Oct 05 2026
Christmas cookies are much more enjoyable when you do not have to make every single batch during the final few days before Christmas. Many cookies can be prepared ahead, frozen, refrigerated, or partially assembled so that the busiest part of holiday baking is finished long before guests arrive, gifts need to be packed, or Santa’s …
Oct 04 2026
Christmas cookie baking can look intimidating when you see trays covered with perfectly piped snowflakes, intricate gingerbread houses, and dozens of different cookies arranged in elaborate gift boxes. Fortunately, Christmas cookies do not have to be complicated. Some of the best holiday cookies require very little decorating, use familiar ingredients, and are forgiving enough for …
Oct 04 2026
Some Christmas cookies are fun to try once. Others earn a permanent place in the holiday baking rotation. These are the cookies people ask about before December has even begun—the gingerbread that makes the entire house smell like Christmas, the decorated sugar cookies that turn into an afternoon activity, the little powdered-sugar snowballs that disappear …
Oct 04 2026
Few Christmas traditions are as comforting as a kitchen filled with the smell of cookies baking. Maybe your Christmas cookie memories involve carefully decorated sugar cookies, gingerbread people lined up across the counter, buttery little spritz cookies, chocolate treats, powdered-sugar snowballs, or a tin filled with several different cookies that only seem to appear in …
Sep 01 2026
Christmas sugar cookies are one of those recipes that become much more than dessert. Rolling out the dough, choosing Christmas cookie cutters, covering the kitchen table with bowls of icing and sprinkles, and deciding which cookies should be left for Santa can become an entire December tradition. Fortunately, you do not need professional decorating skills …
Aug 31 2026
Christmas thumbprint cookies are one of the easiest ways to add a little jewel-bright color to a holiday cookie tray. The basic cookie is wonderfully simple: a tender, buttery dough is rolled into small balls, pressed in the center, and filled with a spoonful of jam. Raspberry preserves create a beautiful Christmas-red center, but strawberry, …
Aug 30 2026
Decorating Christmas cookies can be as simple as shaking a little sparkling sugar over a star or as elaborate as piping tiny snowflakes, ornaments, wreaths, and Santa faces with royal icing. Both approaches count. You do not need professional decorating skills to make beautiful Christmas cookies. In fact, some of the prettiest holiday cookies use …
Aug 29 2026
The right icing can turn a simple Christmas cookie into a snowflake, ornament, Christmas tree, stocking, wreath, or tiny edible work of art. But cookie icing can also be one of the more confusing parts of holiday baking. Should you use royal icing or regular frosting? How thick should outlining icing be? Why does flood …
Aug 28 2026
After spending an afternoon baking Christmas cookies, the last thing you want is to open the cookie tin a few days later and discover that the crisp cookies have gone soft, the soft cookies have dried out, or the beautiful decorations have stuck together. Fortunately, storing Christmas cookies is fairly simple once you know one …
Aug 27 2026
Christmas cookies have a way of multiplying in December. One afternoon of baking becomes three tins of sugar cookies, gingerbread people cooling on the counter, shortbread in the freezer, thumbprints waiting for gift boxes, and a mysterious container someone labeled simply “DO NOT EAT — CHRISTMAS.” Eventually, the obvious question arises: how long do Christmas …
