pine nut lemon rosemary shortbread cookies

Lemon. Rosemary. Pine nuts. Butter. Shortbread cookies. Thanksgiving. Goodness. This recipe is from Heidi Swanson's cooking blog. Here's the link:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/pine-nut-rosemary-shortbread-recipe.html

Cayenne spiced chocolate cookies with cinnamon sugar topping

cocoa dusted pepernoten

These pebble-shaped cookie delicacies of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and anise are a revamped cocoa dusted version of pepernoten (literal translation is pepper nuts!) Pure genius. If cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and anise wasn't enough, the added goodness of cocoa take into a whole new realm of deliciousness. These little treats, as well as the original pepernoten, are given out during Christmas time to all the well-behaved dutch children.