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.
Old-Fashioned Iced Molasses Cookies
Old-Fashioned Iced Molasses Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Pfeffernüsse German Spiced Cookies
Pfeffernüsse German Spiced Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Balls
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cookies
Old-fashioned dark brown sugar and molasses gingerbread cut-outs with ginger, cinnamon and cloves.
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Blossoms
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Raspberry Almond Linzer Squares
Raspberry Almond Linzer Squares with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies: fork-pressed peanut butter rounds with lightly crisp edges, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Old-Fashioned Spritz Cookies
Old-Fashioned Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Shortening Sugar Cookies
Old-fashioned shortening sugar cookies with tender centers and a touch of nutmeg.
No-Chill Cream Cheese Jam Thumbprints
Cream cheese makes a pliable dough that can be shaped and baked immediately, with thick jam added after baking.
Rye Hazelnut Shortbread with Quince Centers
Rye-hazelnut shortbread thumbprints baked with red-orange quince paste in the wells.
Marzipan-Core Almond Star Shortbread
Crisp almond shortbread stars wrap a thin marzipan center, creating a holiday cutout with a soft almond middle.
Breton Salted-Butter Christmas Shortbread
Breton-inspired yolk-rich shortbread baked in rings for a tall, tender, lightly leavened crumb.
Chocolate Mostaccioli
Diamond-shaped cocoa and orange spice cookies finished with dark chocolate.
Greek Melomakarona
Greek Melomakarona with measured ingredients, melomakarona shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Greek Kourabiedes
Greek Kourabiedes with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.