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.
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, 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.
Chocolate Truffle Christmas Shortbread Bars
A fully baked shortbread base supports a chilled dark-chocolate ganache layer for rich Christmas bites.
Sugar Cookie Truffles
Bite-size sugar-cookie truffles with a creamy crumb center and a crisp white-chocolate shell.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bites
Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bites: mini peanut butter cookie cups with a chocolate peanut butter center, 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.
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.
Peanut Butter Balls Without Powdered Sugar
Peanut Butter Balls Without Powdered Sugar: maple-sweetened peanut butter balls with almond flour and a chocolate shell, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Buckeye Candy
Buckeye Candy: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
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.
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Classic Buckeye Balls
Classic Buckeye Balls: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Stollen Marzipan Shortbread Bites
Small buttery squares conceal a slender almond-paste center, with citrus peel and a light confectioners’ sugar finish.
Italian Rainbow Cookies
An Italian-American home version of red, ivory and green almond cake cookies, layered with apricot jam and dark chocolate.









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