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Fancy Christmas cookies

Fancy Christmas cookies rely on nuts, chocolate and fillings, and they take more work than a plain cookie. Here you’ll find Ischler cookies with currant jam and dark chocolate, chocolate-dipped nut meringue crescents, Bratislava crescents with walnut and poppy seed filling, beehive cookies with egg liqueur, walnut brittle bars with caramel cream, pistachio Linzer cookies and candied orange peel in dark chocolate.

Cookies with cream keep for less time. Filled honey cookie rolls last about 5 days in the fridge, while empty walnut wafer rolls keep for a week in a tin and are filled a day or two before serving. Ischler cookies soften in a tin after 2 to 3 days and keep for about 2 weeks, and candied peel keeps for 2 to 3 weeks somewhere cool and dry. The Christmas baking planner shows when to make what. Without cream and with a longer life, try Christmas cookies that keep.

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