25 Cookie Recipes That Will Put You in the Holiday Spirit

'Tis the season!

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Most chocolate crinkle cookies are neither chocolaty nor crinkly. We solved the …

Thick and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies

Most recipes turn out dough that is best used for building material. Is there a …

Chocolate Butter Cookies

Chocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …

Chewy Chai-Spice Sugar Cookies

Everyone thinks it’s easy to make classic buttery-tasting sugar cookies that are…

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Why did it take six months to develop the right recipe for a chewy, thick, butte…

Classic Meringue Cookies

These classic cookies can have a Styrofoam-like texture and a saccharine-sweet f…

Peppermint Mocha Cookies

What flavor is more symbolic of the holiday season than peppermint?

Molasses Spice Cookies with Dark Rum Glaze

Dry, tasteless molasses cookies belong on a Christmas tree, not in a cookie jar.…

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Everyday ingredients and a quick-mixing method make these cookies convenient. Th…

Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

We set out to achieve a cookie that was crisp at the edges, chewy in the middle,…

Florentine Lace Cookies

The easy part about these cookies is that most of the work takes place in a sauc…

Christmas Spice Cookies (Lebkuchen)

These German Christmas cookies are essentially spice-nut cookies—chock-full of g…

Checkerboard Cookies

These French butter cookies offer sophistication and style from simple pantry in…

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies with Honey-Cinnamon ...

We wanted a cookie so packed with peanut flavor that it needed no crosshatch to …

Baci di Dama (Italian Hazelnut Cookies)

These Lilliputian Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are utterly charmi…

Brown Sugar Cookies

A chewy cookie with a crisp exterior and a big jolt of brown sugar flavor sounde…

Chewy Browned Coconut Butter Cookies

Crispy at the edges. Chewy in the center. Bursting with toffee-like toasted coco…

Glazed Chocolate-Mint Cookies

Chocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies

Most roll-and-cut cookies force you to battle rock-hard dough and then rarely ev…

Belgian Spice Cookies (Speculoos)

Passengers can’t get enough of Delta Air Lines’ in-flight snack of Biscoff, the …

Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dri...

What could be better than an oatmeal cookie crammed with dozens of ingredients? …

Mexican Chocolate Butter Cookies

Chocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …

Almond Spritz Cookies

That golden-swirled kiss of a holiday cookie often ends up bland, gummy, and tas…

Millionaire's Shortbread

Britain’s triple-decker combo of buttery cookie, sweet caramel, and dark chocola…

Gingersnaps

What’s the secret to gingersnaps that combine bold spice flavor and real snap? T…