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 Christmas Tree Cookies
Christmas tree gingerbread cut-outs with piped garlands and tiny icing ornaments, made with molasses, ginger and cinnamon.
Stained Glass Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar-cookie stars with jewel-colored transparent candy windows baked into their centers.
Ornament Sugar Cookies
Round vanilla cookie baubles with colorful icing bands and a little edible cap.
Pistachio Rose Sugar Cookies
Rose-water sugar cookies with a white-chocolate face, chopped green pistachios and edible pink rose petals.
Ornament Peanut Butter Cookies
Ornament Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter ornament cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Green iced sugar-cookie trees with simple garlands and tiny candy ornaments.
Christmas Tree M&M Cookies
Christmas Tree M&M Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
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 Meringue-Topped Shortbread Squares
A thin ginger-spiced shortbread base carries a crisp meringue cap, baked low to dry the topping without darkening the spice.
Chai Swirl Shortbread Spirals
A cinnamon, cardamom and ginger sugar ribbon winds through buttery dough for slim spirals with a distinct fragrant center.
3D Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Stacked graduated sugar-cookie stars with green icing and a little sugar-cookie star topper.
Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Cookies
Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter Christmas tree cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Sugar Cookie Christmas Village
Little decorated sugar-cookie house fronts on edible bases, arranged as a snowy Christmas village.
Gift Box Sugar Cookies
Square sugar-cookie presents with smooth pastel icing and raised ribbon bows.
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Gingerbread Ornament Cookies
Gingerbread ornament cookies shaped like Christmas baubles, with piped white patterns and optional ribbon holes.
Ornament Spritz Cookies
Ornament Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.