More than 150 Cookie Recipes in time for the holidays! The list includes all kinds of cookies perfect for holiday trays or gift giving!
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150+ Cookie Recipes for the holidays
With Christmas just around the corner, nothing could be easier than starting to bake batches of your favorite holiday cookies ahead of time and freezing them for those busy days leading up to Christmas or for you and the family to treat yourselves any time of the year – why not?!
This list of more than 150 cookie recipes can be enjoyed fresh out of the oven or made ahead of time in preparation for the busy holiday season so that you don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen to satisfy those cookie addicts in the house. Cookies also make fantastic baked gifts, some not even requiring the use of your oven!
Thanks to some help from my bloggy friends, I’ve gathered up more than 150 of them for you! You’re sure to find the perfect cookies! Enjoy!
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More than 150 Cookie Recipes in time for the holidays
150+ Cookie Recipes
With Christmas just around the corner, nothing could be easier than starting to bake batches of your favorite holiday cookies ahead of time and freezing them for those busy days leading up to Christmas or for you and the family to treat yourselves any time of the year - why not?!
This list of more than 150 cookie recipes can be enjoyed fresh out of the oven or made ahead of time in preparation for the busy holiday season so that you don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen to satisfy those cookie addicts in the house. Cookies also make fantastic baked gifts, some not even requiring the use of your oven!
Thanks to some help from my bloggy friends, I’ve gathered up more than 150 of them for you! You’re sure to find the perfect cookies! Enjoy!
Cute and Creative Christmas Cookies
What makes Christmas just a little bit sweeter? Well, cookies of course! Here are some creative Christmas cookies for you to enjoy...
No Bake Christmas Wreath Cookies
These No-Bake Christmas Wreath Cookies are very easy to make! A fun and festive treat for the holidays and cookie swaps.
Grinch Cookies
These colorful and festive Grinch Cookies are super fun and easy to make! They're sure to be a favorite at Christmas cookie exchanges and other holiday parties.
Easy Melted Snowman Cookies
Melted Snowman Cookies are a fun and easy way to get the kids baking with you. You only need 6 ingredients to make these adorable and festive cookies.
Reindeer Cookies
Reindeer Cookies are a festive recipe made with brownie sandwich cookies, frosting, pretzels, chocolate candies, and candy eyes! The best part about these treats is the whole family can help with the decorating!
Christmas Tree Decorated Oreo Cookies
These Christmas Tree Oreos are so cute and easy to make. They are fun to decorate with the family!
20-Minute Vegan Matcha Cookies With White Chocolate
Macha cookies are green and perfect to celebrate Christmas because they are so cute and festive. The white chocolate adds another layer of flavor and they are so delicious.
Crockpot Christmas Candy
Crockpot Christmas Candy Cookies is festive, fun, and so easy to make! All that's needed are 4 simple ingredients and a few minutes of hands-on time and a crockpot to whip up these delectable candy clusters.
Christmas Cookie Sticks Recipe
If you’re looking for a Christmas cookie recipe that’s as fun as it is versatile, these Christmas Cookie Sticks might be just what you’re looking for!
Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies are a necessity for the holidays. These are some of the most delicious recipes you have to try...
Lemon Poppy Seed Shortbread Cookies
Soft, crumbly, tangy, and crunchy, these Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies are super easy to make and delicious to snack on all day long! Enjoy your favorite shortbread cookies with a cup of tea or as a sweet snack!
Ma'amul Cookies
Ma’amul is crumbly shortbread style biscuits made with semolina and/or flour which are stuffed with nuts or dates and daintily decorated either by use of intricate molds or by hand painstakingly with tweezers. They are most often associated with Eid al-Fitr but are perfect at any time.
Sugared Shortbread
Sugared Shortbread cookies are the perfect lightly sweetened, tender, and buttery cookies for enjoying any time of the day.
Maple Bacon Cookies - Easy Shortbreads You'll Love
There's something so decadent about maple bacon shortbread cookies. They are rich and buttery yet so easy to make.
Olive Oil Rosemary Shortbread
Tender Olive Oil Rosemary Shortbread is a sweet and savory cookie that everyone will love!
Easy Mexican Wedding Cookies (aka Snowball Cookies)
The irresistible cookies are ultra buttery, crumbly, and nutty – the perfect shortbread cookie for any occasion.
Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies are a fruity twist on a classic cookie! Crunchy, tart, and rich, everyone will love them!
Candy-Dipped Shortbread Cookies
Melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies hand-dipped in melted vanilla almond bark and sprinkled with crushed candy and sprinkles!
White Chocolate Dipped Coffee Shortbread Cookies
These White Chocolate Dipped Coffee Shortbread Cookies are delicious, elegant holiday shortbread cookies made with real coffee and dipped in white chocolate. Perfect for cookie swaps, teacher gifts, or a sweet ending to your holiday dinner!
Snow Capped Pecan Shortbread Cookies
These snow-capped pecan shortbread cookies are fairly quick and easy to make but absolutely delicious!
Whipped Shortbread Cookies (Christmas Cookies)
If you are searching for easy Shortbread Cookies, look no further! These buttery and melt in your mouth soft whipped Shortbread Cookies got you covered.
Nut and Nut Butter Cookies
Here are some Nut and Nut Butter Cookies recipes for you to enjoy. You will love these...
Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies
These Almond Flour and Peanut Butter Cookies make absolutely delicious treats that are surprisingly vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and made with no eggs. They make the best healthy snack the whole family will love!
Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies are AMAZING!
Some call them Peanut Butter Hershey Kisses Cookies while others call them Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies. Call them what you like, they are perfect year-round or perfect for a tasty traditional Christmas cookie. The dough requires no chilling, so it can be made quickly!
Fluffernutter Cookies
Fluffernutter Cookies mimic the infamous sandwich with peanut butter and marshmallow. It is so soft and gooey, and definitely a crowd-pleaser!
3-Ingredient Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
The classic American cookie now with a gluten-free, vegan, grain-free, keto, & sugar-free recipe! These healthy 3-Ingredient Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are so quick & easy to make and taste just like grandmas!
Best Old Fashioned Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies
Best Old Fashioned Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies are simple homemade peanut butter cookies made with no eggs but taste just like the classic peanut butter cookies you remember from your childhood.
Peanut Butter Cup Explosion Cookies
Size-able Peanut butter cookies are generously loaded with mini peanut butter cups and peanut butter baking chips, having the perfect balance of sweet and salty! You’ll be in absolute PB heaven!
White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Macadamia Nuts
These rich, chewy cookies are filled with macadamia nuts, oatmeal, and white chocolate. With minimal decorating, the cookies turn out looking pretty and enticing to eat!
Chinese Almond Cookies
These are super simple crumbly Chinese Almond Cookies. They’re small bite-sized treats that taste delicious!
Vanillekipferl (Austrian Vanilla Crescent Cookies)
These Vanillekipferl (Austrian Vanilla Crescent Cookies) will simply melt in your mouth! They are crumbly and decadent with a base of almonds and tons of vanilla flavor.
Gluten-free Almond Thumbprint Cookies
A healthy and festive cookie for the holidays. Gluten-free almond thumbprint with cranberry chia jam.
Gluten-Free Almond Cookies
These five-ingredient cookies are so simple to prepare, and happen to be both gluten and dairy-free! Perfect with a cup of coffee.
Almond Bar Cookies
Almond Bar Cookies are a delicious, fast, and easy cookie to make.
The perfect holiday cookie: Almond & Hazelnut Snow Cookies
A classic recipe gets a makeover for the holidays: these Almond & Hazelnut Snow Cookies are gluten-free, oil-free, egg-free, dairy-free but oh so chocolatey & delicious, and perfect for the holidays!
Keto Almond Flour Linzer Cookies
Gluten-free almond flour cookies. Having a food intolerance does not mean one has to miss out on delicious sweet treats. These cookies are delicious, gluten-free, and sugar-free.
Basler Brunsli (Swiss chocolate almond cookies)
Basler brunsli is a traditional Swiss Christmas cookie made with almonds, chocolate, and a touch of spice. You might need to wait for a little bit, but these cookies are easy, naturally gluten-free, and deliciously good.
Italian Almond Paste Cookies
These Italian almond cookies are easy to make and are delicious- perfect as Christmas gifts!
Vanilla Almond Crescent Cookies
Nutty, sweet with a touch of bitter dark chocolate, these Vanilla Almond Crescent Cookies are a perfect Holiday treat. Made wholegrain and without refined sugars, these healthy cookies are guilt-free and super yummy.
Keto Chocolate Pecan Cookies (2.8g Net Carbs)
These chocolate pecan cookies are crunchy, sweet, and low carb! They're so easy to make you can get your kids involved and get baking!
Insanely Delicious Turtle Cookies
The classic flavors of turtle candy- chocolate, pecans, and caramel resulting in soft and insanely delicious Turtle Cookies.
Perfect Southern Pecan Praline Cookies
Brown sugar pecan cookies topped with a praline icing drizzle (or dunk!) for a delicious cookie spin on the classic Southern candy. Make sure to hide some for yourself, they’re irresistible!
Pecan Sandies
Pecan Sandies are the perfect bite of delicious cookies and nuts. They're rolled in sugar, which makes them look like winter snowballs.
Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies (with White Chocolate Chips)
These double chocolate pecan cookies are rich, chocolatey, and packed with sweet white chocolate chips and chopped pecans.
Easy Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies with Nuts Recipe
These easy Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies with Nuts Recipe are an old fashioned and classic cookie! The crumbly, sweet cookies taste delicious with raspberry or cherry jam, or even chocolate icing!
Pecan Sugar Cookies Recipe
Chopped up pecans mixed throughout melt in your mouth pecan sugar cookies topped with a brown butter icing makes these hard to resist.
Pecan Pie Cookies Recipe with Cream cheese Cookie base
Easy to make, so soft with sweet and sticky pecan filling - these Pecan Pie Cookies may just be your most favorite Holiday Cookie recipe yet!
Walnut Crescent Cookies
These crescent cookies will taste like a nuttier friend of a shortbread cookie. The ground walnuts give them a moister texture so they are crumbly in a melt-in-your-mouth way finished with a dust of powdered sugar.
Fudge Dipped Pecan Crescent Cookies
Buttery cookies with bits of pecans are shaped into crescents and dipped in a chocolate coating for a perfect combination. These cookies have been favorites in our family for generations!
Ultimate Turtle Cookies
These Ultimate Turtle Cookies are pure heaven when you take that first bite. Chocolate, nuts, and caramel practically melt in your mouth.
Pumpkin Cookies
Everyone loves Pumpkin Cookies. Here are some recipes you are sure to enjoy...
Healthy Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies
Warm paleo pumpkin cookies are bursting with mini chocolate chips in every bite! These cookies are the perfect healthy holiday treat for pumpkin season!
Keto Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cookies
Looking for a pumpkin spice season cookie that won’t affect your waistline? Well, these keto pumpkin cream cheese cookies are exactly what you need.
Fluffy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
This Fluffy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is moist and the cookies are picture-perfect, the kind you can gift.
Gluten Free Pumpkin Sweet Patties (Vegan)
This is one of the best gluten-free and dairy-free recipes and Thanksgiving recipes the whole family will enjoy! It is very easy to make, super delicious, and healthy! These delicious vegan desserts are excellent kid-friendly snacks for every season!
Healthy Pumpkin Whoopie Pie
Delicious but healthy pumpkin whoopie pie has no refined sugar and makes the perfect addition to any holiday gathering.
Ginger Cookies
Ginger Cookies are a great addition to your Holiday meals. They go well with Eggnog and other favorite beverages. Here are some ideas for you...
English Ginger Biscuits – Cornish Fairings
These Cornish Fairings (English Ginger Biscuits) recipe is easy to make and tastes delicious. They are great at tea time or elevenses.
Crispy, Snappy Gingersnap Cookies
These cookies put the ‘snap’ in gingersnap! Not only are they full of spicy ginger flavor and warm spices, but they’ve also got plenty of that classic, true gingersnap crispness with a gentle, chewy middle. The perfect holiday and cold weather cookie that goes great with a latte, a cup of hot chocolate, or a mug of warm tea.
Perníčky (Czech Gingerbread Cookies)
While gingerbread is king around the holidays, these Perníčky (Czech Gingerbread Cookies) are a fun way to try a delicious variation using different spices!
Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan)
The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don’t have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
These Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies are must make cookies for the Holidays. Made with only a few simple ingredients, loaded with chunks of dark chocolate and fresh ginger flavor, these little beauties are delicious sweet treats.
No-Bake Gingerbread Date Balls
Easy little no-bake treats that take just minutes to make and will disappear even faster! Filled with yummy, holiday gingerbread flavor, they’re indulgent enough to nibble for dessert or add to festive cookie trays, yet nutritious enough for snacking, too!
Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies
The ultimate chewy ginger molasses cookies that are crispy and cracked on the outside with a chewy inside.
Homemade Decadent Holiday Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
Take a classic whoopie pie and give it a gingerbread twist for the holidays! Soft, airy, moist gingerbread cookies bookend a rich cream cheese filling in a combination that's both classic and unique.
Pfeffernusse (German Spice Cookies)
German Spice Cookies (Pfeffernusse) are an easy iced gingerbread cookie recipe passed down through generations ~ delicious!
Candy Cane Cookies
Candy Canes are a huge favorite at Christmas time. So are these cookies! Here are a few recipes you are going to enjoy...
Christmas Candy Cane Cookies
Easy Christmas Candy Cane Cookies are sugar cookies coated with red and green sprinkles and topped with candy cane Kisses. It’s the perfect minty bite of cookie for Christmas!
Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies with Peppermint Frosting
Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies with Peppermint Frosting are all about the Christmas flavors! Once you try these you won’t go back!
Candy Cane Amish Sugar Cookies
These candy cane Amish sugar cookies are simple to make, with no rolling required! Crushed candy canes are the perfect holiday topping for these melt in your mouth sugar cookies.
Fruity Cookies
Fruity Cookies are a holiday staple. Check out these cookie recipes for some delicious Fruity taste...
Kolacky Apricot & Raspberry Cookies
Kolacky apricot & raspberry cookies are delicate pillows of pastry made with cream cheese, filled with fruit, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. They’re perfect for the holidays!
One Net Carb Soft Jello Holiday Cookies
These one net carb Soft Jello Holiday Cookies are low carb, gluten-free, soft, pleasantly fruity, and colorful!
Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
Delicious strawberry shortcake cookies that are so fluffy!! Use frozen strawberries with a bit of lemon to bring out some vibrant fruity notes!
Eggless Tutti Frutti Cookies
These are egg-free sweet, nutty, melt-in-mouth cookies studded with candied fruits that are to die for!
Gluten-Free Vegan Lemon Cookies
These Gluten-Free Vegan Lemon Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy, and perfectly tangy. They’re covered in a rich, creamy lemon frosting too! A delicious sweet treat for Thanksgiving or Christmas!
Cranberry Cookies Recipe
These cranberry cookies are the PERFECT holiday cookie recipe for Christmas this year! They’re moist, delicious, and full of that perfect holiday flavor.
20-Minute Vegan White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
These white chocolate cranberry cookies are vegan so that all can enjoy them. They are so delicious and sure to be a fan favorite at every event.
Bakery Style Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies
Thick, chewy, and perfectly soft, these Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies are the perfect weekend baked treat or holiday cookie recipe.
Raspberry Chocolate Cookies
These beautiful cookies have the perfect combination of raspberries and chocolate. Yummy!
Linzer Cookies
Soft, buttery, and rich. These Linzer cookies are a delight at every bite and a must-have for the holidays.
Kolachy cookies
Kolache cookies are an easy mix of a cream cheese pastry folded over a jam filling. They’re as tasty as they are pretty, and a great addition to your cookie plate.
Coconut Cookies
Coconut Cookies just make Christmas dinner taste better. How can you be without them! Here are some Coconut Cookies you will be glad you found...
How to Make ANZAC Biscuits - Vegan & Gluten Free Recipe
ANZAC biscuits are a must-try delicious Aussie cookie. They have an amazing coconut buttery flavor.
Lazy Keto Shredded Coconut Cookies
These lazy shredded coconut cookies are a favorite amongst many- both kids and adults! They're sweet, flavorful and so easy to munch on!
Coquito Cookies Coconut Spiced Cookies
Coquito cookies bring two-holiday favorites together that creates the chewiest, tastiest, and most unique coconut cookie recipe you've ever tried!
Grandma Coco's Coconut Macaroons
These Coconut Macaroons are simple to make and so tasty! Drizzle them with chocolate, add some nuts, or make them plain.
Cake-like Cookies
How doesn't love cake, or cookies? Here are some cake-like cookies that are sure to please everyone at your party, or holiday meals...
My All Time Favorite Cranberry Bliss Cake Mix Cookies Recipe for Cookie Exchanges!
These cake mix cookies whip up in under 30 minutes and result in perfect cranberry bliss perfection. These are ideal for cookie exchanges, parties, and eating by the fire.
Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
These Mint Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are so delicious! With just 4 ingredients for the cookies and 1 ingredient for frosting, these cookies can be thrown together in minutes!
Peppermint Patty Stuffed Cookies (Just 4 Ingredients!!!)
These 4-ingredient peppermint patty cookies are easy to make using boxed chocolate cake mix and a few other simple ingredients.
Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
These Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies are super easy to make and absolutely delicious! With crunchy sprinkles and soft cookies, it doesn't get better than this!
Double Chocolate Crunch Cookies
Cake mix and crispy rice cereal give these cookies an amazing chocolatey taste and wonderful texture!
St. Louis Style Gooey Butter Cake Cookies
The best, simple holiday cake cookie recipe! These Gooey Butter Cake Cookies are sweet, buttery, and super moist. These cookies are perfect for the Christmas cookie season.
Italian Christmas Cookies
Italian Christmas Cookies are a delicious cake-like cookie with a hint of anise and sweet sugar glaze. This easy cookie recipe is great to serve any time of the year.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies are so hard to live without. One of the most-common cookies in the world. Here are some cookie recipes you will love...
Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sweet, chewy, buttery cookies enriched with brown sugar and browned butter. These cookies are the ultimate in homemade Americana. Pair with a glass of iced cold milk for the ultimate All American treat.
Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies use both butter and cream cheese to keep them soft!
Magnolia Table Chocolate Chip Cookies
These chocolate chip cookies from Joanna Gaines’ cookbook Magnolia Table are simply amazing! Thick and chewy with perfectly crisp edges, they are a serious contender for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Easy Recipe for Delicious Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies (also Gluten Free!)
These 15-minute vegan chocolate chip cookies are downright addictive, and they couldn’t be easier to make! As a bonus, they are gluten-free, as they are made with oats, and they have no oils and no sugar added.
Chewy White Chocolate Chip Guava Cookies
Chewy Guava White Chocolate Chip Cookies is the perfect chewy cookie recipe that your family and friends will love to be gifted with this holiday season!
Double chocolate chip cookie sandwich
This double chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich is the chocolate lover’s dream come true! Large soft and chewy double chocolate chip cookies with cookies and cream ice cream filling create the perfect balance in a giant chipwich that's begging to be made.
White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cranberries
Dotted with the tang of cranberries and the sweetness of white chocolate chips, these chewy morsels are perfect for a holiday cookie exchange.
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies
The BEST soft chocolate chip cookies baked in the air fryer. The problem is you can’t just stop at one air fryer cookie.
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
A mix of sweet and sour cherries are a fun surprise in soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies, flavored with almond. These are the perfect addition to any cookie tray!
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe So Good You'll Forget it's GF
This gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe produces a gooey, soft cookie so good that you won’t realize it’s coeliac safe. They are as good as any traditional chocolate chip cookie.
Best Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies – How to Make Dessert Low Carb
The best keto chocolate chip cookies are warm and gooey on the inside and light and crisp on the outside! They're also one of the easiest low carb desserts to make! You can throw them together in 1 bowl in just 10 minutes!
Eggless chocolate chip cookies (Best eggless cookie recipe)
This is the best cookie recipe made without eggs. You will not realize that it has no eggs in it. Trust me, you will fall in love with these cookies.
Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies are a favorite all year long. They are a sure favorite for the holidays. Here are some delicious recipes for you to make...
The Best Keto Sugar Cookies
If you’re watching your sugar intake this holiday season, try these keto sugar cookies.
Copycat Great American Cookies Sugar Cookies
These copycat Great American sugar cookies are perfect for your holiday cookie tray! They taste just like the real thing.
Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies
These homemade lemon sugar cookies are perfectly soft and chewy! Bursting with fresh lemon flavor, you’ll love these bright citrus cookies!
Gluten Free Vegan Sugar Cookies for Cut Outs (No Chill!)
These NO CHILL gluten-free vegan sugar cookies for cutouts make the perfect sugar cookies to decorate! They taste delicious and are so easy to make.
Frosted Drop Sugar Cookies
It's not Christmas at our house until these easy, delicious sugar cookies are baked.
Christmas Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you’re looking for a recipe for perfect sugar cookies this holiday season, then this recipe has you covered! These delicious but easy Christmas sour cream sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting are light and fluffy, and they are perfect for cutting into fun shapes with cookie cutters!
Grandma Charlotte’s Old Fashioned Sugar Cookie Recipe
Made with an old-timey dough and an old-timey recipe, these Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies blow any modern recipes out of the water!
Homemade Sugar Cookies
These cookies freeze exceptionally well, and if you pick the right kind of frosting, it will slightly harden to the cookie, making them even easier to pack away. It’s so hard to eat just one, in fact, you might want to make a double batch. But who’s counting or judging?!
Peppermint & Mint Cookies
The holidays just wouldn't be the same without Peppermint and Mint cookies. You will agree once you taste these...
Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies – Gluten Free and Vegan
The warmth of a cup of hot chocolate and the zing of a little peppermint, all in a cookie. It puts it together with all of the flavors, but none of the sugar crashes. Eat it, dunk it and take it to a cookie exchange.
Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
This is a minty twist on the holiday crinkle cookie! Christmas won’t be the same with these Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies! Gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free- a perfect dessert recipe for kids, adults, and Santa too!
Vegan White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free)
The perfect holiday cookie recipe that tastes just like Christmas! These Vegan White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are gluten-free, allergy-free, and full of dairy-free white chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candies! Easy and delicious, they’re a fun addition to your seasonal cookie swap and dessert platters!
Easy Peppermint Bark Cookies
These Peppermint Bark Cookies bring together everything you love about shortbread AND everything you love about peppermint bark in one bite!
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Take your candy canes and bake them right into a delicious, chewy chocolate chip cookie! The peppermint will give them a perfect holiday feel!
Spiced Cookies
Spiced Cookies are a favorite tradition for the holidays. Here are some delicious recipes...
Pfeffernüsse (German Iced Spice Cookies)
Pfeffernüsse (German Iced Spice Cookies) is filled with so many incredible warm spices- they are truly irresistible!
Honey Cinnamon Cookies
Crispy, sweet, and utterly delicious, these Honey Cinnamon Cookies are a perfect Holiday treat. These cookies are made with wholesome ingredients, wholegrain, and without refined sugars. A totally guilt free sweet treat.
Painless Turmeric Holiday Spice Balls
No-bake Turmeric Spice Ball cookies that are great as a natural pain reliever as well as being delicious!
Warm Spiced and Buttery Holiday Cookies
These easy-to-make cookies combine all the spices and warm flavors of a cozy winter Holiday treat! They taste buttery, soft, and have that light crumble - perfect for dipping in your favorite cup of hot beverage!
German Christmas Cookies: Lebkuchen
This is an authentic recipe of the most popular German cookies: spicy, soft, and incredibly flavorful. Give them as gifts to your family and friends!
Cardamom Spritz Cookies
These easy Scandinavian Christmas cookies are so quick and easy to make that you can easily get the kids involved.
Spiced Orange Chocolate Linzer Cookies
Flavored with cinnamon and cardamom and filled with an orange chocolate ganache, these Linzer cookies make a beautiful and delicious treat for the Holidays.
Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint Cookies are so fun to make. They are also fun to eat! Here are a few recipes you will enjoy...
Bird’s Nest Cookies (Thumbprint Cookies)
These classic cookies are a Christmas tradition that always disappears quickly! They're so much fun to make with kids, which means you can have quality time and quality cookies all in one swoop.
Amazing White Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies Are Gluten-Free
Just because you can't have gluten doesn't mean you don't have to suffer tasteless cookies. Frankly, these are so good you can serve them to everyone and they will never notice the difference!
Vegan Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies (Paleo)
Deliciously rich and lush vegan salted caramel thumbprint cookies that are undetectably Paleo and gluten-free! The perfect healthy and allergen friendly Christmas cookie!
Crunchy Cookies
Are you ready for delicious Crunchy Cookies? Try these recipes, and see for yourself...
Classic Crunchy Christmas Cookies
These classic cookies are a crunchy favorite. They're perfect for dipping in milk, coffee, icing, or your favorite sweet spread! You can either drop some sprinkles over them before baking or wait until they cool off and try your hand at decorating with frosting.
Frostbite Cookies
Frostbite cookies are the perfect combination of everything you'd want in a cookie. They have just a hint of peppermint with a sweet buttery crunch that melts in your mouth.
Dark Chocolate Florentine Cookies (Nut-Free)
These Easy Nut-Free Florentine Cookies dipped in Dark Chocolate are the Cookies Recipe you didn’t know you needed in your life… but won’t be able to live without anymore! Chewy yet crunchy, sweet and bitter, they are the best little sweet treat for the Holiday season – and the rest of the year!
Oatmeal Cookies
Check out these recipes for some of the best Oatmeal Cookies on the planet...
Old Fashioned Oatmeal Carrot Cookies
Old Fashioned Oatmeal Carrot Cookies are great for a lightly sweet dessert when you’ve got that craving for your grandma’s oatmeal cookies.
Grandma Coco's Oatmeal Craisin Cinnamon Chip Cookies
These delicious oatmeal cookies are full of cinnamon chips and craisins. This will become a favorite!
Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Healthy, Easy, & Oil-Free)
Soft, chewy, and full of flavor, these easy Vegan Oatmeal Raisin Cookies make a delicious dessert–or a healthy breakfast. Since they’re oil and refined sugar-free you can feel good about eating them any time of day!
Snowball Cookies
Here are some Snowball Cookie recipes for you. Hope you enjoy...
Vegan Snowball Cookies
Make your holiday complete with these festive Vegan Snowball Cookies. They are light, crisp, buttery, and coated in sugary heaven! Plus, they require just 7 simple ingredients and take 25 minutes to make.
Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
Melt-in-your-mouth cookies dusted with powdered sugar and filled with little bursts of chocolate!
Easy Cream Cheese Snowball Cookies
These Cream Cheese Snowball Cookies are a fun twist to a traditional favorite. Some call them Russian Tea Cookies, some call them Italian Wedding Cookies, but regardless they are delicious and easy snowball cookies!
Chocolate Cookies
Are you ready for a decadent Chocolate Cookie? Here are some really delicious cookie recipes...
Air Fryer Smartie Cookies
Learn how to make a smartie cookie in the air fryer in just 10 minutes! It’s perfect if you want an easy to follow chocolate smarties cookie recipe.
Cocoa Confetti Cookies
Chocolate frosting is sandwiched between these delicious cocoa-flavored cookies before they’re rolled in sprinkles!
Incredibly Easy No Bake Chocolate Cookies
Short on time? Try these incredibly easy no-bake chocolate cookies. They're vegan too.
Delicious Hot Cocoa Cookies
These Hot Cocoa Cookies pack in all the flavors of a cup of hot cocoa in one ooey-gooey bite! They are crunchy, chocolaty, gooey cookies that are just full of rich chocolate flavor.
Vegan Chocolate and Coffee cookies
These vegan cookies are made with all the delicious things like chocolate, coffee, and chocolate chips. They are very easy to make and a must-try by every chocolate or coffee lover.
Delicious Snickers Cookies to Please Any Crowd
Packed full of Snickers, these cookies really do taste like a candy bar! You don't want to miss these!
Holiday Double Chocolate Cookies Recipe
These Holiday Double Chocolate Cookies are not only great for get-togethers, but you’ll find that they are great throughout the holiday season.
Incredibly Easy S’mores Cookies Recipe
These easy cookies are so rich and decadent! Perfect for the holidays and feeding a hungry crowd, or a cookie exchange.
Brownie Buckeye Cookies {Christmas Cookies}
Buckeye candy is a popular Christmas candy but you’ll love to make them into cookies! Make these Brownie Buckeye Cookies this holiday season!
Kiss Crinkle Cookies
Kiss Crinkle Cookies with Hershey Kisses. These cookies are great to share with friends, neighbors, & family during the holiday season.
The BEST Santa Cookies!
If you need cookies for Santa this year, these Christmas M&M Cookies are going to be his favorite. The dough resembles that of chocolate chip cookies but, instead of chips, add red and green M&M candies. Kids and St. Nick will love them!
Cowboy Cookies with M&Ms and Pretzels
Cowboy Cookies with M&Ms and Pretzels have Red and Green M&Ms, crushed pretzels, coconut, and pecans! These sweet, chewy cookies are sure to become a favorite for your holiday baking list!
Other Cookies
See these delicious and fantastic cookie ideas for your next holiday gift tray...
Cheese Sables Recipe
This delicious and easy cheese sables recipe gives you some wonderful crumbly savory cheese cookies. These are perfect for your pre-Xmas dinner drinks.
Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe
These crinkly Molasses Cookies add old fashioned flair to the holidays.
Krumkake Recipe (a Delicious Cardamom Cookie)
This krumkake recipe makes light, crispy, delicate, golden wafer cookies rolled into a traditional cone shape. They are traditionally flavored with cardamom and vanilla but can be made in many different flavors if you want to experiment.
Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti Recipe
Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray. Homemade biscotti is so easy to make, and so delicious!
Eggnog Cookies
Eggnog Cookies are a fun twist to the classic snickerdoodle cookie. This easy holiday cookie recipe is soft, chewy, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.
Sugar Swirl Cookies
These red and green swirl cookies are perfect for a Christmas cookie tray. They're also almost too pretty to eat. Almost!
Unicorn Poop Meringue Cookies
Add a little whimsy to your cookie platter with these rainbow meringues.
Corn Flakes Cookies
This recipe for Corn Flakes Cookies is a super easy, light and crisp, meringue cookie made with corn flakes and a hint of vanilla.
Italian Rainbow Cookies
Tri-colored Italian Rainbow Cookies are as pretty as they are delicious.
Moscato Truffles
These simple no-bake holiday truffles are the perfect quick solution when you need a festive little addition to your cookie tray.
Poinsettia Cookies
Include some poinsettia cookies on your holiday cookie tray this year! They are festive and customizable to your preferred colors.
The BEST Classic Snickerdoodles
Loaded with great cinnamon flavor and tang, and baked up pillowy-soft, these Snickerdoodles are the real deal. And those cinnamon and Snickerdoodle lovers in your life will be ever thankful to you for it.
Holiday Vanilla Pudding Cake Cookies
These Holiday Vanilla Pudding Cake Cookies are the perfect treat for Christmas! Made with items you probably already have in your pantry, they’re simple enough for the kids to leave for Santa and no one would guess they came from a box!
Originally published on December 15, 2014. Updated on November 17, 2020.
Linda Nortje
This is a show stopper round-up, Jamie ! Thanks for including my recipes 🙂 Pinned and shared on G+
Deb Attinella {CookingOnTheFrontBurner}
What a wonderful round-up of cookies Jamie!!! Now I just need to get baking! Pinned and shared! Thanks for including me!
Nancy Piran
What a great collections! Thanks for adding my cookies to this!
Melissa Bo
Thanks for sharing all of these great cookie recipes!
Perfect for Holiday Gift giving!
Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog
So many beautiful Cookie recipes! Thank you for including my Christmas Fudgy Crinkles! Nettie
Michelle Nahom
This is an incredible collection, Jamie!! I never know what to make at the holidays…but there is tons of choices here! Thanks for including mine too! 🙂 Pinning and sharing!
Terri
Really great recipes thanks for sharing