7 yeast cookie dough recipes

Try this neat treat that is perfect for Christmas and is sure to bring family and friends together.

Traditional yeasted hamantaschen for Purim, a sweet egg-rich yeast dough folded into the iconic three-cornered hat shape around poppy seed or fruit filling. The Old World version, not cookie dough.

Cream cheese kolache dough made with butter, flour, egg yolk, and sugar. This no-yeast pastry dough chills overnight and rolls out flaky for filled cookies with prune, poppy seed, or apricot.

Nusskipferl are Austrian nut crescent cookies made with a buttery sour cream yeast dough rolled around a sweet ground almond and egg white filling, baked golden.

Old-world Czech kolachky yeast dough rolled in powdered sugar, filled with jam or cheese, and baked into delicate folded pastries. The classic Slavic holiday cookie.

Rustic sour cream yeast bread shaped into a flat round and baked free-form on a cookie sheet. Food processor dough with a tender, tangy crumb and sesame seed top.

Quick kolachky made with a tender sour cream and yeast dough, rolled thin on powdered sugar, filled and folded into delicate pinched squares. A classic Eastern European cookie finished in a snow of powdered sugar.