A baker's dozen: Holiday cookie recipes

13 Recipes

A baker's dozen: Holiday cookie recipes

By Noelle Carter

Dec. 13, 2018

Whether you call them butterballs, tea cakes or wedding cookies, these nutty treats rolled in sugar are a holiday favorite.

The ultimate wedding cookie

1 hour

Makes about 5 dozen cookies

Banbury tarts

1 hour 15 minutes

Makes about 5 dozen cookies

Butter cookies

1 hour 15 minutes

Makes about 6 dozen (3- to 4-inch) cookies

Coffee-walnut cookies

1 hour

Makes about 5 1/2 dozen cookies

Czechoslovakian nut bars

1 hour 20 minutes

Makes 30 bars

Brown butter pecan shortbread

1 hour

Makes about 24 cookies

Gingerbread people

1 hour 30 minutes

Makes 3 1/2 dozen

Maple pecan pie bars, made from a recipe by Sharon Graves.

Maple pecan pie bars

1 hour 30 minutes

Makes 2 to 3 dozen bars, depending on size

Sugar and spice cookies, made with a recipe by Elizabeth Morner.

Sugar and Spice Cookie

45 minutes

Makes approximately 4 dozen cookies

Holiday kids cookies by Suki Wada.

Holiday kids cookies

1 hour

Makes about 2 ½ dozen (4-inch) cookies

Linzer cookies by Jessica Levy.

Vegan Linzer cookies

1 hour

This makes about 1½ dozen (2½ inch) cookies

LOS ANGELES, CA., SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 -- Culinary SOS request from Deer Valley Resort in Park City, UT. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Almond biscotti

3 hours

Makes 16 large biscotti

LOS ANGELES, CA., SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 -- Culinary SOS request from Deer Valley Resort in Park City, UT. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Hazelnut chocolate orange biscotti

4 hours 30 minutes

Makes 16 biscotti

Noelle Carter is the former Los Angeles Times Test Kitchen director. She left in January 2019.

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