57 cut out cookie recipes

Classic Christmas cut-out sugar cookies with clean edges that hold their shape. A simple butter-and-shortening dough that rolls thin, bakes crisp, and takes royal icing like a dream.

Classic Christmas cut-out cookies that hold their shape, with cornstarch in the dough for a tender bite and crisp edges. Roll, cut into festive shapes, bake golden, and decorate with icing.

Ginger bread is one of the classic and traditional cookies people make for Christmas. The rich flavor from brown sugar and molasses is so good and the spices make the uniquely delicious taste.

THese made the rounds in our neighborhood this holiday season. Everyone wanted the recipe.

Simple cookie frosting made with powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and cream that pipes smoothly for decorating sugar cookies and cut-out cookies.

Mini nut tarts with a flaky cream cheese crust and a brown sugar pecan or walnut filling. Bite-sized pecan-tassie style cookies that bake in mini muffin tins for holiday cookie trays.

This is an all-purpose filling that can be used for cookies, bars, etc. I use it most often to fill hamantaschen. Extremely simple and delicious.

Crisp nut cookies sandwiched together with a raspberry filling, which peeks through the cutout in the top cookie.

These delicious cookies are made with a mixture of dried fruits, chocolate chips, ground flax seeds, whole wheat flour, oats, and walnuts. They are packed with goodness and yumminess. A quick grab-and-go breakfast, or a wholesome snack whenever you feel hungry before the meal time.

Quaker Choc-Oat-Chip Cookies blend rolled oats, brown sugar, and semi-sweet chocolate chips into a chewy back-of-the-canister classic. Bake 9 minutes for soft centers or 13 for crisp edges.

Chocolate, butter and peanut butter make these cookies super delicious!

Cranberries and pistachios are the complementary flavors of this cookie recipe submitted by Jane Bortz of Beaver Dam.

Three-ingredient meringue cookies loaded with chopped pecans and brown sugar. These featherlight kisses bake in just 5 minutes and make 30 bite-sized treats from a single egg white.

Bomma's heirloom date nut cookies made with beaten egg whites, chopped dates, and pecans. No butter needed! Light, chewy, and naturally sweet. Makes 60 cookies.

Coconut haystack cookies with chopped dates and walnuts, bound by a meringue-style egg white and sugar base then baked golden. Chewy, crunchy, and naturally flour-free.

Apple-carrot muffins with grated Granny Smith apple, fresh carrot, oats, raisins, and Grape-Nuts for crunch. Healthy egg-white muffins that taste like dessert.