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.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Oil
Cocoa and miniature chocolate chips give these oil-based crinkles a soft center beneath a double sugar coating.
Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossoms
Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossoms: cocoa peanut butter cookies topped with chocolate kisses, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.
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.
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Gingerbread Brookies
Layered gingerbread brookie bars with a dark fudgy brownie base and a soft ginger-molasses cookie top, sliced to show both layers.
Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies: chocolate peanut butter cookies with a cocoa-rich dough, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Double Chocolate Spritz Cookies
Double Chocolate Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Chocolate Crinkles
An oil-based cocoa dough uses a gluten-free baking blend and dairy-free chocolate chips for soft crinkles with a snowy coating.
Double Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
Double chocolate gingerbread drop cookies with cocoa-molasses dough, warm spices and visible semisweet chocolate pockets.
Double Chocolate Espresso Biscotti
Dark cocoa biscotti with espresso flavor and small semisweet chocolate chips.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Espresso Chocolate Chunk Icebox Cookies
Espresso Chocolate Chunk Icebox Cookies with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Log Cookies
Chocolate Chip Pecan Log Cookies with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Cookies with a measured filling, portion-by-portion assembly and storage guidance.
Dark Chocolate Orange Slice-and-Bake Cookies
Orange shortbread rounds are half-dipped in dark chocolate and finished with finely chopped candied peel.









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