The Internet is stuffed full of holiday cookie and dessert recipes, but it can be difficult to sift through all the mediocre sites to find the outstanding ones. Here are some of the best free Christmas cookie websites online, with hundreds or thousands of recipes each and ratings by site users.
Christmas-Cookies.com has Hundreds of Christmas Cookie Recipes
This website has hundreds of Christmas cookie recipes, sorted for convenience and ease and rated for quality. There are over 520 recipes from which to choose, both modern and traditional. Recipes can be searched in categories, such as ball cookies, bar cookies, candy & fudge, cookie cutter cookies, cookie press recipes, cookies in a jar gift cookies, decorated cookies, no-bake cookies , refrigerator cookies, low carb cookies, cookies by ingredients, and even cookies by their country of origin.
Besides cookies, there are also recipes for candy, pies, tarts, cakes, pet treats, and more for Christmas and other holidays.
This is a cute site that also includes baking tips and helpful comments from recipe users. Recipes can be printed or emailed to friends. Users can post their own recipes and ratings, as well. A newsletter is also offered.
Recipe Zaar is a Huge Recipe Web Site with Lots of Christmas Cookie Ideas
Recipe Zaar is a comprehensive, well-designed site that is free to browse or join. To search for holiday recipes, one simply enters the name of them item into the search box at the top middle of the page. These results can be sorted by rating, time to make, relevancy, and more. Entering "Christmas cookies" into the search box brought up 98 recipes. Entering "ginger snaps" brought up 26 recipes.
Recipe Zaar also includes a Kitchen Dictionary and a handy Measurement Converter.
Free basic registration offers certain advantages. One can set up a recipe "book" of their own online (in which to store favorite recipes), subscribe to a free newsletter, review recipes, print recipes and shopping lists, participate in community forums, and more. For $24.95 per year, a premium membership can be purchased which allows for more flexibility and removes the ads from the site.
Better Homes and Gardens is Famous for Kitchen Tested Recipes
The Better Homes and Gardens site lists 15,000 delicious, kitchen tested recipes. Searching in the Recipe Finder brought up 226 free recipes for Christmas cookies.
Recipes can be searched by holiday, ethnicity, courses, appliances used, and main ingredient. The site is well-organized and has plenty of gorgeous photographs.
Of course, here at Suite 101 there are also plenty of excellent holiday cookie and dessert recipes, such as Christmas Carols Song Lyrics Sites, Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps Recipe, 3 Ingredients Easy Dessert Recipes and Easy 4 Ingredient Holiday Cookies.
Happy holidays and happy baking!
Janienne Jennrich - Janienne Jennrich, Topic Editor for Kids & Teen Parties and for Hair, is an award-winning freelance writer & webmaster.
