Christmas & Everyday Cookies
Cookies are where most home bakers start, and where the holidays get busiest. These recipes and guides cover dependable everyday cookies like chewy chocolate chip, snickerdoodles and buttery shortbread, plus Christmas favorites such as cut-out sugar cookies and soft gingerbread.
You'll also find tips on packing cookies as gifts and choosing cookie cutters that give clean shapes.
Christmas Cookie Cutters: A Baker's Buying GuideHow to choose the best cookie cutters for Christmas: metal vs plastic vs 3D-printed, shapes that hold up, sizes, plus tips for clean cut-out cookies.
25 Christmas Cookie Recipes for a Cookie Exchange (Sturdy, Scalable and Box-Ready)Christmas cookie recipes for exchange parties: 25 sturdy, scalable cookies that box well, cookies to avoid, and batch math for how many dozen to bake.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (Crisp Edges, Soft Centers)Thick, chewy chocolate chip cookies with crisp golden edges and soft centers. Melted butter, extra brown sugar and a short chill are the secret.
Easy Christmas Cookie Decorating Ideas for BeginnersEasy Christmas cookie decorating ideas for beginners: icing types, how to get the right consistency, 20 simple designs, decorating with kids and setting up a.
25 Christmas Cookies That Ship and Gift Well (Plus How to Pack Them)Christmas cookie recipes for gifts that stay fresh and ship well: 25 sturdy cookies, roughly how long each keeps, and how to pack tins and boxes so nothing.
Christmas Cut-Out Sugar Cookies That Hold Their ShapeSoft, buttery Christmas sugar cookies with sharp edges that don't spread. Includes rolling, chilling and baking tips plus an easy royal icing.
Classic Buttery Shortbread (Just 4 Ingredients)Melt-in-your-mouth shortbread with butter, sugar, flour and salt. How to bake it as wedges, fingers or slice-and-bake rounds, with holiday flavor ideas.
30 Easy Christmas Cookies with 5 Ingredients or Less30 easy Christmas cookie recipes with few ingredients: 3-, 4- and 5-ingredient shortbread, blossoms, cake-mix and no-bake cookies for beginners.
One Dough, 10 Cookies: Easy Christmas Cookies to Make in BulkEasy Christmas cookies to make in bulk: one butter dough turned into 10 cookies, with a scaling table, a freezer schedule and tips for baking big batches.
Christmas Cookie Recipes for High Altitude (Adjustments That Work)Christmas cookie recipes for high altitude: why cookies spread above 3,000 feet, extension-service adjustment guidance, and how to adapt sugar, chocolate chip.
Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle CookiesClassic soft and chewy snickerdoodles rolled in cinnamon sugar, with the cream of tartar tang that makes them special. Tips for thick, crinkly tops.
Soft Gingerbread Cookies (Easy Cut-Out Gingerbread Men)Soft, warmly spiced gingerbread cookies that are easy to roll and cut. Molasses, ginger and cinnamon, plus tips for soft or crisp results.