137 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes: Decorative and Delicious!
Holiday Recipes - January 1, 2024

This is an easy sugar cookie recipe is perfect for simple butter cookies. Store some dough in the freezer for next time the kids want to decorate.

Looking for a delicious Christmas treat that will impress your friends and family? Look no further than this incredible Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies Recipe! These beautiful sugar cookies are perfect for any holiday party or gathering, and they’re so easy to make! Just follow the simple recipe and you’ll have delicious, festive sugar cookies in no time!

These amazing peppermint mocha cookies are fudgy, minty, & chocolatey. These to-die-for cookies are like a combination of a gooey brownie, a chewy cookie, and a decadent truffle all in one. The soft chocolate cookie with coffee flavor is rich and loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chips. The cool peppermint is the perfect holiday flavor that will make this a Christmas cookie recipe you crave every year.

These are the best Small Batch Sugar Cookies! They are soft with thick centers and a hint of almond flavoring. Top them with this easy homemade icing and sprinkles of choice.

Frosted chocolate peppermint cookies are soft, cake-like chocolate peppermint cookies. These cookies are topped with rich chocolate buttercream frosting and crushed peppermint candy.

Are you looking for some delicious cookies to decorate with the kids this Christmas? These sour cream Christmas cookies are delicious, make beautiful cookies, and are easy to make!

Pleasantly soft, chewy and full of fruit flavours, these Dried Fruit Cookies are a perfect morning or afternoon breakfast!

These Vegan Cranberry Almond Shortbread Cookies are buttery, nutty, and tart with a touch of sweetness. They’d be great dipped in some chocolate or dusted with powdered sugar!

The easiest keto gingerbread cookie recipe! These are gluten free, simple to make, and perfect for the holidays!

Rolled in powdered sugar, these gluten free chocolate crinkle cookies are slightly crisp on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. This is like a brownie dough consistency and flavour shaped like a gluten free Christmas cookies!

German Christmas Cookies, also called Lebkuchen or German gingerbread cookies, are an authentic German cookie that is spicy, soft and incredibly flavorful. You can give them as gifts to your family and friends! Easy to make with aromatic lebkuchen spice mix.

Cornflake Wreaths: Classic no bake Christmas cookies with crunchy cornflakes coated in green marshmallows, decorated with red hot candies and cute little holly sprinkles!

These Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies will brighten your day! They are soft and chewy, with fudgy consistency and rich chocolate taste. They are not only incredibly tasty and full of chocolate but also vegan, gluten free and made with healthy ingredients

These keto sugar cookie bars are a low carb, gluten-free, and sugar-free version of a classic holiday treat the whole family will love.

These easy, melt-in-your-mouth Snowball Cookies are a simple and delicious one-bowl recipe! They're perfect for Christmas parties or a great addition to a cookie tray.

Soft and chewy easy vegan gingerbread cookies that come together in one bowl. Flavorsome and full of gingerbread spices with a hint of orange zest. Decorated with homemade eggless royal icing.

No chill sugar cookies are the easiest sugar cookies to make! This quick, one bowl sugar cookie recipe can be made from scratch in just 20 minutes.

Sweet peppermint sugar cookies shaped into red and white swirled candy cane shapes are a must this holiday season! This easy recipe makes the best Candy Cane Cookies you’ve ever tried.

These are the best coconut sugar cookies with sprinkles you’ll ever have! Our cut out cookie recipe requires no chill time and are decorated for Christmas. You can dive into them in 40 minutes, just like our ginger molasses cookies.

German Spice Cookie Recipe is perfectly sweetened with brown sugar and molasses.

These classic dairy-free and eggless snickerdoodles are thick and soft with a slightly crisp, cinnamon sugar-covered exterior. They have the perfect cozy cinnamon flavor and a characteristic tangy aftertaste. Perfect for holiday and Christmas baking! 

These white chocolate chunk cookies are made even tastier with a delicate flavour of green matcha tea. Add a few red M&Ms and you can’t find cookies looking more festive than these naturally coloured beauties!

Meringue Christmas Trees are a fun and festive way to celebrate the holidays! These meringue cookies are made from whipped egg whites and sugar and shaped into Christmas trees.

Eggnog French 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.

Forgotten cookies take just 10 minutes to put together, and then your kitchen oven will do all the work. Leave them in overnight to wake up to this yummy forget me not recipe.

Make this easy, gluten-free dessert for just a few dollars, with a yield of 48! Read on, and let us show you how to make them.

Snickerdoodles are a favorite sugar cookie with soft, chewy texture and classic cinnamon flavor. These Eggnog Snickerdoodles are perfect for Christmas time with a familiar taste of the holidays.

Oreo Truffles combine the delectable taste of chocolate cookies with a fun candy coating.

These light and delicious Linzer cookies with a spiced jam recipe will delight and surprise at how difficult they look, but they are really not that hard to make.

Add a little crunch to regular shortbread with this simple recipe! Peppermint Crunch Cookes are the perfect sweet treat for a holiday snack.

Chewy Gingersnap Cookies are perfect Christmas cookies combining the amazing aroma of cinnamon and cloves with the warm, smoky sweetness of molasses.

Rum Balls are a beautiful Holiday cookie and the best part is you don’t even turn your oven on! This simple, tasty, and spiked cookie is fun to make and even better to eat. They even get better as time goes on, so make them days before the Holidays or Christmas and have this treat ready for your sweet needs. Rum Balls are the perfect holiday cookie with a zing of spice.

This Soft Ginger Cookie recipe is a delicious holiday treat. A cookie that is just perfect for those who like a bit of that ginger spice but doesn’t want a crunchy ginger snap. These cookies are soft, warm, and best enjoyed during the Winter months. A great treat for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Rosette Cookies are a Christmas time favorite for many Scandanavian families and can be enjoyed by your family too! These sweet and crispy treats take a little patience to make, but they are well worth it. Making these traditional cookies are a great holiday activity and can help bring your family together in the kitchen or at your Christmas feast.

This no bake dessert is easy, quick and packed with coconut rum decadence. Rum balls make the perfect holiday treat or DIY Christmas gift!

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!

These Grinch Cookies are delightful buttery thumbprint cookies with a creamy, candy filled center and a whole lot of heart. Find your Christmas spirit when you gift these sweet treats to family and friends.

Buttery Classic Spritz Cookies are a must-make every Christmas! Using a cookie press, these cookies are so fun to make with all the different shapes and colors, then decorate with sprinkles and bake! The cookie dough does not require chilling, the cookies don’t spread too much and they freeze wonderfully which means they are great to make ahead.

These classic cookies are a must at Christmas time, but also delicious all year long! Sweet and salty peanut butter cookies are made perfect with a Hershey’s kiss in the center.

If you love cookies with warm spices, then you are going to love these easy gingersnap cookies! These cookies have crispy edges and chewy and soft centers, and they’re decorated with white chocolate and sprinkles to make the cutest gingersnaps ever!

Stained Glass Cookies are cut-out sugar cookies with a beautiful windowpane feature! Add crushed Jolly Ranchers candy to the center of your cookies to make these easy Christmas cookies with jewel-toned windows.

This 4-ingredient Whipped Shortbread Cookie recipe is the ticket for EASY, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies to round out those holiday gift tins!

These Crispy Sugar Cookies are perfect for the Christmas baking season. This recipe is for old fashioned, no chill, no roll drop cookies.

Vegan gingerbread cookies are classic holiday treats that are sure to delight. They are soft, chewy and hand-decorated with vegan royal icing.

Easy heart-shaped Grinch Rice Krispie treats to put a holiday spin on a favorite treat!

A simple Christmas cookie that the kids will love to make every holiday season!

These gluten free Peppermint Shortbread Cookies are perfect for the Christmas holiday season! They're dipped in chocolate ganache and candies.

Get ready for cookie season with Small Batch Gingerbread Cookies made without shortening and decorated with an eggless royal icing! Plus learn tips and tricks on how to make rolling out cookie dough stress free this holiday.

This Toffee Doodle Cookie Recipe is the perfect holiday cookie! A fun twist on the classic Snickerdoodle cookie, they are sure to be gobbled down as quickly as you make them!

These Snowflake Cookies are fun, festive, and so easy to make -- with no chill time required! Tasty sugar cookies are decorated with a classic royal icing and decorating sugar for the full holiday effect. Perfect for your holiday dessert table or cookie exchanges!

These butter cookies are loaded with butter and make for an indulgent treat. They reminded me of my old neighborhood bakery and the soft chewy cookies that we would buy from there. I think these will fit in perfectly on your Christmas breakfast table or as a gift to a loved one this Christmas.

Coming at you with a traditional German holiday cookie that is simple and easy and makes any dark cold winter day cozy – Cinnamon Streusel Plum Jam Cookies! These just feel right on a snow day along with a cup of coffee.

These easy Christmas sugar cookies are soft, tender & perfect for decorating with icing! They bake up smooth & flat for easy decorating or dipping. A simple, easy to make Christmas cookie!

Easy Peppermint White Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe is a holiday spin on the classic chocolate chip cookie. Celebrate the joy of the holiday season with these white chocolate peppermint cookies! 

Soft and chewy White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies. One of the best flavour combinations ever! They make the perfect healthy snack or delicious desserts.

Melt-in-your-mouth cherry coconut snowball cookies with a maraschino cherry surprise in the middle and coconut coating will soon be your new favorite Christmas cookie.

The perfect low carb, keto holiday cookie made with the classic peanut butter blossom in mind. This low carb Christmas classic was recreated to be sugar free, gluten free, and only two net carbs each!

Complete your holiday cookie tray with these homemade soft Chewy Ginger Cookies made with molasses and crystallized (candied) ginger.

Made with rolled oats and chocolate chips, these homemade chocolate oatmeal cookies are chewy and flavorful. They are quick and easy to make, so they have a chance of becoming one of your favorite cookie recipes.

Ginger Snap Cookies are one of my favorite cookies. They’re a favorite holiday cookie but are great any time of year. They’re quick and easy to make and packed with spicy ginger flavor. These are perfectly crisp and crunchy, the way a gingersnap should be!

Scottish Shortbread – Deliciously buttery and melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies that are loaded with flavour, and super quick and easy to make. Choose the perfect cookie cutters to fit any occasion!

The best Peanut Butter Blossoms cookie recipe! A soft peanut butter cookie is coated in sugar and topped with a chocolate kiss! These peanut butter kiss cookies are a favorite Christmas cookie that will become a must-make for your holiday cookie trays for years to come!

Gingersnap cookies are crackly and crunchy with an assertive spice flavor. You can adjust the baking time to make the cookies as chewy or as crunchy as you like them. Either way, they are addictively delicious.

Delicious Santa's Whiskers Christmas Cookies. A delightful shortbread-type cookie with the added flavor of pecans and cherries rolled in flaked coconut.

The warmly scented dough is a joy to roll out and their wonderful baking aromas fill your entire home. It’s an aroma that brings a sense of warmth and love.

This Cherry Bell Cookie Recipe was popular in the 1960’s and is making a come back! A simple cookie dough wrapped around a stemmed cherry and covered in sugar. These Cherry Cookies are loved by all who try them!

These Christmas spritz cookies are perfect for the holiday season! They're easy Christmas cookies made using a cookie press and decorated with Christmas sprinkles!

These Gluten Free Ginger Molasses Cookies are crispy on the outside, and soft and chewy on the inside. They’re festive, full of warming spices, and they best gluten free holiday cookies!

The Best Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe! They are soft, chewy and hold their shape perfectly! Plus an easy sugar cookie frosting that tastes great and hardens with a beautiful shine!

Old fashioned thumbprint cookies with icing and sprinkles are the ultimate holiday treat! You can even make these thumbprint cookies with buttercream or chocolate icing and nuts instead of sprinkles! The thumbprint cookie filling is so customizable!

These Butter Pecan Cookies are perfect for any time of the year with their buttery, nutty, soft, and chewy goodness. The flavor is bursting with butter and pecan; with a brown sugar-based cookie, you just can’t go wrong with these cookies! They would be well-loved on a holiday platter of cookies for sure. Everyone loves butter pecan cookies, so you know they will be a hit!

Pfeffernusse cookies are a traditional Christmas cookie in Germany. Made with molasses, anise, pepper and seasonal spices, these chewy cookies are coated in confectioners’ sugar.

Made with molasses and brown sugar, these soft gingerbread cookies are an ultimate Christmas sweet treat recipe that’s both delicious and fun to make with the family. These cookies are perfectly flavored with ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.

Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies are soft and chewy with a little extra crunch. They’re the perfect combination of sweet and salty, made from the best recipe for chocolate chip 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!

Easy to bake vegan pumpkin spice cookies made using simple ingredients. They are aromatic and crunchy cookies that are perfect for the pumpkin spice season.

Buttery, flaky, crumbly vegan shortbread cookies made with just 3 ingredients. These cookies are fun to make and enjoy all year round.

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!

Mint Chocolate Shortbread Cookies consist of delicious shortbread in snowflake shapes with a hint of mint flavor and drizzled with melted chocolate. These easy shortbread cookies are perfect for hostess gifts and class parties!

Red Velvet Kiss Cookies are a perfect treat for the holiday season and Valentine’s Day! Gorgeous blossoms with amazing flavor, these will be your new favorite cookies!

These delicious Cinnamon Roll Cookies are like traditional cinnamon rolls with a twist! A soft cinnamon cookie with a sweet vanilla glaze, these are going to be a huge hit!

Oatmeal White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are full of holiday sweetness. These cookies mix together oats with white chocolate chips, peppermint M&Ms and crushed candy cane along with peppermint extract. Santa is going to love these cookies!

Easy Cake Mix Sugar Cookies uses 3 simple ingredients to create the perfect holiday sugar cookie. These make a great base for adding other things to them like sprinkles, icing or candy. Your kids or santa will love these!

With a double coating of powdered sugar, these delicately crumbly Italian Wedding Cookies are beautiful on a platter or stacked into tins for holiday gift giving. Made with roasted, salted almonds, they're lightly salty, sweet, nutty, buttery and completely irresistible.

Looking for a recipe for soft Norwegian cookies? Let me introduce you to Kringla. This recipe for cookies shaped into a figure eight is my grandmother’s recipe. Now I’m giving it to you!

You are going to love this soft Sugar Cookie Recipe! It’s a family favorite that we have been making FOREVER (three generations now to be exact!) They are easy, super soft, chewy, and just melt in your mouth. These really are some of the easiest cookie recipes, we make at our house. Best of all they can be dressed up with royal icing and creative designs for holidays, birthdays, and special occasions and parties. Try them for yourself and see!

Ginger & molasses crinkle cookies – An easy soft gingerbread cookie recipe rolled in sugar for those times you want a warm spice cookie without the effort of cutting and decorating traditional gingerbread men.

Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Shortbread Cookies are buttery, crunchy, sweet treats for the holiday season!

These keto snowball cookies are a holiday classic made low carb with just a handful of ingredients. They couldn't be any easier to make and they are melt in your mouth delicious!

This easy to make keto slice and bake sugar cookie recipe gives you that classic holiday cookie with no sugar, gluten-free, and less than 2 net carbs. 

These Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies are made with both dark and original Terry’s chocolate oranges, so they are double the chocolate. Shaped like a chocolate orange wedge, they are the ideal holiday cookies for the chocolate orange lover!

Everyone will love these classic vegan Linzer cookies with cranberry jam filling! Try this easy and crowd-pleasing treat.

These vegan eggnog thumbprint sugar cookies are rolled in a spiced sugar coating and filled with a sweet, creamy eggnog white chocolate ganache! Packed with festive flavor, these little vegan thumbprint cookies make the perfect holiday or Christmas cookies.

These delightful holiday whipped shortbread cookies will melt in your mouth. They are light, buttery, and SO easy to make.

Want to make EASY Christmas meringues? looking for a quick and easy Christmas recipe for a party and cookie exchange? Need a fun, EASY, to make dessert to serve at your Christmas party? Need a last-minute dessert recipe that is quick and easy to make with just a few ingredients? This EASY PEASY Christmas tree meringue cookie recipe ticks all the boxes!

Want to make EASY melted snowman cookies? Looking for a quick and easy Christmas cookie recipe for a party or cookie exchange? Need a fun treat to serve at your Christmas party? Need a last-minute dessert recipe that is quick and easy to make with just a few ingredients? This SUPER EASY, melted snowman cookie recipe ticks all the boxes!

Chocolate Rugelach are crisp, flaky pastries with a rich chocolate filling. This time saving version of rugelach cookies makes beautiful, swirled treats that can be made ahead, then sliced and baked as needed.

Bite through the crunchy, almond encrusted exterior into the soft, chewy center of Marzipan Cookies, and the flavors will transport you to European Christmas markets where this beloved treat is traditional for the holiday season. They are amazingly simple to make with just a handful of ingredients and are naturally gluten free.

These cute little Reindeer Linzer Cookies are the perfect cookie for any holiday treat platter. With their happy faces poking through the cookie, they will not only be fun to eat but also fun to make. Our cookies are a change-up from the usual ones that are filled with jam as ours have a cookie butter center, even better!!

It wouldn’t be Christmas without some homemade kolacky cookies.  They are a tradition in my husband’s family and one that I am glad to keep going. They are a delicious cookie that will be the star of your holiday tray!

These molasses cookies are warm, sweet and spicy. They are also soft and chewy. They are sure to be a hit on your holiday cookie tray!

Cranberry Orange Swirl Cookies are a tasty sugar cookie that are perfect for the holidays. Made with fresh cranberries and orange zest in the cookie dough and in the filling, these cookies are bursting with flavor.

Red velvet crinkles make for a beautiful sweet cookie that is paired perfectly with cream cheese filling. Red velvet is not just for cake anymore.  These homemade red velvet cookies are made from scratch and not from a boxed cake mix.

This is, without a doubt, the easiest and most delicious Sugar Cookie Recipe. 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 storebought frosting. In this post, you’ll learn How to Make Sugar Cookies for all your holiday baking needs.

Learn how to make soft and chewy Chai Snickerdoodles Cookies with this Recipe. It's just about as easy to make as regular snickerdoodles and is the absolute best! Paired with Eggnog icing, they are our take on Taylor Swift Chai Cookies. The eggnog icing is super quick and easy and is also completely optional! Heading to a Christmas or cookie party? Whip these up for a simple yet beautiful spiced treat! The inside is so soft, and slightly chewy, it's the perfect texture. The cardamom in the chai spice is the perfect complimentary flavor to the traditional cinnamon sugar. It gives it a nice oomph and really takes them to the next level for flavor.

Chocolate covered Oreo Christmas cookies aren’t just super-cute but delicious too! If Oreos are some of your favourite cookies, I just know you’ll love these DIY covered Oreos made in a silicon mould. There are plenty of easy Oreo cookie ideas if you want to get creative with colours and designs. You will agree that these Christmas Oreo cookies are just so CUTE!

Do you love Nutella? I can’t get enough of it and have been known to enjoy it straight from the jar! Nutellotti soft nutella cookies are a great Italian Christmas cookie idea. A tasty chocolate and vanilla flavoured cookie is topped with a sweet and creamy Nutella topping. Nutella thumbprint cookies like these are perfect for the Nutella lover in the family. These Nutella Christmas cookies also are great in a cookie box or for cookie exchanges.

These easy and delicious Christmas Wreath Cookies require no baking & few ingredients. Perfect to make with kids. Give them out as gifts or for dessert

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. 

These irresistible Fruitcake Cookies will blow your mind with incredible flavor & soft texture. The perfect Christmas cookie recipe for exchanges & parties

These pretty little Sugar Star Cookies have a white chocolate coating decorated with simple sliced pistachios. They make the perfect holiday cookie treat. Stack them up or arrange them to resemble Christmas trees for a festive holiday table centerpiece.

These easy holiday reindeer cookie treats make perfect Christmas treats for holiday parties. You don’t need a long list of ingredients to make these Nutter Butter reindeer cookies and they’re not difficult at all to prepare. Everyone is going to love these cute Christmas cookies with eyes and you’re going to have fun making them. These easy no bake Christmas cookies are perfect for the peanut butter cookie fan.

This gingerbread pizzelle recipe makes authentic Italian Christmas pizzelles. These holiday cookies have a crisp texture and delicious ginger snaps flavour. Aromatic cinnamon, ginger and cloves add a spicy touch to the pizzelle cookies, while molasses gives them a rich sweetness. This Christmas cookie is a holiday tradition.

Christmas Cornflake wreath cookies are a fun recipe for the holiday season.

The holiday cookies are easy to make, with marshmallows, food coloring, and Corn Flakes. The kids love helping make and eat the special treats. 

A simple 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!

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!

this may be one of the easiest cookies to make for sharing. Shortbread cookies topped with pecan halves are so delicious. The toasty flavor of the pecan just adds the special holiday touch to these simple cookies.

Christmas shortbread cookies with icing are crisp, buttery and not overly sweet! Add these to your holiday baking rotation today.

Looking for a delicious and impressive shortbread cookie recipe for the holidays? These Glazed Snowflake Shortbread Cookies will tick all your cookie wish list boxes and are sure to become a family favorite!

Our absolute favorite cut-out sugar cookie recipe, perfect for decorating! Buttery, soft, and lightly sweet, holding their shape after baking without needing to soften the butter first or chill the dough. Enjoy them plain or doll them up with our sugar cookie icing or sugar cookie frosting. Great for holidays or anytime, this will be your go to!

Christmas Funfetti Cookies are super soft and chewy, bursting with the flavors of butter and vanilla, and packed with Christmas funtetti sprinkles. The perfect holiday recipe for those times when you want something uncomplicated, delicious, and fun, fun, fun.

Butter cookies are rich and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. This version doesn’t require chilling or using any special equipment. You’ll love them as they are OR give them a peppermint touch for the holidays!

These Christmas Pinwheel Cookies are the ultimate Christmas Cookies! With the festive red, white and green swirls, they make a great addition to your holiday baking platter, a cookie swap or an edible Christmas gift!

Dark chocolate chip cranberry cookies are delicious sweet soft and chewy holiday treats. The combination of melted dark chocolate chips and sweet cranberries is irresistible!

Looking for bite-sized sweet treats or snacks for this Holiday season? Try these Christmas shortbread bites. These are buttery, melt-in-your-mouth kind and a must-add to your cookie tray for gifting.

These Heart Shaped Jam Thumbprint Cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough and filled with your favourite type of jam. These cookies are perfect for the holiday season, valentine’s day, or for any special occasion.

These easy Vegan Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are soft, chewy and crisp with the combination of sweet and tart flavors. They happen to be oil free and refined sugar free along with being festive in all respect.

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.

Make some for Christmas. Or just because.

Iced Christmas Biscuits are an easy and fun activity for the whole family to do together!