These 11 Christmas cookies include easy classics like roll-out sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, molasses cookies, and other popular cookies for eating and gifting, plus a royal icing recipe, too. Wondering how to best store them? Follow these easy instructions.
Chocolate Ginger Crinkle Cookies
The classic cookie benefits enormously from a hit of ginger here with these surprise sleeper hits of your Christmas season.
Classic Shortbread Cookies
Tender and delicate and buttery and spectacularly simple, just as classic shortbread cookies ought to be.
Biscochitos
Yes, lard. In a cookie. The rendered pig fat lends the biscochitos their trademark flaky texture. The truth lies in the taste. Swear.
Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
Tender and crumbly like shortbread, yet subtly flavored and sweet like cookies, these beg the question, which are they?
Gingerbread Men Cookies
The cutest, sweetest, happiest gingerbread people ever, right? They also happen to be the fastest, cheapest, unfussiest gingerbread cookies we've encountered.
Spicy Snowflake Cookies
Christmas cookies that are as dramatic to behold as they are delicious to nosh. Swear. From everyone's favorite food scientist, Shirley O. Corriher
Gingersnap Cookies
True to their name, these little lovelies practically snap when you take a nibble. We love truth in advertising.
Wheat-Free Butter Cookies
Believe it. Wheat-free, slice-n-bake cookies that taste like the real deal without fuss or crazy ingredients. You're welcome.
Lebkuchen
These traditional German Christmas cookies that are subtly reminiscent of gingerbread are typically called lebkuchen, although we tend to refer to them as moments of perfectly spiced deliciousness.
Black Pepper Cookies
It's no surprise that a traditional Scandinavian cookie would be warming. Chalk it up to an inspired melding of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, black pepper, and cocoa.
Champagne Glazed Sugar Cookies
The Christmas cookie that celebrated pastry chef Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar fame just can't imagine life without.
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