The Very Best Cookie Recipes for Shipping

It's never been so easy to decorate sugar cookies: simply roll soft-and-chewy sugar cookie dough in crushed peppermint candies for instant holiday vibes.

Crisp, spicy gingerbread rectangles magically transform into sweet letters to Santa with just a little bit of royal icing.

These divinely decadent morsels, packed with dried sour cherries, apricots, cranberries, and currants; spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, and doused with Cognac will make you forget every fruitcake joke you've heard.

Chewy coconut cookies with a swirl of fudgy filling will become an instant holiday classic in your family.

Slice-and-bake butter cookies are flavored with nutmeg, vanilla, and lemon, and rolled in sparkly sanding sugar for the perfect festive finish.

Simple butter cookies take on a holiday dimension with tart, chewy dried cranberries in the mix.

Biscotti very well may be the perfect holiday cookie: They're easy to make, keep for months, and are endlessly customizable with the fruits, nuts, chocolates you love best. These biscotti are studded with dried papaya, crystallized ginger, and pistachios and just might be our most colorful biscotti recipe yet. Don't forget the secret to biscotti success: Always use a serrated bread knife for slicing!

Irresistibly chewy molasses spice cookies get the holiday glow-up from semisweet chocolate chunks.

Just like Grandma used to make… but better, thanks to the addition of pumpkin purée and extra holiday spices.

You won't believe how easy it is to dress up these chocolate-chunk cookies with some holiday magic: just melt old-fashioned starlight peppermints in the oven and attach those fanciful swirls with a bit of melted white chocolate.

Cocoa, espresso, and crunchy cacao nibs bring the sophistication to sweet, buttery shortbread.

These are no ordinary peanut butter cookies! Oats add a toasty flavor and chewy texture, and the sweet peanut butter filling doubles your peanutty pleasure.