Our All-Time Favourite Holiday Cookies

While shortbread is often chilled and cut into holiday shapes using cookie cutters, the dough can also be pressed into a pan and scored into pieces, rolled into balls or shaped into a log and sliced. One simple recipe can easily yield three or more different cookies that look as though you spent hours baking. Here are three of our favourite variations, made using one recipe: Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Bars, Shortbread Snowballs, and Vanilla, Cranberry and Clementine Shortbread Cookies.