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.
Make-Ahead Gingerbread Cookies
Make-ahead gingerbread cookies with an overnight dough plan, freezer options and a practical mix, bake and decorate schedule.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
Buttery shortbread slices show a mosaic of dried cranberries and pistachios, with orange zest in the dough.
Candy Cane Twist Sugar Cookies
Red-and-white twisted peppermint sugar cookies shaped into small candy canes, with a sparkling peppermint finish.
Make-Ahead Sugar Cookies
Buttery vanilla icebox sugar cookies with tender centers and crisp edges, made from convenient chilled dough logs.
Make-Ahead Spritz Cookies
Make-Ahead Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Earl Grey Sugar-Crusted Shortbread Stamps
A finely ground Earl Grey tea infusion perfumes crisp stamped rounds, finished with a delicate coat of sparkling sugar.
No-Spread Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with clean outlines and delicate stamped details, made without chemical leaveners.
Gingerbread Men Cookies
Classic gingerbread men with neat white icing faces, buttons and cuffs, ready for a Christmas cookie plate.
Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies
Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Almond Flour Freezer Shortbread
Almond Flour Freezer Shortbread with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.