The Cake Merchant

Easy and Tasty White Chocolate Sugar Cookies

An easy recipe for sugar cookies with white chocolate icing

Merry Christmas, all! I was originally only going to post these cookies on Instagram, but they were just too good not to post here. I’m not someone who usually gravitates to sugar cookies, but I just cannot stop eating these.

I’ve always been intimidated by royal icing. Not just making it, but the idea of cleaning multiple bowls and icing tips right before Christmas has prevented me from even bothering the last couple of years. This year, I really wanted to make sugar cookies for our family’s Christmas Eve get together, but I figured there had to be an easier way.

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How to Make a Holiday Cookie Box + A New Recipe

Cookie Box

Happy Holidays, friends! Today I have a fun cookie recipe to share with you, along with some links of great cookie recipes around the web.

For the last several years, I have been seeing these super photogenic cookie boxes all over instagram from bloggers like Constellation Inspiration and Cloudy Kitchen. This year, I wanted to make one of my own.

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Mint Chocolate Chip Macarons

Mint Chocolate Chip Macarons

There are only four days left until Christmas, and I’ve just started my holiday baking! Normally I wouldn’t be super stressed, since I can whip up a batch of Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies in about 10 minutes, but this year in particular I’ve been baking for people with a lot of dietary restrictions. Yesterday I was meeting a friend who doesn’t eat gluten or dairy, and I could not for the life of me think of what to bake for her.

Macarons are obvious choice for the gluten free peeps, but how would I make a filling without dairy? I like to fill my macarons with swiss buttercream or some kind of ganache, both of which require copious amounts of dairy in the form of butter or heavy cream.

Mint Chocolate Chip Macarons

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