The best part of the holidays is always food- especially when you get to make it! A family friend of ours always has a cookie exchange party, and I was especially excited this year because I had tons of new recipies to try out. My mom and I ended up making three cookies: the ginger orange cookies that I’ve already posted about, holiday hershey kiss cookies (recipe at HowSweetEats), and my mom’s pumpkin cinnamon whoopie pies. It was definitely a lot of work and dishwashing, but it was definitely worth it. The only problem I had was with the chocolate cookies; they were fine, but not as soft and cakey as I had expected. Everything else was great, and we were so happy that we stole some extra to save for later. 
Chocolate cookies with Hershey Kisses (in mint truffle, bailey's, and candy cane flavors)
Cinnamon filling for pumpkin whoopie pies!
