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.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.
Peanut-Butter Christmas Shortbread
Stabilized peanut butter and a low-sugar dough produce thick, fork-marked shortbread with a dense nutty crumb.
Low-Carb Gingerbread Cookies
Small low-carb gingerbread diamonds with almond and coconut flour, an erythritol-based sweetener and no molasses.
Low-Carb Spritz Cookies
Low-Carb Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Jam Thumbprint Sugar Cookies
Buttery sugar-cookie thumbprints with glossy raspberry-jam centers and a tender shortbread-style crumb.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Cinnamon Amaretti
Soft almond cookies shaped into low oval pillows with a cinnamon-sugar crust, an Italian-style home variation.
Macadamia White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Macadamia White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Low-Sugar Gingerbread Cookies
Low-sugar oat gingerbread rounds with an erythritol baking sweetener, a measured amount of molasses and no icing.
Chestnut Rice-Flour Shortbread Fingers
Pressed chestnut-and-rice shortbread fingers with a low-gluten, dry sandy crumb.
Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies
Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.









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