Good Housekeeping Holiday Cookies : 100 Fun and Festive Treats to Enjoy Throughout the Season

Bake your best batch yet with 100+ holiday cookie recipes from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen that will come out perfect every time

There’s nothing better than a warm-from-the-oven cookie, especially during the holidays. The experts at the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen bake a thousand delightfully festive holiday cookies every year making sure they’ll all turn out perfectly in any home kitchen.

This special recipe collection offers a crunchy or chewy, or chocolatey cookie for everyone and it will inspire you to take your own baked goods to the next level! Inside, you’ll find: 

• 100 cookie recipes perfect for every occasion—from small to big batches 
• Good Housekeeping favorites like Linzer Stars, Holiday Spritz Cookies, Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, Fruitcake Crisps and more 
• The secrets of hosting the ultimate cookie swap, including wrapping and shipping hacks 
• Fun and entertaining info on traditional holiday cookies around the world
• Helpful decorating tips, like how to flood icing, creative flourishes for gingerbread houses

Whether you're baking a small batch for the family, a big batch for a cookie exchange, or simply putting a few out with milk for Santa, these cookies will make your holiday festivities a little sweeter.

Good Housekeeping is a leading lifestyle media brand offering genius innovations, delicious ideas, style-savvy trends, compelling news and best-in-class products for its 53+ million readers. Behind every recipe is an expert food and nutrition team that created, tested, tasted, and fine-tuned the dish until it was just right. 

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Kate Merker is the Chief Food Director of the Hearst Lifestyle Group, overseeing the team that produces food content for several Hearst titles, including Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Prevention, Woman’s Day and Country Living. She has clocked nearly 20 years of experience in food media and before that, worked at some of New York City’s finest restaurants.