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.
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
No-Chill Cream Cheese Jam Thumbprints
Cream cheese makes a pliable dough that can be shaped and baked immediately, with thick jam added after baking.
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.
Walnut Orange Butter Cookies
Thick hand-flattened butter rounds with chopped walnuts and orange zest throughout an uncoated crumb.
Cherry Almond Thumbprints
Tender almond-butter cookies with small baked wells of cherry preserves, a home variation on Italian jam-filled butter cookies.
Raspberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies: peanut butter thumbprints with a fruit-filled center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Fig Almond Filled Cookies
Sealed square shortcrust pockets with a dense dried-fig and almond filling, an Italian-style home adaptation.
Strawberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Strawberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies: peanut butter thumbprints with a fruit-filled center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Jam-Filled Spritz Cookies
Jam-Filled Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Biscotti all’Amarena
Neapolitan-style rectangular shortcrust pastries around a cocoa and sour-cherry cake-crumb filling, with a baked white glaze.
Lemon Curd Poppy Seed Thumbprints
Lemon zest and poppy seeds run through a tender cookie shell filled after baking with chilled lemon curd.
Almond Linzer Christmas Shortbread
Almond-flour shortbread sandwiches reveal raspberry jam through small star windows.
Cinnamon Hazelnut Butter Cookies
Hand-shaped hazelnut butter ovals with cinnamon in the dough and a plain, finely speckled surface.
Vegan Olive-Oil Rosemary Shortbread
Liquid olive oil and powdered sugar make a dense, hand-pressed shortbread with rosemary flecks.
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.