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.
Apple Butter Lattice Shortbread Bars
A jam-tart-style shortbread bar with a reduced apple filling and a true pastry lattice.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Gingerbread Brookies
Layered gingerbread brookie bars with a dark fudgy brownie base and a soft ginger-molasses cookie top, sliced to show both layers.
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.
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies from Scratch
These red velvet crinkles use a small amount of cocoa, red gel color and a sugar coating, with no cake mix.
Gingerbread Brownie Cookies
Fudgy gingerbread-spiced brownie cookies with dark chocolate centers and glossy papery cracks, without icing or powdered sugar.
Chocolate Fudge Brownie Cookies
Chocolate Fudge Brownie Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Gingerbread Family Cookies
Gingerbread family cookies with large parents, little children and simple white icing smiles for a charming Christmas cookie platter.
Sugar Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Vanilla sugar-cookie bars with a baked cream-cheese cheesecake layer.
Copycat Crumbl Peppermint Bark Cookies
Copycat Crumbl Peppermint Bark Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Salted Caramel Pretzel Shortbread Squares
A crisp square shortbread base supports a thin caramel layer and a scatter of finely crushed pretzel for sweet-salty bite.
Raspberry Almond Linzer Squares
Raspberry Almond Linzer Squares with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Biscoff Butter Cookie Cups
Biscoff Butter Cookie Cups with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
Gingerbread snowflake cookies with delicate white icing branches and crisp, clearly defined points for a winter cookie platter.
Red Velvet Sugar Cookies
Red velvet sugar-cookie hearts with a subtle cocoa crumb and a smooth ivory cream-cheese frosting layer.
Cherry Bakewell Christmas Shortbread Bars
A true shortbread base carries cherry jam and a baked almond frangipane layer for Christmas tea.