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.
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms: three-ingredient no-bake peanut butter blossoms with chocolate centers, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Nutella-Stuffed Gingerbread Cookies
Nutella-stuffed gingerbread cookies with a glossy chocolate-hazelnut center fully enclosed inside one chewy spiced cookie.
Toffee Almond Shortbread Biscuit Sticks
Thin biscuit sticks bake crisp with toasted almond flecks, then receive a narrow toffee coating at one end for easy dipping and gifting.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Brown Butter Gingerbread Cookies
Large brown butter gingerbread cookies with toasted milk solids, fresh ginger and a sparkling sugar crust around chewy molasses centers.
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.
Lemon White Chocolate Biscotti
Lemon-zest biscotti with one end coated in a thin layer of white chocolate.
Chocolate-Dipped Vanilla Frollini
Oval vanilla frollini with one end dipped in dark chocolate, leaving the pale butter crumb visible.
Birthday Cake Funfetti Christmas Cookies
Birthday Cake Funfetti Christmas Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread
Brown Butter Pecan Toffee Shortbread with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies: brown-sugar peanut butter cookies with soft centers, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Italian Esse Cookies
Piped buttery S cookies with visible star-tip ridges and one end dipped in dark chocolate.
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.
Coconut Macaroon Topped Shortbread Cookies
Almond shortbread discs baked with small chewy coconut-macaroon caps.
Easy Gingerbread Cookies
Simple gingerbread cut-outs made with melted butter, a wooden spoon and a short dough chill — no mixer needed.
Macadamia White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Macadamia White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Vegan Olive-Oil Rosemary Shortbread
Liquid olive oil and powdered sugar make a dense, hand-pressed shortbread with rosemary flecks.
Small-Batch Sugar Cookies
Six buttery sugar cookies with gently crackled tops and tender centers, made with one egg yolk.
Gingerbread Cookies Without a Mixer
Classic molasses gingerbread cookies mixed by hand with melted butter, a whisk and a sturdy spoon, without an electric mixer.