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.
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
Gingerbread snowflake cookies with delicate white icing branches and crisp, clearly defined points for a winter cookie platter.
Embossed Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with deep floral or snowflake patterns stamped into the dough.
Snowflake Sugar Cookies
Vanilla snowflake cookies with an icy-blue base and crisp white piped branches.
Gingerbread Snow Globe Cookies
Snow globe gingerbread cookies with clear hard-candy windows, tiny piped winter scenes and snowy white icing borders.
Snowflake Spritz Cookies
Snowflake Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
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.
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing
Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies with Vegan Royal Icing with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Lofthouse-Style Sugar Cookies
Pale cake-flour sugar cookies with a fine fluffy crumb, pastel-blue buttercream and cheerful rainbow sprinkles.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Coconut Gingerbread Cookies
Coconut gingerbread stars half dipped in white chocolate and finished with a visible snowy layer of shredded coconut.
Cinnamon Sugar Frollini
Thin scalloped butter frollini with a baked-on cinnamon-sugar crust and crisp golden edges.
Sicilian ’Nzuddi
Catania-style cinnamon and candied-orange cookies, gently flattened and finished with one whole almond each; an autumn specialty suitable for a winter assortment.
Toasted Coconut Shortbread Log
Toasted Coconut Shortbread Log with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.
Abruzzo Ferratelle
Lemon-scented Abruzzo-style wafer cookies cooked individually in a patterned ferratelle or pizzelle iron.
Hot Cocoa Cookies with Marshmallow Centers
Chocolate drop cookies are topped with a soft marshmallow half and a thin chocolate-cream glaze.
Vanilla Bean Slice-and-Bake Cookies
Vanilla Bean Slice-and-Bake Cookies with measured ingredients, icebox shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Pecan Cream-Cheese Shortbread Spirals
Eggless cream-cheese rye shortbread spirals enclosing a dry pecan and brown-sugar layer. Shortbread-inspired cream-cheese pastry, not a claim of traditional Scottish shortbread.
Chickpea Almond Shortbread with Honey Glaze
Chickpea-and-almond shortbread rounds with a thin honey glaze on the cooled tops.