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.
Grinch Heart Cookies
Grinch Heart Cookies with measured ingredients, cut-out shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies
Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.
Caramel Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms
Caramel Kiss Peanut Butter Blossoms: sugar-rolled peanut butter cookies with a chocolate center, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Italian Ricotta Cookies
Soft vanilla cookies with ricotta, a light lemon glaze and festive sprinkles.
Italian Rainbow Cookies
An Italian-American home version of red, ivory and green almond cake cookies, layered with apricot jam and dark chocolate.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache Thumbprints
Cocoa shortbread cups hold thick caramel under a small spoonful of dark chocolate ganache and flaky salt.
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies
Christmas Wreath Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies
Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.
Spritz Cookies for Cookie Exchange
Spritz Cookies for Cookie Exchange: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.
Orange Clove Sugar-Rimmed Shortbread Coins
A delicate orange-clove dough gets a sparkling rim of coarse sugar, sliced from a chilled log into crisp, giftable coins.
Chewy Ginger Molasses Sandwiches
Chewy Ginger Molasses Sandwiches with a measured filling, portion-by-portion assembly and storage guidance.
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes
Old-Fashioned Ohio Buckeyes: peanut butter balls partially dipped to leave a pale top, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.
Copycat Crumbl Red Velvet White Chip Cookies
Copycat Crumbl Red Velvet White Chip Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Hot Cocoa Cookies with Marshmallow Centers
Chocolate drop cookies are topped with a soft marshmallow half and a thin chocolate-cream glaze.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
Buttery shortbread slices show a mosaic of dried cranberries and pistachios, with orange zest in the dough.
Cranberry Crumble Christmas Shortbread Bars
Fresh cranberry filling sits between a pressed shortbread base and a loose buttery crumble of the same dough.
Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints
Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.
Stained Glass Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar-cookie stars with jewel-colored transparent candy windows baked into their centers.
Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Cookies with a measured filling, portion-by-portion assembly and storage guidance.









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