Recipes

For our last cookie in the Great Statewide Cookie Exchange, which we’ve shared all month, we present cranberry cookies. This contributor took her grandmother’s recipe, searched the cupboard for ingredients, and improvised this recipe.

Here’s another recipe from our Great Statewide Cookie Exchange, which we’ve been running all month. It’s contributed by a baker who makes at least 20 different cookies in just three days every year to give as gifts

As we continue sharing cookies in our Great Statewide Cookie Exchange this month, this time we turn to a commercial bakery that shared its secret for the yummiest, chewiest oatmeal cookies you ever tasted.

These bite-size fruitcake cookies are perfect for cookie boxes or tins. They are our Editor-in-Chief’s favorite cookies because her late mother always made them.

Here’s another cookie from our Great Statewide Cookie Exchange, submitted from the Kansas City area. Piparkukas are Latvian Gingerbread Cookies, and we like them for snacks because they’re spicy but not overly sweet.

Our Missouri Life Ambassadors recruited talented home bakers from around the state who generously shared their favorite Christmas cookie recipes. Try out this delicious Chocolate Mint Cookie recipe.

Here’s another cookie recipe in our Great Statewide Cookie Exchange from talented home bakers all over the state. This one would be good any time of the year.

Dutch Country General Store has two locations, one in Missouri and one near our border, that deliver a shopping experience definitely worth the drive. The owners share their passion for the kitchen and special holiday recipes.

This unique dip comes from the former Eden’s Alley, a restaurant that had a long run, a quarter of a century in Kansas City, before closing. Eden’s Alley still shares their plant-based recipes on their website, which still supports and promotes plant-based diets and whole foods, minimally processed.

TGIF! How about this easy-to-assemble raspberry chocolate sorbet with vanilla cookie and pistachio mousse for dessert? Put it in a martini glass for an elegant element that says “let’s celebrate the weekend.”