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.
Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies
Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies
Vegan Classic Sugar Cut-Out Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Gingerbread Men Cookies
Classic gingerbread men with neat white icing faces, buttons and cuffs, ready for a Christmas cookie plate.
Classic Peanut Butter Blossoms
Classic Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Classic Peanut Butter Balls
Classic Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Classic Buckeye Balls
Classic Buckeye Balls: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Christmas Tree Spritz Cookies
Christmas Tree Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies: fork-pressed peanut butter rounds with lightly crisp edges, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Candy Cane Twist Sugar Cookies
Red-and-white twisted peppermint sugar cookies shaped into small candy canes, with a sparkling peppermint finish.
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Classic Christmas Shortbread Fingers
A crisp, buttery tray bake cut into tidy fingers for a Christmas cookie tin.
Cocoa Nib Cinnamon Shortbread Biscotti Fingers
A cinnamon-speckled cocoa nib shortbread bakes as a slab, then is cut and dried a second time into crisp coffee-dunking fingers.
Gluten-Free Almond Christmas Shortbread
An all-almond-flour cookie with a tender center and lightly crisp golden edges for gluten-free holiday tins.
Cherry Bakewell Christmas Shortbread Bars
A true shortbread base carries cherry jam and a baked almond frangipane layer for Christmas tea.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Classic Christmas Spritz Cookies
Classic Christmas Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Classic Sugar Cookies
Classic vanilla sugar cookies with lightly crisp golden edges and a tender buttery center.
Big Batch Gingerbread Cookies
A big batch of classic molasses gingerbread cookies, divided into manageable dough portions for about 72 Christmas cut-outs.
Italian Rainbow Cookies
An Italian-American home version of red, ivory and green almond cake cookies, layered with apricot jam and dark chocolate.
Biscotti all’Amarena
Neapolitan-style rectangular shortcrust pastries around a cocoa and sour-cherry cake-crumb filling, with a baked white glaze.