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The 22 best Christmas cookies to make for gift boxes! Sarah Kieffer shares her favorite holiday cookie recipes that pack and ship well.

If you’ve logged onto social media in the past year, chances are you’ve come across Sarah Kieffer’s pan-banging chocolate chip cookies. Thanks to a somewhat unusual technique, these cookies have picture-perfect ridges that make for a seriously striking photo. The trick that gives them their unique texture? Banging the cookie sheet tray against the counter every few minutes as the cookies bake — so that the cookies deflate and give way to a distinctive crinkled texture.

Perfectly spiced, ginger molasses cookies with rippled edges and a chewy center. Uses the pan-banging cookie technique to get their famous look!

Anyone can make flaky, delicious croissants with this cheater dough recipe! Butter is spread over the surface of the dough and then folded instead of using a butter block. The dough is lovely to work with and can be used to make delectable pastries.

This lemon meringue bread has a chewy, crusty meringue top and a tender lemon loaf bottom that's just as good for dessert as it is for breakfast.

I love reviewing cookbooks. I don’t often cook from cookbooks actually, since for the most part I look for recipes based on ingredients instead of finding what I want to cook and purchasing the ing…

I like my cinnamon rolls super soft and gooey, so I put a thin layer of the icing over them while they are still warm. The icing melts into the just baked rolls, eliminating any hard corners or edges. If you prefer a little crispy crunch to your cinnamon rolls, you can wait until they have cooled and then top them with all the icing.

Tender and delicious oatmeal scones with a maple glaze, with an easy preparation.

This year, we found the best cookies on the web for our 12 Days of Cookies, with today's cookie being The Vanilla Bean Blog's Peanut Butter Cookies.

MN-based baker Sarah Kieffer (of pan-banging fame) shares her Neapolitan cookie recipe from her "100 Cookies" book