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To us, the holiday season will always mean two things: watching Love Actually on repeat and baking cookies. And while we’d never want to play favorites with our holiday treats, we have a special place in our heart for the traditional sugar cookie. It’s delicious, nearly impossible to mess up and endlessly adaptable (the more sprinkles the merrier). Here are 50 of our favorite recipes.
Master the basics, then the possibilities are endless.
Like a candy cane in soft, buttery, cream-cheese-frosted form.
Use red and green sprinkles to get into the holiday spirit.
We love the hint of Sunday morning pancakes in this glaze.
No rolling pin necessary—these drop right on to the cookie sheet.
Everything you love about eggnog….with no risk of a drunk uncle ruining your holiday party.
The only thing better than a peanut butter cup? One wrapped in a sugar cookie.
Crushed, melted Jolly Ranchers are the secret to the colorful windowpanes on these showstoppers.
Way better than those tubes you buy in the grocery store.
So much easier than baking a million trays of cookies.
This dough is super easy to work with and always keeps its shape.
Talk about multitasking: use extra refrigerator pie dough to make these sweet treats.
Don’t worry, we’d never forget the cream cheese frosting.
There are two cookie camps: thin and crispy, and soft and fluffy. If you’re in the second, look no further—this is the recipe for you.
Like peppermint bark, but with a whole cookie underneath.
Enlist the kids to help roll out these colorful pinwheels.
Perfect for decorating, with just an extra hint of holiday spice.
Sub in store-bought jam if you’re pressed for time.
The whole-wheat flour gives these guys great texture.
Visions of these are constantly dancing through our heads.
The surprise ingredient in these elegant cookies? Sour cream.
You don’t need to chill the dough before rolling it out, making it the perfect choice if you’re pressed for time.
Pumpkin puree acts as an egg substitute—we swear, you’ll never notice.
A double-chocolate take on traditional peanut-butter-kiss cookies.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged: brown butter makes any recipe better.
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