Christmas Cookie Box

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Author: Delphine Fortin
Prep Time: 10 mins (for assembling)
Total Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 10+
Category: Cookies

This festive Christmas cookie box is filled with your favorite cookies, ranging from chocolate brownie cookies, shortbread cookies, white chocolate and cranberry cookies, and more. It makes a wonderful homemade gift for the holidays, and it’s also great for other occasions.

Ingredients

Cookie recipes used for this Christmas box:

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Instructions

Make ahead steps:

Up to 3 months in advance. Prepare each cookie recipe (except the shortbread cookies) separately, up to the step you shape into balls of cookie dough. Place on a sheet of parchment paper and chill in refrigerator for one hour or until set. Then, transfer to a freezer bag, and store in the freezer.
The day before. Prepare and bake the chocolate chip shortbread cookies, according to the recipe instructions, and let cool at room temperature. Bake each batch of the 4 other cookie recipes separately, directly from frozen, making sure to check the oven temperature for each batch (they don’t bake all at the same temperature)**. Transfer on a cooling rack and let cool completely.

Assembling the Christmas cookie box:

Fill each cookie box* with a selection of cookies from each batch, playing with a range of textures and shapes to create some perspective. Make the cookies overlap, stack them, place them upright and side by side, using separators. Another great option for a nice visual effect consists in baking cookies in different sizes.
Wrap with brown paper bag, tie with a nice ribbon, and gift the Christmas cookie box to your friends and family.

Notes

* Because you use frozen balls of cookies, you may need to adjust the baking time a little, baking about 1 to 2 more minutes than recommended in the recipe instructions.

** I used a 9.5×9.5 inch (2×24 cm) box, lined it with parchment paper, and created some carton separators.

Note that this Christmas cookie box is better served fresh, rather than shipped. This is because the selection of cookies used always taste better when eaten the days following baking. For best results, I recommend adding a personalized card inside each Christmas cookie box with a handwritten note saying “For best results, warm up the cookies in the microwave for about 30 seconds before serving. Happy Holidays!”.