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.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Cinnamon Pecan Rugelach-Style Shortbread Horns
An eggless cream-cheese short dough wraps a dry cinnamon pecan filling into small horns that bake flaky and crisp at the tips.
Sicilian Tetù Cookies
Small Palermo-style cocoa and almond cookie domes with a thin dark cocoa-sugar coating, made without pastry scraps or raw-egg icing.
Apple Butter Lattice Shortbread Bars
A jam-tart-style shortbread bar with a reduced apple filling and a true pastry lattice.
Cream-Cheese Cornmeal Shortbread with Jam Centers
Eggless cream-cheese cornmeal shortbread thumbprints with compact red jam centers. Shortbread-inspired cream-cheese pastry, not a claim of traditional Scottish shortbread.
Sicilian Cuccidati
Tender pastry wrapped around a rich fig, walnut and orange filling.
Pecan Cream-Cheese Shortbread Spirals
Eggless cream-cheese rye shortbread spirals enclosing a dry pecan and brown-sugar layer. Shortbread-inspired cream-cheese pastry, not a claim of traditional Scottish shortbread.
Cream-Cheese Prune Shortbread Pockets
Eggless cream-cheese shortbread pastry folded around a thick cooked-prune filling. Shortbread-inspired cream-cheese pastry, not a claim of traditional Scottish shortbread.
Baci di Alassio
Ridged cocoa-hazelnut kisses joined with a dark-chocolate ganache, inspired by Alassio
Mincemeat-Filled Shortbread Cup Cookies
Shortbread dough cups hold a small spoonful of thick fruit mincemeat, baked until the pastry edges turn golden and the center is set.
Spritz Cookies with a Pastry Bag
Spritz Cookies with a Pastry Bag: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.