3 Delightful Herbal Holiday Cookie Recipes

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HOLIDAY COOK IE RECIPES
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Remember the simple joys of life and gather in the
kitchen this holiday season to whip up a batch or two of
cookies! A homemade holiday cookie is much beloved
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Gingerbread Cookies
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fragrant gingerbread cookies and have a cookie
decorating party. We love this recipe because it is so very FREE
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Ingredients
Cookies:
½ cup butter or coconut oil
¼ cup honey Making

¾ cup molasses Herbal
¼ teaspoon ground cloves Preparations
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Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar

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1 to 3 tablespoons of milk, any kind that suites
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1 teaspoon of avoring such as vanilla, almond or
even consider trying a hydrosol like rosewater or
orange ower water
Beet powder for coloring
Decoration ideas:
Crystallized ginger
Dried candied orange peel
Papaya chunk
Raisins
Shredded coconut
Goji berries
Dried cherries and blueberries
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Crushed natural candy cane
Directions
To make the cookies: Start by placing the

butter/oil, honey, and molasses in a bowl and
blend until creamy.
Mix in the spices.
In a separate bowl, mix the baking soda and
hot water together making sure the baking
soda is dissolved then add to the rst mixture,
blending well.
Finally add the our and stir well to blend.
Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease your
cookie sheet.
Then roll it out on a oured surface to ¼” thick.
If it is too sticky, you can add a little extra our
to make it easier to roll.
Cut into shapes and bake for 15 to 20 minutes,
they will rm up as they cool.
To make the icing: Simply mix all the
ingredients together using a whisk or fork to
blend until smooth. Adjust liquid levels to
adjust thickness of icing. The have fun
decorating with your choosen toppings!
Rosemary & Honey

Shortbread
Signifying remembrance, rosemary brings a sense of
continuity to a time of year when many folks are looking
back on the past year and taking stock for the new one to
follow. And if you love all things rosemary and butter
then these melt in your mouth shortbread cookies are
the perfect cookie for you! They are not your typical
holiday cookie, o ering rich buttery avor complemented
with bright herbaceousness. The rosemary really is
almost reminiscent of pine making this a wonderful
cookie to include on any cookie platter.
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Shortbread
Adapted from People’s Company Bakery
Ingredients
2 sticks room temperature salted butter

¼ cup honey
2 cups our
Zest from one organic lemon or orange
1 tablespoon fresh, minced rosemary
1 pinch of dried lavender, well crumbled
Optional goodies such as chocolate chips or jam
for making thumbprints. Tasty avors to consider:
blackberry, strawberry, blueberry or even orange
marmalade and lemon curd (add after baking)
Directions
Cream the butter until u y.
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Then add the our, rosemary, lavender, and
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continuing to beat until all the
ingredients are very well blended together.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees
For plain shortbread cookies: Chill the dough
for at least 30 minutes.
Roll the dough into 1” balls and place on a
greased cookie sheet.
Press the dough down a bit with a cookie press,
fork, or your ngers. The dough can be crimped
along the edges if you wish with a folk. Poke a
hole (or holes) all the way through the
shortbread.
For thumbprint cookies with goodies: Chill the
dough for at least 30 minutes.
Roll the dough into 1” balls and place on a
greased cookie sheet.
Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball.
Add a lling such as jam or chocolate
chunks/chips.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the edges are
slightly brown.
The cookies may be very crumbly until they
cool and harden.
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Dipped Anise Seed

Biscotti With Roasted

Nuts & Goji Berries

Biscotti, lled with the tastiness of anise, is one of my
favorite treats especially when dipped in co ee or hot
chocolate. In this recipe, the lovely avor of anise is
brightened with a bit of freshly zested orange while
richly avored, healthful nuts and goji berries ll out
the rest of the cookie. Try wrapping up a few of these
sturdy cookie to give as a simple yet much
appreciated gift!
Chocolate Dipped Anise 
Seed Biscotti With Roasted

Nuts & Goji Berries
Ingredients
2 cups whole wheat pastry our
1 cup almond meal
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
Sprinkle salt
3 teaspoons anise seeds, crushed with a
mortar & pestle if possible
¾ cup turbinado or sucanat sugar
6 tablespoons melted butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
Zest from 1 big organic orange
3 eggs
1 cup of roasted, roughly chopped nuts such as
hazelnuts, almond, pecans, or walnuts
⅓ cup goji berries
12 to 16 ounces of dark chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease
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Whip together butter, sugar, and vanilla.
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orange zest and beat until
well blended.
Stir in the our, almond meal, baking
powder, anise seeds, and salt.
Fold in the chopped nuts and goji berries.
Form the dough into 2 logs that are about
10” x 3” and place on cookie sheet.
Bake for about for 25 minutes or until the
logs are brown on the edges and rm in the
center.
Let cool while reducing the oven
temperature to 250 degrees.
Slice the logs at an angle into biscotti that
are about ½” thick.
Carefully return the biscotti to the cookie
sheet, they may be crumbly.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until the cookies
start to rm up then turn them over to toast
the other side.
While the cookies cool and harden, prepare
the chocolate.
Place the chocolate chips in a bowl and then
put that bowl over a pan of water with the
bowl suspended above the water.
Melt the chocolate chips and mix the
chocolate until smooth.
Dip the biscotti in the chocolate or use a
spoon to spread the chocolate on the
biscotti. Then set the biscotti on parchment
paper to harden.
When the chocolate has harden, store in an
airtight container.
For more herbal holiday fun, check out these o erings

here at the Academy:
13 Last Minute Gift Ideas To Make At Home will

give you plenty of ideas for crafting your own holiday
gifts.
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Family Friendly Herbal Chai to drink while baking
your cookies, making other herbal treats, or simply
enjoy time together.
Maca-Roons, Cacao Dusted Peanut Butter Cookies,
and even these Herbal Honeys make delicious gifts
to share with friends and family.
Happy holidays!
REFERENCES
Cooperative Whole Grain Educational Association. (1993).

Uprisings, the whole grain baker’s book. Ann Arbor,
MI: CWGEA.
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Sweet Spiced Gingerbread 

¼ cup honey Making

1 cup powdered sugar

To make the cookies: Start by placing the

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Rosemary & Honey

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Rosemary & Honey 

Adapted from People’s Company Bakery

2 sticks room temperature salted butter

Dark Chocolate VIEW CART (0)  CONTACT US

Dipped Anise Seed

Biscotti With Roasted

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Nuts & Goji Berries

Chocolate Dipped Anise 

Seed Biscotti With Roasted

For more herbal holiday fun, check out these o erings

13 Last Minute Gift Ideas To Make At Home will

Cooperative Whole Grain Educational Association. (1993).

 Herbalicious Homemade Granola

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