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.
Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles
Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies
Blackberry Jam Pocket Cookies with measured ingredients, drop shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies
Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.
No-Spread Sugar Cookies
Crisp butter-rich sugar cookies with clean outlines and delicate stamped details, made without chemical leaveners.
Chocolate Chip Gingerbread Cookies
Soft chocolate chip gingerbread cookies with a warmly spiced molasses dough and distinct semi-sweet chocolate chips.
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.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
Buttery shortbread slices show a mosaic of dried cranberries and pistachios, with orange zest in the dough.
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.
Christmas Tree Spritz Cookies
Christmas Tree 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.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.
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.
Lavender Shortbread with White Chocolate
Lavender Shortbread with White Chocolate with measured ingredients, shortbread shaping and clear oven cues for a holiday cookie box.
Chewy Ginger Molasses Sandwiches
Chewy Ginger Molasses Sandwiches with a measured filling, portion-by-portion assembly and storage guidance.
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 Crumble Christmas Shortbread Bars
Fresh cranberry filling sits between a pressed shortbread base and a loose buttery crumble of the same dough.
Stained Glass Sugar Cookies
Vanilla sugar-cookie stars with jewel-colored transparent candy windows baked into their centers.
Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Cookies
Christmas Tree Peanut Butter Cookies: peanut butter Christmas tree cut-outs with a simple colored sugar glaze, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.