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Updated November 19, 2013
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Caramel-Pretzel Blondies

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Who needs a chocolate brownie when you could have this dreamy blondie loaded with rich, sweet caramel and salty pretzels?

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This recipe is guaranteed to please anyone because you can fill the brownie with any flavor from toffee to coconut to white chocolate.

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Clear the kitchen counters and carve out some time with your kids this holiday season to make these Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies. You'll have just as much fun cutting the festive shapes as you will enjoying their flavor!

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Sparkling sugar cookies are holiday classics. These goodies, which earn their name from a coating of coarse sugar, received our Test Kitchens highest rating.

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Gingerbread Girls

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These firm, crisp, delicious cookies are perfect for topping off a stocking, decorating a mantel, or forming a centerpiece.

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Cranberry Thumbprints

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Instead of using jam, fill these bite-sized cookies with your extra Thanksgiving cranberry sauce.

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Fruitcake Cookies

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Fruitcake's first cousin in cookie form contains all the ingredients you love in fruitcake--candied cherries, chopped pecans, cinnamon, allspice and rum--just in smaller bite-sized portions.  Santa will be very pleased if you leave a plate of these treats out for him when he stops by your house this Christmas Eve.

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Fans of classic cookies will love these updated Cranberry-White Chocolate Cookies, accented with dried cranberries and gooey white chocolate.

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