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.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cookies
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cookies: fork-pressed peanut butter rounds with lightly crisp edges, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Salted Caramel Pretzel Shortbread Squares
A crisp square shortbread base supports a thin caramel layer and a scatter of finely crushed pretzel for sweet-salty bite.
Salted Caramel Stuffed Shortbread Cookies
Rice-flour yolk shortbread sealed around small pieces of soft caramel.
Brown Butter Salted Toffee Cookies
Brown Butter Salted Toffee Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Pecan Pie Shortbread Squares
Shortbread squares carrying an egg-set maple pecan pie layer rather than cooked candy caramel.
Salted Millionaire Christmas Shortbread Bars
A true butter-shortbread base supports a cooked milk caramel and a thin salted dark-chocolate layer.
Dulce de Leche Christmas Shortbread Sandwiches
Cornstarch-rich shortbread halves enclose a firm dulce de leche layer in small caramel sandwiches.
Salted Caramel Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread cut-outs drizzled with glossy caramel and finished with a few delicate flakes of sea salt.
Salted Caramel Spritz Cookies
Salted Caramel Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Toffee Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar cookies with little buttery toffee pieces that melt into crisp caramel flecks.
Salted Peanut Butter Pretzel Cookies
Salted Peanut Butter Pretzel Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Salted Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Salted Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Caramel-Stuffed Sugar Cookies
Chewy sugar cookies with a soft caramel center and a cinnamon-sugar top.
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.









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