50+ Christmas Cookie Recipes
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Over 50 Christmas Cookies you will definitely want to make this year. From my easy cream cheese sugar cookies, to classic gingerbread man cookies, to fun flavors like peppermint bark cookies, cinnamon roll cookies and more!
‘Tis the season for all things cookies friend! I love a good cookie any time of year, but there’s something about the holidays that has me in full cookie baking mode. Don the apron. Put the holiday tunes on. Maybe a hot cup of cocoa as you mix up these cookie recipes.
Oh yes. It’s my favorite time of year. So I rounded up some of my favorite cookie recipes from the ye old blog, and the world wide web for you. Like my grandma’s Russian tea cake cookies recipe, to these raspberry pistachio thumbprints, the classic peanut butter chocolate kiss cookies, and these soft gooey chocolate turtle cookies.
And keep reading until the end for some cookie troubleshooting help and a FREE holiday cookie baking guide!
Christmas Cookie Recipes
Here are over 50 Christmas cookie recipes to bake up this season! From chocolate to cinnamon, peppermint and more!
Peppermint Bark Cookies
These peppermint bark cookies are soft, chewy chocolate cookie flavored with peppermint are dipped in melted white chocolate and decorated with crushed peppermint candies. They are the perfect cookies for a holiday cookie tray!
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Raspberry Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies
These buttery, soft cookies are a classic shortbread dough that gets rolled in pistachios and indented with your thumb and filled with a sweet raspberry jam.
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Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Your favorite breakfast treat is turned into a cookie that no one is going to be able to resist. Starting with a simple sugar cookie dough, cinnamon sugar gets sprinkled on before the dough is rolled up and sliced. Drizzle with a vanilla icing before serving and watch these cookies disappear.
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Chocolate Turtle Cookies
Traditionally, chocolate turtle cookies are a chocolate thumbprint cookie, rolled in pecans and filled with caramel. I simplified things and put my own twist on the classic by stuffing each soft chocolate cookie with a chocolate caramel candy before baking. Now all this simple decadent cookie needs is a glass of milk to wash it down!
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Gingerbread Cookies
Classic Gingerbread man cookies that are soft and chewy! These gingerbread cookies are easy to mix up. You don’t need an electric mixer to make the dough and the cookies hold their shape for decorating.
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Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These chocolate crinkle cookies are an easy one bowl cookie recipe perfect for the holidays! These cookies are super fudgy, made with two kinds of chocolate, and rolled in powdered sugar before baking giving them a crinkle look. These one bowl chocolate crackle cookies are super simple Christmas cookie to make.
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Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
These easy snickerdoodle cookies are easy to make and make a classic delicious addition to your cookie platter for the holidays. And these snickerdoodles are a sneak peak recipe to my new cookbook that is coming out!
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Russian Tea Cake Cookies
These Russian tea cake cookies are classic Christmas cookie favorite of my childhood. You may also know these as Mexican Wedding cookies or Snowball cookies. These cookies are buttery delicious and quick to make. This Russian Tea Cakes recipe are made in one bowl, with 6 ingredients, and are ready in 30 minutes or less.
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Andes Mint Cookies
These Andes mint cookies are full of chocolate and Andes candies. This is an easy to make chewy chocolate cookie dough made with peppermint extract that comes together in minutes. An easy holiday cookie to enjoy with family and friends!
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White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
I have a perfect white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookie recipe for the holidays that is easy to throw together because it uses melted butter. You can use quick oats or old fashioned- whichever you have on hand. I recommend chilling the dough first, but they are delicious even if they are baked right away! This recipe takes about 10 minutes to prep, and doesn’t require a mixer!
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Chocolate Rolo Cookies
Fudgy chocolate rolo cookies- a chocolate cookie with a Rolo hidden inside and then topped with a sprinkle of sea salt!
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Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Perfectly, soft chewy old fashioned peanut butter cookies – lots of peanut butter flavor and the classic criss cross pattern on top! I have two secrets for achieving the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe…and there’s no chilling required so they are ready in 30 minutes or less.
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Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
These easy cream cheese sugar Cookies are so easy to make. Forget getting out the rolling pin and chilling your dough. This drop sugar cookie recipe made with cream cheese comes together super fast. Roll in sprinkles for a festive look!
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Peppermint Meringue Cookies
Looking for a cookie that doesn’t kill the diet but also encompasses the holiday season? These chewy and airy pink peppermint meringue cookies are easy to make and a perfect gluten free cookie to add to your holiday cookie platter.
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Flourless Chocolate Walnut Cookies
These flourless chocolate walnut cookies are light in calories and big on flavor! Like a gooey, crispy walnut brownie in cookie form. And they are made without flour, so they’re gluten free. And no butter, so they’re also dairy free too!
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Apple Cider Cookies
These soft and chewy Apple Cider Cookies are studded with apples and frosted with a delicious apple cider icing. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this recipe makes the perfect easy fall cookie! Plus, they freeze beautifully so you can have a stash on hand for every craving.
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Flourless Chocolate Cookies
These flourless chocolate cookies are made without butter or flour. Believe me it’s not! Fudgy and rich, you won’t miss the flour or butter in these chocolate flourless cookies!
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Ginger Molasses Cookies
These easy ginger molasses cookies are easy to make and make a classic delicious addition to your cookie platter for the holidays. And these ginger cookies are a sneak peak recipe to my new cookbook that is coming out!
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Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies
These red velvet white chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and make a festive addition to your cookie platter for the holidays.
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Raspberry Almond Thumbprints
These raspberry almond thumbprints are buttery, soft, flavored with almond, and filled with a sweet raspberry jam. I drizzled a vanilla icing over these raspberry thumbprints for the perfect Christmas cookie.
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Raspberry Rugelach
Learn how to make these raspberry rugelach cookies in this step by step baking tutorial! With a cream cheesy pastry that is flaky and buttery, then rolled with a cinnamon pecan raspberry filling, these one of my all time favorite cookies!
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M&M Christmas Cookies
These M&M Christmas cookies are an easy cookie recipe to add to your cookie platter this holiday! With sprinkles, chocolate chips and M&M’s, I know everyone is going to love these!
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Chocolate M&M Cookies
Super chunky chocolate M&M cookies that are a perfect addition to any holiday cookie platter. Chock full of white chocolate chips, pecans, chocolate chips and of course M&M candies for a perfect double chocolate cookie.
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Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
These Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies are a fun twist on the classic snowball cookies!
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Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
A super soft sugar cookie with a candy cane kiss right in the middle! Super easy Christmas cookie to make!
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Chocolate Chip M&M Oatmeal Cookies
Chocolate Chip M&M Oatmeal Cookies. They’re thick, soft, and chewy! Perfect this holiday season or whenever the craving hits.
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Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
A perfect cut-out sugar cookie that holds it shape after baking! Decorate with royal icing for a real stand out cookie this holiday season! These cookies are made with just 7 simple ingredients and can be made ahead of time!
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Lemon Thumbprint Cookies
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Kiss Cookies
A classic peanut butter chocolate kiss cookie for your Christmas cookie platter! These peanut butter cookies get a Hershey’s chocolate kiss pressed into the center after they are baked. These cookies, also known as peanut butter blossoms, are ready in about 30 minutes or less!
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Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies
Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies- a chocolate mint crinkle cookie topped with a candy cane kiss in the end! Perfect chocolate mint cookies for the holiday season!
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Chocolate Covered Oreos
One of my favorite treats to enjoy are chocolate covered Oreos! And they are so easy to make at home, making them a perfect no bake Christmas treat to share with friends and family for the holidays.
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Brown Butter Pumpkin Cookies
Brown butter adds so much flavor to these wonderfully spiced pumpkin cookies!
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Cowboy Cookies
Hearty, chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with toasted pecans and sweetened coconut!
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Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
Soft chewy pumpkin oatmeal cookies made with warm spices, brown sugar and hearty oats. After they are baked, they get dunked in a sweet vanilla icing.
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Brown Sugar Pop Tart cookies
Cookies that taste just like your favorite childhood breakfast treat! Soft brown sugar cookies with a brown sugar cinnamon filling, and topped with a cinnamon glaze.
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No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
These No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies are the kind of treat you make when you need something quick, easy, and totally irresistible. No oven, no fancy tools, and no chill time—just a handful of pantry staples, a saucepan, and about 10 minutes of your time.
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Fluffernutter Cookies
These chewy fluffernutter cookies combine creamy peanut butter, gooey marshmallow creme, and peanut butter chips for a soft, rich cookie that tastes just like the classic fluffernutter sandwich—only better.
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Lemon Ricotta Cookies
Soft, citrusy, and topped with a fresh lemon glaze, these Lemon Ricotta Cookies are perfect for spring gatherings or a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.
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Churro Cookies
These churro cookies are my new favorite cookie to make! The recipe starts with a brown sugar sugar cookie, thats filled with a chocolate ganache, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. These cookies taste just like classic churros. They are a perfect treat for for Cinco de Mayo!
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Cookies and Cream Cookies
These cookies and cream cookies are a dark chocolate cookie made with Oreo cookies, white chocolate chips and stuffed with even more white chocolate! The cookie dough mixes up without a mixer!
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Carrot Cake Cookies
Oatmeal cookie meets carrot cake. A big chewy oatmeal cookie loaded with carrots, spices, raisins, and pineapple! Top with cream cheese frosting for the perfect treat!
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Neapolitan Cookies
These Neapolitan cookies are made from one sugar cookie dough! Made with cocoa powder, and freeze-dried strawberries, these beautiful cookies are just like your favorite flavors of Neapolitan ice cream! No chilling of the dough required!
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No Bakes (Preacher Cookies)
This classic No Bake Cookies recipe is a nostalgic childhood favorite! Made with peanut butter, chocolate, and oats, these chewy cookies come together in just a few minutes, no oven required. No bakes are a quick and easy treat for any time of year!
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Shortbread Cookies
Easy cut out shortbread cookies made with just 5 ingredients! Perfect cut out Christmas cookie. Roll in sprinkles, or spread with frosting!
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Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
A melt in your mouth buttery cookie filled with chocolate chips that's made in one bowl and with just 6 ingredients.
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Neapolitan Cookies
These Neapolitan cookies are made from one sugar cookie dough! Made with cocoa powder, and freeze-dried strawberries, these beautiful cookies are just like your favorite flavors of Neapolitan ice cream! No chilling of the dough required!
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Pumpkin chocolate chip Cookies
These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy. With lots of pumpkin flavor and loaded with chocolate!
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Almond Crescent Cookies
These melt in your mouth almond cookies, are said to have originated in Vienna but are traditionally enjoyed throughout Germany during Christmastime. With just a few pantry staples, these buttery shortbread-like cookies are a great addition to your cookie tray.
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Biscoff Cookies
These Biscoff cookie butter chocolate chip cookies are thick, soft, and chewy – everything you love in a chocolate chip cookie but with the flavor of cookie butter! Made with white chocolate chips, these cookie butter cookies are irresistible!
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Butter cookies
These homemade Danish butter cookies, just like you remember from the blue tin, are sweet, buttery, crispy, and soft, perfect for a quick snack and treat.
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Molasses Cookies
Bake a delicious and warm snack with a touch of the holiday season with this recipe. Make molasses cookies with a few ingredients and 20 minutes of prep time.
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Peppermint Bark Oreos
Easy four ingredient peppermint bark oreos made with white chocolate and peppermint extract.
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Russian Tea Cakes
Russian tea cakes are a classic holiday treat! A melt in your mouth buttery cookie filled with pecans that's made in one bowl and with just 5 ingredients.
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Soft Lemon Cookies Recipe
These soft sugar cookies get a little zip when lemon juice and zest are stirred in, making these a hit with everyone. Drizzle a fresh lemon glaze over them for an extra punch of citrus and sweetness. Ready in 30 minutes or less!
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Coconut Macaroons
These coconut macaroons made with condensed milk and whipped egg whites are chewy, sticky and delicious! I dipped and drizzled them with a little chocolate, but you can just keep them plain. Coconut macaroons are an easy cookie ready in about 30 minutes and just seven simple ingredients!
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Chai Snickerdoodles
A perfectly chewy snickerdoodle cookie made with chai spices! Be sure to chill the cookie dough first for cookies that spread perfectly.
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Christmas Cookie Troubleshooting
If you are having trouble mastering perfect Christmas cookies this holiday season. I have a few tutorials you may find helpful. And be sure to sign up for my Bake Your Best Cookies Ever- Free Email Series
- What Does Butter Do In Cookies?
- 8 Reasons Your Cookies Spread Too Much
- Which Flour Is Best For Cookies?
- How To Store Cookies
- How To Freeze Cookie Dough
Thank you!
I’ve already made half of them, and am looking for special people to share them with, because I really can NOT keep that many delicious cookies around the house. Oh, YES! I would eat each one of them, they work out so well.
I check the ingredients list: I always have what’s required on hand, so I make them, and I’m always glad.
Thank you for your kind words! It’s so wonderful to hear you’re enjoying the recipes and sharing them with others—that’s what the holidays are all about. Happy baking! 😊
My Grandma used to make those Chocolate Snowball Cookies — OMG. The bomb dot com — and like crack, you can’t just have one, or two. 🙂
– Annie @ http://www.somethingaboutnavy.com
I think I love your grandma 🙂 and seriously you can’t have one..I mean why would you?
thanks for compiling these! i’m always on the look out for cookie inspiration!
You’re most welcome Hetal..I’m always on the hunt too so I figured I can’t be the only one so may as well make a great compilation! Enjoy!
These all look delicious! I’m always looking for new cookie recipes for Christmas…but I probably won’t be exchanging them. I’ll be keeping them!
Thanks Rebekah! Nothing wrong with that either 🙂
This is a treasure! Just wonderful, for every taste and color!
Thank you 🙂 I tried to make sure to include all different kinds no matter what your craving 😉
OHH my cookies.. cookies for days. love love these thanks for sharing!!
You’re welcome Susie! Enjoy 🙂
Yummy post! Can’t wait to get my baking guide!!
You’re welcome Michelle! Let me know what you think of it!
Now this is the ultimate cookie exchange. Several of these types of cookies I have made there are some that I will have to give it a try.
Aw thanks 🙂 let me know which ones you’ve made and love!
The cookies looked really good! I want some please!
One Awesome Momma
Thanks Belle!! If I could deliver some I would 😉