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Home | Recipes | Desserts | Christmas Cookies | Page 3

Christmas Cookies

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to celebrate than by baking some delicious Christmas cookies? From classic Christmas Sugar Cookies to delicate Windowpane Cookies and spicy Lebkuchen, a traditional German Christmas cookie, our recipes are perfect for adding a festive touch to your holiday season.

Our easy-to-follow instructions and tips ensure that even novice bakers can create beautiful and delicious cookies. Whether you’re baking for friends, family, or a holiday party, our Christmas cookie recipes will help you spread the joy of the season with every sweet bite.

A scalloped round sugar cookie with a heart-shaped windowpane cutout hanging from a tree branch.
Four cream cheese rugelach in a glass jar with twine wrapped around it.

Cream Cheese Rugelach

2 hrs

A stack of star-shaped cutout classic shortbread cookies, lightly dusted with sugar, and a brown takeout container and a gift tag.

Classic Shortbread Cookies

1 hr

Eight homemade Milano cookies in a metal loaf tin.

Homemade Milano Cookies

4 hrs

Several varieties of crystallized flowers scattered across a white surface.

Crystallized Flowers

1 hr

Several palmiers on a wire rack.

Palmiers

50 mins

A stack of confetti cookies.

Confetti Cookies

3 hrs 30 mins

A two-tiered platter with rum balls on each tier.

Rum Balls

1 hr

Four bottles of natural food coloring in different shades.

How To Make Natural Food Coloring

10 mins

A selection of decorated gingerbread cookies in the shapes of men, stars, and trees.

Gingerbread Cookies

2 hrs 15 mins

A bowl of cardamom and cashew cookies with one broken cookie beside the bowl.

Cardamom and Cashew Cookies

1 hr

A scalloped round sugar cookie with a heart-shaped windowpane cutout hanging from a tree branch.

Windowpane Cookies

40 mins

One French sable cookies on a white background

French Sablé Cookies

3 hrs 30 mins

A variety of iced gingersnaps cookies cut into different shapes.

Gingersnap Cookies

1 hr

A Christmas tree made of decorated cookies.

Christmas Tree of Cookies

1 hr

Sugar Christmas snow cookies, in various shapes, decorated with white icing.

Sugar Christmas Snow Cookies

35 mins

Four chocolate and cinnamon swirl meringues on a piece of parchment on a rimmed baking sheet.

Chocolate and Cinnamon Swirl Meringues

4 hrs 15 mins

A sheet of raw black pepper cookie dough with shapes--men, stars reindeer, hearts--cut into it

Black Pepper Cookies

50 mins

A selection of decorated gingerbread cookies in the shapes of men, stars, and trees.

Gingerbread Men Cookies

1 hr

Pain d'Épices Cookies stacked in a pile of five glazed and garnished with candied orange peel.

Pain d’Épice Cookies

1 hr 15 mins

Fig, apricot, and pistachio biscotti resting inside or on top of two glasses and a stack of biscotti beside the glassware.

Fig, Apricot, and Pistachio Biscotti

1 hr 15 mins

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