12 Days of Holiday Cookies

Photography By Jill Melton | Last Updated December 10, 2016

These simple sugar cookies are comfort at its best.

Chocolate, nuts, coconut, jam, cinnamon, molasses, lemon. Cookies of every ilk for your holiday giving.

Goozy Chocolate Skillet Cookies

Your own personal warm skillet cookie. We're in.

First Family Ginger Cookies with Sorghum

These cookies from Chef Stephen Ward bake up thin and crispy with a nice sugar crunch--the perfect holiday cookie. To make even more special, fill with sorghum cream for festive sandwiches.

Strawberry Almond Crumble Bars

This recipe is our rendition of the Raspberry Bars from Tates Bake Shop in New York. A buttery streusel is made and pressed into a 9x13-inch dish, then topped with our Easy Strawberry Preserves,&...

Sparkly Holiday Cookies

A new holiday favorite that goes perfect with an Orange Hot Chocolate by the fireside.

Almond Butter White Chocolate Cookies

It seems ridiculous to say, but I believe these are the best cookies I've ever made—and everyone who ate one agreed (Even my son, Sam, who shuns virtually everything I make). The combination of...

Malted Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Here is a riff on a Martha Stewart recipe which, over the years, has morphed into this recipe that I nailed this year. The kids fought over them. My friend hoarded hers. Chewy malted chocolate cookies...

Salted Coconut Macaroons

I like to make these cookies small, maximizing the crunchy browned exterior, which is the best part.

Sorghum Molasses Cookies

These cookies are best right out of the oven while still warm and soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside. You can use molasses if you don’t have sorghum.

Jim's Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

These are these best peanut butter cookies ever. The use of cornstarch, which is gluten free, makes them crumbly and "short" by breaking up some of the gluten in the flour, hence making them a bit...

Pecan Sandies (aka German Drop Cookies)

These cookies are one of the few cookies my mom made around the holidays. She calls them German Drop Cookies. Which I have too. Until this year. I'm officially changing the name to Pecan Sandies...

Little Mosko’s Matzo Crack

This indulgence lives up to its name. It’s crunchy, sweet layers are easy to make and even easier to eat. Happy Passover.

Salted Caramel Bars

This recipe comes to us from Lee Ann Merrick of Tinwings in The Nations.

The Sugary Cookie's Sugar Cookie

Morgan Webber of The Sugary Cookie worked hard to create an iced cookie that was soft, with a unique almond flavor and icing that easy and enjoyable to bite through. Here, she shares her recipe with...

Key Lime Coconut Bars

You can use the baby key limes in this recipe or regular limes, which taste almost identical.

Peanut Butter-Miso Cookies

The text in The New York Times by Krysten Chambrot reads, "These cookies were the result of a happy accident. (The best things always are, aren't they?) When the peanut butter ran out, similarly...