed! The other flavours were wonderful as well, I was skeptical about the chewy cookies, but they turned out to be my favourite. 😊 My 2 year old had a blast helping me cut-out shapes and taste test lol. All were exactly how you described, soft and buttery on the inside, with a perfectly crisp outside. I tripled the recipe on your website (using grams), and they turned out great - it was so fun to make a huge bunch of cookies!

I hope you don't mind, I will definitely be saving your recipe for next year as well. I can't tell you how many I've tried over the years and they've turned out with no flavour, the recipe had so much butter that the cookies had no texture, ect. I just wanted to say thank you so much for the recipe, and thank you for all of your attention to detail in your video and on your website. It was extremely easy to navigate, and the hours and hours of work you've put into testing, editing the video, putting step-by-step pictures on the website are very clearly evident and appreciated. 😊 Wishing you and your family a very happy holiday season!

[hopeper]

Tried this recipe last Christmas it was a big hit with the family made around 5 gift cookie tins for the family and everyone enjoyed it saying it didnt last long ❤

[selcatron]

Tried this gluten free and they came out great incase anyone was wondering. I used bobs 1:1 for the ap flour. Cookies are so lovely!

[irairod]

This is brilliant! I don't have the patience or stamina to make and bake all of these in one day, but I would probably divide the tasks over 2, or better yet, prepare the base dough, divide it, and delegate friends to create the different "flavors" and come back to trade.

[shadowbrine]

I don't know how else to say this but this video *feels* like Christmas. I love it!

[ashleylange]

this looks so fun, one box of cookies with lots of flavors with one cookie dough! I'll definitely give this a try.

[fafashafe]

Wow Aya, this was so impressive. I don't even bake cookies but watched this from start to finish and I'm thinking of trying to make these for Christmas. Thanks for sharing your recipes and how you decorate so beautifully ❤

[kake]

I have made snow balls, pipped, chocolatechip, gingerbread man and chewy gingerbread. They are all good. I baked chewy gingerbread a little too long but taste still great. My favorite ones are gingerbread man and chocolate chip cookies. They are all perfect sweetness not too sweet and perfect small sizes. Great with coffee.

[liswong]

I just made these. I made 7 kinds. The sweetness is just right. The texture is great. I am bringing this to the office. Thank you Aya!

[nikkinik]

I made all 4 doughs but rolled all my cookies in balls, except for the piped cookies and ice box cookies. My favorites are the ice box and snowball cookies, but if the two, the snowball cookies are my favorites. I wanted good holiday cookies to eat during the Christmas holiday and these were perfect. I’m so glad I got to have what I wanted - really good Christmas cookies. Thank you ♥️

[hb]

Merry Christmas Aya! Thank you for sharing your amazing gifts with us! May your holidays be filled with joy and your New Year be filled with health, happiness, and love❤️

[vicb]

Very nice! I often dip my cookies (halfway) in chocolate, white or dark. Your presentation is great! This year I plan ribbon cookies, angel crisps and mint chocolate sandwich.

[dolores]

I made 8 kinds of cookies from this recipe and they turned out amazing! So delicious! Thank you for this perfect cookie making tutorial! ❤ Best I ever made!

[monicajohnson]

This is genius!!❤ Delicious lovely looking cookies!!🎄 Thank you for sharing this wonderful way of making alot of different cookies!

[aya]

I’m also aya!! I was looking for a dough that evolves so I don’t have to make a whole bunch of completely separate ones, thank you!