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.
Santa’s Belt Sugar Cookies
Santa’s Belt Sugar Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Ornament Sugar Cookies
Round vanilla cookie baubles with colorful icing bands and a little edible cap.
Snow Globe Sugar Cookies
Snow-globe-shaped vanilla cookies with icy-blue scenes and tiny white snowman details.
Campfire S’mores Christmas Cookies
Campfire S’mores Christmas Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Browned Butter Sage Shortbread Leaves
Nutty browned butter and finely minced sage shape into delicate leaf cookies with a savory aromatic finish.
Maple Sugar Cookies
Thin maple-leaf sugar cookies with a crisp shortbread bite and a fine maple-icing drizzle.
Maple Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Crisp maple-leaf sugar cookies paired around a smooth maple buttercream filling.
Reese’s Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies
Reese’s Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies: cookies with a sealed chocolate peanut butter cup inside, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Chocolate Hazelnut Sablés
Chocolate Hazelnut Sablés with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Espresso Hazelnut Sablés
Espresso Hazelnut Sablés with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Hazelnut Praline Cream Shortbread Sandwiches
Crisp hazelnut shortbread rounds sandwich a thin, firm praline buttercream that sets neatly for gifting.
Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Puffy sour-cream sugar cookies with a soft cake-like crumb and a generous swirl of vanilla buttercream.
Peanut Butter Blossoms With Hershey’s Hugs
Peanut Butter Blossoms With Hershey’s Hugs: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Lemon Glazed Shortbread Cut-Outs
Rolled lemon cookies with a thin tart glaze for a bright holiday plate.
Italian Esse Cookies
Piped buttery S cookies with visible star-tip ridges and one end dipped in dark chocolate.
French Egg-Yolk Christmas Sablés
Yolk-enriched French-style sablés with a delicate sandy crumb and a brushed, crosshatched surface.
Rosemary Parmesan Savory Shortbread Sablés
A savory, crisp sablé pairs finely grated Parmesan with fresh rosemary for a cheese-board biscuit cut from a chilled log.
Gingerbread Nutcracker Cookies
Rectangular gingerbread nutcracker cookies decorated with tall black hats, red jackets, white beards and little gold-colored buttons.
Espresso Martini Cookies with Coffee Glaze
Espresso, chocolate chips and coffee liqueur flavor these glazed drop cookies, finished with three chocolate-covered coffee beans.