17 Beautiful Holiday Cookie Recipes

This past weekend marked the beginning of Cookie Month, known to some as December. We love Cookie Month, which we showed last year by giving you a great cookie recipe every day. We're kicking off CM2012 with a slideshow of all the tasty cookies we made last year. There's a little bit of everything, from the classic to the outrageous and the simple to the decadent, but they're all pretty spectacular.

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Chocolate-Covered Sandwich Cookies with Dulce de Leche
Chocolate-Glazed Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies
Fig Bars with Thyme
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Shortbread Bars
Rosemary and Pine Nut Cookies
Super Duper Bars
Caramel Crème Sandwiches
Pumpkin Swirl Cookies
Sugar Dot Cookies
Oatmeal Jammys
Jason Weiner's Rugelach
Banana Chocolate Chip Sandwiches
Cashew Polvorones
Jacques Torres's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Lamington Bars
Kossuth Cakes
Buffalo Chip Cookies

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