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.
Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies
Little sugar-cookie spirals with a cinnamon-sugar filling and fine vanilla icing lines.
Cheesecake-Filled Gingerbread Cookie Cups
Gingerbread cookie cups with sturdy baked walls and a generous piped swirl of no-bake cinnamon cheesecake filling.
Chai Swirl Shortbread Spirals
A cinnamon, cardamom and ginger sugar ribbon winds through buttery dough for slim spirals with a distinct fragrant center.
Cinnamon-Swirl Christmas Shortbread
A yolk-bound rolled shortbread wraps a thin cinnamon-butter layer into tidy Christmas spirals.
Honey Cinnamon Lebkuchen
Honey Cinnamon Lebkuchen with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
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.
Biscoff-Stuffed Sugar Cookies
Soft vanilla sugar cookies with a cinnamon cookie-butter pocket inside.
Cocoa Nib Cinnamon Shortbread Biscotti Fingers
A cinnamon-speckled cocoa nib shortbread bakes as a slab, then is cut and dried a second time into crisp coffee-dunking fingers.
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.
Apple Cider Glazed Shortbread Rings
Pressed shortbread rings bake pale and crisp before receiving a thin glaze made with reduced apple cider and a pinch of cinnamon.
Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Puffy sour-cream sugar cookies with a soft cake-like crumb and a generous swirl of vanilla buttercream.
No-Chill Sugar Cookies
Thick cream-cheese sugar-cookie cut-outs with soft centers, ready to roll and bake without refrigerator waiting.
Apple Butter Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread thumbprints filled with smooth amber apple butter, pairing a molasses cookie with concentrated apple-cinnamon flavor.
Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Butter Blossoms
Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Caramel-Stuffed Sugar Cookies
Chewy sugar cookies with a soft caramel center and a cinnamon-sugar top.