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 Tree M&M Cookies
Christmas Tree M&M Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Gluten-Free Christmas Sprinkle Shortbread
A specified gluten-free blend binds a firm, rollable shortbread studded with red and green jimmies.
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Balls
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Funfetti Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Sprinkle-flecked vanilla sugar cookies paired around soft birthday-style buttercream.
Lofthouse-Style Sugar Cookies
Pale cake-flour sugar cookies with a fine fluffy crumb, pastel-blue buttercream and cheerful rainbow sprinkles.
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Blossoms
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
White Chocolate Macadamia Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar cookies loaded with creamy white chocolate and crunchy macadamias.
Christmas M&M Peanut Butter Cookies
Christmas M&M Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter cookies with red and green candy shells, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Slice-and-Bake Sugar Cookies
Buttery vanilla-almond slice-and-bake sugar cookies with clean pale centers and colorful sprinkle rims.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Cookies
Christmas Sprinkle Peanut Butter Cookies: fork-pressed peanut butter rounds with lightly crisp edges, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
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.
Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Chewy vanilla sugar cookies with colorful rainbow sprinkles mixed throughout the dough, not just scattered on top.
Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies with Pretzels and M&Ms
Brown-sugar drop cookies combine pretzels, potato chips, two chocolates and red-and-green candy for a sweet-and-salty cookie box addition.
Pistachio Meringue Kisses
Ivory pointed meringue kisses with fine pistachio flecks and a light nut sprinkle, an Italian-style home adaptation.