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.
Rum-Raisin Shortbread Slice-and-Bakes
Plump raisins, briefly steeped in dark rum, dot a buttery slice-and-bake dough that is chilled firm for clean-cut cookies.
Hot Cocoa Cookies with Marshmallow Centers
Chocolate drop cookies are topped with a soft marshmallow half and a thin chocolate-cream glaze.
Lemon Glazed Shortbread Cut-Outs
Rolled lemon cookies with a thin tart glaze for a bright holiday plate.
Bourbon Pecan Ball Cookies
Bourbon Pecan Ball Cookies with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Hazelnut Mocha Shortbread Piped Rosettes
Cocoa, espresso and toasted hazelnut flavor piped rosettes with ridged edges, baked until crisp and lightly dusted with cocoa.
Bourbon Vanilla Bean Shortbread Rounds
Vanilla bean and a small spoonful of bourbon flavor deeply buttery rounds with a crisp rim and tender center.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Log Cookies
Chocolate Chip Pecan Log Cookies with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Hazelnut Praline Cream Shortbread Sandwiches
Crisp hazelnut shortbread rounds sandwich a thin, firm praline buttercream that sets neatly for gifting.
Italian Ricotta Ciambelline
Italian Ricotta Ciambelline with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.