Three viewers -- from Texas, New Jersey and New York -- appeared on "GMA" today to share their beloved family recipes.
Favorite holiday cookie recipes
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Celebrity chef and "So Good" cookbook author Richard Blais was joined by four kid testers in determining which cookie was tops this holiday season.
Blais and the kid testers selected hand-decorated Christmas cheer sugar cookies by Emily Graham, of Texas, as the winner of the Christmas cookie showdown.
"You could wear her cookie," Blais said while holding up a sweater cookie designed by Graham. "Everything was delicious but just the design just edged her out just a little bit."
Read below for Graham's cookie recipe, plus holiday cookie recipes from Blais and the two other "GMA" viewer finalists. Try them in your kitchen this holiday season!
Emily Graham's Christmas cheer sugar cookies:
PHOTO: Emily Graham, of Texarkana, Texas, shared her recipe for Christmas cheer sugar cookies. (Courtesy Emily Graham)
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Graham, a stay-at-home mom from Texarkana, Texas, said the use of almond extract and meringue powder in her recipe sets her Christmas cheer cookies apart from your every day sugar cookie.
PHOTO: Emily Graham, of Texarkana, Texas, shared her recipe for Christmas cheer sugar cookies. (Courtesy Emily Graham)
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Click HERE for the recipe.
Donna Vingoe's dark chocolate caramel thumbprint cookies with sea salt:
PHOTO: Donna Vingoe, of Waldwick, New Jersey, shared her recipe for dark chocolate caramel thumbprint cookies. (Courtesy Donna Vingoe)
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Vingoe is a grandmother and a blogger from Waldwick, New Jersey, who loves to make these cookies with her grandchildren.
She said the secret ingredient is melted chocolate, which makes the cookies rich and full of chocolate flavor. Vingoe's tip for baking the cookies at home is to not forget the heavy cream in the caramel.
Click HERE for the recipe.
Arielle Crayton's chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies:
PHOTO: 'GMA' viewer Arielle Crayton, of New York, shared her recipe for chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies. (ABC/Food styling by Karen Pickus)
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Crayton is a non-profit worker from Brooklyn, New York, whose cranberry-flavored cookies are a holiday treat. Crayton adds a twist to her cookies by dipping half of each cookie in chocolate.
Crayton also shared her tip for helping to keep moisture in the cookies after they go in the oven.
"When it's halfway done, you go in there and press them down," Crayton said. "I've found that this keeps the moisture in them, so if you like nice, moist cookies, this is the way to go."
Click HERE for the recipe.
Richard Blais' jelly linzer wreath cookies:
Blais uses jelly and powdered sugar to make these cookies even more festive for the holidays.
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