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Simple Christmas Cookies

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Decorated Christmas cookies in various shapes.
Photo by Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott

A super-easy, no-mixer-needed cookie dough recipe that doesn’t dirty any bowls and leaves plenty of time for the fun stuff—baking, decorating, and eating dough scraps, of course.

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