Holiday Desserts

Cookies, cakes, pies, ice cream—prepare for sugar overload.

Hi everyone. I am gearing up for my annual holiday cookie baking marathon. My friend and I make 6 – 8 different types of cookies each year, pack them up beautifully and hand them out as gifts. We have a few faves that we make...

Gingerbread Cookies

Soft, chewy, spicy, and full-flavored.

Icebox Sugar Cookies

Make a big batch and keep it in the freezer.

Meyer Lemon and Black Pepper Cookies

Icebox cookies for those with subtle, sophisticated taste.

Pistachio White Chocolate Cherry Crisps

Perfect for the holidays, these cheery butter cookies can be made weeks ahead and stored in the freezer.

Coconut-Date Icebox Cookies

Make a big batch and keep it in the freezer.

looking for holiday cookies that resemble Martha Stewarts or Gourmet mag style (linzer, cresents, lace, truffle, those types of cookies). beautiful and yummy looking that also taste good. where can you rec’d that I get...

Does anyone know where I can buy individually wrapped holiday cookies? Something similar to Eleni’s but not $12 per cookie. Thanks in advance.

Nibbling through Aki’s assorted holiday cookies from a tray identical to this photo on its website, far and away the best and the only one worth seeking out is the thin, speckled cookie at the 12 o’clock and 6...

Can anyone recommend a good bakery for Christmas cookies? I’m envisioning cookies so light and buttery, they bring tears to my eyes. If no such cookies/bakeries exist, does anyone have a good recipe? Thanks in advance for...

I make the mistake of baking my chocolate chip cookies on waxed paper! It was late night and I totally wasn’t thinking? Do you think if I scrapped the bottom of the cookie with a serated edge the any wax that was baked in...

I make the mistake of baking my chocolate chip cookies on waxed paper! It was late night and I totally wasn’t thinking? Do you think if I scrapped the bottom of the cookie with a serated edge the any wax that was baked in...

I know this sounds nuts (no pun intended), but Archway has a line of cookies it puts out only around Thanksgiving and Christmas, and one of them, the Nutty Malted Nougat, is pretty much the best packaged cookie I’ve ever...

compact in shape — thin and lacy cookies don’t do as well as balls and logs, and are meant to be somewhat aged. Mrs. Smith has posted many wonderful posts on her holiday boxes — last year I think she posted on...