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It’s Christmas! And that means… it’s also Christmas Cookies season! Which means… it’s time to bake.
And we’ve gathered some of the most decadent, beautiful, and best holiday and Christmas Cookie recipes we could find.
Christmas Cookies
So often, Christmas cookies are a lot about the classic and familiar. We often say, “It wouldn’t be Christmas without…” that particular cookie.
But Christmas cookies are also about experimenting with interesting new flavors, textures, and twists on the classics.
It’s also about gifting, baking, creating, and bringing the holidays to those we love or have community with… in cookie form.
This list is about the classics and the familiar cookies. It’s also about new ideas of old favorites. This list contains the Christmas cookies we seem to make every year, and those we can’t wait to try.
So turn up your favorite Christmas music, be that Bing, Frank, or Mariah… and let’s bake some Christmas cookies!
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31 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes Ever
1
Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Blossom Cookies
"These Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Blossom cookies are like Christmasin every bite.Densely rich with chocolate and espresso, merry and bright with peppermint, and crunchy with sparkling sugar."
2
Buttery Holiday Cut-Out Sugar Cookies for Decorating
"I can guarantee that these buttery sugar cookies are easy to roll out, they hold their shape well when baking, they don’t spread, and they taste good on their own even without the royal icing."
3
Peppermint Mocha Brownie Cookies
"These Peppermint Mocha Brownie Cookies are soft and chewy, fudgy with melty chocolate, and addictive with that holiday peppermint flavor."
4
Gingerbread Cookies
"Better than store-bought Gingerbread Cookies! Simple ingredients paired with an easy dough method will have you swooning over these homemade delights! Decorated with a 3-ingredient white royal icing. Use your choice of Christmas shaped cookie cutters!"
5
Chocolate Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies
"Have you ever had the pleasure of chocolate and gingerbread in one? Forget peanut butter this season (Wait. Am I really saying that?) because gingerbread is chocolate’s new best bud."
6
Salted Caramel Pretzel Snickerdoodles.
"The BEST Salted Caramel Pretzel Snickerdoodles for your holiday cookie baking. Homemade snickerdoodle cookies, made with browned butter, plenty of chocolate-covered caramel chunks, pretzels pieces, and a small pinch of flaky sea salt."
7
A Favorite Sugar Cookie Cutouts Recipe I Use Every Year
And this recipe is the one I come back to every season. It just works. And it just tastes really good.
8
Chai Sugar Cookies with Eggnog Icing
"Delicious, chewy Chai Sugar Cookies drizzled with creamy eggnog icing. An easy cookie recipe that would be great to bring to any Christmas cookie party."
9
Candy Cane Cookies
Flavored with peppermint and vanilla, these Candy Cane Cookies will delight everyone at Christmas.
10
Santa’s Whiskers Cookies
"The merriest of all Christmas cookies! Santa’s Whiskers Cookies are soft slice and bake cookies flavored with almond, studded with cherries, and rolled in coconut."
11
Crinkle Top Brownie Bites
"These crackly crinkle top brownies are super moist, uber chocolatey and the perfect size to pop in your mouth for a quick treat!"
12
A Classic Scottish Shortbread for your Holiday Cookie Tray
"A simple and even “humble” biscuit can be the purest form of classic sweetness. Classic Scottish Shortbread is a staple in our home during the holidays. It’s always on the top of my son’s Christmas cookie wish list."
13
Classic Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without these—they’re the most wonderful cookie of the season! Pillowy soft with a melty chocolate kiss on top. Does it get better than this?
14
Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Espresso
"It may be Santa’s favorite cookie. I’m mean,mine, of course. Who couldn’t use a little extra chocolate and espresso? All wrapped up in a snowy white? At Christmastime no less. It’s gooey, chocolaty… and so delicious."
15
Russian Teacakes
Perfectly delicious snowballs are addictive bites of Christmas.
16
Royale Coconut Macadamia Nut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Inspired by the famous Nordstrom Cookies, these chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies are a new favorite in this year's cookie box!
17
Chocolate Hazelnut Fig Espresso Cookies
"This buttery hazelnut cookie dough holds onto dried figs, a bit of spice and espresso, then drizzled with bitter dark chocolate."
18
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
An easy decorating technique makes these delicious cookies look like a bakery made them!
19
Holiday Fruitcake Bars with Figs and Plums
Filled with the fruit of the season, these easy fruitcake bars taste like anything but... fruitcake. Scrumptiously delicious.
20
A Sweet Iconic Snickerdoodle Recipe
An iconic flavor, perfect for Christmas, and loved by all. They simply have to be on the cookie plate!
21
Coffee House Vonnie's Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
A coffee house classic, these Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are decadently delicious, quick to make, deliciously chewy, buttery, and chocolatey.
22
Cranberry Crumb Bars with Cinnamon and Ginger
A festive crumble bar is always delicious at Christmas! Serve with or without tea -- I favor tea! By the way... here are some tea gift ideas just in case you're like m!
23
Brown Sugar Crackle Cookies
A crackled top sprinkled with sparkly sugar is a delicious addition to any cookie plate!
24
Scottish Millionaire Shortbread: A Favorite Holiday Treat
Simply delicious and truly authentically Scottish. Absolutely a must for Christmas!
25
Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
"Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside with golden, crispy edges on the outside. Incredibly delicious drizzled in chocolate and sprinkled with toasted pecans."
26
Most Requested Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Chocolate Chip Cookies are irresistibly chewy, buttery, and chocolaty. Truly a cookie for all time. America's favorite cookie, hands down. A tried and true recipe to memorize.
28
Giant and Soft Ginger-Spice Cookies
"The richly spiced flavors of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and molasses are a comforting and familiar blend that evokes memories of warmth and love and laughter."
29
Maple Pecan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
An upgraded oatmeal raisin cookie; chewy, dense and richly flavored with cinnamon and maple and pecans. Decadently perfect for the holidays.
30
Vanilla Bean Icebox Butter Cookies
"A delicious, melt-in-your-mouth cookie perfect for making ahead and having ready in either the refrigerator or freezer. Slice and bake up in just minutes."
31
Oatmeal Chocolate Coconut Cookies with Toasted Almonds
Decadently rich with oatmeal, chocolate, coconut, and toasted almonds. A worthy, perfectly delicious holiday cookie.
