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.
Freezer-Friendly Spritz Cookies
Freezer-Friendly Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
Cocoa biscotti with toasted hazelnuts and a crisp, coffee-friendly bite.
Peanut Butter Haystack Cookies
Peanut Butter Haystack Cookies: crisp noodle and peanut clusters with a peanut butter butterscotch coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Scottish Shortbread Fingers
Scottish Shortbread Fingers with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cup Cookies: mini peanut butter cookie cups with a chocolate peanut butter center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Cinnamon Sugar Frollini
Thin scalloped butter frollini with a baked-on cinnamon-sugar crust and crisp golden edges.
Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies
Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Classic Buckeye Balls
Classic Buckeye Balls: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
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.
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.
Peanut Butter Balls With Rice Krispies
Peanut Butter Balls With Rice Krispies: chocolate-covered peanut butter balls with crisp rice cereal, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Candy Cane Peanut Butter Cookies
Candy Cane Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter candy cane cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Maple Spice Drop Cookies
Maple Spice Drop Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Potato-Starch Vanilla Christmas Shortbread
Potato starch and cake flour produce a particularly fine, melting crumb without the whipped method.









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