Planning your holiday baking? Browse this festive collection for ideas to share, gift, or add to the dessert table. Each recipe name below opens the full recipe with its ingredients and instructions.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Hot Cocoa Gingerbread Cookies
Dark chocolate gingerbread-spiced cookies topped with softened marshmallow halves and thin chocolate drizzles for a clear hot-cocoa finish.
Chocolate Mint Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Dark cocoa sugar-cookie sandwiches with a pale mint buttercream layer.
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft cocoa sugar-cookie bars with a thin dark-chocolate finish.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Soft gluten-free cocoa sugar cookies with dark chewy centers and a sparkling sugar crust.
Double Chocolate Espresso Biscotti
Dark cocoa biscotti with espresso flavor and small semisweet chocolate chips.
Baci di Alassio
Ridged cocoa-hazelnut kisses joined with a dark-chocolate ganache, inspired by Alassio
Chocolate Mostaccioli
Diamond-shaped cocoa and orange spice cookies finished with dark chocolate.
Chocolate Orange Ricotta Cookies
Soft cocoa-orange ricotta cookies with a small dark chocolate edge dip, an Italian-style home adaptation.
Chocolate Orange Sandwich Cookies
Flat cocoa hexagons joined with orange-scented dark-chocolate ganache, an Italian-style home sandwich variation.
Chocolate Cantucci
Twice-baked Italian-style vanilla cantucci with dark chocolate pieces in a pale crumb, without cocoa, nuts or dipping chocolate.