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.
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies from Scratch
These red velvet crinkles use a small amount of cocoa, red gel color and a sugar coating, with no cake mix.
Sugar Cookie Cake
A soft 9-inch sugar-cookie cake with rainbow sprinkles, white chocolate chips and a buttercream border.
Potato-Starch Vanilla Christmas Shortbread
Potato starch and cake flour produce a particularly fine, melting crumb without the whipped method.
Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Puffy sour-cream sugar cookies with a soft cake-like crumb and a generous swirl of vanilla buttercream.
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Birthday Cake Funfetti Christmas Cookies
Birthday Cake Funfetti Christmas Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies: simple flourless peanut butter cookies, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
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.
Lofthouse-Style Sugar Cookies
Pale cake-flour sugar cookies with a fine fluffy crumb, pastel-blue buttercream and cheerful rainbow sprinkles.
Cut-Out Gingerbread Cookies
Rolled gingerbread cut-outs with even thickness and a versatile mix of stars, hearts and rounds.
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Soft cakey gingerbread whoopie pies with domed buttermilk cake halves and a generous fluffy vanilla marshmallow filling.
Biscotti all’Amarena
Neapolitan-style rectangular shortcrust pastries around a cocoa and sour-cherry cake-crumb filling, with a baked white glaze.
Pecan Praline Rosette Shortbread Cookies
Piped butter shortbread rosettes bake with a crisp ridged edge and a small pecan-praline center pressed into each swirl.
Make-Ahead Gingerbread Cookies
Make-ahead gingerbread cookies with an overnight dough plan, freezer options and a practical mix, bake and decorate schedule.
Nut-Free Gingerbread Cookies
Nut-free gingerbread medallions with molasses and warm spices, plus practical ingredient-label and cross-contact checks.