Looking for the best Christmas cookie recipes? With this list of over 100 of the best Christmas cookie recipes, you are sure to find your family’s next favorite Christmas cookie recipe!
Who can resist the delightful allure of a freshly baked, warm Christmas cookie? It’s as if the very essence of the holiday season is captured within each delectable bite. Picture this: you’re nestled comfortably on your couch, enveloped in the warm glow of twinkling Christmas lights, with a cherished Christmas movie playing on the screen before you. What could possibly elevate this cozy scene to perfection? A plate of these festive treats, of course!
However, the magic of Christmas cookies doesn’t end there. These delectable creations transcend the realm of mere snacks; they become a symbol of togetherness and tradition. For me, this sentiment is deeply ingrained, as I can trace back my own love affair with baking at just 2 years old, standing on a stool beside my beloved grandmother. Through the years, this cherished activity has remained a constant source of joy and connection for me, and as the years have passed, my skills have flourished, allowing me to craft an impressive array of cookies that truly capture the spirit of the season.
Now, as the holiday season approaches once again, I find myself excited to try new Christmas cookie recipes and enjoy traditional family favorites. I find immense delight in seeking out new and innovative Christmas cookie recipes, each one a potential masterpiece waiting to be crafted. This year, I have taken it upon myself to compile a curated collection of these delightful recipes, a treasure trove of cookie inspiration that is sure to delight both novice and experienced bakers alike.
Within this carefully assembled list, you’ll discover an assortment of cookie recipes that span the spectrum of flavors, textures, and visual delights. From classic sugar cookies adorned with intricate icing designs to indulgent chocolate-peppermint creations that evoke memories of cozy fireside gatherings, every recipe has been chosen with the utmost care and consideration. Whether you’re embarking on a solo baking adventure or preparing to dazzle guests at a festive Christmas party, this collection has something to offer for every occasion.
The Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
I’ve divided these Christmas cookie recipes into different types to help you find the kind of Christmas cookies you are looking for easily. Be sure to also bookmark this post or you can also have it sent to your inbox so you can have it on hand every year to find the perfect Christmas cookie recipes.
And when you find your favorites be sure to add them to your own Christmas cookbook so you will have them for years to come!
Drop Cookies
These are cookies that are spooned out onto a cookie sheet. They generally spread and flatten when baked.
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These delicious chocolate cookies are made using a cake mix making them very simple to make!
Christmas Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
Who doesn't love a sprinkle cookie? These are made using a cake mix and are fun and easy to make.
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
A festive peppermint version of the classic chocolate chip cookie! Very easy to make and you can even make the dough ahead of time and freeze it.
Chocolate Oreo Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies
Chocolate Oreo Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies are soft, creamy with a refreshing peppermint flavor and topped off with a little crunch.
Candied Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
Soft and chewy Candied Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookie filled with perfect flavors and color for the Holiday Season.
Easy Snickerdoodle Recipe
Looking for a delicious and easy snickerdoodle recipe? These are soft, delicious, and can be whipped up in no time. Make them ahead and stick them in the freezer for later.
Fudgy Crackled Chocolate Cookies
Slightly crispy and sugary on the outside, soft and fudgy on the inside, these cookies are perfect for holidays, a celebration, or simply because you want a chocolate fix.
Eggnog Cookie Recipe
Eggnog cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray. This recipe for eggnog cookies makes a delicious, soft cookie full of real eggnog flavor.
Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe
This creamy cookie recipe makes a big batch perfect for holiday gifting. Easy and delicious! If you like shortbread cookies, try this recipe.
Hazelnut Meringue Cookies
These German Hazelnut Meringue Cookies are light and oh so delicious! Perfect for the holidays and they only take half an hour to make!
Figgy Pudding Cookies Recipe
This figgy pudding Christmas cookie has all of the flavors of a traditional figgy pudding in a bite-sized, adorable Christmas cookie. It's the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray.
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies with craisins and brown butter are a Christmas favorite
Santa Hat Cookies
An adorable Christmas cookie, these are easy enough for little hands and pretty enough to serve at any party.
Georgia Tea Cakes Recipe
Tea cakes have a buttery flavor and a wonderful cake-like texture.
Christmas M&M Cookies
Chewy, crispy M&M cookies made with a simple sugar cookie dough. These cookies are quick to make with no chilling needed.
Grinch Cookies
These quick and easy grinch cookies are a fluffy melt in your mouth treat. Soft cake mix cookies are given a crinkled effect with a sweet candy heart in their chewy center- they're a perfect snack or dessert to serve for both holiday dessert tables and classroom parties.
Soft Amaretti Cookies
There are infinite variations of this classic Italian cookie. I'd like to share this simple, gluten free recipe for Soft Amaretti Cookies with all of you.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Soft and chewy sugar cookies with creamy white chocolate chips and broken bits of peppermint candy.
Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
The classic combination of chocolate and peppermint make these Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies the perfect treat for the holidays!
Peppermint White Chocolate Pudding Cookies
These peppermint white chocolate pudding cookies are chewy, perfectly sweet and make for a festive Holiday treat!
Cranberry Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Made with dark chocolate chips, no oatmeal, and stuffed with pecans, these cranberry cookies are a fall cookie winner!
Christmas Melt Away Cookies
A sweet cookie with a tangy cream cheese icing that melts in your mouth every time you take a bite. They might possibly be the best Christmas Cookies ever!
Pistachio Pudding Cookies
Soft and chewy, and a festive green! These Pistachio Pudding Cookies are excellent for cookie swapping! A holiday favorite recipe.
Andes Mint Cookies
Chocolate Cookies with Andes Mints melted on top of the cookie.
Dee's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
A classic chocolate chip cookie recipe that are perfect all year long.
Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
Cute chocolate cookies with melted snowman.
Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies are wonderful for Christmas from Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch.
Rolled Cookies
These are all cookies that are great for making cut-out cookies with.
Easiest Gingerbread Cookies
This Gingerbread Cookie recipe is foolproof and SO easy to make. Use this easy gingerbread recipe to make gingerbread men, tree decorations or a cookie wreath.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
Gingerbread tastes amazing when dunked in a cold glass of milk, so why not celebrate that and make gingerbread cookie sticks that are designed for dunking?
Salted Dark Chocolate Dipped Toffee Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Classic shortbread cookies recipe upgraded with toffee pieces and dipped in dark chocolate with a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Pine Needle Shortbread
Melt in your mouth Pine Needle Shortbread Cookies. A twist on an old favourite with just a hint of piney, citrusy flavour. Delicate, delicious & sure to impress!
3D Christmas Cookies
If you want to make amazing cookies that will wow your kids, friends, coworkers and family, you need to make these 3D Christmas Cookies! They’re not difficult, and they’re a show-stopper!
Pierniczki Swiateczne | Polish Christmas Cookies
These Pierniczki świąteczne, aka Polish Christmas cookies, are the perfect make-ahead festive treat. They are easy to make, with pantry ingredients and bake in just 8 minutes.
Christmas Pudding Cookies
Christmas pudding cookies are chocolate sugar cookies decorated to look like a traditional Christmas pudding which is a date pudding popular in the UK
Sugar Cookies with Crushed Peppermint
Melt in your mouth sugar cookies topped with peppermint candies! These cookies are perfect for adding to your Christmas cookie tray!
Christmas Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Christmas Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are perfect for the upcoming holiday – Christmas, especially for those who like sugar cookies on their Christmas plates.
Chocolate Mint Penguin Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
These cute penguin cookies are a fun chocolate mint spin on traditional stained glass cookies - an easy treat recipe that's perfect for Christmas presents!
German Christmas Cookies: Lebkuchen
German Christmas Cookies, also called Lebkuchen or German gingerbread cookies, are an authentic German cookie that is spicy, soft and incredibly flavorful.
Old Fashioned Tea Cake Christmas Cookies
These Old Fashioned Tea Cake Christmas cookies are made with rolled sugar cookie dough. You can make these cookies ahead and store them in airtight containers.
Stackable Christmas Tree Cookies Recipe
You may have seen these stackable Christmas cookies – also called stack cookies or 3-D cookies – as really really tall, brown cookie trees with white icing on the ends to reflect snow.
Cherry Red Nose Holiday Cookies
These holiday Christmas cookies are a great way to teach kids how to bake cookies for Santa!
Lofthouse Cut Out Cookies
Lofthouse Cut Out Cookies! Your favorite fluffy frosted sugar cookies except now you can roll them out and give them shape!
Vanilla Almond Sugar Cookies
This thick, slightly chewy sugar cookie is just the right amount of sweet and makes perfect cut-outs, every time.
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies – this easy recipe makes perfect Vegan Gingerbread Cookies that keep their shape and require no chilling!
Christmas Homemade Thin Mints
Who says you can't have Thin Mints for the holiday season? You sure can with these copycat Christmas Homemade Thin Mints! Crushed candy canes and sprinkles make this holiday version of the Girl Scout classic extra fun and festive.
Nutcracker Sugar Cookies
These adorable decorated sugar cookies are easy to make following the step by step directions.
Cookie Bars
These are all cookies that are baked in bars.
Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies
Delicious shortbread bars with salted caramel. They are perfect for parties and gift giving.
Peppermint Bark Shortbread
This is a cross between a cookie and a candy. Buttery shortbread topped with peppermint bark.
Christmas Cookie Bars with M&M's
These Christmas cookie bars are packed with red and green M&M’s, chocolate chips, and sprinkles, making the buttery cookie bars a fun and festive Christmas dessert.
S'mores Cookie Bars
S’mores Cookie Bars are layered with graham crackers, cookie dough with marshmallows, and topped with chocolate bar pieces. It’s an ooey gooey melty chocolate s’mores treat!
Molded Cookies
These cookies are molded into shapes.
Chocolate Star Cookies
A delicious peanut butter cookie with a chocolate star in the middle making them festive and delicious.
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies with Matcha Cream Filling
Cocoa & matcha powder team up to make these insanely delicious chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with matcha cream. Bonus: they're vegan!
Italian Ricotta Cookies
Italian Christmas Ricotta Cookies, the best softest sugar cookie you will ever eat.
Hidden Fudge Mint Cookies
Looking for delicious cookies to make this holiday season? These Hidden Fudge Mint Cookies are soft sugar cookies with a surprise inside.
Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies
These soft ginger molasses cookies are perfect for fall and winter, and make delicious holiday gifts!
Ginger Chip Spice Cookies
Ginger Chip Spice Cookies are filled with the flavors of the holiday season. They’re easy to make and are a great addition to a holiday cookie platter!
Raspberry Bow Tie Cookies
A soft cookie filled with raspberry jam, these raspberry bow tie cookies always get plenty of raves!
Almond Crescent Cookies
Almond Crescent Cookies, made with almonds, pecans or walnuts, this melt in your mouth Christmas Cookie Recipe is a must make. Delicious!
Candy Cane Kiss Cookies Recipe
Not only do these Candy Cane Hershey Kiss Cookies look festive, but these holiday cookies have a festive peppermint flavor as well.
Nanny’s Christmas Cherry Balls
These Christmas cherry balls are so easy to make and great for making with small children.
Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are simple, yet decadent and even elegant holiday cookies that are so easy to put together that even a kid can make them.
Classic Snowball Cookies
Call them whatever you like–Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, snowball cookies–these bite-sized cookies are the perfect addition to a holiday dessert plate, cookie exchange, or for enjoying by yourself snuggled next to the Christmas tree.
Toffee & Chocolate Drizzle Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe
A delicious twist on a classic shortbread cookie recipe.
Insanely Delicious Turtle Cookies
The classic flavors of turtle candy ... chocolate, pecans, and caramel ... in soft and insanely delicious Turtle Cookies.
Chocolate Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
These delicious Chocolate Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies are perfect for caramel lovers! With a soft caramel center and a chocolate zig-zag, they’re excellent for the holiday season!
Gingersnap Cookie Recipe
This Gingersnap Cookie Recipe produces the most chewy, soft cookies, and they're packed with warm spice and deep molasses flavor! They include a secret ingredient for even more flavor, and they're so easy to make!
Soft Cranberry Sugar Cookies
These cranberry cookies are super soft with a delicate crunch on the outside. You can't go wrong with my grandma's famous cookie recipe.
Six-Ingredient Crunchy Almond Cookies
A delicious sweet treat! Try this easy-to-make six ingredient cookie that's full of yummy almond flavour! It's ready in 30 minutes too.
Classic Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
Check out these delicious sweet and spiced ginger molasses cookies! Makes 32 tasty classic cookies in under 30 minutes!
Jam Thumbprint Cookies
These healthy Jam Thumbprint Cookies have the flavors of a Linzer Torte (raspberry and almond) and make the perfect classic Christmas Cookie!
Orange And Chocolate Vegan Shortbread Cookies
These easy and delicious orange and chocolate shortbread cookies make a light, gluten free and dairy free snack for the weekend - Don't forget to add chili flakes for a spicy kick!
Greek Christmas Honey Cookies (Melomakarona)
Gooey, sticky traditional melomakarona or Greek Christmas honey cookies with delicious festive flavours.
Raspberry Filled Sugar Cookie Cups
Delicious sugar cookies filled with raspberry filling.
Chocolate-Dipped Orange Logs
Orange Short bread cookies rolled into logs, dipped in melted semi-sweet chocolate, and rolled in finely chopped pecans. These Chocolate Dipped Orange Logs are a spectacular cookie for your Holiday baking trays!
Chocolate Rolo Stuffed Cookies Recipe
These Rolo stuffed chocolate cookies are going to be a new family favorite. Delicious, soft, and chewy chocolate cookies with an ooey gooey caramel center.
Sandwich Cookies
These cookies feature fillings between cookies.
Mint Milano Cookies Recipe
This mint milano cookies recipe creates a light, crisp, and buttery cookie, filled with a thin layer of peppermint infused dark chocolate.
Scottish Snowballs (Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies)
A traditional Scottish treat with that great coconut and raspberry flavor combination!
Star-Shaped Jam Cookies
You can be the star of the holiday party or baking exchange with these Jam Cookies. Classic jam thumbprint cookies are perfect for your holiday tray or for cookie exchanges.
Snow Storm Linzer Cookies
Delicious and beautiful cookies that are perfect for the holidays.
Poppy Seed & Marzipan Sandwich Cookies with Plum Jam
These pretty Poppy Seed & Marzipan Sandwich Cookies are filled with marzipan and plum jam. Try this traditional German Christmas Cookie recipe this winter!
Mini Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookie Sandwiches
Mini Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookie Sandwiches, an easy holiday cookie recipe with chocolate and peppermint.
Soft Gingerdoodle Cookies
These Sandwich Cookies are a Ginger Cookie-Snickerdoodle mix that are soft, chewy and so delicious! Filled with Cinnamon Buttercream!
Christmas Sandwich Cookies
These Christmas Sandwich Cookies are colorful with the fluffiest buttercream frosting sandwiched between two soft and chewy cookies loaded with chocolate chips, M&M’s, and sprinkles.
No Bake Cookies
These cookies don't require any baking.
Oreo Cookies White Chocolate Snowman Pops
Who wouldn’t love one of these festive Oreo Cookies White Chocolate Snowman Pops? I know for us these Oreo snowman pops are a must make holiday treat each year.
M&M's Butterscotch Puffed Rice Cookies with Cake batter frosting
These no bake holiday cookies are so easy to make and super addictive! Butterscotch Chocolate M&Ms Puffed rice cookies with a creamy cake batter cheesecake frosting.
Christmas OREO Cookie Balls
These Christmas Oreo balls are fun and easy decoration ideas for Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting during the holiday season!
Reindeer Grahams Cookie Recipe
A super simple cookie recipe you can make with your children or grandchildren. These Reindeer Grahams are an adorable, tasty and just plain fun holiday treat!
Refrigerator Cookies
These cookies are chilled in logs and then sliced before baking.
Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
These slice-and-bake cranberry orange shortbread cookies are the Best. Cookies. Ever. And they're ridiculously easy. Keep a dough log in the freezer so you can slice and bake them when needed.
Peppermint Mocha Shortbread Cookies
These peppermint mocha shortbread cookies are just like the coffee house drink but in chewable form. Put some on your Christmas cookie trays to take them to the next level!
Cranberry Orange Swirl Cookies
Sugar cookies filled with fresh cranberries and orange peel.
Chocolate Peppermint Slice 'n Bake Christmas Cookies
An easy shortbread cookie with all the holiday flavors.
Christmas Butter Cookies with Candy Cane and Dark Chocolate
These Christmas butter cookies with candy cane and a drizzle of dark chocolate are great for Christmas parties.
Other Cookies
These are Christmas cookie recipes that don't fit in the other categories.
Eggnog Madeleines
Putting a twist on an elegant classic for the holidays with these Eggnog Madeleines.
Pizzelle della Nonna
Have you ever wondered how to make pizzelle? Come and take a look. This crisp Italian cookie recipe requires no butter and is so much fun to make!
Eggnog Macarons
Eggnog Macarons are really very special. I think delicate and lovely Macarons could be the perfect elegant addition to your holiday table, or you can box them up and give them as gifts.
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Use your extra pie crust to make these easy and delicious cinnamon roll cookies for the holidays this year! Or make a pie crust just for this recipe, either way, it's a winner!
Christmas Lights Shortbread Cookies
Delicious shortbread cookies made using a cookie press.
Italian Christmas Cookies with Chestnut Chocolate Filling
These dainty, sugar-dusted Italian Christmas Cookies come with a rum-spiked chocolate & chestnut filling! Try this Italian Christmas recipe this winter!
Speculoos
Speculoos, also known as Speculaas or Windmill Cookies, are a holiday cookie that is traditionally made for the Feast of St. Nicholas in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria.
Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies
Each chocolate covered marshmallow cookie has a graham cookie base topped with a marshmallow and coated in creamy chocolate.
Christina | Christina's Cucina says
Wow! What a way to be prepared for Christmas! Great roundup and thanks for including my Scottish Snowballs!
Lisa Sharp says
The look delicious!
Suzy Taylor Oakley says
I’ll take one of everything, please. Oh, my, where to start? I’d better get baking now, or I’ll never finish by Christmas. (Good problem to have.) 🎄🍪
Lisa Sharp says
It’s so hard to pick!