35 Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes in One Place
Christmas cookie season is upon us! I rounded up all my favorite Christmas cookie recipes in one place so you can easily find the best of the best (and maybe discover a new favorite, too).
All of these cookies are perfect for holiday baking and many of them are customizable! Swap in holiday sprinkles, add a drizzle of chocolate, or keep them classic. Whether you’re building the ultimate cookie plate, hosting a cookie swap, or just sneaking a few straight off the cooling rack (ahem, hi, that’s me), this list has something for everyone!
Do you have a favorite Christmas cookie (or holiday treat) you make without fail every year? My fave Christmas cookies are those ginger molasses cookies. They are amazing, and I make them every December!
35 Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes
1
Hot Cocoa Cookies
All the delectable flavors of hot cocoa in a cookie – these soft, chewy cookies are fabulous!
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2
The Best Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These are the best chocolate crinkle cookies! They are a delightful cross between a soft, chewy chocolate cookie and a rich, fudgy brownie. They stay fresh for days!These are the best chocolate crinkle cookies! They are a delightful cross between a soft, chewy chocolate cookie and a rich, fudgy brownie. They stay fresh for days!
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3
Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies
The best gingerbread cookie ever! Incredibly soft, chewy, and delicious – they are irresistible.
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4
Double Chocolate S’Mores Cookies
Talk about a fun little cookie! These double chocolate s’mores cookies are adorable and crazy delicious.
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5
Soft and Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies
You cannot get a better Christmas cookie than these soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies. I make them every year!
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6
Brown Butter Caramel Snickerdoodles
Take snickerdoodles to a whole new level with this version that starts with brown butter and ends with caramel in the middle. Yum!
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7
Soft Gingerbread Swig Sugar Cookies
If you haven't tried it before, gingerbread + peppermint are a winning combination. These cookies are so good!
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8
Chocolate Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies {Magic in the Middle}
Chocolate outer cookie with a peanut butter cup-like filling – wow! These are perfect for any Christmas cookie plate.
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9
Birthday Cake Swig-Style Sugar Cookies
Swap out the birthday sprinkles for Christmas-colored sprinkles!
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10
Funfetti Shortbread Bites
These delicious shortbread bites are easily made more holiday-festive by using green, white and red sprinkles.
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11
Cosmic Brownie Cookies
Swap out the rainbow chips on top for green and red mini (or regular-size) M&Ms. You don't want to sleep on these cookies – they are SO GOOD!
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12
Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
You might think chocolate chip cookies are too average for Christmas cookies – if so, you haven't had these ones. They are next level delicious!
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13
Super Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Speaking of chocolate chip cookies, my favorite way to change up this classic cc cookie recipe is to swap out half of the chocolate chips for M&Ms. Holiday M&Ms would make these cookies so cute (and yummy!).
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14
Chocolate Peanut Butter Buckeye Cookies
When I make these cookies for Christmas cookie swaps or cookie plates, I make them miniature-size. They are always a hit!
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15
Chocolate Oreo Crumbl Cookies
Same as the buckeye cookies above, try making these cookies much smaller than the recipe states for a perfect Christmas cookie.
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16
Swig Sugar Cookies {Copycat Recipe}
These might be my all-time favorite cookie, and I LOVE making them for the holidays. I frost them with white frosting and cover them with holiday sprinkles.
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17
Chocolate Truffle Cookies
Decadent, delicious, AND they look like cute little snowballs. What's not to love?
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18
Soft and Chewy Drop Sugar Cookies
This recipe has hundreds of 5-star reviews (the cookies deserve every single rave review!). Cover them in holiday sprinkles or leave them plain – super yummy either way.
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19
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Ginger Molasses Cookies
A chocolate version of the classic ginger molasses cookies? Oh, yes! These are phenomenal (taste even better the second day!).
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20
Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Blossom Cookies
These cookies just scream Christmas and holidays. The chocolate cookie base is to-die for, so even if you skip the Hershey's kiss, they are worth making just for the cookie part.
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21
Fudgy Brownie Cookies
This one-bowl recipe is so easy! I love letting the cookies bake and cool and then dipping half of each cookie in melted white chocolate and sprinkling with festive sprinkles.
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22
My Favorite Sugar Cookies
This is my all-time favorite recipe for cutout sugar cookies. They are absolutely perfect for the holidays – they hold their shape incredibly well while baking!
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23
S’Mores Blossom Cookies
I don't know why blossom (i.e. Hershey's kiss) cookies are so quintessentially perfect during the holidays? But I'm not complaining. I LOVE this s'mores version.
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24
Soft Eggnog Sugar Cookies with Whipped Eggnog Frosting
If eggnog is your thing, you'll love these soft sugar cookies with whipped eggnog frosting. They are delicious!
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25
Decadent Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These cookies are perfect with the red and white chopped Andes mints that come in a red bag. I stock up on those mints during the holidays just for these cookies!
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26
Amazing Scottish Shortbread
This is the best shortbread in the history of ever and SO easy to make. It can be cut into a variety of different shapes or sizes!
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27
Brookies {Brownie + Chocolate Chip Cookies}
I mean, COME ON. Chocolate chip cookies + brownies? Is this the perfect cookie or what?
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28
Chocolate Shortbread Fingers
I've been making this chocolate shortbread for over 10 years. It is phenomenal and so fantastic for the holidays and for gift-giving.
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29
Twixster Cookies
These are probably one of my favorite cookies of all time thanks to the shortbread + caramel + chocolate. Because they're small, they are perfect for cookie plates.
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30
Homemade Thin Mint Cookies
These are some of the tastiest little cookies ever – and at the risk of offending loyal Girl Scout's ever – I think they're even better than the originals!
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31
Perfect White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
There is something so classic and nostalgic about these white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. This version is perfect!
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32
Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies
This super fun, cinnamon-spiced take on sugar cookies is surprisingly easy to make…and extra yummy!
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33
White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread Cookies
So festive, these cherry-flavored sugar cookies are so delicious and different enough that they are always well-received during the holidays.
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34
Peanut Blossom Cookies
You can never go wrong with this classic! (This version has double the peanut flavor!)
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35
Cherry Cheesecake Cookies
Please tell me you've made these?!? They've been around a long time and are such a fun (and super delicious!) holiday cookie.
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36
Chocolate Turtle Cookies
Another recipe that's been on my site for a long time, these turtle cookies are stupendously good. Like others mentioned above, they are small in size, so they make the perfect addition for an eclectic cookie plate.
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