Here are the best Christmas cookie recipes you can make this holiday season. Fill your Christmas cookie tray with these holiday cookies or bring your favorites to the Christmas cookie exchange.
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Christmas Sugar Cookies
- Roll out Christmas sugar cookies – soft and buttery
- Small batch sugar cookies
- Christmas Sugar Cookies with cream cheese frosting
- Striped Christmas Sugar Cookies
- William Sonoma Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe – pair these cookies with William Sonoma mulling spices for a delightful homemade gift to give.
- Christmas Sugar Cookies with Classic Butter Cream Icing
- Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
- Christmas M&M Cookie Bars
- Christmas Pinwheel Sugar Cookies
- Grandma’s Christmas Cutout Sugar Cookies
Easy Christmas Cookies
- Peanut butter blossom cookie
- Doubletree cookie recipe
- Anise Pizzelle Recipe
- Easy Cake Mix Red Velvet Cookies
- Chocolate pizzelle recipe
- ‘Santa’s Trash’ Cookies
- Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Roll Around Shortbread – shortbread and candies all mixed together in a ball
Italian Christmas Cookies
- Anise Pizzelle Recipe – my favorite Christmas cookie recipe is my grandmother’s anise pizzelle recipe. Golden brown, thin and crispy pizzelles are a MUST for any holiday cookie tray.
- Chocolate pizzelle recipe – chocolate pizzelle recipe will be a delicious addition to your Christmas cookie recipe box.
- Lemon pizzelles – Thin and crisp, pizzelles are a classic Italian cookie and are a favorite to take to holiday cookie exchanges.
- Italian Anise Cookies -soft and chewy Italian Anise Cookies (a.k.a. Italian Christmas Cookies) that have the classic licorice flavor everyone loves
- Italian Ricottes Cookies -Lightly lemon flavored and decked out in holiday sprinkles, no Christmas cookie tray is complete without these!
- Almond biscotti recipe -This easy Italian twice-baked cookie is delicious to enjoy at home or package them up and give as a gift.
- Orange Chocolate Almond Biscotti Recipe – Orange and almond biscotti is baked twice and one side is dipped in melted chocolate for a festive Christmas cookie.
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
- Springerle Shortbread – a type of German biscuit with an embossed design made by pressing a mold onto rolled dough and allowing the impression to dry before baking
- Shortbread Christmas Cookies with sprinkles – loaded with festive sprinkles.
German Christmas Cookies
- Pfeffernusse (German Spice Cookies) – the German version of a molasses cookie, but spicier, like a gingerbread.
- Lebkuchen (sometimes known as pfefferkuchen) – Softer than gingerbread, they also have the essence of orange and lemon running throughout and the snap of a sweet hard glaze on top.
- Vanillekipferl – vanilla crescent cookies filled with nuts and dusted in vanilla sugar
- Speculoos Cookies – positively delicious, buttery gingerbread shortcrust cookies! Wonderfully crispy, crunchy and deeply caramelized.
- Springerle Shortbread – a type of German biscuit with an embossed design made by pressing a mold onto rolled dough and allowing the impression to dry before baking
Gluten Free Christmas Cookies
- Flourless Chocolate Peppermint Cookies -Full of chocolate chips, cocoa, coffee and peppermint these gluten-free cookies melt in your mouth!
- Elisenlebkuchen Cookies Recipe -Soft fragrant gluten-free Elisenlebkuchen cookies with candied orange, lemon peel and marzipan
- Gluten Free White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peppermint -a lovely soft gluten free cookie with white chocolate chips and crushed candy cane pieces which bake up nice and chewy!
- Flourless Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Flourless Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies
- Gluten Free Thin Mint Cookies
- Quinoa Flour Spice Cookies
- Simple low carb keto sugar cookies
Bake The Best Christmas Cookies – Slice and Bake
- Slice and Bake Christmas Sugar Cookies – This no-roll, easy Christmas Sugar Cookie recipe is simply slice and bake, no messy flour surfaces needed
- easy slice ‘n’ bake vanilla bean sugar cookies – add frosting to the cookies because no Christmas cookie should be left unfrosted.
- Pinwheel Cookies – mesmerizing swirls of color are rolled in nonpareil sprinkles for a special crunch!
- Slice & Bake Swedish Christmas Cookies – Ginger, orange zest, and cinnamon make this a cookie you’ll crave all season long!
Sarah Mock
CEO/Owner/Founder/Culinary Blogger
Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 11 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.