32 Christmas Cookie Recipes

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Christmas will be here before we know it and I am so excited to bake all the Christmas Cookies this year! I have rounded up 32 Christmas cookie recipes for you to bake and enjoy with your family. From decorated, chocolate, butterscotch, spiced, to peanut butter and more!

Whether you are baking solo or with friends and family, there is a cookie recipe here for everyone. Make a batch, or a few different batches of cookies, place them in a cute package and gift to friends and family!

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Christmas Cookie Recipes

Classic Sugar Christmas Cookies

Lemon Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

These are fun to make and perfect for any occasion-especially Christmas! With a soft, easy to make pliable dough you can roll out smoothly and use your favourite cookie cutters to make fun shapes. Use the Sugar Cookie Frosting provided to decorate cooled cookies.

Lemon Cut-out Sugar Cookies stacked straight on

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Recipe

If chewy, thick and soft cookies are your sugar cookie goals, this Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Recipe will amaze you with its amazing texture and flavours! Photo credit: greedyeats.com

Grinch Sugar Cookies

The sweet aroma of sugar will fill your kitchen when you bake these Grinch sugar cookies. This easy and festive dessert is a great addition to any holiday table! Photo credit: everydayfamilycooking.com

Funfetti Christmas Cookies

These Funfetti Christmas Roll Sugar Cookies are SO easy to make and the Perfect Christmas Party or Exchange Cookies! Photo credit: lemonpeony.com

Drop Cookies

Classic Chocolate Chip

You can never go wrong with a classic Chocolate Chip Cookie. This is the best ever recipe for baking soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. Dunk freshly baked gooey cookies in milk for a tasty treat!

Chocolate chip cookie with a bite.

Ginger Sparkles

Another quintessential Christmas cookie recipe! This Ginger Sparkles recipe is sure to impress. Called ginger sparkles because they are rolled in white sugar before baked which makes them sparkle. Some people may call these ginger snaps but these cookies have a nice, soft, and chewy centre.

Ginger sparkles on plate with sugar dish

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are also a soft cookie but are a little chewier with the addition of the oatmeal. Again, enjoyable on their own or with a cold glass of milk.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies overhead shot on cookie sheet.

Rolo Cookies

You are going to love these Rolo Cookies because they are soft, chocolatey, chewy, fudgy, and filled with caramel goodness. My mom and I make them every year for Christmas when we do our annual Christmas baking. These won’t last long at your family gathering!

Rolo Cookies on snowman plates overhead shot.

Matcha Crinkle Cookies

These matcha crinkle cookies look so beautiful on a plate of Christmas cookies. They’re sweet, soft, and beautifully crinkled. Photo credit: twopinkpeonies.com

Pudding Cookies with Sprinkles

Christmas sprinkle pudding cookies are soft, chewy, and easy to make in under 30 minutes with no chill time. A tasty and easy Christmas sprinkle cookie recipe or your Christmas party. Photo credit: crayonsandcravings.com

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

The cookies are deliciouschocolaty with an amazing texture! They are crunchy from the outside while soft, moist and chewy from the inside. And it takes only 25 minutes to make them! Photo credit: nourishplate.com

Vegan White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies (GF)

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! Photo credit: strengthandsunshine.com

Aero Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

A perfectly soft and chewy double chocolate cookie with a twist! These mint chocolate chip cookies are gooey in the middle, crisp on the outside and filled with chunks of Aero Mint. The dark chocolate flavour of the cookie base, mixed with the sweet, melty peppermint milk chocolate makes for a deliciously indulgent treat. If you’re a big mint choc chip fan, you need these cookies in your life! Photo credit: blueskyeating.com

Ghirardelli Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies

These Ghirardelli Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies make one festive holiday dessert, featuring Ghirardelli peppermint bark and hot cocoa mix. Photo credit: midwexican.com

Rosemary Chocolate Chip Cookies

These crispy rosemary chocolate chip cookies are SO deliciously good dipped in a nice cold glass of milk. The subtly infused rosemary flavor and dark chocolate chips are pulled together with a light sprinkle of sea salt. Easy to make and delightfully addictive. Photo credit: thelittlestcrumb.com

Old German Honey Cookies

These traditional German cookies are an old-fashioned or Old-World style spice cookie with a strong honey flavor, a complementary hint of ginger, and a tender texture. Tasting like a honey gingerbread cookie, they’re perfectly soft, chewy, light, and moist. Photo credit: barthbakery.com

Butterscotch Cookies

Buttery soft cookies made with brown sugar and the addition of butterscotch chips and toffee bits in each bite. Warning: eating just one bite of these soft and chewy cookies will tempt you to eat the whole batch they are so good!

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Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies (GF)

These Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies are thick, chewy and bursting with flavor! This one bowl white chocolate and raspberry cookie recipe is easy and straightforward. These gluten free cookies are packed with white chocolate chips and fresh raspberries. They are so fun and festive! Photo credit: organicallyaddison.com

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Looking for a cookie recipe but not sure which ones to make? These peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are the perfect choice! It’s like three cookies in one which makes it the default choice when you’re not sure what to make. Peanut butter, oatmeal, and chocolate chip cookies all in one cookie ? Yep, and they are delicious and easy to make as well ????

peanut butter oatmeal cookies on plate

Melted Chocolate Snowman Cookies Recipe

These Melted Snowman Cookies are SO simple to make and look great sitting on the dessert table! Photo credit; savingdollarsandsense.com

Festive Christmas Cookies

Vanilla Walnut Crescent Cookies (GF)

These Vanilla Walnut Crescent Cookies are one of the most popular Czech Christmas cookies. These cookies are the definition of Christmas, they’re sweet, a little crunchy but tender, with a hint of vanilla and walnut. They are also completely gluten-free and can be made sugar-free too! Photo credit: thehealthfulideas.com

Spiced Raspberry Linzer Cookies

These crispy, buttery raspberry Linzer cookies are filled with a delicious homemade jam that’s flavored with ginger and cardamom. The spices really up the flavour of the jam filling and make these cookies a special treat that’s perfect for the Holidays. Photo credit: thespicetrain.com

Gluten Free Gingerbread Cookies

Nothing reminds me quite like Christmas like the smell of gingerbread cookies baking in the oven. This recipe for gluten free gingerbread cookies are a must every holiday season. It is perfect for making gluten free gingerbread men and always turns out beautiful for a gluten free gingerbread house which has become a fun family Christmas tradition every December. Photo credit: glutenfreetranquility.com

Praline Sable Cookie for Christmas

Praline Sable cookie is the most delicious Christmas cookie ever! Sweet shortcrust cookies sandwiched together with silky chocolate hazelnut praline filling and shaped into reindeer, Christmas tree etc! Photo credit: spatuladesserts.com

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German Marzipan Cookies

These German almond marzipan cookies (Marzipanringe) are so crunchy and full of flavour that they are not be missed. Known as a classic Christmas cookie. Photo credit: my dinner.co.uk

Thumbprint Cookies

Swedish Cakes

Swedish cakes are shortbread like cookies consisting of jam in the centre and chopped walnuts around the edges which makes for a beautiful treat. Also called thumbprint cookies because you press down on each cookie with your thumb but I prefer the name Swedish cakes.

swedish cakes

Nutellotti Soft Nutella Cookies with Filling

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. Photo credit: xoxobella.com

Shortbread

Shortbread Cookies

A melt in your mouth cookie recipe- shortbread cookies! This is an easy recipe that uses just a few ingredients, but they taste absolutely blissful.

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Pecan Snowball Cookies

Pecan Snowball Cookies melt in your mouth with a rich buttery flavor and a delicate crumbly texture. Whether you know them as Mexican Wedding Cookies (Polvorones), Viennese Crescents, or Russian Tea Cakes, you’ll want to make these easy pecan shortbread cookies again and again! Photo credit: scotchandscones.com

No Bake Cookies

Christmas Wreath Cookies

Christmas Wreath Cookies are a no-bake Christmas Cookie recipe that will be a festive way to dress up your dessert table. Cornflake Christmas Wreath cookies are made with marshmallows, vanilla, sprinkles and more. These are a must-make Christmas cookie. Photo credit: cookiedoughandovenmitt.com

Buckeye Balls

Buckeye balls taste like homemade Reese’s peanut butter cups: they’re creamy, peanut buttery, and dipped in chocolate.  Photo credit: saltysidedish.com

Chocolate Drops

This is a quick and simple no bake recipe with great chocolate flavour. Only 6 ingredients make up these delicious and oh so worth it cookies.

chocolate drops

I hope you enjoyed this Christmas Cookie recipes roundup! Have a joyful season of baking, and spending time with your family while we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ 🙂

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