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.
Earl Grey Sugar-Crusted Shortbread Stamps
A finely ground Earl Grey tea infusion perfumes crisp stamped rounds, finished with a delicate coat of sparkling sugar.
Brown Butter Gingerbread Cookies
Large brown butter gingerbread cookies with toasted milk solids, fresh ginger and a sparkling sugar crust around chewy molasses centers.
Orange Shortbread Stars
Egg-free orange butter stars with crisp points, a tender short crumb and a sparkling sugar finish.
Lemon Almond Butter Cookies
Italian-style butter-cookie squares with fine almond crumb, fresh lemon zest and a lightly sparkling sugar top.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Orange Clove Sugar-Rimmed Shortbread Coins
A delicate orange-clove dough gets a sparkling rim of coarse sugar, sliced from a chilled log into crisp, giftable coins.
Caramel Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms
Caramel Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Chocolate Crinkle Peanut Butter Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Peanut Butter Cookies: cocoa peanut butter rounds with a white crackled sugar coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
French Butter Spritz Cookies
French Butter Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Earl Grey Sugar Cookies
Large Earl Grey sugar cookies with fine tea flecks, chewy centers and a light lemon drizzle.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Soft gluten-free cocoa sugar cookies with dark chewy centers and a sparkling sugar crust.
Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Butter Blossoms
Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Brown Butter Pecan Shortbread Coins
Toasty pecan coins made with cooled brown butter and a brown-sugar crumb.
French Egg-Yolk Christmas Sablés
Yolk-enriched French-style sablés with a delicate sandy crumb and a brushed, crosshatched surface.
No-Added-Sugar Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
Peanut butter Christmas cookies sweetened with allulose, made with unsweetened peanut butter and baked until the edges are set.