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.
Big-Batch Christmas Spritz Cookies
Big-Batch Christmas Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars
No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars: no-bake peanut butter graham bars with a dark-chocolate top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Big Batch Gingerbread Cookies
A big batch of classic molasses gingerbread cookies, divided into manageable dough portions for about 72 Christmas cut-outs.
Gingerbread Family Cookies
Gingerbread family cookies with large parents, little children and simple white icing smiles for a charming Christmas cookie platter.
Buckeye Fudge
Buckeye Fudge: two-layer peanut butter fudge with a dark-chocolate top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Candy Cane Peanut Butter Cookies
Candy Cane Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter candy cane cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Peanut Butter M&M Cookie Bars
Peanut Butter M&M Cookie Bars: peanut butter cookies with red and green candy shells, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
Soft gingerbread cookie bars baked in an 8-inch pan, topped with vanilla butter frosting and cut into tidy squares.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Peanut Butter Christmas Fudge
Peanut Butter Christmas Fudge: peanut butter white-chocolate fudge cut into small squares, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
Peanut Butter Cookie Bars: peanut butter cookie bars with chocolate pieces, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Peppermint Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peppermint Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cookies
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cookies: fork-pressed peanut butter rounds with lightly crisp edges, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Raspberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Jam Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies: peanut butter thumbprints with a fruit-filled center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Christmas Cookie Bars
Reese’s Peanut Butter Christmas Cookie Bars: sliceable peanut butter cookie bars with chocolate cup pieces, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Sugar Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Vanilla sugar-cookie bars with a baked cream-cheese cheesecake layer.
Peanut Butter Balls With Graham Crackers
Peanut Butter Balls With Graham Crackers: peanut butter chocolate balls bound with graham cracker crumbs, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.









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