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.
Scandinavian Krumkake
Scandinavian Krumkake with measured ingredients, krumkake shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Scandinavian Spritz Cookies
Scandinavian Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
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.
Breton Salted-Butter Christmas Shortbread
Breton-inspired yolk-rich shortbread baked in rings for a tall, tender, lightly leavened crumb.
Candy Cane Twist Sugar Cookies
Red-and-white twisted peppermint sugar cookies shaped into small candy canes, with a sparkling peppermint finish.
Almond Crescent Cookies
Almond Crescent Cookies with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Embossed Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with deep floral or snowflake patterns stamped into the dough.
Gingerbread Christmas Lights Cookies
Gingerbread Christmas light cookies with colorful iced bulb centers, little white sockets and crisp brown outlines.
Chocolate Orange Marmalade Shortbread Sandwiches
Cooked-yolk cocoa shortbread sandwiches with a thin orange-marmalade filling.
Abruzzo Ferratelle
Lemon-scented Abruzzo-style wafer cookies cooked individually in a patterned ferratelle or pizzelle iron.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
Molasses cookies with cocoa and mini chocolate chips for pockets of melted chocolate.
Cranberry Pistachio Wreath Shortbread
Tender butter dough flecked with tart cranberry and pistachio is shaped into small wreaths that hold their pattern after baking.
Almond Linzer Christmas Shortbread
Almond-flour shortbread sandwiches reveal raspberry jam through small star windows.
Pistachio Cardamom Raspberry Thumbprints
Finely ground pistachios and cardamom scent a buttery cookie with a raspberry-jam center.
Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies
Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.
Cardamom Gingerbread Cookies
Cardamom gingerbread cut-outs with a fragrant floral spice note alongside molasses, ginger and cinnamon.
Saffron Almond Polvorón Shortbread Rounds
A toasted-flour, almond-rich crumb carries a small saffron infusion in these delicate Spanish-inspired holiday rounds.