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.
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
Gingerbread snowflake cookies with delicate white icing branches and crisp, clearly defined points for a winter cookie platter.
Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies
Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.
Gingerbread Snow Globe Cookies
Snow globe gingerbread cookies with clear hard-candy windows, tiny piped winter scenes and snowy white icing borders.
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.
White Chocolate Cranberry Spritz Cookies
White Chocolate Cranberry Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Sugar Cookie Truffles
Bite-size sugar-cookie truffles with a creamy crumb center and a crisp white-chocolate shell.
Sicilian ’Nzuddi
Catania-style cinnamon and candied-orange cookies, gently flattened and finished with one whole almond each; an autumn specialty suitable for a winter assortment.
Refined-Sugar-Free Gingerbread Cookies
Maple-sweetened almond gingerbread rounds without refined white or brown sugar, with warm spices and no icing.
Sugar Cookie Cake
A soft 9-inch sugar-cookie cake with rainbow sprinkles, white chocolate chips and a buttercream border.
Copycat Crumbl Red Velvet White Chip Cookies
Copycat Crumbl Red Velvet White Chip Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Santa Star Sugar Cookies
Star-shaped sugar cookies decorated as little Santas with red hats and white beards.
Red, Green and White Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
Three thin layers of vanilla dough form red, green and cream spirals in these slice-and-bake Christmas cookies.
Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Vanilla-peppermint sugar-cookie candy canes with a thin white glaze and bright crushed-candy topping.
Sardinian Papassini
Sardinian-style raisin and almond diamonds with a white sugar cap and colorful sprinkles, using a simple egg-free glaze.