Holiday Cookies

From classic gingerbread to pink coconut snowballs, we've rounded up our best holiday cookie recipes.

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Dress up your biscotti for Christmas with a chocolate dip and candy-cane garnish.

These chocolate-dipped biscotti wedges make are perfect for the chocolate-orange lovers in your life. Add a bag of coffee beans for a lovely Christmas gift.

Biscotti

These homemade candies are for the grown-ups. (They use a giant splash of hard cider for a bright and puckery apple flavour.)

These easy homemade treats—shown here in foil liners—make a sweet gift for the chocolate-peanut butter lover in your life. You can also replace the peanut butter with tahini, if you like.

Caramel popcorn tastes about a million times better when it's homemade. This easy recipe makes a big batch, perfect for snacking or gifting (or both!)

Candy

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These tempting truffles add an eye-catching flourish to the dessert table, and with their sweet cherry centre, they’ll disappear in no time.

We used gem-shaped silicone moulds to give these easy no-bake gingerbread truffles a sophisticated look.

Truffles

For a Hannukah dessert, core little McIntosh apples, sprinkle them with sugar and spice, and wrap them in pastry. While they’re turning puffed and golden, you’ll make a caramel sauce out of Manischewitz.

Homemade marshmallows are Tara O'Brady's party trick. They're surprisingly easy, one batch feeds a crowd and they are always met with delight. She took inspiration from the cookie jar for these ones, with cinnamon and buttery-dough notes and a thin dip of dark chocolate.

To achieve its thin, even layers, the cake is baked in a half-sheet pan, then stacked and cut to fit snugly into silicone moulds lined with white candy melts.

Holiday Pastries

These gorgeously festive peppermint meringue kisses rely on a simple meringue recipe and a few tricks with a piping bag.

These flourless cookies get loads of rich chocolate flavour from cocoa and melted dark chocolate.

A soft and nutty cross between a macaroon and Italian brutti ma buoni, these tender little treats will win over even non-cookie lovers.

Gluten-Free Cookies

Part cookie, part chocolate bar and all delicious, this easy no-bake treat is even prettier when decorated with silver sprinkles.

The quality of the chocolate is everything here; invest in the best, such as Lindt.

The original 1957 version of these make-ahead bonbons were billed as a convenience treat. Sprinkling a bit of childhood-favourite sugary cereal overtop adds a bit of crunch, colour and fun.

No-Bake Cookies

Recipe developer Camilla Wynne put a caramel-apple spin on her granny’s millionaire’s shortbread—a buttery base topped with a thick layer—and she thinks this version is even better than the original.

These gooey shortbread bars take their flavour cues from a Christmas classic: pecan- and date-laden sticky toffee pudding.

Some of our kitchen team find traditional Nanaimo bars too sweet, so we developed a bar we all could love. Thanks to cocoa powder, salted almonds and much less sugar, we got it.

Squares

This sophisticated take on the classic icebox cookie features rye flour, maraschino cherries and dark chocolate.

We’d say candied cherries are deliciously retro, but glacéed fruit happens to be newly cool again, as it was when this roll-and-slice recipe first appeared in Chatelaine in 1949—and we couldn’t be happier about it. Don’t skip toasting the almonds; their nuttiness makes the cherry flavour sing.

Icebox Cookies

One of the best dessert experiences of recipe developer Camilla Wynne's youth was eating these sandwiches—two fudgy cookies bonded together by a melted After Eight—cold from her aunt’s freezer. This ginger-spiked version is even more festive than the original.

These delicious cookies from recipe developer Camilla Wynne have all the flavours of Black Forest cake—chocolate, cherry, kirsch and vanilla—in a hand-held treat.

Chocolate Cookies

If you like eggnog, you're going to love the delicate rum and nutmeg flavours in these easy sugar cookies.

These delicious, eye-catching cookies from recipe developer Camilla Wynne combine two iconic holiday staples: cranberries and eggnog.

Topped with white chocolate and filled with strawberry jam, these pretty sandwich cookies are delicately sweet with just a hint of flavour from the pink peppercorn garnish.

Sugar Cookies

If you’re making one cookie this holiday season, make it a classic. This is our go-to shortbread recipe, with good reason: it delivers that signature, buttery and crumbly texture.

These crispy, buttery cookies get a double dose of lemon from the zest- and juice-infused glaze.

A generous amount of matcha powder adds gorgeous colour to these butter cookies, which are finished with a quick dip into some melted white chocolate.

Shortbread Cookies

These gingerbread sandwich cookies are filled with an incredibly easy 10-minute marshmallow frosting we can't get enough of.

With a little royal icing and some holiday spirit, these gingerbread cookies make festive tree ornaments—if you can manage not to eat them.

This stunning gingerbread tree—made from our classic gingerbread recipe, using a set of 10 graduated star cookie cutters—is a cinch to pull together.

Gingerbread Cookies

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