| Smoky Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies; Baci di Alassio; Chai-Spiced Snowdrops; Cinnamon Pretzels (Zimtbrezeln); Cornmeal Thumbprints With Tomato Jam; Crumbly Lemon Crème Bars; Dark Chocolate and Raspberry Cream Cheese Chewy Cookies; Dorie Greenspan’s Do-Almost-Anything Vanilla Cookie Dough; Dorie Greenspan’s Sour Cream Everything Seed Knots; Gingerbread Almond Nuggets (Biberle); Gingerbread Chocolate Chunk Biscotti; Gingerbread Panels; Halvah Fudge Bars; Holiday Gems; Jam and Coconut Meringue Cutouts; Masala Palmiers; Orange-Scented Olive Oil Cake; Pocky Sticks; Reindeer Gingersnaps; Salted Caramel Sandwich Cookies; | | | | | | | | | Goran Kosanovic for The Washington Post | | Smoky Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies | | Nutella lovers will appreciate the addition here of Spanish smoked paprika, which makes these cookies just different enough from the now-ubiquitous versions of salted Nutella cookies. | | Read more » |
| | Goran Kosanovic for The Washington Post | | Baci di Alassio | | These petite treats, made in the Italian town of Alassio in Liguria, are called kisses, perhaps because of the way the pairs of cookies meet, with only a touch of filling between them. | | Read more » |
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| | Dixie D. Vereen for The Washington Post | | Chai-Spiced Snowdrops | | This take on the Russian tea cookie or Mexican wedding cookie blends almond flour instead of chopped nuts into the crumb, and chai spices into the final confectioners’ sugar coating. | | Read more » |
| | | Crumbly Lemon Crème Bars | | This recipe comes from medal-winning U.S. volleyball player Lauren Gibbemeyer, and it combines the sweet-tart creaminess of lemon filling with a sturdy rolled-oats cookie base. | | Read more » |
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| | | Gingerbread Panels | | Centrolina pastry chef Amanda Cook has created a simple yet stunning project for this year's Holiday Cookies edition. | | Read more » |
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| | | Halvah Fudge Bars | | These unusual moist and fudgy bars may introduce pantry ingredients you haven't used before -- teff flour, date syrup and the dense sesame-paste candy called halvah -- but we're betting you'll find further uses for all of them. | | Read more » |
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| | | Jam and Coconut Meringue Cutouts | | These cookies start out crispy and crunchy, but their texture improves significantly by the next day; the time in the refrigerator causes them to soften and crack (which is a good thing). | | Read more » |
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| | | Reindeer Gingersnaps | | These are the cookies that kids will love to help decorate; they begin with a store-bought gingerbread mix, but you can certainly use your own favorite firm gingerbread recipe. | | Read more » |
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