Malted-milk powder adds a rich component to both these cookies and their filling. A double dose of chocolate (chopped semisweet and lots of cocoa powder) makes these sandwich cookies extra decadent.
To ensure your cookies come out just right, follow a couple of basic rules: Space them at least 1 inch apart during baking, rotate the sheet pan half way through, and let the cookies cool on the sheet...
One of Santa's favorites, this cookie is dressed for the season with honey, cinnamon, and brandied golden raisins. You can substitute white chocolate with semisweet or bittersweet.
Macarons are light-as-a-feather French cookies that can be assembled using any sweet fillings and bases that you please. Our best, step-by-step recipe for this sophisticated French dessert offers variations...
Torie Hallock makes these everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cookies at Skylands, Martha's house in Maine. They are full of oats, dried cherries, chocolate chips, and bits of toffee candy.
Serve these sweet treats for dessert at your next game night. We used card-suit cookie cutters to shape the blondies into hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades.
Unlike many crumbly cookies, these biscotti are sturdy enough to mail. For a holiday gift, send a batch along with a pound of your favorite coffee beans.
In one batch of hearty cookies, find the flavors of two bakery classics: chocolate chip cookies and banana bread. Chopped walnuts and rolled oats add texture and more layers of taste.
Fruitcake bars are very forgiving. You can bake them months ahead, and substitute almost any fruit or nut you like for one you don't. Aim for a balance of tastes and textures, and test to see if your selections...
Anyone who loves peanut-butter cookies, will surely love these delicious dessert sandwiches. Each one is made with two peanut butter-oatmeal cookies with a rich, peanut butter filling smothered in between....
Any dried fruit can be substituted for the raisins in these delicious cookies that make for the perfect snack. Be sure the cookies are completely cool before storing in an airtight container.
The secret to this rich chocolate-chunk shortbread is a mix of sugars-brown for a caramel note, and confectioners' for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. To make this a gift that your recipients can bake for...
A cushion of fluffy chocolate buttercream is suspended between two crisp chocolate wafers. The finishing touch? Rolling in toasted hazelnuts for a buttery, crunchy finish. This recipe appears in our cookbook...
Dense and buttery, this cookie is closely related to shortbread, which originated as a holiday treat in ancient Scotland. These pecan sandies are simply delicious.
No holiday cookie tin would be complete without at least a few Noel nut balls, rich nut-and-butter domes, rolled in confectioners' sugar to resemble miniature snowballs. In Martha's family, the cookie...
Serve these crunchy biscotti as a complement to Drunken Cherries with Mascarpone Cream. Recipe adapted from Mindy Fox, author of A Bird in the Oven and Then Some (Kyle Books; 2010).
Fresh raspberry-and-white-chocolate cream is a lofty alternative tofrosting or jam filling. Using a small icecream scoop to form the vanilla sugarcookies will ensure a uniform size.