Surprise your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day with a heartfelt, homemade dessert.
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White Chocolate & Peppermint Cookies
These soft, chewy cookies are filled with white chocolate chips and crushed candy canes.
Holiday Cookie Recipes From the Our State Staff
Treasured treats from beloved grandmothers, simple-but-delicious recipes that have been passed down for generations, and an almond biscotti that tastes like Italy — these are a few of our favorite holiday treats.
How to Throw a Holiday Cookie Swap
We chatted with a cookie swap pro — yes, really! — to find out her best tips for preparing a festive fête with family and friends this season, what makes cookie exchanges so special, and some of her very favorite recipes.
Aunt Nancy’s Cookies
A writer in Greensboro recalls how a favorite relative arrived each December, bearing shirt boxes brimming with old-school gems.
5 Vintage Cookie Recipes
Cocoa-dusted sugar balls, cream wafers, featherweight butter cookies — these sweet recipes are straight from the land of the TV dinner.
4 Valentine’s Day Desserts
Know a Southerner with a sweet tooth? Send them your love with an assortment of chocolate treats.
Gingersnaps
These cookies hold a special place in recipe developer Lynn Wells’s heart: They were her dad’s favorites.
The Gingerbread Family Behind McFarlan’s Bakery
Ninety years ago, a bakery in Hendersonville created a delicious Christmas tradition. Today, the line of customers waiting for a box of fresh gingerbread men runs out the door and down the block.
