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.
Chocolate-Dipped Orange Biscotti
Orange almond biscotti with a neat dark chocolate dip.
Dark Chocolate Orange Slice-and-Bake Cookies
Orange shortbread rounds are half-dipped in dark chocolate and finished with finely chopped candied peel.
Coconut Gingerbread Cookies
Coconut gingerbread stars half dipped in white chocolate and finished with a visible snowy layer of shredded coconut.
Florentine Almond Lace Cookies
Thin caramelized almond wafers with lacy edges and a dark-chocolate underside, a home Florentine-style variation.
Chocolate-Dipped Spritz Cookies
Chocolate-Dipped Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Dipped Shortbread
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Dipped Shortbread 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.
Chocolate-Dipped Orange Blossom Shortbread Wands
Slim orange-blossom shortbread wands are baked crisp and dipped in dark chocolate for an aromatic, easy-to-pack holiday cookie.
Chocolate-Dipped Vanilla Frollini
Oval vanilla frollini with one end dipped in dark chocolate, leaving the pale butter crumb visible.
Chocolate-Dipped Amaretti
Small crisp almond amaretti with half of each cookie covered in dark chocolate, an Italian-style home finishing variation.
Chocolate-Dipped Whipped Peanut Butter Shortbread
Whipped cornstarch shortbread with a modest peanut-butter addition and a half-chocolate dip.
White Chocolate-Drizzled Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread cut-outs finished with a creamy white chocolate drizzle and finely chopped crystallized ginger.
Italian Esse Cookies
Piped buttery S cookies with visible star-tip ridges and one end dipped in dark chocolate.
Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Cookies
Buttery sugar-cookie cut-outs dipped halfway in glossy dark chocolate for a crisp contrast.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
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.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies: 24 peanut butter cracker sandwiches coated in semisweet chocolate, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.