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Holiday Cookie Recipes

The perfect cookie can add the right spark to your holidy celebration. Our holiday cookie recipe collection inculdes Christmas ideas and other clever holiday cookies.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Shortbread

In the minds of peanut butter and chocolate lovers, there's only one way to improve upon a classic such as this butter shortbread--just add chocolate ...

Best Meringue Cookies

A light and delicate cookie recipe that makes a great holiday cookie.

Chewy Chocolate Cookies

Don't overbake these chewy chocolate yummy cookies. They have a double dose of chocolate from the cocoa and chocolate pieces.

Lemon Crescent Melts

These buttery, rich crescent-shaped cookies do melt in your mouth. Cornstarch adds to the fine texture and lemon peel gives a fresh lemon flavor.

Pumpkin-Cranberry Tassies

These bite-size treats have rich pastry shells with a filling of pumpkin, cranberries, sugar and spices.

Caramel Christmas Cookies

These spicy bar cookies are made with caramel, toffee, or butterscotch chips, plus macadamia nuts, and a little rum. (If you prefer not to use ...

Holiday Spice Biscotti

This stiff, spiced dough is shaped into a log, baked, sliced and baked again until dried. Then tip is dipped in melted confectioner's coating.

Cherry Almond Chewies

The batter for these drop cookies is made with butter plus granulated and brown sugars, and flavored with both vanilla and almond extracts. The cookies ...

Hallongrottor (Raspberry Caves)

These delicate butter cookies are baked in muffin pans. The dough contains vanilla sugar (or vanilla extract.) An indentation is made in each cookie and ...

Cinnamon Meltaway Cookies

Cinnamon, brown sugar and honey--these cookies will melt in your mouth.

Witch's Fingers

Cookie dough is shaped into fingers, with pistachio nuts for nails, and knuckle marks added. After baking, they're dusted with gray-colored powdered sugar.

Witch's Cat Cookies

A dough made with chocolate cake mix and peanut butter is shaped into rounds for cat "heads", decorated with M&M's, and baked.

Toasted Coconut Balls

These tender coconut balls are dipped in melted chocolate for an elegant candy coating.

Chocolate Drop Nonpareils

These little baked treats contain a dough with flour, brown sugar & melted chocolate, shaped into small balls and topped with a nonpareil candy.

Raspberry Champagne Heart Brownies

A decadent treat for your best sweetie--chocolate brownies with fresh raspberries and a drizzle of melted chocolate.

Filled Strawberry Cookies

These special holiday cookies are a snap to make when you use a packaged cake mix and a simple cranberry filing.

Creme De Menthe Brownies

Moist and delicious chocolate brownies filled with sweet crème de menthe and topped with a chocolate icing.

White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies

Melt in your mouth cookies, with white chocolate and raspberry jam filling.

Grandkids' Favorite Easter Cookie

Baked sugar cookies are frosted and decorated with chocolate "nests," jelly bean eggs, and marshmallow Peeps "chicks" for this Easter treat.

Cookies with a Surprise

The surprise in these peanut butter cookies is the M&M tucked inside the dough--sure to be a kid pleaser.

Birds Nest Cookies

These cookies are easy for kids to make and fun to decorate with an Easter theme adding jelly beans or chocolate eggs.

Ginger Molasses Cookies

An old fashioned favorite with a convenient new twist--refrigerate the dough then just slice and bake as needed.

Chameleon Bars

Melted caramels make up the middle of these bars, between layers of dough made with cake mix. Chocolate M&M candies and nuts are sprinkled on ...

Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ground pecans add moistness and a nutty flavor to traditional oatmeal raisin cookies.

Almond Roca Peanut Butter Bars

These rich almond and peanut butter bars are the perfect accompaniment for a hot cup of coffee.

How-I-Wish Bars

Orange Cranberry Cookie Cups

Sour Cream Cutouts

Candy Cane Snickerdoodles

Old Fashioned Pecan Pie Bars

Oatmeal Pecan Thumbprints

Mini Pecan Pies

World's Wonderful Christmas Cookies

World's Wonderful Christmas Cookies

Cherry Almond Chunky Chews

Brown Sugar Shortbreads

Christmas Chocolate-Cranberry Chews

Minty Mocha Surprise Cookies

Christmas Cherry Cream Bars

Fruit Filled Hamantaschen

Take a Break Holiday Cranberry Nut Bars

Marguerites

Walnut Balls

Cherry Cordial Chocolate Cookies

Cardamom Pecan Cream Cookies

Key Lime Tropical Treasures

Hazelnut Truffle Cookies

Coconut-Honey Balls

Cranberry-Walnut Crunch Doodles

Holiday Fruitcake Cookies

Orange Spice Oatmeal Cookies

Spicy Nut Balls

Glazed Lime Cookies

Chunky Fruitcake Cookies

Holiday Pinwheels

Ginger Cookies and Cream Thumbprints

Snowflake Drops

Raspberry Oatmeal Bars


Merry Christmas Bars

Bits of candied cherries in a rich cheesecake filling make these bars perfect for holiday treats.

Heartthrob Cookies

A single basic sugar cookie dough makes all four of the dainty heart designs.

Pastry Hearts

A cream cheese pastry is used for these cut-out cookies, that are filled with desired fruit preserves and sprinkled with coarse sugar.