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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.

Danish Puff

A rich egg and butter "cream puff" mixture, flavored with almond extract, is spread over long, pastry-like rectangles, then baked.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

A fun cookie the kids can get involved with. A hershey kiss is gently placed in the center of each of the peanut butter cookies.

Cookie Stamp Shortbread

A dough of butter, sugar and flour is formed into balls and placed on a cookie sheet, then pressed with a cookie stamp to make ...

Brown Sugar Shortbread

These 3-ingredient shortbread cookies are rolled into balls and then stamped with a cookie stamp before baking.

Favorite Teddy Bear Cookies

Teddy bear cookies are assembled using vanilla and chocolate sugar cookie dough.

Butter-Nut Shortbread Bars

A buttery, nutty crust is the base for these spiced sugar-topped bars.

Giant Valentine Cookie

This giant Valentines Day cookie is baked in a heart-shaped pan. It contains butter, brown and granulated sugars, egg, and chocolate chips, and is frosting ...

Almond Macaroons

You just need 5 ingredients to make these crisp cookies-almond paste, sugar, salt, egg whites, and almond extract.

E-love's Butter Cookies

Tender and buttery cookies with just a drop of strawberry preserve bake on top.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

Celebrate fall with plain pumpkins or turn these easy oatmeal cookies into jack-o-lanterns with pieces of candy.

Pumpkin Gazed Cookies

Try these pumpkin cookies for a fall dessert - they're perfect for Thanksgiving. Finish the tasty drop cookies with an easy pumpkin glaze.

Mini-chip Snowball Cookies

Little round cookies made with miniature chocolate cookies and topped with a light dusting of powdered sugar.

Bethany's Powdered Sugar Cookies

Powdered sugar creamed with the butter gives a light tender sugar cookie. Ice with royal icing.

Ukranian Wedding Cakes

This version of an old favorite uses hazelnuts. Roll them in powdered sugar while still warm, then again when cool to coat them well.

Lemon Ginger Cookies

Spice up your cutout sugar cookies with lemon extract, cinnamon, and ginger. Spread cookies with a lemon icing or eat them plain.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Biscotti

Cake mix makes these biscotti cookies easy. Add peanut butter for a crisp, chocolatey cookie.

Limon Snowballs

This dough for these cookies contains both flour and cornstarch, with lime and lemon flavors. The chilled dough is shaped into balls and baked, then ...

Coconut-Frangipane Tartlets

An almond and orange filling is combined in the food processor along with sugar, butter and egg, then spooned into coconut shells in little muffin ...

Caramel Cinnamon Bars with Meringue Glaze

These diamond-shaped bars are made with butter, brown sugar, egg yolks, cinnamon and honey liqueur. They're spread with a meringue, sprinkled with nuts and dusted ...

Glittering Red and White Daiquiri Balls

This red and white treat contains vanilla wafers, pretzels, cream cheese, strawberry daiquiri mix, powdered sugar, rum and orange liquor.

Kenna's Killer Fruitcake Cookies

These drop cookies have the flavors and spices of fruitcake, but use dried fruits--soaked in sherry and brandy--instead of candied fruits. They also have rolled ...

Double Almond Cookies

These drop cookies actually have almonds in three forms--almond paste, almond extract, and slivered almonds. The batter has no flour, but uses a meringue-like mixtur...

Berry Delightful Bars

These blonde brownies have colorful pieces of chopped fresh cranberries and plenty of crunchy walnuts.

Rum Raisin Balls

These no bake holiday cookies have vanilla wafer crumbs, coconut, nuts, raisins, and powdered sugar, plus the flavors of cinnamon and spiced rum.

Miniature Key Lime Tarts

A cooked and chilled egg mixture, with sugar, butter, key lime juice and peel is spooned into baked cream cheese tartlets just before serving, and ...

Double Almond Thumbprints

Lace Cookies

Orange Rosemary Cookie Bars

Raspberry Bars

Dancing Black and Polar Bear Biscotti

Buttercrunch Cookie Squares

Raspberry Linzer Thumbprints

Marsala-Scented Biscotti with Chocolate

Pizzelle

Walnut Lime Coconut Chews

Brenda's Biscotti

Old Kentucky Home Cookies


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.