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.
Stained Glass Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar-cookie stars with jewel-colored transparent candy windows baked into their centers.
Stained Glass Window Cookies
Stained Glass Window Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Embossed Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with deep floral or snowflake patterns stamped into the dough.
Snow Globe Sugar Cookies
Snow-globe-shaped vanilla cookies with icy-blue scenes and tiny white snowman details.
Candy Cane Twist Sugar Cookies
Red-and-white twisted peppermint sugar cookies shaped into small candy canes, with a sparkling peppermint finish.
Apricot Saffron Shortbread Window Cookies
A saffron-scented almond dough frames a small apricot preserve window, baked just long enough to set the fruit in place.
3D Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Stacked graduated sugar-cookie stars with green icing and a little sugar-cookie star topper.
Occhi di Bue
Tender shortcrust sandwiches with snowy ring tops and a bright apricot-jam window.
Chai Sugar Cookies
Soft chai-spiced sugar cookies with cinnamon, cardamom and honey, finished with fine ribbons of coffee icing.
Ornament Sugar Cookies
Round vanilla cookie baubles with colorful icing bands and a little edible cap.
Churro Sugar Cookies
Large cinnamon-sugar cookies with tender vanilla dough and a hidden soft chocolate-ganache center.
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies
Gluten-free almond-flour sugar cookies with crackly sugar tops and a soft nutty crumb.
Snowflake Sugar Cookies
Vanilla snowflake cookies with an icy-blue base and crisp white piped branches.
Brown Sugar Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Golden-brown star-shaped sugar cookies with dark brown sugar, subtle warm spices and clean cut-out edges.
Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies
Thin whole-wheat sugar-cookie cut-outs with a light toasted color and visible fine bran flecks.
Cranberry Gingerbread Linzer Cookies
Gingerbread-spiced almond Linzer sandwiches with ruby cranberry jam windows and a light snowy dusting of confectioners sugar.
Almond Sugar Cookies
Soft almond sugar cookies with a light almond glaze and optional sliced almonds over gently golden edges.
Christmas Lights Sugar Cookies
White-iced cookie rectangles with dark piped wires and colorful candy bulbs.
Cardamom Sugar Cookies
Fragrant cardamom cut-out sugar cookies with a thin translucent vanilla-free milk glaze.