25 Cookie Recipes That Will Put You in the Holiday Spirit

'Tis the season!

Chocolate Crinkle CookiesMost chocolate crinkle cookies are neither chocolaty nor crinkly. We solved the …
Thick and Chewy Gingerbread CookiesMost recipes turn out dough that is best used for building material. Is there a …
Chocolate Butter CookiesChocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …
Chewy Chai-Spice Sugar CookiesEveryone thinks it’s easy to make classic buttery-tasting sugar cookies that are…
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal CookiesWhy did it take six months to develop the right recipe for a chewy, thick, butte…
Classic Meringue CookiesThese classic cookies can have a Styrofoam-like texture and a saccharine-sweet f…
Peppermint Mocha CookiesWhat flavor is more symbolic of the holiday season than peppermint?
Molasses Spice Cookies with Dark Rum GlazeDry, tasteless molasses cookies belong on a Christmas tree, not in a cookie jar.…
Chewy Peanut Butter CookiesEveryday ingredients and a quick-mixing method make these cookies convenient. Th…
Perfect Chocolate Chip CookiesWe set out to achieve a cookie that was crisp at the edges, chewy in the middle,…
Florentine Lace CookiesThe 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 CookiesThese 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 CookiesA chewy cookie with a crisp exterior and a big jolt of brown sugar flavor sounde…
Chewy Browned Coconut Butter CookiesCrispy at the edges. Chewy in the center. Bursting with toffee-like toasted coco…
Glazed Chocolate-Mint CookiesChocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …
Easy Holiday Sugar CookiesMost 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 CookiesChocolate butter cookies usually taste bland or surrender their crisp, delicate …
Almond Spritz CookiesThat golden-swirled kiss of a holiday cookie often ends up bland, gummy, and tas…
Millionaire's ShortbreadBritain’s triple-decker combo of buttery cookie, sweet caramel, and dark chocola…
GingersnapsWhat’s the secret to gingersnaps that combine bold spice flavor and real snap? T…