Cutout Cookie Recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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