What is better than the scent of freshly baked cookies filling the air during the holiday season? This list of 100 Christmas Cookies has it all from Buttery Spritz Cookies to Christmas Sugar Cookies to Pecan Snowballs. Whether you are making a single batch of cookies or a tray of cookies, this list is sure to have a cookie for everyone.
Cookies are a favorite among everyone, especially during the holiday season. This list is full of unique cookies that bring out your inner child to more traditional cookies that you typically see on cookie trays during Christmas time.
Here in the Pilgreen Household we love baking simple sugar cookies, cutting them out in various Christmas themed shapes and icing them. We make them for our family Christmas dinner where each kid gets a custom sugar cookie with their name on it. Coming together as a family to decorate cookies has become a tradition that we all love and will cherish forever.
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
These peppermint chocolate chip cookies are a holiday twist on a classic chocolate chip cookie! Loaded with candy cane pieces and lots of chocolate chips, they are sure to be your new favorite Christmas cookie.
No Bake Christmas Peanut Butter Ritz Crackers
These No Bake Christmas Peanut Butter Ritz Crackers are one of my family’s favorite no bake treats. Buttery Ritz crackers, creamy peanut butter, almond bark and sprinkles, is all you need to make these delicious Christmas “cookies”.
Hot Chocolate Cookies
These Hot Chocolate cookies are dripping in chocolatey goodness and sprinkled with gooey bites of marshmallow fluff.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
A classic cookie recipe worth keeping in your recipe book. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are rich, fudgy and super simple to make. Rolled in powdered sugar for a beautiful, crinkled effect.
Classic Buttery Spritz Cookies
Tender, buttery Spritz Cookies are so fun to make and come in the prettiest shapes! Dip them in glaze or sprinkle them before baking for a festive, easy cookie!
Polar Bear Paw Cookies
Get ready to embark on a sweet Arctic adventure with our Polar Bear Paw Cookies. These adorable, sugar-dusted treats are a fun and delicious addition to your winter festivities. Perfect for baking with kids and sharing warm moments by the fire.
Red Velvet Cookies
These Red Velvet Cookies are perfectly, soft, chewy and just downright delicious! No cake-mix and no chilling required, just a straightforward cookie recipe that hits the spot.
Festive Gingerbread Eggnog Cookies
Festive Gingerbread Eggnog Cookies are the perfect combination of two holiday favorites – gingerbread and eggnog.
Pecan Snowballs
Buttery, tender and full of toasted pecans, these Pecan Snowballs are the perfect little bite. This classic shortbread cookie is a must have for any holiday cookie tray.
3D Stacked Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
This fun recipe for 3D stacked Christmas tree sugar cookies is a great project for Christmas time when you’re in a baking mood. The tree shapes are made of sugar cookie dough and feature green frosting. These Christmas sugar cookies really are easy to make!
Snowflake Gingerbread Cookies
These gorgeous snowflake gingerbread cookies are soft, chewy and perfectly spiced! They’re definitely the most quintessential Christmas treat!
Easy Wreath Cookies
These easy wreath cookies are a semi-homemade dream. Premade sugar cookie dough is decorated with icing to make a cute wreath look.
Christmas Sugar Cookies
Christmas Sugar Cookies are made using simple ingredients and a cookie cutter. Use a simple roll out sugar cookie and royal icing.
Christmas M&M Sprinkle Cookies
These festive Christmas M&M Sprinkle Cookies are perfect for holiday cookies trays, Christmas parties or Santa’s cookie plate. This cookie dough is loaded with red and green M&Ms, sprinkles and two different types of chocolate chips!
Grinch Crinkle Cookies
Grinch Crinkle Cookies – Looking for the ultimate Christmas cookies recipe? Look no further! These cute and festive Grinch Cookies are the perfect holiday baking project that will grow your heart three times.
Christmas Crumbl Sugar Cookies
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.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best chocolate chip cookie recipe! Perfectly soft center with a lightly crisp outside. This recipe belongs in your recipe book.
Kolaczki Cookies
These traditional Polish cookies are made with cream cheese dough and filled with fruit filling or jam. Deliciously tender, these little morsels practically melt in your mouth.
Reindeer Cookies
These easy Reindeer Cookies with pretzel antlers are fun, festive, and delicious! Made with a homemade peanut butter cookie, they are a hit every time! These can be made ahead of time and are freezer friendly!
Flourless Peanut Butter Blossoms
A new twist on the holiday classic peanut butter blossoms is not only delicious but also completely flourless! Everyone loves the combo of chewy peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s kiss on top! They are gluten-free, grain-free, and dairy-free.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
These are the best chocolate gingerbread cookies and are perfect for icing with Christmas frosting and decorating. This homemade recipe is chewy, crisp, spiced, and mellow. With hints of cocoa, cinnamon, clove, and molasses all the flavors of the holidays are so tasty.
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
No Who down in Who-ville can resist the mesmerizing swirls of Christmas Pinwheel Cookies rolled in nonpareil sprinkles for an extra festive touch! These swirly treats are sure to be the talk of your next cookie exchange!
Simple and Delicious Chai Cookies
They cookies are soft, not too sweet and full of fall flavor!
Christmas Monster Cookies
These Christmas Monster Cookies are loaded with tons of yummy oats, peanut butter, M&Ms and more! They are the perfect Christmas treat to make this holiday season.
Christmas Sandwich Cookies
Delicious buttercream frosting sandwiched between two soft and chewy cookies and adorned with Christmas sprinkles. These Christmas Sandwich Cookies are perfect for celebrating the holiday season!
Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Meringue Cookies
Chocolate dipped peppermint meringue kiss Christmas cookies are so easy to make. If you are in the mood for holiday meringue cookies, you can’t go wrong with dipped meringue kisses. You will love the combination of meringue, chocolate and candy cane.
Cranberry Orange Cookies
This cookie is delightful combination of fresh cranberries and orange with a crunchy sugary edge.
Soft Frosted Christmas Cookies
Make a batch of soft frosted Christmas cookies this holiday season. Thick, soft sugar cookies are topped with a layer of sweet homemade buttercream frosting. The perfect cookie for the holidays, and easy to customize for any time of year.
Cherry Cheesecake Cookies
Tender cheesecake cookies filled with cherry pie filling.
Haystack Cookies
Haystack Cookies with Peanut Butter and crunchy chow mein noodles are a delicious variation of our normal no bake Haystack cookies with just butterscotch chips. These haystack cookies combine creamy peanut butter with baking chips to create a really rich and amazing cookie that can be ready to enjoy in literally minutes.
Old Fashioned Ginger Snap Cookies
These Old Fashioned Ginger Snap Cookies are perfectly spiced with hints of cinnamon, ginger, and molasses. The dough is rolled in sugar before baking for a bit of added sweetness. These soft and chewy cookies melt in your mouth – each bite full of flavor! And this easy recipe has a baking time of only 8 minutes.
Pistachio Biscotti Dipped in Dark Chocolate
These classic Italian cookies are crispy, twice-baked delights that are loaded with salty pistachios and dunked in dark chocolate. They are perfect with your morning coffee, for a low-maintenance dessert or in a Christmas cookie box.
Christmas Blossom Cookies
Bake festive red and green blossom cookies with white chocolate blossoms. They add color and fun to your tray of Christmas cookies.
Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
Perfect for a chocolatey treat or a holiday cookie tray. These Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies are the perfect combination of chewy, chocolatey and nutty.
Santa’s Whiskers Cookies Recipe
Santa’s Whiskers Cookies – A classic slice and bake Christmas cookie studded with candies cherries and pecans, and rolled in coconut. These are delicious, flavorful and festive treat that is perfect for the holiday season!
Christmas Peppermint M&M Fudge Cookies
Christmas Peppermint Chunk M&M’S Fudge Cookies are everything you could ever hope for in a festive Christmas cookie! White chocolate peppermint chunks, pretty green and red M&M’S, mini chocolate chips all neatly wrapped in chocolate fudge cookies.
Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodles
The ultimate snickerdoodles! These jumbo bakery-style snickerdoodles are super soft on the inside with a slight crisp and crunch on the outside from the cinnamon sugar, they are absolutely amazing. Even though they are shareable size, you will want one all to yourself!
German Spice Cookie Recipe
German Spice Cookie Recipe has all of the wonderful Christmas spices and scents that taste like the holiday season.
Soft Iced Oatmeal Cookies
The best iced oatmeal cookies aren’t from the store, they’re made at home with a few staple ingredients! These are chewy brown butter oatmeal cookies lightly dipped in vanilla icing. This recipe is inspired by the classic store-bought cookie!
Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies
Made with cocoa powder and mini chocolate chips, double chocolate snowball cookies are a rich chocolate twist on the classic Christmas cookies.
Polar Bear Face Cookies
Polar Bear Face Cookies are crafted from cake mix and topped with rich cream cheese frosting. The cookies are decorated with sanding sugar, melting wafer and M&Ms to resemble polar bear faces. An adorable must-try treat!
Peppermint Frosted Chocolate Cookies
Soft, decadent chocolate cookies topped with homemade creamy peppermint frosting and crushed candy canes. The perfect peppermint frosted chocolate cookie recipe! A delicious peppermint and chocolate Christmas cookie.
Red Velvet Crackle Cookies
These red velvet crackle cookies are variation of the traditional chocolate crackle cookies. The addition of the buttermilk powder in the coating is optional but helps give the coating a creamy tangy flavor reminiscent of cream cheese frosting. If you want a more intense red color, increase the food coloring to 2 teaspoons.
Melomakarona-Greek Christmas Honey Cookies
Melomakarona are traditional Greek Christmas honey cookies that are mildly spiced and dipped in a thick honey syrup. These classic Greek cookies will fill your house with a warm aroma of spices!
Orange Shortbread Cookies with Cranberry Glaze
These Orange Shortbread Cookies are the most flavorful, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread you’ve ever tasted! Flavored with orange zest and orange oil, with a beautiful glaze made from fresh cranberries, you’ll want to make these beauties for the holidays and all winter long!
Eggnog Cookies
These eggnog cookies are soft and chewy cookies topped with a homemade eggnog buttercream frosting. An easy and festive cookie that’s perfect for any holiday party!
Butter Pecan Shortbread Cookies
Light, tender and full of buttery pecan flavor. These Butter Pecan Shortbread Cookies are easy to make and perfect for serving with your favorite tea or coffee.
Chocolate Blossom Cookies
Chocolate Blossom Cookies are the perfect cookie for any chocolate lover! They’re just as easy as they are fun to make!
Billionaire Alfajores with Toasted Coconut
Billionaire Alfajores with Toasted Coconut: These tender, buttery cookies are sandwiched with dulce de leche and drizzled with dark chocolate!
Frosted Christmas Tree Cookies
Frosted Christmas Tree Cookies are the perfect holiday treat. Homemade sugar cookies are stacked with green cream cheese frosting to create little “tree” desserts that will delight everyone who sees and eats them.
Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Lemon Crinkle cookies are soft, chewy and coated with confectioners’ sugar to create a cracked exterior.
Flourless Chocolate Cookies
These Flourless Chocolate Cookies are super chewy, rich and naturally gluten free! They’re easy to make and perfect for chocolate lovers!
Gingerbread Christmas Tree Cookies
These gingerbread cookies are packed with ginger spice but aren’t too spicy or overwhelming in flavor. The cute ornaments are just M&M candies pressed into the cookie before they are baked, making them the perfect cookie to make with your kids or for those folks who are decorating challenged.
Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best easy Nestle butterscotch chocolate chip cookies are such a decadent treat for butterscotch lovers! And you can adjust this base butterscotch chocolate chip cookie recipe to make oatmeal butterscotch chocolate chip cookies or peanut butter butterscotch chocolate chip cookies! This chocolate butterscotch cookies recipe is truly one of the best recipes for butterscotch chips!
Southern Tea Cakes Recipe
The best (and easiest) Southern Tea Cakes Recipe (or tea cake cookies recipe) is here! You will feel like you are right in the South after making and serving these, not to mention eating them.
Chai Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best chocolate chip cookies… possibly ever? These chai spiced cookies are perfectly crispy with a soft, chewy center. The subtle notes of cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg intermingled with the ideal amount of dark chocolate brings luxury and warmth to every bite.
Whipped Shortbread Cookies
Whipped shortbread cookies are light as air with a delicious buttery flavor. These soft, melt in your mouth cookies are perfect for the holidays.
Macaroon Kiss Cookies
Treat the coconut lovers in your life to a dessert just for them. Macaroon Kiss Cookies combine flaky sweetened coconut flakes and cream cheese for a chewy cookie everyone will enjoy!
Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Stars)
These Zimtsterne – also known as German Cinnamon Stars – are a delicious holiday treat. Made from cinnamon and ground almonds – with no flour at all – these cookies come out sweet and chewy. They are topped with a simple, sweet glaze!
Peppermint Mocha Cookies
Peppermint Mocha Cookies – Are you ready for these soft, chewy, full of chocolate and peppermint flavor peppermint mocha cookies? They are the perfect easy Christmas cookies that will be a hit at any holiday get-together!
Christmas Sugar Cookies
Soft, chewy homemade Christmas Sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. This is the best cut out sugar cookie recipe!
Turtle Cookies
These homemade Turtle Cookies are just like the chocolates except soft and chewy. With a caramel thumbprint center, you can’t beat this nutty chocolate caramel combination.
Amaretti Cookies
These homemade amaretti cookies are a simple take on these classic Italian biscuits. They are sweet, chewy, naturally gluten free and very morish!
Christmas Oreo Peppermint Cookies
These cookies are the perfect Christmas treat! They’re made with delicious Oreos and topped with a peppermint frosting.
Pecan Sandies
Delicious Pecan Sandies with a buttery shortbread cookie taste everyone loves and chopped pecans throughout. They are quick to make, and you can roll them in powdered sugar to make Mexican Wedding Cookies or Snowball Cookies.
Chocolate Mint Cookies
These Chocolate Mint Cookies are absolutely next level; a thick and chewy chocolate cookie with bits of chopped andes mints inside.
Santa Star Cookies
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Italian Christmas Cookies
These Italian Christmas cookies are buttery, almond cookies made with ricotta and topped with a sweet, almond glaze.
Shortbread Linzer Cookies with Raspberry Filling
These shortbread Linzer cookies are a classic version of a Linzer cookie made with a raspberry filling sandwiched between two tender almond shortbread cookies and dusted with confectioners’ sugar.
Sea Salt Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
There are not enough words to describe the awesomeness that are these sea salt toffee chocolate chip cookies. The cookies are packed with rich semi-sweet chocolate & rich buttery toffee for a combination that is gourmet. They are gooey, crunchy, sweet, salty, & decadent.
Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Blossoms
Say hello to your new favorite holiday cookie: Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Blossoms! So rich, so decadent, and so dreamy, these cookies are pure Christmas bliss.
Christmas Wreath Cookies
This recipe for no-bake Christmas wreath cookies has just six ingredients and can be made in 10 minutes. These cornflake wreaths are a festive addition to your holiday dessert table!
Gnome Cookie Peanut Butter Blossoms
Gnome Cookies are the cutest and easiest Christmas cookies! They’re soft, delicious peanut butter blossoms with icing and sprinkles.
Hojarascas
Hojarascas are yummy Mexican shortbread cookies covered in a sweet cinnamon and sugar coating. Make a few dozen because one batch is just never enough.
Sourdough Discard Chocolate Cookies
These sourdough discard chocolate cookies are incredibly soft, filled with chocolate, and perfectly balanced with flaky sea salt. Need a good cookie recipe to use your sourdough discard with? Look no further!
Guava Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies
The softest cream cheese cookies that melt in your mouth! They’re topped with guava with an added touch of delicious sweetness.
Gingerdoodle Cookies
Kick off cookie season with these soft and chewy Gingerdoodle Cookies. Perfectly spiced and rolled in sugar, these part-gingerbread, part-snickerdoodle cookies are totally delicious.
M&M Christmas Cookies
This soft, chewy, and festive-looking recipe for M&M Christmas Cookies is the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit!
Butter Pecan Cookies
Butter pecan cookies are chewy, buttery cookies filled with pecans, white chocolate, and butterscotch chips. This crowd-pleasing cookie makes the perfect addition to your next holiday cookie tray.
Cherry Almond Cookies
With their white chocolate-drizzled maraschino cherries perched prettily on top, these adorable little Cherry Almond Cookies are one tasty treat! Perfect for Christmas cookie trays, cookie exchanges, Valentine’s Day treats … or, for everyday enjoying.
Chewy Orange Almond Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Chewy orange almond butter oatmeal cookies are naturally sweetened with maple syrup, use gluten-free oats, and are the best thing! These healthy cookies are made in under 20 minutes and mixed in one bowl.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
These white chocolate cranberry cookies are the easiest things in the world. They’re a form of cake mix cookies that are perfect for this time of year. With only five ingredients and basically two steps, these are an easy, cheap, and delicious addition to your holiday baking repertoire.
No Chill Sugar Cookies
Soft rolled sugar cookies that are made from scratch in 20 minutes (or less!).
Swedish Chocolate Balls (Chokladbollar)
Swedish chocolate balls (chokladbollar) are easy and delicious, and don’t require any baking!
Grinch Crumbl Christmas Sugar Cookies
Grinch Crumbl Christmas sugar cookies are wonderfully sweet, with hints of almond and vanilla extract in every bite.
Italian Chocolate Chestnut Tortelli Cookies
Italian chocolate chestnut tortelli cookies are delicious desserts and also perfect for Christmas cookie exchange recipes. The chestnut filling is really good, as are the dark chocolate and rum flavours. Chestnut cookies are an authentic Italian recipe.
Christmas Oreos
Christmas Oreos – Red filling and dipped in chocolate are the 2023 treat you’ll love! These holiday Oreos can be customized with your favorite decorations!
Kourabiedes – Greek Almond Cresent Cookies
Kourabiedes are Greek Almond Crescent Cookies. Nutty and fragrant, crescent shaped biscuits infused with orange zest and cinnamon. Delicious tea-time treats and perfect Christmas cookies for your Holiday Cookie Box.
Christmas Lights Cookies
Christmas Lights Cookies start with a delicious sugar cookie base which is then iced with a white base and then strings of lights for a beautiful, Christmas-themed treat that everyone loves.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
The perfect combination of white chocolate and peppermint in the absolute best cookie dough recipe. These White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are irresistibly good! Santa may have a new favorite cookie this year.
Christmas Candy Cane Cookies
Christmas candy cane cookies are made of sugar cookies coated with red and green sprinkles and topped with candy cane Kisses. It’s the perfect minty bite of cookie!
Ginger Sandwich Cookies with Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting
Perfectly spiced, these Ginger Sandwich Cookies with Bourbon Cream Cheese Frosting offer a rich, indulgent experience without being excessively sweet.
Shortbread Cookies
Simple, yet delicious! Shortbread Cookies come together so easy and can be customized however you want. Make extra, they are irresistible!
Oatmeal Cookies
Not your average Oatmeal Cookie Recipe. This Christina Tosi Oatmeal Cookie Recipe has the best texture! Easy to make and freezer friendly.
Homemade Gingerbread Cookies
Our favorite holiday cookies are our soft and chewy spiced molasses cutout men and women Homemade Gingerbread Cookies.
Peppermint Meltaways Recipe
Peppermint Meltaways – A light, buttery and delicious Christmas cookie that melt in your mouth. These cookies are topped with peppermint frosting and sprinkle of crushed candy canes for a lovely festive touch!
Molasses Cookies
Soft, chewy and deliciously spiced Molasses Cookies. Simple to make with just a few ingredients. Add these cookies to your next holiday cookie tray.
Cranberry Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Cranberry Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect low-carb and gluten-free holidays season treat. They are filled with sugar-free dried cranberries and dark chocolate chips.
3 Ingredient Almond Flour Cookies (GF) (DF)
These 3-ingredient Almond Flour Cookies are so easy and delicious, they’re life changing! Naturally sweet from the almonds, they’re perfect for those who have a sweet tooth! (These bake up into light and chewy cookies with a soft texture, not crispy ones!) (Gluten Free) (Dairy Free)
Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Perfectly chewy, delicious and full of Christmas sprinkles. These Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make and always a hit with the kids, and adults! Perfect for your Christmas cookie tray.
Orange Cardamom Shortbread Cookies with Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt
Dive into the irresistible world of Orange Cardamom Shortbread Cookies with Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt – a perfect harmony of zesty, spicy, sweet and salty flavors in an easy slice and bake cookie recipe!
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