11 Gift-Worthy Sweets to Give During the Holiday Season

Thumbprint cookies get their delicate crumb from almond flour and confectioners' sugar. Fill their little wells with warm marmalade or the jam of your choice.

Punctuated with black pepper, cinnamon, and coconut, this cashew brittle shatters lightly when you bite into it. That's all thanks to baking soda, which unleashes tiny air bubbles as it cooks.

What would the holidays be without a batch of flavorful, chewy sugar cookies? Shape the dough into a log, coat it in sugar, and then chill, slice, and bake. It doesn't get easier—or more delicious—that that.

Stuck in a blizzard but dreaming of the beach? These cookies will take you straight to the tropics. They're studded with dried papaya, spicy candied ginger, and pistachios for a crisp and chewy bite.

An homage to the Italian-American classic, these triple-deckers owe their subtle hues to matcha powder and pulverized freeze-dried raspberries, and their unique flavor to ground hazelnuts.

These flawless Christmas confections are a cumulus cloud of meringue full of glacéed cherries, candied citron, and pecans. They look like individual snow mounds peppered with eye-catching warm hues.

Packed with chopped semi-sweet chocolate and rolled in sanding sugar for sweet sparkle, these are a sweet and spicy upgrade to a classic chocolate chip cookie. We have another version laced with cocoa, embossed with a cookie stamp, and brushed with an orange-butter glaze. What could be better than a dash of holidays?

Whimsical and warm, these cinnamon, sugar, and chocolate cookies make a fun and delicious gift. They're like an amped up snickerdoodle and we can't get enough.

These adorable acorns are easy to create and fun to eat—make a simple meringue, then pipe and bake. After they're cooled, dip them in melted chocolate and pistachios.

Here's a fun take on gingerbread men cookies. Instead of cutting into individual shapes and outfitting with facial features and accessories, cut the dough into large rectangles and pipe royal icing to resemble an envelope.

Powdered sugar-dusted cookies are a classic during the holidays. Nutty homemade brown butter and tart lemon juice and zest are the special ingredients we didn't know these cookies needed (but they so do).