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.
Ugly Sweater Sugar Cookies
Sweater-shaped sugar cookies with cheerful icing stripes, tiny trees and deliberately playful patterns.
Royal Icing Sugar Cookies
Vanilla cut-out sugar cookies with a smooth royal-icing finish and fine piped details for gifting and decorating.
Santa’s Belt Sugar Cookies
Santa’s Belt Sugar Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Cut-Out Gingerbread Cookies
Rolled gingerbread cut-outs with even thickness and a versatile mix of stars, hearts and rounds.
Candy Cane Swirl Cookies
Candy Cane Swirl Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Ugly Sweater Peanut Butter Cookies
Ugly Sweater Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter sweater cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies
Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.
Coconut Sugar Cookies
Thick coconut sugar cookies with visible shredded coconut, softly chewy centers and lightly crisp sugar-coated edges.
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Buttery cut-out sugar cookies with tender centers and neat hearts and stars, ready for a simple pastel glaze.









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