I’ve been looking for a few cookie recipes since before Christmas. Two, specifically, were for shortbread cookies and lemon snowballs. I was so happy to find recipes for those today and can’t wait to try them out.

My mother in law gets several canisters of cookies every Christmas from one of her friends, inside of each contain a variety of cookies like: snowballs (the chocolate, coconut ones), cherry thumbprint shortbread cookies, Reese cup cookies, haystacks (Rice Krispies over large marshmellows covered in honey or caramel), etc. Since getting a new canister of them a few days ago, I’ve been wanting to try making some of them on my own, so that we don’t have to keep this poor woman working so hard (haha). Many people wouldn’t dream of handing out their recipes but my mother in laws friend is going to give me a few of my favorite cookie recipes to try. I doubt they’ll be as divine but it’s worth a shot!