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Christmas Cookies and Cake Pops

Cathy Roma Published: Dec 25, 2015

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These Christmas cookies and cake pops are sure to make your holiday merry!
These Christmas cookies and cake pops are sure to make your holiday merry!

Gingerbread Cake Pops

Merry Christmas! I hope you’re enjoying the day surrounded by people you love. I’m sending this from my sofa, still in pjs and snuggled up to my two favorite presents, my boys Jack and Max.

I’ll keep it brief so I can get back to cozing.

Gingerbread Cake PopsI wanted to give you a peak at what’s been baking in my kitchen over the holidays.

Remember those gingerbread push pops I made last week? Well, when you cut out the rounds you’re left with all these yummy cake scraps that are too good to toss.

So instead, crumble them up and mix them with the leftover icing and voila! Gingerbread cake pops!

You can use the same method that I used to make these chocolate peppermint cake pops. These were a big hit at my holiday gatherings this year and I love the festive Christmas berry design.

Gingerbread Cake Pops

Melted Snowman CookiesNow these melted snowman cookies warm my heart. I’ve seen different versions of these over the years and thought they were the perfect cookies to bring to my boys’ school holiday parties.

I used this recipe for cookies and royal icing and cut out two rounds from the cookie dough, baked them off  and “glued” the smaller cookie to the larger with a dab of royal icing.

You can use the flood icing to finish the whole cookie, allow to dry and then pipe on the snowman’s eyes, carrot nose, arms and buttons.

Melted Snowman CookiesIt’s freakishly warm here for December and even though we don’t have any snow to make a snowman, if we did he would certainly look like this today. Poor guy.

I’ll see you back here next week when I’ll be breaking out the booze to craft some delicious cocktails to kick off the new year. That’s going to make for some pretty fun recipe testing here this weekend!

Now back to merry-making…

Melted Snowman Cookies
Gingerbread Cake Pops
Gingerbread Cake Pops

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About Cathy Roma

My food philosophy is simple: everything in moderation. Sweet, savory, healthy, decadent…food, like life, is all about balance. I rely on my background as a trained chef/mom to create family-friendly recipes that will inspire you to cook, not complicate your life.

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  1. Mary Ann | The Beach House Kitchen says

    December 30, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Totally gorgeous Cathy! Hope you enjoyed the holidays! Happy New Year!

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  2. gail davids says

    December 14, 2016 at 1:34 am

    it would of been nice if you would of left a receipe so i could make these cookies

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    • Cathy says

      December 14, 2016 at 4:59 pm

      I included a link to the recipe for the cookies and royal icing and a description of how to decorate them in the text of the post. The same for the cake pops, I used the scraps from the gingerbread push pops and followed the method in the link in the post.

  3. Mj says

    November 9, 2018 at 10:55 pm

    Made these last year. Used marshmallows instead of second cookie. Worked out so great!

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    • Cathy says

      November 9, 2018 at 11:58 pm

      They look so cute with marshmallows! These are always a favorite at Christmas!

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