25 cut out cookie recipes

Creamy shrimp and pistachio spread made with blended cottage cheese, lemon juice, and onion powder. A no-cook appetizer for crackers or chips that chills in an hour.

Oversized peanut butter pizza cookies topped with chocolate frosting, cashews, candy pieces, coconut, gumdrops, and a white chocolate drizzle. A fun decorating project for kids.

Cut-out sugar cookies for baby showers, weddings, or any holiday. A buttery, vanilla-and-cream rolled dough that holds shape through the oven for clean, decoratable cookies.

Chocolate butter cookie dough adds melted unsweetened and semi-sweet chocolate to a master holiday butter cookie recipe. Roll, cut, and shape it into pinwheels, classic cut-outs, Linzer sandwiches, or sugar-coated crescents.

Nut butter cookie dough folds toasted, finely ground pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, or almonds into a master holiday butter cookie base. Shape it into Linzer cookies, Viennese crescents, cut-outs, or thumbprints.

Flat cat cookies, the gleefully gruesome Halloween treat. Roll out refrigerated sugar cookie dough, cut roadkill cat shapes, add red candy eyes and a drizzle of jam blood. Easy enough for kids.

Holiday master butter cookie dough combines flour, cornstarch, and creamed butter into a tender, rollable base for cut-outs, Linzers, thumbprints, and pinwheels. Chills up to 3 days or freezes up to 6 months.

Halloween spiderweb cookies decorate sugar cookies with white flooded icing and black piped concentric circles, then drag a toothpick to create perfect web patterns. Show-stopping party cookies for kids and adults.

Inspired by 1986 winner almond thumbprint cookies recipe, we came out an idea to make this low fat and low calorie version. The cookies came out absolutely delicious, but have a lot less fat and calories than original recipe. It definitely proves that healthy food can be also tasted good.