Relish Recipes — cookies

Monster Cookies

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Monster Cookies
A few years ago we published a recipe courtesy of our customer Kathy (Nova Scotia Oatmeal Cookies). It's become one of our favourite oatmeal cookies so we decided to revisit the recipe and add a special Halloween twist. These cookies have a bumpy texture and subtle peanut butter flavour. We sometimes like to add healthy stuff like 2 tbsp of ground flax and hemp seeds to the batter. Whether you make them with the "healthy stuff" or not, all your trick-or-treaters will be sure to gobble them up!

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Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

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Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies
These cookies are a heavenly combination of sweet dark chocolate, earthy cinnamon, smooth vanilla and spicy cayenne pepper. They are a fun addition to your holiday cookie collection.

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Rosemary-Cheese Spritz Crackers

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Rosemary-Cheese Spritz Crackers

Cheddar cheese spritz Crackers will be the highlight of your holIday snack table. If you are not familiar with spritz cookies, they are a classic butter cookie that originated in Germany ((known as Spritzgebäck). This savoury version is a perfect additon to your charcuterie board or You use a cookie press to press out the festive shapes like you do spritz cookies. Our recipe makes it easy to do! DOWNLOAD RECIPE CARD Equipment: 1 Cookie Press Yield: About 4 dozen Ingredients... 1 cup room temperature softened unsalted butter 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest 1 large egg yolk 6 tbsp whipping (35%)...

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Cranberry Streusel Bars

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Cranberry Streusel Bars

These bars are a great way to use up your leftover cranberry sauce. The base recipe is great year-round, just substitute your favourite jam for the cranberry sauce.

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Creepy Shortbread Witch Finger Cookies

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Creepy Shortbread Witch Finger Cookies
Halloween is not looking like it will be a door-to-door activity this year. So here's a fun cookie to make with the kids. Donna-Marie used to make these with her kids when they were younger, including some fun "mummy" hot dogs, which they still talk about and love, even in their twenties!

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