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These are always a big hit. Sweet and spicy with crunchy edges and soft chewy center. Mmmm...

Soft drop cookies packed with applesauce, plump raisins, and crunchy nuts, spiced with cinnamon and cloves for old-fashioned charm.

Gingerbread men cookies with oats, molasses, cinnamon, and ginger rolled thin and decorated with frosting, red cinnamon candies, and chocolate. A holiday baking favorite.

Chewy ginger molasses cookies with crackled sugar tops and soft, spice-packed centers. Cinnamon, ginger, and clove make these the cookie that defines fall and holiday baking.

Buttery cinnamon crinkle cookies with a cinnamon-sugar crust and a pecan half pressed into each center. Cream of tartar gives them that signature chewy-crisp edge.

Classic snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked until soft-centered with a chewy edge. Cream of tartar gives the signature tang and crackled top. Pantry-staple cookie recipe.

Chocolate snickerdoodles rolled in a cocoa-cinnamon-sugar coating. Chewy oat cookies with a crackly crust and deep chocolate flavor that beats the classic version.

Sturdy gingerbread house dough made with shortening, dark corn syrup, and warming spices. Holds its shape for construction. The classic holiday project base.

Pepparkakor, the thin and snappy Swedish spice cookies layered with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg over deep molasses. Sliced from chilled logs and baked crisp. A classic Scandinavian Christmas treat.

Molasses crinkle cookies bake into chewy spiced rounds with a sugary, crackled top, deeply scented with cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and allspice. A lower-fat take using egg whites and soft margarine.

Hot apple muffins with chopped apples in the batter and a cinnamon-sugar apple ring baked on top of each one. A big-batch breakfast muffin best served straight from the oven.

Layered apple kuchen: a tall German-Jewish bundt cake with three batter layers and two ribbons of cinnamon-sugar apples baked in between. The honey cake's apple-loving cousin.

Monkey-faced cookies: old-fashioned molasses drop cookies with ginger and cinnamon, decorated with three raisins for eyes and a mouth. Makes 36 cookies in 30 minutes. A classic kids baking project.

Hot apple pandowdy is an early-American upside-down apple dessert: cinnamon-sugar apples baked under a soft butter cake batter, then inverted and served warm with whipped cream.

Thin, crisp Swedish cookies brushed with egg white, dusted with cinnamon-clove sugar, and topped with a whole almond pressed into each one. Lemon zest brightens the buttery dough. Ready in 25 minutes, makes 2 dozen.

Old-fashioned hermit cookies with molasses, raisins, chopped nuts, and a warm spice blend of cloves, cinnamon, and ginger. A chewy New England classic rolled and cut from thick dough.