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These sweet and crisp cherry-almond florentines are an elegant addition to you holiday cookie tin. 

We pored over every winter issue from our 95-year history to find our best-ever favourites—and added a new recipe to the mix, too.

Lime zest is in the secret ingredient in these zingy gingerbread cookies, inspired by the flavours in a Moscow Mule.

It's the best excuse to get together with friends and family—and eat a whole bunch of cookies!

This marzipan take on empire cookies is labour-intensive but totally worth it. We veered from the original all-white colour scheme with a bit of food colouring and sprinkles for a far-out look.

From shortbread to gingerbread, quick and easy to showstoppers. 

We put three popular cocoa brands to a cupcake taste test. Read on to see which brand we crowned cocoa champion.

This recipe from food scientist Jennifer Pallian uses extra brown sugar and has a higher sugar-to-butter ratio. There's also no need to chill the dough before you bake, which—yay!—means faster cookies.

This recipe, developed by food scientist Jennifer Pallian, has a pared-back ratio of fat and sugar to flour and a higher proportion of liquid ingredients, which takes them into the muffin zone. The addition of oil makes for a pillowy, tender crumb. 

These sweet almond cookies can be shaped into stars with a piping bag. No piping bag? No problem. Just roll into small rounds and coat in extra sugar.

Calgary-based Crave Cupcakes first started selling this dark chocolate cookie 17 years ago. This version has a hint of mint and is decorated with a fun green chocolate drizzle and mini chocolate chips. 

These sophisticated scroll cookies require making your own mincemeat (worth it) but also use a major short cut: store-bought puff pastry sheets.

No need for an ice cream maker: Turns out all that's required to make incredible homemade ice cream is three ingredients and a freezer.

These cookies and cream caramel apples trump the classic any day! Its crunchy cookie base with white chocolate and caramel is just perfection.