Greg Dupree ; Prop Stylist : Ginny Branch ; Food Stylist : Emily Neighbors Hall

Cookie time of year has formally get in !

We ca n’t recollect of anything odoriferous than tray pile richly with butter gem and and canister fulfil with thumbprint and other sugary surprise .

Perhaps the most playfulness and gay are our yearly cooky barter tradition when admirer and menage fellow member broil and apportion theirmost telling cooky .

Southern Living Sparkling Linzer Cookies on a platter ready to serve.

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We call for theSouthern Livingeditors to partake in their go - to formula for vacation exchange , and here are their top pick .

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

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Peanut Butter snog

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

Pecan Tassies

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Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Food Stylist : Sally McKay ; Prop Stylist : Phoebe Hausser

" Pumpkin snickerdoodles are everything beneficial about these authoritative biscuit — balmy , chewy , and make full with cinnamon flavour — but these have the add nip of pumpkin vine and pumpkin spiciness . "

-Meghan Overdeep , Senior Writer

Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

Emily Laurae

Will Dickey ; Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless ; Food Stylist : Ali Ramee

This was imbibe drinking chocolate - peppermint candy crackle cooky formula

Snickerdoodle Cookies

Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Ana Kelly ; Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless

Santa ’s Kitchen - Sink Cookies

Greg DuPree ; Food Styling : Emily Nabors Hall ; Prop Styling : Audrey Davis

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip cooky

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Laura Bush ’s Cowboy Cookies

Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn ; Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

" When it amount to cooky , I am an everything - but - the - kitchen - sump form of gallon !

Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies

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This was these cowboy cookie off all my craving with oat , pecan , and burnt umber chip . "

-Brennan Long , Associate Social Media Director

Sparkling Linzer Cookies

Southern Living Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies after baking on cooling rack

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Pecan Tassies - Southern Living

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Southern Living Pumpkin Snickerdoodles on a plate to serve

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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

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Fudgy Flourless Chocolate-Pecan Cookies

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Chocolate-Peppermint Crackle Cookies

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Southern Living Snickerdoodles on plates to serve

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Santa’s Kitchen-Sink Cookies

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Southern Living Laura Bush’s Cowboy Cookies on a plate to serve with glasses of milk

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