A holiday cookie if we ever saw one! So buttery, so nutty, so delicate, so mind-bendingly lovely, these traditionally Viennese cookies rival the city’s fancier pastries as our fave.

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• 4 H
• 16

Call them whatever you will. Breton butter cookies. French biscuits. Sables. We call them simply impossible to stop noshing.

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• 2 H, 30 M
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We’ve never met a rugelach that we haven’t liked. Although there are some we adore more than others. This falls into the latter category.

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• 3 H
• 4

This spice cake is soaked with rum syrup, making a lovely, albeit slightly boozy, gift when wrapped in parchment and tied with a bow.

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• 1 H
• 15

Just like cinnamon toast. Except better. Your kids will worship you. So will your inner kid.

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• 45 M
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This gingerbread Bundt cake has all the warm spicy goodness of gingerbread cookies. As if that weren’t enough, it’s gilded with a sassy and sweetly tart lemon glaze.

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• 1 H, 35 M
• 10

These jelly-filled German lovelies are almost identical to American jelly doughnuts save for their sparer sweetness. No complaints here.

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• 6

This classic Portuguese dessert with its tender crumb and citrus smack tastes as stunning as it looks. Swear.

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Pecan pie rugelach. Bursting with all the expected ingredients and then some, including maple syrup, bourbon, even a pinch of cayenne. Your notion of rugelach is about to be upended.

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Cranberries add a chewy, sweet-tartness and pistachios bring a buttery tasting richness to these biscotti, making them a must-make for Christmas.

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These spectacularly decorated cookie creations can be yours with your favorite roll-out cookie recipe, our royal icing, and our handy how-tos. Swear it’s so much simpler than it looks.

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• 1 H
• 4

Startlingly spectacular made-from-scratch cheese Danish that are going to forever change your notion of what a cheese Danish ought to be.

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• 1 H
• 4

Though schnecken translates from German quite literally as snails, to us it means these ooey, gooey, sticky pecan caramel buns.

• 30 M
• 4 H
• 18

Elegant enough for company, simple enough for every day, and versatile enough for breakfast and midnight snack and pretty much every moment in between.

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• 2 H
• 5