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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.

Snickerdoodles

This buttery cookie recipe contains cream of tartar. The Snickerdoodle dough is formed into balls and rolled in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon before ...

Pecan Butter Balls

Pecans are on the inside and the outside of these buttery-rich sandy-type cookies, flavored with vanilla.

Pecan Snowballs

Holiday cookies shaped like snowballs filled with pecans and dusted with powdered sugar.

Peanut Butter Surprises

Yummy little cookies with peanut butter cups added at the end. Someone always brings these for Holiday season dinners.

Unbelievable Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies have just 4 ingredients-peanut butter, vanilla, sugar, and an egg.

Chocolate Cherry Kris Kringles

Chocolate filled cherries baked in a light pastry crust and dipped in chocolate.

Thimble Cookies

This cookie dough contains shortening, brown sugar, egg, flour, baking powder and soda. It's shaped into balls, and has a "dent" in the center (perhaps ...

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookie Cups

Peanut butter chips and milk chocolate chips baked in little pastry shells with a sweet confection.

Nut Butter Balls

These nutty cookies are buttery and tender. Choose almond or vanilla extract to flavor the cookie.

Sour Cream Cranberry Bars

A sour cream and cranberry filling tops an oatmeal crust in these bars. Top with some of the oatmeal mixture for a crisp crumb topping.

Holiday Spice Bars

These bar cookies contain mixed candied fruits & peels, pecans, and pumpkin pie spice in an oat batter flavored with orange and molasses.

Kourambiedes (Christmas Cookies)

The dough for these Greek cookies contains toasted almonds and anise-flavored liqueur, and is shaped into balls before baking. The warm cookies are then coated ...

Christmas (Butter) Cookies

Buttery and crisp, these cutout cookies are sure to please. Decorate with your favorite icing.

Yummy Xmas Cookies

A special treat your kids will love--crisp holiday cookies studded with colorful M & M's.


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.