You will find all of the favorites and new ones too in these 60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes!
With these 60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes you will have all of your favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes at your fingertips!
I am sure you will find some new ones to add to that list too! There are some great ones here!
We have all of the faithful flavors of peppermint, chocolate, peanut butter, almond, cranberry, ginger and other warm, merry spices.
We have pretty colors of reds, greens and whites and fun Christmas trees, reindeer, grinch, gnomes, candy canes, snowmen and of course, gingerbread men!
Most of our cookie recipes are baked in the oven but there are even some baked in the air fryer and instant pot!
I have included recipes from my friends all around the web and boy, do I have some great ideas here! I am so excited to share them with you!
Which one will you make first? Leave a comment below and let us know!
Other Christmas Cookie Collections
I had so many delicious recipes given to me that I made separate posts for Low Carb/Keto, Vegan and Gluten Free! I thought they would be easier to find in their own posts.
18 Best Gluten Free Christmas Cookie Recipes
18 Best Vegan Christmas Cookie Recipes
30+ Keto Low Carb Christmas Cooke Recipes
Other Christmas Posts
I have 6 Free Christmas How Many Words Printables, Free Printable Christmas Memory Matching Game, Free Christmas Bingo Printables, 25 Free Christmas Coloring Pages, two free word scrambles in 2 age levels; Christmas Word Scramble and Christmas Nativity Word Scramble and you will also love these Christmas word searches, also in 2 age levels. There is a Christmas Nativity Word Search and a Secular Christmas Word Search.
Christmas Decoration Scavenger Hunt: A fun indoor scavenger hunt to keep the kids busy while waiting for dinner or gift opening. Really, it is just fun anytime!
Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt: A Christmas Lights scavenger hunt is the perfect way to get into the Christmas spirit! Have fun finding all of the things on the list!
Gift Ideas that aren’t Just Stuff; Want ideas for things that will last? For things that won’t end up forgotten in a month? Ideas for kids and adults!
Family Christmas Traditions You will want to Start; Over 30 of the best Christmas traditions to make memories with your family that will last a lifetime.
Christmas Desserts Kids Can Make; Santa, Reindeer, Snowmen and Christmas Trees all kinds of sweet ways! Kids can get into the holiday action with these desserts!
If you are Low Carb or Keto, check out Easy Keto peppermint fudge, Keto chocolate peppermint bark, One Net Carb Soft Jello Holiday Cookies, Low Carb Holiday Fruit Punch, 40+ Keto Low Carb Christmas Desserts, 30+ Keto & Low Carb Christmas Cookie Recipes and Hundreds of Keto & Low Carb Stocking Stuffer Ideas (for children and adults).
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60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
You will find all of the favorites and new ones too in these 60 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe (How to Make Sugar Cookies)
This simple recipe makes versatile vanilla sugar cookie dough that is easy to roll and holds its shape while baked, giving you sharp, beautiful, defined edges perfect for decorating with your favorite homemade or store bought frosting. In this post, you’ll learn How to Make Sugar Cookies for all your holiday baking needs.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookie Recipe
These White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are soft, buttery, and made with simple ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips. Double the recipe and share with friends, family, or freeze for last-minute cookie cravings.
Ghirardelli Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies
These Ghirardelli Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies make one festive holiday dessert, featuring Ghirardelli peppermint bark and hot cocoa mix.
Melted Snowman Cookies
These Melted Snowman Cookies are homemade cookies that get covered in a 3-ingredient royal icing, and garnishes to dress them up as snowmen! Prep these fun cookies in just 30 minutes!
Linzer Cookies
These Linzer Cookies are made from a homemade sweetened cut-out cookie dough made with almonds with raspberry jam sandwiched between them and topped with powdered sugar!
Pfeffernusse Cookies
Pfeffernusse cookies are a traditional German spice cookies that are made with molasses, warm spices, and a pinch of white pepper. This easy Christmas cookie recipe can be made from scratch in less than 30 minutes
3D Stacked Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Soft in texture and huge in flavor, 3D stacked Christmas tree sugar cookies are perfect for the festive season. They have both almond and vanilla flavors in every bite and a sprinkling of powdered sugar gives the cookie trees a snow-covered look.
Easy Holiday Reindeer Cookie Treats
When the season of holiday parties rolls around, you’re going to be looking for festive Christmas treats. These Nutter Butter reindeer cookies with pretzel antlers are ideal for the occasion because they are just so adorable!
White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
These Candy Cane White Chocolate chip cookies are the taste of Christmas and so easy to make! Make these for a Christmas party or eat them with your family!
Easy Cake Mix Christmas Cookies Recipe (Only 5 Ingredients)
Have you ever used a cake mix to make cookies? This cake mix Christmas cookies recipe is the easiest cookie recipe I know with just 5 simple ingredients. Perfect for kids who are learning to bake.
Hot Chocolate Cookies
Hot chocolate cookies capture the essence of warm cocoa on a cold winter’s day. Rich chocolate is tempered by melty marshmallows for an indulgent treat.
Chocolate Chip Biscotti
Chocolate Chip Biscotti is one of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes. The crunchy texture loaded with chocolate flavor makes it perfect to bake and share.
Chai Spice Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Bean Drizzle
Make an unexpected and delicious addition to your Christmas baking list with these Chai Spice Sugar Cookies! Pillowy, chewy, and filled with cozy flavors, they're a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies
Looking for the perfect holiday cookie that is super easy to make? These gingerbread cookies pack a spicy gingerbread flavor with a delicious sweetness from the brown sugar and molasses. You won’t be able to stop eating them!
Irresistible Fruitcake Cookies
These irresistible Fruitcake Cookies will blow your mind with incredible flavor & soft texture. The perfect Christmas cookie recipe for exchanges & parties
Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies
Brown sugar shortbread cookies are buttery and rich with a crisp, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth texture. This is a very simple and beautiful cookie, especially for the holidays!
Spiced Shortbread Cookies
These crumbly Holiday Spiced Shortbread Cookies are super delicious and easy to make. Cut into wedges, they are perfect for dessert or to dip in your coffee
Crumbly Walnut Crescent Cookies
This melt-in-your-mouth crumbly Walnut Crescent Cookies recipe is super easy to make and it’s the perfect dessert for the Holidays and entertaining.
Snickerdoodles Without Cream Of Tartar
The classic cinnamon sugar cookie without the acrid metallic taste of cream of tartar! Snickerdoodles are an old-fashioned holiday go-to with no chilling required.
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
These red velvet crinkle cookies are a tasty sweet treat with a hint of cocoa and a deep red color that's perfect for Christmas!
Chocolate Orange Crinkle Cookies Recipe {the perfect Christmas treat}
Meet your new favorite Christmas cookie! These festive chocolate orange crinkle cookies are rich, chocolately, and have a subtle hint of orange.
White Chocolate Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
Soft, sweet, and peppermint-y! These White Chocolate Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Cookies are the perfect Christmas bake.
Christmas Cowboy Cookies {easy no chill recipe}
These Christmas cowboy cookies are sure to be your new favorite Christmas treat. They’re the perfect cookie to bring to holiday parties or gift to neighbors and friends.
Cranberry Pistachio Slice and Bake Cookies
Cranberry Pistachio Slice and Bake Cookies…aka the perfect cookie for the holiday's! This delicious red and green cookie is perfect sweet, with just the right amount of tartness from the cranberries, and nutty pistachios. Every bite just melts in your mouth! SO. GOOD.
Kokosmakronen (German Coconut Macaroons)
Coconut macaroon meets meringue cookie in these Kokosmakronen (aka German Coconut Macaroons)! A classic German Christmas cookie.
Sugared Cranberry Cookies
Sugar cookies with sugared cranberries baked in to make the sweetest cookie ever – with a twist.
Cherry Christmas Cookies
The old-fashioned refrigerator cookies are perfect for the holidays and can be made ahead of time and frozen.
Amish Sugar Cookies
Amish Sugar Cookies are a classic Christmas cookie that anyone can make. Add these to this year’s cookie exchange!
Million Dollar Candy Bar Cookies (Caramel Shortbread Cookies)
Million Dollar Candy Bar Cookies taste like - you guessed it - a million bucks! They're made with tender shortbread, caramel pecan topping, chocolate ganache, and a pecan on top. These festive and indulgent caramel shortbread cookies that are absolutely perfect for holiday parties and Christmas cookie exchanges!
Christmas Crumbl Sugar Cookies (SOFT!)
This Christmas Crumbl Sugar Cookies recipe beats all others! Ultra-thick and soft with a perfect crinkly edge, these mouthwatering cookies are a vanilla version of the classic Chilled Sugar Cookies. Topped with a creamy vanilla buttercream and festive Christmas sprinkles, they’re the very best copycat Crumbl cookies for your holiday season.
Easy Christmas Butter Cookies - Ready in 20 Minutes!
These easy Christmas butter cookies are perfect for the holiday season! They’re dipped in chocolate, decorated with Christmas sprinkles, and ready in only 20 minutes!
Christmas Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These delicious but easy Christmas sour cream sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting are the perfect Christmas sugar cookie recipe! They are perfect for cutting into festive shapes with cookie cutters, and the frosting is easily dyed red and green.
Stained Glass Cookies
With a candy “glass” window cut into a buttery sugar cookie, Stained Glass Cookies are tasty, impressive and perfect for the holidays.
Holiday Embossed Gingerbread Cookies
Cute and tasty, holiday embossed gingerbread cookies use a special roller or cookie stamp that makes “festive” easy!
Kruschiki: the Ultimate Christmas Cookie
Kruschiki are truly the ultimate Christmas cookie. Crisp, rich and not too sweet, they are a satisfyingly delicious treat for the holidays!
Instant Pot Gingerbread Cookies
These Instant Pot Christmas Gingerbread Cookies have all of the flavors that you would want in your dessert. Christmas can't be completed without these delicious cookies and you can have them in your Instant Pot in only 20 minutes total!
Air Fryer Christmas Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies are considered mandatory on Christmas. Gingerbread was very holy for Christians. They were allowed to make it on Christmas only. Hence, it is considered very sacred on Christmas Eve now.
Sage Cookies with Cranberry Buttercream - Live to Sweet
These Cranberry Sage Cookies are buttery sage cookies sandwiched with cranberry buttercream! The combination of flavors and textures in these beauties is a dream!
Date Pinwheel Cookies
These Date Nut Swirl Cookies have a buttery brown sugar cookie dough filled with a gooey date filling and chopped pecans. These cookies are crisp, tender, crunchy, and gooey all in one bite!
Gingerbread Man Cookies
These Gingerbread Man Cookies are a true classic Christmas recipe. They are perfectly spiced and make the most adorable cut-out cookies. Try them and you will love them!
Gnome Cookie Peanut Butter Blossoms
These gnome cookies are just like regular peanut butter blossoms in that they're soft PB cookies rolled in sugar and topped with Hershey's kisses. However, they're turned into cute Christmas gnomes with frosting and Holiday sprinkles!
Snowman Cookies
These adorable Snowman Cookies are super easy and fun to make! Cake mix sugar cookies are topped with a vanilla buttercream frosting, then decorated with candies and sprinkles to bring these little frosty friends to life!
Easiest Ever Reindeer Cookies
These reindeer cookies are great for the holiday season. Made with a gingerbread cookie cutter and turn out adorable.
Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies
These cute Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies are both easy and delicious. They're definitely a show stopped, everyone loves them!
Almond Kiss Cookies
Make these Almond Kiss Cookies for your next Christmas celebration or cookie swap! Made with amaretto, cream cheese, and chocolate kisses, these cookies taste like chocolate-covered cherries.
Easy Chocolate Lebkuchen Cookies
A chocolate lebkuchen cookie is a great snack in the Christmas season. Full of spices and coated in chocolate these are absolutely delicious.
Peppermint Chocolate Cookies
Thick and fudgy, these peppermint chocolate cookies are perfect for the holiday season! The finished cookies are dipped or drizzled with white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy cane bits.
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry thumbprint cookies have a buttery, crisp shortbread cookie with a sweet raspberry filling. Always a huge hit around the holidays!
Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies
These chocolate peppermint Christmas cookies are delicious, soft and topped off with a festive red and white peppermint kiss. These chocolate thumbprint cookies are baked to perfection and will be a beautiful addition to your holiday dessert table!
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
Festive red and green cookies that make the perfect Christmas Cookie for cookie trays! These Christmas Pinwheel Cookies are soft and resemble a soft sugar cookie from the grocery store.
Snowman Meringue Cookies
Crunchy, sweet Snowman Meringue Cookies are a fun holiday treat!
Chewy Black Forest Cookies
This Chewy Black Forest Cookies recipe is a perennial favorite. Pretty, tasty, easy to make, and great for holiday entertaining & gifting!
Christmas Fruitcake Cookies Recipe
These Fruitcake Cookies are laced with Jack Daniel's, and were wildly popular back in my custom baking days. They are a great addition to any holiday cookie platter!
Christmas Cookie Sticks Recipe
These easy Christmas cookie sticks call for basic ingredients that probably already have most of them in your pantry. This simple Christmas cookies recipe is perfect for cookie exchange parties or to give as gifts.
Crème Brulee Gingersnap Cookies Recipe
This Crème Brulée Gingersnap Cookies recipe takes things to a new level of delicious and make this cookie indulgent and rich, perfect for celebrating holidays! These are perfect for adding to a holiday spread, or tucking into a cookie tray to share with someone special.
Brownie Snowflake Sugar Cookies Recipe
These snowflake sugar cookies have all the flavor of a brownie with the crispy crunch of a good sugar cookie! Everyone will love these easy to make holiday cookies.
Peppermint Shortbread Cookies Recipes
You will love these peppermint shortbread cookies. It's a perfect Christmas treat with the crushed candy canes paired with chocolate. This is your traditional shortbread all dressed up.
Cranberry Orange Biscotti
Flavored with orange zest, dried cranberries and toasted pistachios, these Italian biscotti cookies are perfect to dunk into your favorite drink and a great addition to your holiday cookie plate!
Cinnamon Roll Cookies With Cream Cheese Glaze
These Cinnamon Roll Cookies with Cream Cheese Glaze are a fun twist on a classic treat! A great option for your Christmas cookie swap, everyone will love these delicious desserts!