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  • Turn your favorite desserts into cookies this holiday season. This no-bake rocky road cluster cookie is an easy addition to any holiday cookie platter. <a href=Get the recipe from USA Today." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • For red velvet cake lovers, consider these red hot velvet meltaways. The inspiration for this cookie came from both red velvet cake and red hot cinnamon candies. <a href=Get the recipe from AZCentral.com. (You might also like our recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes!" title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • This grasshopper-inspired chocolate cookie is flavored with mint extract, studded with chocolate mint candies, and drizzled with a mint icing.
  • This treat is a strawberry shortcake-like cookie bar, swirled with strawberry jam and drizzled with vanilla ice cream. Here is a similar <a href=recipe from Martha Stewart." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Spumoni is an ice cream dessert made from chocolate and vanilla ice creams, candied cherries and pistachios. Keeping the same flavors, this recipe makes fudge-like truffle squares studded with dried cherries and pistachios. <a href=Get the recipe from the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Lemon meringue pie is an easy dessert to rethink as a cookie. Though the crust was left off, these cookies have all the same elements as that delicious pie.
  • Indian pudding is a warm molasses-laced pudding made from cornmeal. This recipe uses the spiced molasses and cornmeal components and turns them into cookies. <a href=Get the recipe." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • A purely American invention, German chocolate cake starts with a sweet chocolate cake, then is filled with a caramel-coconut-pecan concoction. <a href=Get the recipe." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Fruitcake cookies are studded with all manner of dried and candied fruit (you can easily substitute your favorites), these cookies are a chewy, spicy delight that'll be sure to make a fruitcake lover out of even the skeptics. <a href=Get the recipe from EveningEdge.com" title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Seen here are banana split cheesecake bars. Taking inspiration from the traditional banana split, this treat combines all the flavor elements into a rich cheesecake bar. <a href=Here's a simple version from Kraft Recipes." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Angel food biscotti cookies have ends drizzled with melted dark chocolate and sprinkled with colorful dried fruit and sugar. <a href=Get the recipe." title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
  • Tiramisu drops are pictured here. After baking, these cookies are topped with a mascarpone cream and sprinkled with chocolate. <a href=Get the recipe More holiday ideas: Desserts you can fix ahead and freeze" title="Holiday cookies inspired by classic desserts" class="cmGalleryThumbImage" />
 
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