Cutout Cookie Recipes

Whether you’re baking for the holidays or, well, any day, these cutout cookie recipes are here to satisfy your sweet tooth. Find our best recipes, tips and more.

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    Sugar Star & Flag Cookies

    I volunteer with a group that bakes treats for military personnel serving overseas. We really like to send these soft...


    Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies

    Cream cheese helps create the rich, melt-in-your-mouth taste of these perfect cookies. Forget any other sugar cookie recipe-this is the...


    Snowflake Cookie Ornaments

    Your cookie trays will twinkle with these festive snowflake cookies. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen


    Penguin Cutouts

    Your children can help decorate these cute Christmas cookies. It’s a memory-making way to get them involved in the kitchen....


    Gingerbread Crisp Cutouts

    My grandsons started cooking by helping their grandpa mix up waffle and pancake batter. They also liked to make these...


    Gingerbread Sandwich Trees

    Fun and festive, these cookie sandwich trees will be a huge hit with kids of all ages. They're a super-cute...


    Chocolate Skeleton Cookies

    Put these cute treats out for your next ghost and goblin party and watch them disappear.--Lisa Rupple, Keenesburg, Colorado


    Lemon Curd Cookies

    I've made these cookies for years. I like to give them out to family and friends. —Carole Vogel, Allison Park,...

    Chocolate Heart Cookies

    For a dramatic presentation, I dust dessert plates with cocoa powder and drizzle on a bit of melted raspberry fruit...


    Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

    Make sour cream sugar cookies for the most tender, melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies you’ve ever had.


    Scalloped Mocha Cookies

    I tore this recipe out of a magazine many years ago, and they are one of my most requested cookie....


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    Christmas Cutout Cookies

    Decorate artful Christmas cutout cookies for a cookie exchange or to leave out for Santa. Here's how to make them...


    Best-Ever Sugar Cookies

    What makes these cookies the best ever? A delicious cream cheese dough flavored with vanilla, almond and a hint of...


    Black-Eyed Susan Cookies

    Black-eyed Susans attract butterflies when planted in masses, and you'll draw a crowd when you make these "conversation" cookies. They...


    Nice ‘n’ Soft Sugar Cookies

    My family’s all-time favorite Christmas cookie has had a million shapes over the years. Little ones have fun making their...


    Grandma’s Favorite Sugar Cookies

    “Whenever company came to our house, my mother would bring out a batch of her sugar cookies,” says Ann DeHass,...


    Minty Ice Cream Shamrocks

    With a soft, chewy chocolate cookie and festive mint shamrock ice cream, these fun desserts are a sweet delight on...

    Never-Fail Cutout Cookies

    I have tried numerous recipes for cutout cookies over the years—this one is foolproof. My daughter and my granddaughter love...


    Butterscotch Gingerbread Cookies

    Every time I make these wonderful cookies, the spicy aroma takes me back to my childhood. I helped Mom make...


    Sand Dollar Cookies

    Before the military relocated our family, my children had never lived near the ocean. I came up with this special...


    Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

    It's so much fun to decorate cookies with children's help. We created gingery moose-shaped cookies to go with a book...


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    S’mookies

    S'mores are one of my favorite desserts. I wanted to create a cookie to replace the graham cracker—that's when my...


    Great-Grandma’s Oatmeal Cookies

    This yummy cookie—a favorite of my husband's—goes back to my great-grandmother. At Christmastime, we use colored sugar for a festive...

    Cottage Cheese Cookies

    These delicate, puffy turnover cookies are sparked with raspberry and almond—delightful with afternoon tea.


    Halloween Cutout Cookies

    Creativity and Christmas cookie cutters come together for these fun Halloween cookies kids will go batty for. —Taste of Home...


    Speculaas

    Want something a little more elevated than gingerbread cookies this year? Spicy Dutch speculaas are just the thing.


    Easy Bizcochitos

    Bizcochitos, with their wonderful citrus and spice flavors, are special cookies we look forward to each year. It just isn't...


    Caramel-Apple Shortbread Cookies

    There is nothing like seeing my friends almost melt to the floor when they bite into something I made. These...


    Chocolate Coconut Oaties

    There are those nights when you just need a sweet treat. I hit the pantry and improvised this recipe on...