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.
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.
Malted-Milk Stamped Christmas Shortbread
Malted milk solids and a firm powdered-sugar dough make dense embossed cookies for holiday tins.
Dutch Speculaas Spiced Cookies
Dutch Speculaas Spiced Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chai Swirl Shortbread Spirals
A cinnamon, cardamom and ginger sugar ribbon winds through buttery dough for slim spirals with a distinct fragrant center.
Embossed Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with deep floral or snowflake patterns stamped into the dough.
No-Spread Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with clean outlines and delicate stamped details, made without chemical leaveners.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Clove Orange Comb-Pressed Shortbread
Orange zest and a whisper of clove flavor a pressed dough whose comb-marked surface bakes into crisp, narrow ridges.
Chickpea Almond Shortbread with Honey Glaze
Chickpea-and-almond shortbread rounds with a thin honey glaze on the cooled tops.
Pomegranate Glazed Shortbread
Pomegranate Glazed Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.