The best holiday cookies, bars, and candies

We believe the key to a Christmas tea party is a wide variety of sweets and cookies. With our popular recipes, you can decorate your table with gingerbread cookies, biscotti, peanut butter, mint chocolate, and a whole host of other homemade treats that will set the festive mood.

Gingerbread biscotti

These biscotti have the same warm, spicy flavor and crisp texture that everyone loves about gingerbread men, but they're quicker and easier to make than classic Christmas cookies. Each cookie is half-dipped in white chocolate icing and dusted with coarse white sugar, which will sparkle beautifully under the holiday lights. The perfect cookie for Christmas and New Year's Eve!

Recipe: Gingerbread biscotti

White chocolate bar with whole pistachios, dried cranberries and dried apricots

Transform plain white chocolate into an interesting and delicious bar filled with nuts and dried fruits. A perfect combination is salted pistachios, dried cranberries, and dried apricots. And making this treat is incredibly simple. Just melt the chocolate, pour it onto parchment paper, shaping it into your desired shape, and while it's still warm, top it with nuts and dried fruits. Once it hardens, you'll have a rather rough-looking chocolate bar, but its simplicity is precisely its charm. Break the chocolate into random pieces and enjoy. Or place the pieces in a clear bag, tie with a pretty ribbon, and give your loved ones a special, homemade chocolate treat.

Recipe: White chocolate bar with whole pistachios, dried cranberries and dried apricots

Sliced ​​Penguin Cookies

Although Santa resides at the North Pole, these guests from the South Pole look just as at home in their festive red hats and will perfectly fit into the Christmas theme of your holiday party. This recipe provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make and decorate these amazing penguin-shaped cut-out cookies. Your guests won't believe they're handmade! To make the penguins even more cheerful, trim their red hats with different colors. These beautiful cookies can be packaged, tied with ribbon, and given as gifts to friends for Christmas.

Recipe: Sliced ​​Penguin Cookies

Dessert "Magic Coins"

This Hanukkah dessert is quick to make and easy to take to a party or school event. The bars are quite sticky, so be sure to let them cool completely and set before slicing. There are many colorful Hanukkah sprinkles available online, but you can also make your own.

Recipe: Dessert "Magic Coins"

The best peanut brittle

Treat your friends and family to crispy homemade brittle with the perfect sweet and salty flavor. To make it, you'll need a candy thermometer or deep-fry thermometer. Once the sugar mixture reaches the right temperature, stir in whole roasted salted peanuts and place on a baking sheet to set. Break it into pieces and serve, or divide into bags and give to friends. Handmade sweets are always a delight.

Recipe: The best peanut brittle

White Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Alex assembles a sandwich of brownie-like cookies and a caramelized white chocolate filling that adds richness and a toasty flavor that perfectly complements the chocolate.

Recipe: Chocolate sandwich cookies with white caramelized chocolate filling

Mini Linzer Cookies

Aina's elegant cookies are based on a shortcrust pastry made from flour, sugar, and a generous helping of butter. A layer of raspberry jam adds a touch of elegance.

Recipe: Linz mini cookies

Sugar cookies

Make classic holiday cookies with a festive decoration. Our cookie dough recipe makes it super easy!

Recipe: American Sugar Cookies

Marshmallow dreidels

The traditional Hanukkah dreidel can be made edible! These sweet blue and white dreidels are easy to make using marshmallows, chocolate candies, and straws coated in white chocolate. Bright and eye-catching, they'll delight both kids and adults.

Recipe: Marshmallow dreidels

Almond biscotti with white chocolate

Giada adds sliced ​​almonds to her biscotti, which enhance the citrus flavor and nuttiness of the white chocolate coating.

Recipe: Biscotti with almonds, lemon and glaze

Gingerbread cookies with royal icing

Sandra makes quick gingerbread cookies using a trick: she takes store-bought sugar cookie mix and adds pumpkin pie spice, ginger, and molasses.

Recipe: Gingerbread cookies with royal icing

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Christmas dessert with M&M's

This quick and easy dessert is perfect for a Christmas treat. A crumbly crust of crushed chocolate cookies in condensed milk is topped with a mountain of popular holiday treats: M&M's, mini marshmallows, mint chocolate, peppermint candy canes, roasted peanuts, and sprinkles. You'll need treats in Christmas colors—white, red, and green. The result is bright and delicious, especially for those who love the combination of chocolate and mint.

Recipe: Christmas dessert with M&M's

Chocolate bar "Christmas tree"

Instead of melting the candy melts on the stovetop or in the microwave, gently melt them in the oven at a low temperature to make them easy to spread into an even layer. This way, you'll have fewer dirty dishes and can immediately arrange the bar into a Christmas tree. You can decorate the bar with gingerbread cookies and candied ginger, as in this recipe, but you can also experiment with other holiday flavors, like chocolate chip cookies and peppermint red and white candy canes.

Recipe: Chocolate bar "Christmas tree"

Homemade Hanukkah money

Hanukkah coins (Hanukkah gelt) are traditionally given to children during the holidays as sweets. This Jewish tradition dates back to ancient times, as an incentive for children to study the Torah. Over time, chocolate coins also came to be given alongside real coins. Hanukkah coins are easy to make at home: pour melted chocolate into the bottom of muffin tins and sprinkle with gold sprinkles. Once set, the coins are ready! This recipe uses dark chocolate, but you can substitute milk chocolate. Before using the gold sprinkles, be sure to check that they are edible.

Recipe: Homemade Hanukkah money

Nutty shortbread cookies with chocolate

Simple shortbread cookies make a great gift when dipped in melted chocolate.

Recipe: Nutty cookies with chocolate glaze

Coffee and Hazelnut Macarons

Homemade macarons make a wonderful gift and treat.

Recipe: Hazelnut Mocha Macaron

White chocolate bar with mint candies

Red and white mint candy canes, shaped like Christmas candy canes, transform plain white chocolate into festive colors. The texture of the bar becomes more interesting as the hard candy pieces, wrapped in soft white chocolate, offer a contrasting crunch and burst with a refreshing mint flavor that pairs perfectly with the chocolate.

Recipe: White chocolate bar with mint candies

Traditional sugar cookies

It's hard to imagine the winter holidays without traditional sugar cookies in the form of festive figures decorated with colorful sugar or sprinkles.

Recipe: Old-fashioned sugar cookies

Caramel bars with peanuts

Trisha says the secret to this peanut butter's light and crunchy texture is baking soda. Act quickly: once you've added the baking soda, it's time to pour the mixture onto a baking sheet to harden.

Recipe: Grillage with peanuts

Marshmallow cookies with chocolate and nuts

These cookies contain mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, rice cereal, and pecans. They're topped with marshmallows and chocolate.

Recipe: Oatmeal cookies with marshmallows, nuts and chocolate

Cookies with grape-lemon glaze

These Hanukkah-inspired donut-shaped cookies have a subtle sweetness thanks to a jam and lemon juice glaze. They're perfect with tea or coffee.

Recipe: Homemade cookies with sour cream

Oatmeal bars with dried apricots

Dried fruits and nuts are a popular holiday combination, and they're also a healthy treat. Jada makes these sweet, fiber-rich oatmeal bars with dried apricots. Each bite is packed with dried apricots, walnuts, and jam.

Recipe: Apricot Oat Bars

Nutty cookies with chocolate

Giada's take on chocolate chip cookies uses rolled oats, English toffee, and roasted hazelnuts. The crunchy ingredients create a contrast with the soft, chewy dough.

Recipe: Nutty chocolate chip cookies

Chocolate toffee

This almond treat with crispy toffee and bittersweet chocolate makes a wonderful holiday gift.

Recipe: Chocolate Toffee with Almonds "Toffee"

Hazelnut roast: Croccante nights

Give this hazelnut brittle as a gift to your friends and family.

Recipe: Italian Hazelnut Candied Roast (Croccante Nights)





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