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.
Christmas Wreath Peanut Butter Cookies
Christmas Wreath Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter wreath cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Cranberry Pistachio Wreath Shortbread
Tender butter dough flecked with tart cranberry and pistachio is shaped into small wreaths that hold their pattern after baking.
Wreath Sugar Cookies
Vanilla cookie rings with green piped leaves and small red icing berries.
Pomegranate Glazed Shortbread
Pomegranate Glazed Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Breton Salted-Butter Christmas Shortbread
Breton-inspired yolk-rich shortbread baked in rings for a tall, tender, lightly leavened crumb.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
Buttery shortbread slices show a mosaic of dried cranberries and pistachios, with orange zest in the dough.
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.
Blueberry Sugar Cookies
Soft violet blueberry sugar cookies with real berry pockets and a sparkling sugar coating.
Maple Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Crisp maple-leaf sugar cookies paired around a smooth maple buttercream filling.
Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Wedges
Nut-and-fruit shortbread pressed into round pans and divided into festive wedges.
Chai Swirl Shortbread Spirals
A cinnamon, cardamom and ginger sugar ribbon winds through buttery dough for slim spirals with a distinct fragrant center.
Coconut Gingerbread Cookies
Coconut gingerbread stars half dipped in white chocolate and finished with a visible snowy layer of shredded coconut.
Stollen Marzipan Shortbread Bites
Small buttery squares conceal a slender almond-paste center, with citrus peel and a light confectioners’ sugar finish.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.









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