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Stained-Glass Teardrops

These are more window-like than your usual window cookies; using hard candies for the centers yields a thin, jewel-toned pane that shatters like glass when you bite into it.

Orange Cardamom Cookies

Want to shake up your cookie platter? Simply make a notch in two of these lightly spiced sugar cookies, then interlock them to create an edible sculpture that also makes a beautiful tree ornament.

Double Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

With their crisp chocolate wafers and ganache filling made from fine-quality white chocolate, these sandwich cookies are so much better than the supermarket version.

Soft Mustard Molasses Cookies

Putting Dijon mustard in the batter/dough of molasses cookies gives the homey, comforting cookie-jar cookies just enough of a bite to keep people coming back for more.

Pistachio Cranberry Icebox Cookies

It doesn’t get fancier or more Christmassy than these glittery-edged cookies sporting studs of red and green.

Rugelach

This very homey recipe for rugelach was handed down through 4 generations of food editor Melissa Roberts’s family.

Tiny Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies are an American icon, and these miniature ones achieve the perfect balance of flavor.

Buttermilk Cookies

The cookie of your dreams, with a tender interior and the slightest bit of crispness around the edge.

The contrast between the crisp cookie and gooey-sweet jam in these delicate almond cookies will keep guests coming back for more. And it takes less than 30 minutes of hands-on cooking time to whip up a batch.

Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies

Our love of lemon grows exponentially at the sight of these delightful melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies. It perfumes the tiny treats, which are put together with an easy icing that zings with zest and fresh lemon juice. Rolling them in brightly colored sanding sugar makes them sparkle like vintage Christmas ornaments.

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