Christmas Cookies

F&W’s ultimate Christmas cookie recipes include classic favorites like gingerbread, roll-and-cut sugar cookies, pastry genius François Payard’s macarons and more.

Chocolate-Mint Christmas Cookies (photo at right)

Staff-Favorite Christmas Cookies

Ginger-Studded Sugar Cookies

This sweet, candied-ginger dough can be rolled out and cut into any shape or formed into logs and refrigerated for simple slice-and-bake cookies.
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Chocolate-Gingerbread Cookies

These marvelous Christmas cookies combine chocolate with spicy gingerbread. An added benefit: The supple dough is very easy to work with, and the scraps can be rerolled and cut out.
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Coconut Macaroons

These sweet and chewy two-bite macaroons have only five ingredients (not including the delicious bittersweet-chocolate drizzle).
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Linzer Cookies with Spiced Jam

Kevin Sbraga adds anise and coriander to the raspberry jam that he spreads between the hazelnut cookies (which are spiced with cinnamon and cloves).
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Chocolate Macarons

These sandwich cookies get plenty of rich chocolate flavor from cocoa powder and an intense ganache filling.
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Chocolate-Espresso Snowballs

Cocoa, coffee and pecans are rolled together in these semisweet, sugar-dusted cookies.
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