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.
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Buttery cut-out sugar cookies with tender centers and neat hearts and stars, ready for a simple pastel glaze.
Pistachio Rose Sugar Cookies
Rose-water sugar cookies with a white-chocolate face, chopped green pistachios and edible pink rose petals.
Dark Chocolate Orange Slice-and-Bake Cookies
Orange shortbread rounds are half-dipped in dark chocolate and finished with finely chopped candied peel.
Gift Box Sugar Cookies
Square sugar-cookie presents with smooth pastel icing and raised ribbon bows.
Raspberry Lemon Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Lemon-zest cookie sandwiches with tangy raspberry buttercream and a thin raspberry-jam center.
Raspberry White Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
Raspberry white chocolate gingerbread cookies with pink freeze-dried raspberry flecks and visible white chocolate chips.
Neapolitan Sugar Cookie Bars
Three-layer sugar-cookie bars with a cocoa base, tender vanilla middle and naturally pink raspberry glaze.
Strawberry Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Vanilla sugar-cookie sandwiches with a pink strawberry cream-cheese filling.
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Lofthouse-Style Sugar Cookies
Pale cake-flour sugar cookies with a fine fluffy crumb, pastel-blue buttercream and cheerful rainbow sprinkles.
Marbled Sugar Cookies
Soft heart-shaped sugar cookies with a delicate pink-and-white marbled icing surface.
Strawberry Sugar Cookie Bars
Vanilla sugar-cookie bars with naturally pink strawberry buttercream.
Pink Christmas Spritz Cookies
Pink Christmas Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Sugar Cookie Donut Rings
Baked sugar-cookie rings with a thin pastel glaze and colorful sprinkles.
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Rich cocoa sugar-cookie hearts with a tender center, a flat decorating surface and lightly crisp edges.









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