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These Heart-Shaped Shortbread Cookies have a rich buttery flavor, a lightly crisp texture, and a white chocolate glaze that adds the perfect touch of sweetness and flavor. We love these for Valentine's Day, but they also make great gifts and treats throughout the year. This image has the cookies stacked and plated in the center of the image with additional sprinkles and cookies surrounding the image.

Heart Shaped Shortbread Cookies

This White Chocolate Popcorn Valentine's mix is a cheerful, sweet, and crunchy treat. Drizzled in white chocolate and mixed with M&Ms and sprinkles, the popcorn is highly addictive, easy to make, and perfect for Valentine's parties, movie nights, and gifting. Here the popcorn mix is being served in a Valentine's Day paper cup with hearts on a tray in the center of the image, with additional m&Ms, popcorn cups, sprinkles, and the bowl of popcorn in the background.

White Chocolate Popcorn Valentine’s Mix

Here are our favorite Christmas cookie and candy recipes from 2025. With toffee, bark, cookies, and Christmas desserts, we have lots of ideas to share for your Christmas baking and gifting this year. In this overhead image, the cookies and candy are arranged in a 6 container wooden box.

Christmas Cookies Box Ideas

These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat. This image is an overhead shot of the iced cookies close together on a plate.

Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing

This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, its a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate. In this image, a piece of the Caramel Pretzel Bark is leaning in front of a stack of the bark in the center of the frame with pretzels, peanuts and other bark pieces in the foreground and background.

Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark

We make these Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze every holiday season. Made in a half sheet pan, they make a beautiful dessert for a larger crowd or make an easy Christmas gift. The tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond icing drizzle are a delicious combination, and they are easy to prepare. In this image, a cherry bar is plated in the center of the image with a bite taken, showing the inside tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond drizzle up close. Plated bars are in the background.

Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze

This Maple Pecan Pie without Corn Syrup has the buttery, nutty, gooey filling you expect from pecan pie but with an added depth of flavor from maple syrup. Made with mostly maple syrup, some honey for thickening, and a touch of maple extract, each bite of the pecan pie has a hint of maple which beautifully compliments the roasted, sweetened pecans. Here in the center of the image is a slice of pecan pie with a bite taken out of the front with the pie and an additional slice in the background. Maple syrup and pecans are in the foreground and background as well.

Maple Pecan Pie without Corn Syrup

This Coconut Cream Pie with Coconut Milk, made with part coconut milk and half-and half, is my husband's favorite pie. We have made it for countless birthdays and holidays, and truthfully, it is always a favorite for guests and family. It has a dreamy, creamy custard with coconut flavor that shines through from the coconut milk, sweetened coconut flakes in the custard, and toasted coconut flakes sprinkled on top. Here the pie is in the pan in the center of the image, and has been sliced into to see the creamy filling of the pie. Slices of the pie are in the background.

Coconut Cream Pie with Coconut Milk

These Pecan Tassies with Honey have a buttery cream cheese crust and a rich, gooey pecan filling. They are bite-sized treats that taste like mini pecan pies and are a perfect addition to any holiday dessert platter. In this image, the tassies are arranged on a plate in the center of the image with a plate and platter of tassies in the background and some finely chopped pecans in the foreground and background.

Pecan Tassies with Honey