We used sanding sugar in shades of silver and blue for these Glitter Ball Cookies-the perfect palette for a Hanukkah celebration or New Year's party.
Author: Martha Stewart
Here is one snowball everyone will want to catch -- a pair of domed coconut cookies filled back to back with vanilla buttercream. The recipe doubles easily,...
Author: Martha Stewart
These jam-filled treats are a close cousin to thumbprint cookies.
Author: Martha Stewart
Author: Martha Stewart
Almond and chocolate work exceptionally well together -- especially when creating cookie dough swirls.
Author: Martha Stewart
Layers of different-colored dough are rolled into a log for these slice-and-bake rainbows. They're baked and halved into arcs while warm, then the lucky...
Author: Martha Stewart
These special cookies make a wonderful gift for the host of your next holiday party.
Author: Martha Stewart
These date-filled bars get their soft texture from applesauce; wheat flour and bran add wholesome notes.
Author: Martha Stewart
Author: Martha Stewart
Use this Gingerbread Cookie recipe when making our Gingercake House.
Author: Martha Stewart
Swap out the usual graham crackers for homemade cowboy cookies packed with oats, pecans, coconut, and dark chocolate -- they make an excellent canvas for...
Author: Martha Stewart
This recipe is used to make our Snow-Swept Gingerbread Cottage.
Author: Martha Stewart
Good old starlight mints top these decadent chocolate-chunk cookies off with a celebratory crunch. Melt the candies in the oven, press them flat by covering...
Author: Martha Stewart
Known as lady's kisses in Italian, baci di dama are traditional cookies from the Piedmont region of Northwest Italy that are often made with hazelnuts....
Author: Martha Stewart
In Guatemala, these crisp, buttery cookies rolled in sesame seeds are available from street vendors and in bakeries everywhere. They make a fine breakfast...
Author: Martha Stewart
Who doesn't buy extra Halloween candy? This year, use some in these festive icebox bars and throw a party.
Author: Martha Stewart
Thanks to colorful translucent candies, these cookies look like gorgeously intricate cut-glass windowpanes. use candies in festive hues and two sizes of...
These cups are perfect for serving Ricotta Ice Cream, Buttermilk Ice Cream, and Creme Fraiche Ice Cream.
Author: Martha Stewart
Children will get a big kick out of just one of these oversized glazed cookies, and adults will be amused by the play on words.
Author: Martha Stewart
'Tis the season to trim the tree--the sugar-cookie tree that is! Strands of melted white chocolate and a smattering of red candies mimic the appearance...
Author: Martha Stewart
The ingredients that have made rugelach a Hanukkah staple are present in this recipe, but in the shape of a bar cookie.
Author: Martha Stewart
Pecan cookies, shaped like half-moons, become even yummier when rolled in powdered sugar.
These cookies get tossed in confectioners' sugar and resemble little snowballs.
Author: Martha Stewart
These mini pumpkin whoopie pies make an ideal holiday treat.
Author: Martha Stewart
These sunny thumbprint cookies are a riff on classic Australian Lamingtons-small cubes of sponge cake layered with jam, dipped in chocolate, and coated...
Author: Greg Lofts
Filled with apricot (or other) jam, these macaroons are an excellent treat to serve after dinner at your next dinner party.
Author: Martha Stewart
Add nutty flavor and texture to basic shortbread dough with almond extract and ground almonds, then roll it out and cut into jaunty snowman shapes. A generous...
Author: Martha Stewart
Doctoring some of the batter with cocoa powder is the key to the bark-like appearance of these delicate cookies.
Author: Martha Stewart
To make the Woodlands Gingerbread House, use one batch of this dough to make the roof and chimneys, and one batch of Honey-Spice Gingerbread to make the...
Author: Martha Stewart
Want to learn how to make macarons? We've taken the guesswork out of making these patisserie beauties, so you can prepare them at home. Our foolproof macarons...
Author: Martha Stewart
Author: Martha Stewart
After all these years and thousands of holiday cookies, we still find stenciling to be one of the prettiest -- and easiest -- ways to decorate.
Author: Martha Stewart
Author: Martha Stewart
Portuguese for "married," casadinhos are bite-size sandwich cookies that are often served at weddings in Brazil. They're typically filled with dulce de...
Author: Martha Stewart
We split the batches of meringue to tint them separately with brown sugar and white sugar, then we tinted some of the latter pink, too. For uniform circles,...
Author: Martha Stewart
For an egg-shaped cookie cutter, you can start with an oval cutter and bend one end into a slight point.
Author: Martha Stewart
Pastry chef Judy Roll and baker Rebecca Martin make traditional Jewish rugelach with Martha.
Author: Martha Stewart
You probably have all the ingredients for these delicious peanut butter cookies on hand-especially if you're a peanut butter fan! For extra peanut butter...
Author: Martha Stewart
This recipe is excerpted from Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Baking Bible (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Author: Martha Stewart
Melted butterscotch candy fills the cutouts in these spooky chocolate cookies.
Author: Martha Stewart
This chocolate/vanilla shortbread uses the Basic Shortbread recipe as its base.
Author: Martha Stewart
Author: Martha Stewart
Enjoy all the toasty feels of s'mores, no campfire required, by making a few tweaks to a standard batch of puffed-rice-cereal bars.
Author: Martha Stewart
Look out Santa-squirrels and party guests alike will be tempted to grab one of these acorn-stamped Linzer cookies from your plate. Finely ground pecans...
Author: Shira Bocar
Strategically applied icing turns basic oval sugar cookies into marbleized masterpieces. Download templates one and two for decorating instructions.
Author: Martha Stewart
Brightly colored spice mixes and candy-coated seeds are offered after dinner in many Indian restaurants. We used a mix called red mukhwas to garnish our...
Author: Martha Stewart
The secret to the super-crisp texture here is cutting the dough into very thin rounds; coarse sanding sugar on top adds to their crunch.
Author: Martha Stewart
These buttery, crumbly yet tender shortbread thumbprints are filled with a lemon glaze that's tinted a lovely shade of pink with a single crushed raspberry....
Author: Martha Stewart