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.
Sour Cream Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Tender sour-cream sugar-cookie cut-outs with smooth tops and gently raised centers.
Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Puffy sour-cream sugar cookies with a soft cake-like crumb and a generous swirl of vanilla buttercream.
No-Chill Sugar Cookies
Thick cream-cheese sugar-cookie cut-outs with soft centers, ready to roll and bake without refrigerator waiting.
Eggnog Sugar Cookies
Soft eggnog sugar cookies with nutmeg, tender centers and a creamy eggnog frosting.
Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Oil
Cocoa and miniature chocolate chips give these oil-based crinkles a soft center beneath a double sugar coating.
Soft Sugar Cookies
Puffy cream-cheese sugar cookies with a soft, tender crumb and pale vanilla tops.
Chocolate Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft cocoa sugar-cookie bars with a thin dark-chocolate finish.
Christmas Sugar Cookies
Soft Christmas sugar cookies with a sparkling red-and-green sugar coating and a creamy vanilla center.
Funfetti Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Sprinkle-flecked vanilla sugar cookies paired around soft birthday-style buttercream.
Mango Buttercream Sugar Cookies
Thick gluten-free sugar cookies with a sunny mango buttercream made from real fruit puree.
Sugar Cookie Cake
A soft 9-inch sugar-cookie cake with rainbow sprinkles, white chocolate chips and a buttercream border.
Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft vanilla sugar-cookie bars with a smooth cream-cheese frosting layer, cut into tidy party-ready squares.
Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
Soft cinnamon-sugar cookies with crinkled tops and a gentle snickerdoodle-style tang from cream of tartar.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Soft pumpkin sugar-cookie cut-outs with real pumpkin puree, warm spices and orange-tinted buttercream ridges.
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies
Gluten-free almond-flour sugar cookies with crackly sugar tops and a soft nutty crumb.
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.
Buttermilk Sugar Cookies
Soft, pale buttermilk sugar-cookie rounds with a tender cakey crumb and a subtle cultured tang.