Sweet and delicate, these melt-in-your-mouth cookies are the highlight of the holiday season. Whether you’re looking to bake classic sugar cookies with royal icing or want to try a tasty new twist, we’ve got the perfect sugar cookie recipe just for you.
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Sugar Cookies
Holiday baking has never been easier thanks to this quick and easy recipe for delightful sugar cookies. You can’t go wrong with a classic!
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Hot Chocolate Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
You don’t need baking chocolate to whip up these fudgy sandwich cookies. A little leftover hot chocolate mix will give you all the rich, sweet flavours you desire. Bonus: the dough freezes super well, for convenient slice-and-bake cookies in a snap.
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Angel Sugar Cookies
These delicate, ultra-crumbly cookies are simply heavenly. Sprinkle coloured sugar before you bake for easy and elegant decoration.
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Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
A pre-decorated chocolate sugar cookie, these peppermint swirls are rich yet refreshing, and practically sparkle on your cookie platter. They’re the homemade solution to store-bought slice-and-bake varieties.
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Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
There’s nothing like a fresh batch of good old-fashioned classically-shaped sugar cookies decorated in royal icing with red and green spinkles to put you in the holiday spirit.
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Swedish Christmas Cookies
This holiday, bring a tasty and traditional Swedish cookie to your dessert platter with this super simple recipe. Use holiday hues for the sugar coating to make them more festive.
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Snickerdoodle Cookies
This twist on the classic sugar cookie has a crunchy exterior but with a chewy and tender middle, with a hint of spice.
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Lumberjack Cookies
You don’t need to be a lumberjack to enjoy these soft and sweet plaid sugar cookies!
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Peppermint Sugar Cookies
This is a great, simple dough to make up a batch of holiday cookies peppered with crushed candy canes and have your kids decorate them.
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Dulce de Leche Mini Tortes
A dessert you can assemble in a pinch, delicate sugar cookies are layered with generous spoonfuls of dulce de leche in this delicious recipe from Anna Olson.
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Sweetheart Tarts
These mini sugar cookie cups, filled with raspberry jam and syrupy dark cherries, look fancy but are a cinch to make. Make the cookie dough in advance, so you can bake them with ease (read: less than 30 minutes) for your next potluck.
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Cardamom Sugar Cookies
Cardamom is a wonderful aromatic spice to kick up the flavour in these simple sugar cookies. Sprinkle sugar or glaze them, or do both for an even more beautiful presentation.
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Sugar Cookies
Use this sugar cookie recipe as a base, and top with your favourite icing, sprinkled, candy and more.
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Icing Sugar Cookies
Icing sugar gives this cookie a tender, sandy texture that melts on your tongue.
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Citrus Chai Spice Sugar Cookies
Citrus and chai masala spice take these regular sugar cookies up a notch.
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Maple Cookies with Maple Glaze
Maple-flavoured sugar cookies are topped with a sweet maple glaze.
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Spiced Sugar Cookies
Use your food processor to whip up this light and tasty cookie dough in a flash. Bake them in advance and keep the kids busy decorating them!.