These simple rolled holiday cookies are a flavorful, beautiful Christmas Cookie. The flavors and texture are scrumptious.

This holiday cookie recipe is so easy to make. freeze well and make a tasty, colorful addition to your holiday table.

Enjoy the ease of a made ahead roll of NO BAKE cookies you just slice as needed and serve.

These are popular Christmas cookies or Thanksgiving treats will also be welcomed at ole party.

Meghan, my niece, paid me a visit the other day. We had a lovely long visit. Watching the next generation grow up into amazing people I love and respect is one of the great gifts of my life.

Meghan is a blessing to me. I don’t see her or her sister often, but when I do, It’s a pleasure.

Meghan brought me a book her mother, Linda, baked from. Linda had marked all her favorite recipes for christmas treats, these Chocolate Roll Cookies, among them.

You may have stumbled upon a post or two in this blog that mentions Dave’s sister, Linda. She was an extraordinary cook and a dear person.

I have several of her recipes on this blog. She left a wonderful legacy of love and generosity to our community.

Linda is missed by so many. Every Christmas she would bake and bake and BAKE! Load many many trays of her treats onto festive trays and give them away to her friends and family.

She was generous with her gifts in the kitchen. We loved seeing her come through the door at the Holidays with her arms full of trays of cookies for the family. We were very spoiled. I never baked christmas cookies. But I enjoyed them 🙂

Christmas Traditions:

When Linda Passed, her daughters, also excellent cooks, continued the tradition of giving baked goods from their mother’s recipe book to friends and family. So I knew who to ask when I wanted a good source for holiday cookies.

Meghan left “THE BOOK” with me. She calls it her baking bible, it’s precious to her and her sister…I promised to protect it from my puppy! The Book is Company’s Coming by Jean Pare.

I found this site called Eat Your Books that allows you to find the recipes without buying the books if you like.

It’s part of a larger series. UPDATE: I own most of them now. I bought one and my sister in law gave me the rest of the series she found in a thrift store. TREASURES! These are great recipes.

Meghan wasn’t even down the driveway and I had these Holiday cookies in the works. It was the first recipe Linda had marked, I remember eating these at family gatherings.

Chocolate Rolled Holiday Cookies Recipe:

This is an extremely easy, if a bit messy, recipe.

Best of all, this is a perfect no bake-make ahead cookie recipe for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. And whatever event you have in mind. They fit in well with many party themes.

This chocolate cookie roll can be frozen, thawed enough to slice off what you need and refrozen.
Keep it well wrapped to avoid the freezer flavor from creeping into the cookies.
Keep the cookie roll covered in the fridge, once thawed. It will stay fresh several days cut too. If you cover the tray.

24 cookies

Simple Rolled Holiday Cookies

Prep Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour

Simple Choclate Rolled Holiday Cookies are easy to make, freeze well and make a tasty, colorful addition to your holiday table! Enjoy the ease of a made ahead roll of NO BAKE cookies you just slice as needed and serve!

Ingredients

1 Cup Chocolate Chips
2 Tablespoons butter
1 egg-beaten
1 Cup confectioners Sugar
2 1/2 Cups mini marshmallows-colored or white
1/2 Cup Maraschino Cherries, well drained and quartered
1/2 Cup walnuts-chopped small
2 Cups fine shredded coconut-for coating the roll

Instructions

Melt Chocolate chips and butter in a 4 quart sauce pan over low heat.
Remove from heat.
Add egg, confectioners sugar, marshmallows, cherries and walnuts. Stir until thoroughly mixed
Cool until handlelable(I chilled mine in the fridge 15 minutes)
Lay plastic wrap out on the counter and pour the cookie doungh onto the plastic wrap.Form into a roll.
If still very loose, refrigerate another 15 minutes.
Pour the coconut shreds evenly onto the clean counter in a wide rectangle.
Roll the dough in the coconut until it is evenly and thoroughly covered. Cover the roll in plastic.
Return to refrigerator until the dough firms into a solid log. I put mine on a cookie sheet in the fridge.
Cut thinly with a sharp knife and serve on tray.

Notes

This dough freezes well so you can make it ahead and serve quickly!

Nutrition Information

Yield

Serving Size

1 cookie
Amount Per Serving Calories 138Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 10mgSodium 42mgCarbohydrates 19gFiber 1gSugar 15gProtein 1g

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