67 of the Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
Christmas cookies are one of the best parts of the holiday season! Check out this huge list of 67 Christmas cookie recipes from classic recipes to new tastes you’ll love!
If you’re looking for new holiday cookie ideas this list is for you! Whether you are looking for a new recipe to add to your Christmas baking list or you are looking for a classic simple cookie recipe we’ve got you covered. This list has fun festive cookies like ugly sweater cookies and melted snowman cookies and classics like gingerbread men cookies or raspberry thumbprint cookies.
These recipes are awesome for a cookie swap, adding to a cookie table, gifting to friends or just enjoying all season long. Add some Christmas cheer to you holiday season with these amazing holiday cookie recipes!
1
Candy Cane Cookies
These classic Christmas cookies are festive, fun, and delicious! Full of peppermint taste, soft, and buttery, these candy cane cookies will become a family tradition!
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Hot Chocolate Cookies
These hot chocolate cookies are so delicious! A soft, tender chocolate cookie topped with chocolate frosting and mini marshmallows!
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Peppermint Bark Cookies
Peppermint bark is a delicious combination of chocolate, white chocolate and peppermint. These peppermint bark cookies combine all of those classic and delicious flavors into a buttery soft cookie that everyone loves! Perfect for holidays or with a cup of hot chocolate!
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Delicious Toffee Cookies
You can't beat buttery soft cookies full of crunchy sweet bits of toffee! These toffee cookies are easy to make and absolutely delicious. They are perfect for the holidays or any time of year!
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Slice and Bake Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies are a classic that everyone loves! This slice and bake recipe is super easy and makes a buttery tender cookie that is perfect for frosting, sprinkles or just the way they are!
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Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
These red velvet crinkle cookies are soft and fudgy, with the amazing classic taste of red velvet cake but in cookies! A beautiful red color coated with sweet powdered sugar they are perfect for Valentine's Day, Christmas, or any time!
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Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies
These soft chewy pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies are great for fall! Delicious pumpkin cookie dough is rolled in a cinnamon-sugar mixture to create the perfect cookies!
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Orange Cranberry Cookies
These cranberry orange cookies are a soft buttery cookie that is bursting with orange flavor and tangy cranberries. They are the perfect cookie for the holiday season or any time of the year!
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Red Velvet Thumbprint Cookies
Red velvet thumbprint cookies are the perfect tender, buttery cookie with a hint of chocolate filled with a cheesecake filling. They are the perfect blend of red velvet flavors in a delicious cookie form!
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Grinch Thumbprint Cookies
These Grinch thumbprint cookies are a delicious, buttery cookie that is filled with a sweet vanilla frosting. Perfect for a family movie night, holiday parties or a cookie exchange!
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Cheesecake Thumbprint Cookies
Cheesecake thumbprint cookies are the perfect blend of a tender, buttery cookie filled with a sweet creamy cheesecake filling. They are a simple and delicious cookie that everyone loves!
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Grinch Crinkle Cookies
These Grinch crinkle cookies are a delicious soft, minty cookies that are perfect for the holiday season! Whether you're watching your favorite holiday movie, having a Christmas party or cookie exchange these cookies are always a hit!
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Pistachio Icebox Cookies
These pistachio icebox cookies are delicious, easy slice and bake cookies that are perfect for any occasion. Tender, buttery and full of flavor these cookies are always a favorite!
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Secret Kiss Cookies
Secret kiss cookies are a delicious mix of rich chocolate kisses surrounded in a tender delicious cookie! These delicious cookies are rolled in sweet powdered sugar for the perfect finish!
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Pudding Sugar Cookies
Pudding sugar cookies are a delicious soft chewy sugar cookie with the perfect rich vanilla flavor. Made with instant vanilla pudding mix these soft sugar cookies are perfect on their own or topped with rich frosting and sprinkles!
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Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Christmas sprinkle cookies are a fun and festive way to celebrate the holidays! These soft vanilla cookies are coated with white, red and green sprinkles for a tasty and colorful holiday treat!
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Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies
These festive Christmas chocolate chip cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday. Soft, chewy, and full of chocolate chips and M&Ms these will be your new favorite Christmas cookie!
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Christmas Tree Meringues
These light and airy Christmas tree meringues are a festive and delicious addition to your holiday celebrations! Made with basic ingredients these cute cookies are easy and delicious!
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Easy Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are a classic that everyone loves! These easy cookies are a delicious soft buttery dough filled with sweet jam for a delicious flavor that everyone loves!
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Classic No Bake Cookies
These fudgy delicious cookies are full of oatmeal and the classic combination of peanut butter and chocolate into an irresistible no bake treat.
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21
Dipped Oreo Snowman Cookies
No bake dipped Oreo snowman cookies are a fun and simple activity with a delicious reward! You’ll want them all winter long.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, fluffy, and full of chocolate and peanut butter! These are the thickest and softest cookies ever!
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe – See Mom Click
Secrets to the best Chocolate Crinkle Cookies recipe. Make the dough the night before. Keep them frozen until ready to eat, more!
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, fluffy, and full of chocolate and peanut butter! These are the thickest and softest cookies ever!
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Dipped Oreo Snowman Cookies
No bake dipped Oreo snowman cookies are a fun and simple activity with a delicious reward! You’ll want them all winter long.
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Melted Snowman Cookies
This Melted Snowman Cookies recipe is an easy and fun way to build sweet snowmen out of sugar cookies instead of snow. It’s as simple as combining a cookie mix with 2 ingredients and in mere minutes you can create the cutest cold weather figure that celebrates Christmas in food form! Perfect for you…
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Best Spritz Cookies
Spritz cookies look so impressive, but they are super easy to make using a cookie press. Learn the best cookie press recipe + tips for spritz cookie-making!
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Snowman Cookies
These Snowman Cookies are so fun! Cake mix cookies are topped with vanilla buttercream, then decorated like your favorite frosty friend.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
Every cookie exchange needs these peanut butter blossoms. The cookies are a holiday classic and turn out perfectly soft and chewy every time!
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Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
Cream Cheese Spritz cookies are soft and tender buttery Spritz cookies that have been colored and decorated in red and green for Christmas.
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The Best Snowball Cookies Recipe
These easy Snowball Cookies are an old fashioned, butter cookie with pecans that are dipped in powdered sugar. They’re an elegant treat to enjoy any time of the year and to add to your Holiday season baking!
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Brown Butter Chai Spice Cookies
These brown butter chai spice cookies are soft, chewy, and drizzled with vanilla bean glaze for extra flavor!
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These brown butter chocolate chunk cookies are the perfect rich buttery cookies, packed full of melty chocolate in each bite! I’ve made brown butter for cookies a few times, but this is my first time
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Ugly Sweater Christmas Cookies DIY
Are you looking to bring a cute hostess gift to your Ugly Christmas Sweater party? How adorable are these unique and yummy ugly christmas sweater cookies?
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Soft Gingerbread Cookies
Soft Gingerbread Cookies are full of warm gingerbread flavor and decorated with easy vanilla icing. This is a tried and true recipe that’s a must for the Christmas cookie tray!
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Best Soft Gingerbread Cookies
These Soft Gingerbread Cookies are the best gingerbread cookies ever! They have crispy edges with soft and chewy centers and are perfectly spiced! Plus they are so easy to make!
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Christmas Wreath Cookies
Christmas wreath cookies are an incredibly easy Christmas cookie with just six simple ingredients! It’s like a rice crispy treat with corn flakes and marshmallows and bright green color that stands out at any Christmas cookie exchange!
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Santa Nutter Butter Cookies
Santa Nutter Butter Cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie exchange. Peanut nut nutter butter cookies are dipped in chocolate and made to look like Santa! It’s a cute treat the kids love!
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Italian Ricotta Christmas Cookies
Pillowy soft Italian Christmas Cookies are dipped in a sweet sugar glaze then topped with colorful sprinkles. They are the perfect festive treat for the holidays!
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Christmas Cake Mix Cookies
These Christmas Cake Mix Cookies are soft and chewy cookies that are filled to the brim with white chocolate chips and M&M’s.
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How To Make Easy Stained Glass Cookies
Stained glass cookies are so fun to bake and eat. These soft sugar cookies have a festive gummy candy center that you can see right through.
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The Cutest Gnome Cookie Cups! – Just is a Four Letter Word
With only 4 ingredients you can make these adorable frosted Gnome cookies with strawberries. Perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange!
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43
Nutter Butter Reindeer Cookies
These Nutter Butter reindeer are easy to make and only need 5 ingredients and a few minutes to put together.
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White Chocolate Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
These White Chocolate Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies are so delish, they may just get you bumped right to the top of Santa’s nice list!
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Christmas Sugar Cookies
These decorated Christmas Sugar Cookies will turn your kitchen into a winter wonderland. With whimsical shapes and festive colors, they’re the perfect way to celebrate the holidays with the family.
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46
Anise Pizzelle Recipe (Classic Christmas Cookies) Savoring The Good®
One of my favorite Christmas cookie recipe is my grandmother’s anise pizzelle recipe. Golden brown, thin and crispy pizzelles are a MUST for any holiday cookie tray.
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Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies are a fun and festive sweet treat. These fun-colored cookies will look amazing on the holiday dessert table.
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Red Velvet Snowball Cookies
Red Velvet Snowball Cookies are such a fun and festive twist on this classic! With their chocolate flavor and deep red interior, these are a fabulous addition to any Christmas cookie tray — and are perfect for Christmas gifting-from-the-kitchen, too.
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How to Make the BEST Oatmeal Cookies
Whether you enjoy them plain just-as-they-are, or with your favorite add-ins, these are the best Oatmeal Cookies ~ bringing together the wonderful elements of great thickness, soft and chewy middles, great texture, and fantastic flavor. Whip up a batch today!
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White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Delicious white chocolate cranberry cookies have the perfect blend of white chocolate chips and dried cranberries with a hint of orange.
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Shortbread Cookies with Pecans
Shortbread Cookies with Pecans are easy to bake with ingredients you probably already have in your pantry and perfect for sharing during the holidays.
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52
How to Make Shortbread (Recipe from Scotland)
How to make shortbread with step by step recipe instructions, with and without a mold. Learn how to make Caramel Shortcake aka Millionaire’s Shortbread, too!
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53
Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Loaded with peanut butter, soft & chewy, rolled in sugar, and fork-pattern adorned ~ Grandma’s old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are the stuff childhood cookie memories are made of.
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Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies | Walking on Sunshine
Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting start out with a cake mix and are perfect for the red velvet cake lover in your life!
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Soft Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies with Vanilla Buttercream
Soft Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies filled with Vanilla Buttercream are my favorite way to enjoy gingerbread. Great for the holidays for homemade gifts.
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Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
These Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies are easy and adorable tree shaped sugar cookies decorated with mini M&ms as Christmas lights. Perfect for the Christmas season! These Christmas Tree Cookies are perfect for the holidays! They
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Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies
Cute stacked Christmas tree cookies are super delicious as well as easy to make! Follow my step by step instructions to make these cute Christmas cookies.
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58
Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe
Cream Cheese Cookies – This creamy cookie recipe makes a big batch perfect for holiday gifting. Easy and delicious! If you like shortbread cookies, try this recipe.
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59
Polish Cream Cheese Cookies
This holiday season make these lightly sweetened Polish Cream Cheese Cookies filled with apricot jam and sprinkles with coarse sugar.
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60
Soft & Chewy Ginger Snaps
These cookies are great for the holidays or any time you get a craving!
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Christmas Pudding Cookies
Christmas pudding cookies are chocolate sugar cookies decorated to look like a traditional Christmas date pudding.
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Eggnog Cookies – A Classic Christmas Cookie | Greedy Gourmet
Capture the holiday spirit with our Eggnog Cookies. Buttery and spiced, they’re the perfect festive treat to sweeten the season. Click here!
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Christmas Reindeer Cookies (with Pretzel Stick Antlers)
Made with Little Debbie Nutty Buddies, pretzel sticks and candy pieces, these Christmas Reindeer Cookies are packed with flavor!
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No-Bake Buddy the Elf Spaghetti Cookies
These No-Bake Buddy the Elf Spaghetti cookies have all his favorite toppings: marshmallows, M&Ms, sprinkles, maple syrup, chocolate Pop Tarts, and more chocolate!
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65
Cherry Almond Cookies
With their white chocolate-drizzled maraschino cherries perched prettily on top, these adorable little Cherry Almond Cookies are one tasty treat! Perfect for Christmas cookie trays, cookie exchanges, Valentine’s Day treats … or, for everyday enjoying.
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66
Sweet & Salty Kitchen Sink Cookies
Copycat Panera Bread Kitchen Sink Cookies are filled with chocolate, caramel, and crushed pretzels!
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Christmas Lights Cookies with Royal Icing | Dessert for Two
Christmas Lights Cookies with easy small-batch royal icing and mini M&Ms. Small batch cut-out sugar cookies decorated to look like Christmas lights.
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