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.
Marbled Sugar Cookies
Soft heart-shaped sugar cookies with a delicate pink-and-white marbled icing surface.
Chocolate-Vanilla Marbled Christmas Shortbread
Two contrasting doughs are folded together only briefly to create marbled rounds with cocoa-shortened patches.
Matcha White Chocolate Pinwheel Shortbread
A two-tone vanilla and matcha dough rolls into a clean pinwheel, with a restrained white chocolate finish on each slice.
Buckeye Fudge
Buckeye Fudge: two-layer peanut butter fudge with a dark-chocolate top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Gingerbread Swirl Cookies
Chocolate and gingerbread swirl cookies with a bold two-color marbled pattern in tidy rectangular slice-and-bake cookies.
Orange Chocolate Spritz Shortbread Trees
A buttery spritz dough carries orange zest and cocoa in a two-tone tree design pressed directly onto cool baking sheets.
Gingerbread Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies
Chewy gingerbread sandwich cookies with a generous fluffy white marshmallow cream center between two sugar-crusted molasses cookie halves.
Matcha-Vanilla Checkerboard Christmas Shortbread
Firm joined dough strips make green-and-cream checkerboards with a tea-shortened crumb.
Neapolitan Sugar Cookie Bars
Three-layer sugar-cookie bars with a cocoa base, tender vanilla middle and naturally pink raspberry glaze.
Checkerboard Sugar Cookies
Mint-and-chocolate sugar cookies with a neat nine-square checkerboard pattern in each slice.
Strawberry Sugar Cookies
Soft strawberry sugar cookies flavored with real freeze-dried berries, with a rosy sugar crust and tender center.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Candy Cane Twist Sugar Cookies
Red-and-white twisted peppermint sugar cookies shaped into small candy canes, with a sparkling peppermint finish.
Maple Miso Shortbread Checkerboard
A restrained spoonful of white miso deepens maple sweetness in a slice-and-bake checkerboard with alternating plain and maple dough.
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.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
Buttery shortbread slices show a mosaic of dried cranberries and pistachios, with orange zest in the dough.
Walnut Christmas Shortbread Snowballs
Finely chopped walnuts and two powdered-sugar coats make tender shortbread snowballs for Christmas.