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.
Pumpkin Spice Gingerbread Cookies
Molasses gingerbread drop cookies with pumpkin pie spice and a light cinnamon-sugar crust, without pumpkin puree.
Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies
Chewy gingerbread sandwich cookies with a thick cream cheese filling, warm molasses spice and soft, matching cookie halves.
Gingerbread Meringue-Topped Shortbread Squares
A thin ginger-spiced shortbread base carries a crisp meringue cap, baked low to dry the topping without darkening the spice.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Soft pumpkin sugar-cookie cut-outs with real pumpkin puree, warm spices and orange-tinted buttercream ridges.
Soft Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies
Soft Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
Soft gingerbread cookie bars baked in an 8-inch pan, topped with vanilla butter frosting and cut into tidy squares.
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cookies
Soft pumpkin molasses gingerbread drop cookies with a warm orange-brown crumb and sparkling sugar-coated crinkle tops.
Brown-Butter Shortbread Jammers
Individual browned-butter shortbread jammers baked in muffin wells with a jam center and dry crumble rim.
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
Large gingerbread crinkle cookies with a snowy powdered-sugar crust, deep cracks and soft molasses-spice centers.
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Soft cakey gingerbread whoopie pies with domed buttermilk cake halves and a generous fluffy vanilla marshmallow filling.
Hazelnut Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Italian-inspired hazelnut chocolate cookies with wheat flour, a soft baked crumb and a boldly cracked white sugar shell.
Pumpkin-Seed Cocoa Shortbread Sandwiches
Seed-meal cocoa shortbread sandwiches with a pale toasted pumpkin-seed buttercream.
Orange Honey Drop Cookies
Soft orange-zest honey cookies spooned into simple round mounds and baked with plain golden tops, an Italian-inspired home variation.
Gluten-Free Sorghum Spice Shortbread
Sorghum, rice flour and tapioca create a crisp, nut-free flour blend with warm Christmas spices.
Rame di Napoli
Soft Catania-style cocoa ovals with a thin orange-marmalade layer, dark chocolate tops and chopped pistachios, traditionally associated with the autumn commemorations of the dead.