Vintage cookies

The best classic cookie recipes, straight from grandma's recipe box!

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Vintage cookie recipes for Christmas! It just wouldn't be Christmas without some of these amazing vintage cookie recipes!

A buttery and tender shortbread cookie made with lemon zest, cardamom, rose water and pistachios, dipped in white chocolate and topped with edible dried rose petals and chopped pistachios

This Hungarian artist, who goes by Mezesmanna on Instagram, takes simple gingerbread cookies, and turns them into intricate pieces of edible art. She creates all kinds of designs on them, like lace patterns, flowers, or even full pictures of animals and pets.

Learn how to decorate beautiful and delicious cookies from cookie pro Amber Spiegel of SweetAmbs in these online cookie decorating classes!

These crispy classics are loaded with crunchy chopped toffee and almonds, so there's no doubt as to why they're my husband's favorite cookie. I used to bake them in large batches when our four sons still lived at home. Now I whip them up for the grandchildren! —Alice Kahnk, Kennard, Nebraska

These spice cookies loaded with raisins and walnuts really do appeal to all generations—I found the recipe in a 1901 South Dakota cookbook! Sour cream adds a wonderful, unusual flair. —Marion Lowery, Medford, Oregon