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.
Italian Ricotta Cookies
Soft vanilla cookies with ricotta, a light lemon glaze and festive sprinkles.
Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Almond Ricotta Cookies
Soft ricotta cookies with almond flour and lightly toasted sliced-almond crowns, a home adaptation rather than almond paste biscuits.
No-Chill Sugar Cookies
Thick cream-cheese sugar-cookie cut-outs with soft centers, ready to roll and bake without refrigerator waiting.
Red Velvet Sugar Cookies
Red velvet sugar-cookie hearts with a subtle cocoa crumb and a smooth ivory cream-cheese frosting layer.
Cream-Cheese Cornmeal Shortbread with Jam Centers
Eggless cream-cheese cornmeal shortbread thumbprints with compact red jam centers. Shortbread-inspired cream-cheese pastry, not a claim of traditional Scottish shortbread.
Soft Sugar Cookies
Puffy cream-cheese sugar cookies with a soft, tender crumb and pale vanilla tops.
Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft vanilla sugar-cookie bars with a smooth cream-cheese frosting layer, cut into tidy party-ready squares.
Cranberry Orange Ricotta Cookies
Soft ricotta cookies with dried cranberry flecks, orange zest and a light citrus glaze; a festive home adaptation.
Lemon Ricotta Christmas Crinkle Cookies
Lemon zest and drained ricotta make soft, rounded crinkles with a tender center and a pale sugar crust.
Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza
A soft round sugar-cookie crust with cream-cheese frosting and concentric rings of fresh colorful fruit.
Pistachio Ricotta Cookies
Soft ricotta domes with ground pistachios, a thin milk glaze and chopped nut tops; an Italian-inspired home adaptation.
Gingerbread Cream Cheese Sandwich Cookies
Sugar-crusted molasses gingerbread sandwich cookies with a generous vanilla cream cheese filling and soft, spicy centers.
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.
Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies
Chewy gingerbread sandwich cookies with a thick cream cheese filling, warm molasses spice and soft, matching cookie halves.