15 Christmas Cookie Recipes
It’s time for all of the holiday baking recipes to come out of the recipe tin! Check out our favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes. We will be adding more cookie recipes to this collection as they come.
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Also, check out our post on Homemade Holiday Gifts.
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Shortbread Cookies
This shortbread cookie recipe is buttery and crispy. I personally love to dip these cookies in dark chocolate. You can also add chopped chocolate to the dough and bake up a salty-sweet chocolate chip shortbread.
Roll these in crushed candy canes before slicing them to make a sweet peppermint holiday treat.
This post covers everything you need to know about making shortbread, including a deep dark chocolate version.
Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
What could be better than chocolate shortbread packed with dark chocolate chips? If you have any chocolate lovers on your list this year, these are the cookies they’ll want.
Crispy, buttery, chocolatey.
Pecan Fingers
This cookie is a pecan shortbread cookie. You might see them called pecan snowballs. They are typically made as round balls, like Mexican Wedding Cookies, but my Grammy always made them shaped like fingers.
This is how I still make them today.
Salty Sweet Chocolate Chip Cookies
This chocolate chip cookie recipe is adapted from the Famous Jaques Torres chocolate chip cookies. They have the best texture of any chocolate chip cookie I have ever had.
You’ll love the crispy edges and the slightly chewy inside, stuffed with three kinds of chocolate chips. This decadent cookie is sprinkled with a smidge of fleur de sel. The salt enhances the butter and the chocolate to make this the BEST chocolate chip cookie you’ve ever had.
Momofuku Milk Bar Compost Cookies
When I think of Chistina Tossi, I think of an 8-year-old’s palette with the skill of a master pastry chef. She has a way of combining all of your favorite childhood flavors in a masterfully engineered cookie. It’s pure genius!
I have all of Tossi’s cookbooks, and I love to try her fun creations. This cookie, Milk Bar’s Compost Cookies, is kind of like a chocolate chip cookie, but imagine that that chocolate chip cookie had every other snack food that you ever binged on during a slumber party inside of it. Then you’d have the compost cookie.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pumpkin Chocolate chip cookies—what can I say? This chewy chocolate chip cookie has a little bit of pumpkin puree and a dash of pumpkin spice. It’s so easy to make; you don’t even need a mixer.
You’ll love these with a hot cup of coffee on a chilly fall day.
Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Soft pumpkin cookies iced with cream cheese frosting are a perfect combo. You’ll love the sweet pumpkin spice in these cookies.
Grab a cozy sweater and a hot glass of tea, and curl up with a few of these fall-inspired cookies.
Persimmon Cookies
Persimmon and fall spices make this cookie one of your favorite holiday cookies. If you haven’t tried baking with persimmon, this is the perfect recipe to get you started.
These persimmon cookies are easy to make, full of fruit and nuts, and of out-of-this-world texture.
Keto Pecan Snowball Cookies – 1 Net Carb
This pecan snowball cookie only has 1 Net Carb per cookie. Even if you’re watching your sugar, you can still enjoy the holidays.
When I made these cookies, I was so excited by how they turned out. They taste just like the original Pecan Snowball Cookies but have zero sugar. You’re honestly going to love them.
Cinnamon Rolls
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls are always a treat! What better way to celebrate your Christmas morning than with a batch of these soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls iced with cream cheese frosting.
Ginger Molasses Cookies
No cookie says the holidays like Ginger Molasses Crinkle Cookies. Sweet, crispy, chewy, and full of all the holiday spices.
Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are light and crispy. They practically melt in your mouth. I love adding colored nonpareils to add some fun to these cookies during the holidays. These are the rainbow nonpareils, but you can use any color you like for your holiday baking.
Peppermint Meringues
Peppermint Meringue cookies are the cutest holiday cookies ever! They’re like crispy, pillowy clouds of confection that you can flavor any way you like. I like peppermint for the holidays, but you can use any flavor extract that suits your tastebuds.
Meringue cookies make adorable Christmas cookies for gifting to neighbors and friends.
Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
Think of these Chocolate Sandwich Cookies as Gourmet Oreos. The dark chocolate cookies are filled with decadent buttercream, which you can color any color you like.
Who doesn’t want all the flavor of an Oreo without any unnatural ingredients?
*This recipe was originally published as a Halloween cookie, shaped like bats. To make homemade Oreos, use the same recipe with round cookie cutters or with your favorite Christmas cookie cutter.
Granola Cookies
These grain-free granola cookies are made with nuts, dried coconut, spices, and a small amount of sugar. They’re a perfect alternative if you want cookies but don’t want all the gluten and sugar.
Edible Christmas Gift Ideas
The holidays are for gifting, and I have a ton of easy homemade holiday gift ideas. If you have no time to shop this year, try your hand at making gourmet food gifts for your favorite people.
