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.
Espresso Gingerbread Cookies
Espresso gingerbread cookies with a soft molasses center and a light coffee glaze, without cocoa or chocolate chips.
Gingerbread Mug Hugger Cookies
Mug hugger gingerbread people with a fitted slot between the legs, designed to perch on a cocoa or coffee mug rim.
Mug Hugger Sugar Cookies
Crisp sugar-cookie stars with a small slot that lets them perch on a mug rim.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Espresso Biscotti
Coffee-scented biscotti with small dark chocolate pockets.
Chocolate Espresso Sugar Cookies
Dark chocolate-espresso sugar cookies with embossed patterns and a delicate coffee glaze that highlights the ridges.
Espresso Martini Cookies with Coffee Glaze
Espresso, chocolate chips and coffee liqueur flavor these glazed drop cookies, finished with three chocolate-covered coffee beans.
Peppermint Mocha Crinkle Kiss Cookies
Espresso and peppermint flavor cocoa crinkles, with a peppermint candy Kiss pressed into each warm cookie.
Espresso Hazelnut Sablés
Espresso Hazelnut Sablés with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Espresso Sugar Cookies
Coffee-colored sugar cookies with instant espresso throughout the dough and tender chewy centers.
Coffee Amaretti
Chewy almond domes flavored with instant espresso and finished with a delicate powdered-sugar crackle.









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