Best and easy recipes

Find some new favorite recipes from the Pioneer Woman: soups, pasta, chicken dinners the family will love, desserts, and ideas for leftovers. Every best and easy recipes on this page was chosen by a The Pioneer Woman editor.

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 14632 522 261 522 0 405. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than with some festive biscuit and cookie baking? What better way to get in the festive spirit than baking some Christmas biscuits? Baking Christmas biscuits doesn’t have to be complicated. Our traditional gingerbread recipe delivers perfect biscuits everytime.

So much so, we recommend making a double batch to avoid them disappearing too quickly! Christmas baking is a great activity to occupy kids over the holidays. We’ve rolled these biscuits in demerara sugar for extra crunch and prettiness. Chestnut purée adds a wonderful, sweet nuttiness to these rich and tender biscuits. If you aren’t a fan, you can sandwich your biscuits together with buttercream instead. These easy gluten-free morsels are devilishly moreish. Use your favourite jam to flavour the centres.

Fiery ground ginger meets smooth and sweet white chocolate. The question is, to dunk or not? A classic Italian biscuit, amaretti biscuits are the perfect after dinner treat at Christmas. Especially when served with espresso or a glass of our Christmas pudding vodka. These coffee and chocolate flavoured biscuits make the perfect festive gift, simply store in an airtight biscuit tin and tie with ribbon. The perfect Christmas baking project for kids, this gingerbread biscuit advent calendar is in mobile form – but they make great Christmas tree decorations too. Nothing evokes Christmas quite like the flavours of stollen, so we’ve reimagined them in crinkle cookie form.

You can leave out the brandy, if you prefer, or soak the fruit in apple juice instead. Even Santa can’t escape the weekly wash! These washing line Christmas biscuits are a perfect Secret Santa gift or an alternative Christmas decoration for your home. Whether hung on your tree, packaged as a beautiful gift, or enjoyed as a teatime treat, this is a Christmas cookie recipe you’ll want to repeat year after year. This giant Christmas cookie also makes for a fun pudding served warm in slices topped with vanilla ice cream.