The Best Holiday Cookies (+Videos)

Its National Cookie Day! Spread some holiday cheer with these festive cookie recipes. They are sure to please, so you better get baking!
The Best Holiday Cookies (+Videos)
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Daksha Devnani
12/4/2014
Updated:
10/8/2018

Its National Cookie Day! Spread some holiday cheer with these festive cookie recipes. They are sure to please, so you better get baking!

1. Key Lime Sugar Cookies

The bright citrus flavor of these sugar cookies make them the perfect choice for your holiday cookie tray. Just a warning, you’re going to want to bake an extra batch.

2. Holiday Cookie Cottage

 

Martha Stewart and crafter Jodi Levine make a cookie cottage, perfect for the holiday season.

3. Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies

Don’t let your eyes fool you; these “candies” are anything but. They’re red and white cookie dough rolled into spirals and topped with creamy peppermint frosting.

4. Sparkling Snowflake Shortbread

Let it snow! Top these shortbread cookies with sparkling sugar so they glisten like snowflakes.

5. Christmas Cookies

It is much easier than you think to make amazing Holiday cookies! Watch as Nicole demonstrates how to make stained-glass Christmas tree, gingerbread snowflakes and chocolate-peppermint sandwich cookies.

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Daksha Devnani writes and edits stories about life, traditions, and people with uncompromising courage that inspire hope and goodness among humanity
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