Top 10 Christmas Cookies

These delicate and tender cookies are the essence of Christmas. Make decorating them a family affair! Make the dough one day and chill it, then roll them out and bake the next, and finally get everyone together with bowls of frosting and candies to enjoy decorating.

These gorgeous little cookies are fussy to make, but once again you can break up the work and make them over a couple of days. The rich butter dough topped with frosting and candies makes one of the best cookies ever.

I have to make these cookies every year for my husband's family. The brown sugar dough gets crisp around the edges, and the mint candy inside melts just enough to add a texture contrast.

What could be better than chocolate and peanut butter? Believe it or not, add some dates! These chewy and creamy little candies are just wonderful. I forgot to make them last year, and we really missed them!

This classic cookie is my husband's favorite. The original recipe was too dry, so in this version I reduced the flour and chill the dough. The cookies are soft and chewy, just perfect! Try making them with the new flavors of chocolate kisses, especially the peanut butter swirl. Yum.

It's hard to believe that these crunchy and crisp little cookies use just five ingredients. They're rich and delicious, and the chocolate topping is the perfect addition.

These little cookies are like turtle candy in bar form. They're easy to make, as long as you remember to cook the butter and sugar mixture until it comes together and forms a syrup. The buttery shortbread crust is a really nice addition to the chocolate and caramel.

These little cookies are a German Christmas classic. They are very simple cookies, but special because they're made with a cookie press. The secret to making these cookies is to have the dough well-chilled, and use cool, ungreasy cookie sheets.

After making these for years as a sandwich cookie, I tried a new way. Don't make them into sandwich cookies! Shape and bake the cookies just as directed, but just frost the tops with the browned butter frosting. This gives you a better cookie/frosting ratio and also yields twice the number of cookies!