Christmas Recipes & Ideas

One giant skillet sugar cookie cut into wedges and piped into a ring of Santa faces, plus the confectioners sugar measure the original recipe gets wrong.

A red dough log with a black belt baked right through it, sliced into Santa coats and piped white. Plus the log length the original recipe gets wrong.

Peanut butter cups and chocolate kisses stacked into piped green trees on frosted sugar cookies, no oven. Why cold chocolate makes the icing slide off.

Standing 3D sugar cookie trees slotted together and iced green with sprinkle snow. The yield line says six, but the dough and the method both say nine.

Big marbled blue and white sugar cookies hiding a melting marshmallow, crusted in sprinkles. Plus the unused ingredient and the wrong scoop size to fix.

Crisp Swiss meringue stacks with dipped chocolate hats and piped faces, naturally gluten free. Why one baking sheet will not hold the forty it promises.

Red peppermint shortbread pressed into one pan, topped with white chocolate, piped stripes and crushed mints. Why the chips scorch if you add them too soon.

A chocolate cookie slab under a poured white chocolate top and crushed mints, then broken like candy bark. The published timing leaves no room to cool it.

Red, white and green dough rolled into a striped slice and bake log, then edged in crunchy coarse sugar. The yield on the original page is off by half.

A buttery spiced sandwich cookie filled with rum cream, then finished with burnt sugar caramel and a bright citrus sugar. The slicing math needs a fix.