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.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Double Chocolate Espresso Biscotti
Dark cocoa biscotti with espresso flavor and small semisweet chocolate chips.
Espresso Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Espresso Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies: cocoa peanut butter cookies with espresso and dark chocolate pieces, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Peppermint Mocha Crinkle Kiss Cookies
Espresso and peppermint flavor cocoa crinkles, with a peppermint candy Kiss pressed into each warm cookie.
Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Oil
Cocoa and miniature chocolate chips give these oil-based crinkles a soft center beneath a double sugar coating.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Chocolate Espresso Sugar Cookies
Dark chocolate-espresso sugar cookies with embossed patterns and a delicate coffee glaze that highlights the ridges.
Chocolate Mostaccioli
Diamond-shaped cocoa and orange spice cookies finished with dark chocolate.
Espresso Chocolate Shortbread Sandwiches
Compact cocoa-rye shortbread discs joined with a pale espresso buttercream.
Salted Millionaire Christmas Shortbread Bars
A true butter-shortbread base supports a cooked milk caramel and a thin salted dark-chocolate layer.
Espresso Cocoa Shortbread Wreath Coins
A crisp cocoa dough carries finely ground espresso and a simple white chocolate ring drizzle for a coffeehouse-style holiday cookie.
Hazelnut Mocha Shortbread Piped Rosettes
Cocoa, espresso and toasted hazelnut flavor piped rosettes with ridged edges, baked until crisp and lightly dusted with cocoa.
Chocolate Orange Ricotta Cookies
Soft cocoa-orange ricotta cookies with a small dark chocolate edge dip, an Italian-style home adaptation.
Espresso Gingerbread Cookies
Espresso gingerbread cookies with a soft molasses center and a light coffee glaze, without cocoa or chocolate chips.
Chocolate Mint Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Dark cocoa sugar-cookie sandwiches with a pale mint buttercream layer.