Soft Christmas Cookies
Soft cut out sugar cookie that I have used for years. I sprinkle with colored sugar before baking or you could also try icing them when cool.
Sugar Cookie Icing
This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
Our Top 20 Most Cherished Christmas Cookies
Deck the halls with Christmas cookies!
Russian Tea Cakes
These yummy melt-in-your-mouth walnut cookies take just five ingredients.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate crinkle cookies coated in confectioners' sugar are so good!
Butter Snow Flakes
A wonderful Spritz cookie with cinnamon in it. These freeze very well.
Peanut Blossoms II
I make these every year for our annual cookie open house. We make about 15 to 20 different kinds of cookies and have a 4 hour open house with friends. We then prepare cookie trays to take to shut ins and freeze the rest to enjoy all year long. My husband helps with this four day project! He's retired ... and I'm partially retired. It has been a long standing tradition that we enjoy every year!
Hedgehog Cookies
I needed something else to decorate a tree trunk cake, so baby hedgehogs seemed to be the perfect match.
Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti
The red and green make a great Christmas cookie. Have used other nuts instead of pistachios with success. If your pistachios are salted, omit the 1/4 teaspoon salt from the recipe.
Perfect Thumbprint Cookies
Follow Chef John's tips for these pretty cookies.
Royal Icing II
This recipe is the 'glue' that holds gingerbread houses together, and makes it still edible.
Citrus Shortbread Cookies
This recipe was given to me by my mother-in-law, one of the best cooks I know...and given that we're from south Louisiana, that's saying something. With the chopped up dried cranberries, these are as pretty as they are tasty.