Deck the Halls With Holiday Cookies! Our Favorite Recipes and Ideas

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3-in-1 Easy Holiday Cookies

If there's one holiday baking tip everyone needs to hear, it's this: Work smarter, not harder. The holidays are hectic enough. Your holiday baking plans should add to the joy of the season, not the frustration. So, get more bang for your baking by whipping up a recipe that gives you three times the cookies for one times the work.

For Yo's 3-in-1 Easy Holiday Cookies, you'll make one batter. Then, split it in three and add three separate mix-ins. Mix the first batch with crushed candy cane and dark chocolate chunks, the second with milk chocolate chips, pecans, and dried cranberries, and the third with ground coffee, chopped Skor bars, white chocolate chips, and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Because all three batches are made from the same batter, they all bake at the same temperature. So, there's no need to worry about separate cookie sheets or separate baking times.

When these cookies are warm and gooey and fresh out of the oven, you can sneak one (or two or three) of each flavor. Then, wrap the rest up and give them to everyone on your gift list. You'll look like a holiday superhero for baking three different holiday cookies — no one needs to know how easy it was.

Get the recipe for these easy holiday cookies from Yo's FREE Holiday Baking Basics Program. This program contains 16 step-by-step video tutorials covering all of Yo's favorite holiday recipes. Since it's free, all you have to do is click the sign up button. It doesn't get any easier than that.

Iced Holiday Sugar Cookies

Sometimes, you have to acknowledge the classics, and it doesn't get any more classic than holiday sugar cookies.

Yo's Sugar Cookie Dough is sweet and simple. It bakes up with a soft center, and makes the perfect base for cookie cutter shapes and elaborate icing.

If you think everything's better with chocolate, first of all, AGREED. Second, we've got you covered with Yo's Chocolate Sugar Cookie Dough. It will give you a similar texture to her classic sugar cookies, but with added chocolate. Mmmmm … chocolate. Make both batters to create two sweet backgrounds for your cookie creations.

You can finish your holiday sugar cookies with a simple dusting of holiday sprinkles, or you can go all out with an elaborate royal icing design. If you don't have a design in mind, we have a few suggestions.

Learn to pipe classic Christmas characters like Santa Clause, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Buddy the Elf, and Frosty the Snowman. Create adorable holiday animals who are up to some holiday mischief. Or, stack layers of sugar cookies and make Christmas cracker cookies with a surprise center.

Learn all this and more by signing up for one of our holiday baking tutorials!

Holiday Cakies

If you're looking for a unique holiday cookie idea, prepare to have your mind blown: Sandwich cake between your cookies. We'll give it a second for that to sink in.

This revolutionary cookie creation is a Yo original, and you can get step-by-step instructions in her FREE Holiday Baking Program, but we'll walk you through the essentials.

To make your cakies, start with cookies. You can whip up your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, make Yo's 3-in-1 recipe, or just grab those holiday cookies the neighbor gave you.

Next, add some cake. Again, your favorite cake recipe will do, but we like to use Yo's Ultimate Chocolate Cake dressed up for the holidays. (In her free baking program, she'll show you how to transform it into a holiday cake with crushed candy cane or candied ginger.)

Cut your cake into a circle that's a bit smaller than your cookies. Then sandwich the cake between two cookies with a bit of buttercream — perhaps, this White Chocolate Candy Cane Buttercream. Spread more buttercream around the outside of the cake, between the cookies.

What you have will look like an ice cream sandwich — only better because this version doesn't melt. Roll the outside of the buttercream in some crushed candy bars or candy cane, and voilà! You have yourself a Holiday Cakie.

Holiday Macarons

If you're feeling posh this holiday, this fancy French cookie may as well have a gift tag with your name on it.

But before you can make your holiday macarons, you'll have to perfect your macaronage — the delicate batter that gives these cookies their chewy texture — and there's a science to it. Like, a real science. Yale's science magazine wrote a whole article on the chemistry that goes into this not-so-humble cookie.

But have no fear! Your holiday helper is here.

Our favorite confectionery expert, Jyoti Nanra, is sharing all her macaron-making expertise in her live holiday macaron tutorial. With Jyoti's techniques, you can make perfect macarons with shiny tops, crispy outsides, and chewy insides — no Yale degree required.

Add a bit of edible gold leaf to the top, and these elegant cookies will make beautiful holiday gifts. Plus, you'll save a bundle in your holiday budget when you make your macarons yourself.

These are one of the priciest cookies you can buy in stores. The average macaron costs between $2 and $4 (and the world's most expensive macaron is nearly $10,000!) — Jyoti's holiday macaron tutorial costs less than a dozen store-bought macarons. And since you can take the class once and make macarons forever, it truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

🍪🎅 PUT THE YAY IN YOUR HOLIDAY COOKIES 🎅🍪

Whether you want to make easy holiday cookies or master the finicky French macaron, we're here for you with all the holiday baking inspo you need this season.

You can get 16 of Yo's favorite holiday recipes for free by signing up for her Holiday Baking Basics Program. You'll get access to step-by-step video tutorials for cakes, icings, cookies, cakies, and more!

Or, you can carve out some time for yourself during the hectic holiday season by signing up for a live holiday baking tutorial. Master macarons, royal icing, or delicate piping with help from an expert baker.

Whatever you end up baking this season, we hope it makes you merry!