30+ Christmas Cookies
30+ Christmas Cookies from my blogger friends will inspire your holiday baking! There’s always room for a new tried and true recipe. If you’re lucky, it just might become one you’ll make year after year!
Each holiday, I like to shake things up a bit with at least one new cookie! Lucky for you, I have a boatload of the Best Christmas Cookie Recipes to share with you today!
The Best Holiday Cookies
As soon as the Thanksgiving dishes are done, I start thinking about baking for the next holiday. I tend to make the same 6-8 cookies each year along with fudge, the best English toffee, and peppermint bark.
My rule of thumb for holiday cookies is to have one sugary cookie, one chocolate, one peanut butter, one ginger, one nutty and one coconutty. Something for everyone. And they are ALL my favorites. But I’m always looking for a new Christmas cookie recipe to try. Thanks to some of my blogger friends, I’m sharing a lot of inspiration for my holiday baking!!
I never stop looking for an improved recipe or a new twist to make my Christmas cookies even better. Plus I have an annual cookie exchange and that cookie recipe cannot be the same as one that I deliver to my friends and neighbors. That would be blasphemy!
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have a big freezer, most cookies can be baked, cooled, and frozen for up to a month before you plan to deliver them or eat them. Just make sure to pack them airtight and defrost them overnight in the refrigerator before packing to deliver.
I like to roll the dough into balls, then place them in a gallon-sized freezer Ziploc bag. Remove as much air as possible then place the bag in the freezer. Check out my post on How to Freeze Cookie Dough for details.
One of my favorite tricks is to place a slice of fresh bread into the container where you’re storing the cookies. The moisture in the bread will keep the cookies fresh longer. If you’re not going to eat or deliver them for a few days, store them in the freezer and defrost them overnight in the refrigerator when needed.
More of the Best Christmas Cookies
I hope you found lots of inspiration for your holiday baking this year! I want to crank up the oven and start baking ASAP!!! Which is your favorite??? Don’t miss my post on How to Host a Holiday Cookie Exchange!
- Toffee Noel Nut Balls
- Danish Butter Cookies
- Rosette Cookies
- Cranberry Bliss Bars
- Buttery Spritz Cookies
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30+ Christmas Cookies
These Holiday Cookies are perfect for family gatherings or for Christmas gifts! These are the best Christmas Cookies from some of your favorite blogs.
These Amish Sugar Cookies are the comforting, delicious cookies your grandmother used to bake!
One of MY favorite holiday cookies filled with dried cranberries, white chocolate and crystallized ginger!
These red and green thumbprint cookies are topped with holiday Kisses for a delicious seasonal dessert.
The BEST sugar cookie recipe for all your holiday cut-out cookies! Perfect for frosting and decorating.
Classic Sugar Cookies! Frost or dust with powdered sugar for a tasty treat.
Red Velvet Peppermint Thumbprint Cookies!! Perfect for Christmas!!!
These fabulous soft ginger cookies have a triple dose of ginger from ground ginger, crystalized ginger, and fresh ginger!
Perfect, soft cut-out sugar cookies!!!
Eggnog Cookies with the delicious flavors of eggnog in every bite!
Who wouldn't love this gorgeous frosted Christmas Cookie Tree???
Buttery Viennese Crescent Cookies
Another tasty twist on snowball cookies with toffee and almonds!
A fun, no-bake treat garnished with M&Ms!!!
These Anisette Cookies are an old-world favorite that's perfect for your Christmas cookie tray.
Filled with dried cranberries and plenty of orange zest, every bite tastes like Christmas!
Chocolate Turtle Cookies are a delicious combo of chocolate, caramel and nuts!!
I'd pick these fun Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies over a candy cake 100% of the time!! YUM!
These Chocolate Mint sandwich cookies start with a cake mix! Super easy for the busy holidays!
No baking is needed to make these adorable Christmas Tree Cookie Stacks!
Chocolate cookies with a caramel surprise in the middle plus a sprinkle of sea salt!
Oatmeal Cookies dipped in an eggnog glaze make for a tasty holiday treat!
Soft ginger cookies that will make your kitchen smell like the holidays as they bake.
These Ricotta Cookies are a classic Italian Christmas treat.
Oreos and chunks of chocolate transform these sugar cookies into a holiday treat!
The classic Linzer cookies are ideal for the holidays! So beautiful and festive!
Make your peanut blossoms extra festive by garnishing the chocolate Kiss to look like a Christmas tree! Genius!!!
Chocolate and mint are two of the top flavors of the holidays! And in macarons? Yes, please!
These chocolate thumbprint cookies are coated in nuts, then filled with caramel!
Tasty Chocolate Cookies topped with Coconut Cream Cheese frosting and more coconut!!
These melt-in-your-mouth snowballs are a classic Christmas treat!!
These Peppermint Meringues are dipped in chocolate, then crushed candy cakes making them impossible to resist!!!
Festive Pinwheel Cookies rolled in Red and Green Sprinkles!
26 Comments on “30+ Christmas Cookies”
I will making them ALL this holiday season!
I’m so hungry now. These all look great!
Way too much temptation for this cookie monster. If I start tomorrow, I could try most of them! Great list Liz! Hope you and your family are enjoying a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend.
Oh, my, goodness, Liz…Thank God those photos tantalizing my brain and desire button are only replicas of the real thing. Bravo to your discipline for trying one cookie from each category. If your 30 cookies were placed on a plate in front of me, I’d have to taste each and every one.
Oh dear how do I choose?
This is so fun! I love Christmas cookies and choosing new ones to bake each year. Can’t wait to get baking!
You’re so fast or am I late, Liz? You’re making me panick, it’s only Nov. Hahaha! Wonderful round-up, dear! xoxo
Hi Liz, what a wonderful assortment of Christmas cookies, I love this time of year!
What an amazing list of festive cookies! Which ones too choose from though? One of each maybe 😉
I think I need one of each, please! 🙂
How pretty are those!! Talented ladies!
I thought i’m gonna start baking cookies right after Thanksgiving, but I changed my mind. Cookie baking starts NOW!
Oh my, look at all these mouth watering cookies…what a collection.
Who doesn’t love a vast assortment of Christmas cookies? I sure do! Wonderful collection — thanks for putting this together!
Great round-up Liz! These cookies are all so gorgeous, so much inspiration going on here!
Every single one looks fantastic, this is a perfect round up, Liz.
I make hands down the best healthy cookies ever! I am going to potentially make them this year… For Man-Friend and his family… Wonder if they will actually like them! 😮 ha ha ah!
Lizzy,
Great cookie roundup. I make lots of cookies too, about 15 to 20 different types of cookies for Christmas. I start with two batches of pizzelle on Thanksgiving weekend (although, that’s technically not baking). I send those out to a friend in Florida, another friend in Westchester NY, three Aunts in the Bronx, my cousins in Newburgh, NY and each of my three sisters and my sister-in-law. The pizzelle stay nice at room temperature for a long time.
Annamaria
What an awesome assortment. I’ll take one of each and share them at my Weight Watcher’s meeting. This is killing me!
How in the world could any one pick just one? They all look amazing! I know there are at least 10 that I must put on my list!
SO HARD TO DECIDE!
I love these recipes! Great photos! Everything looks so yummy!
I am sooooo into crushed candy canes this year, those meringues are gorgeous! This is a spectacular round-up of recipes:@)
There is no such thing as too many Christmas cookie recipes and you have a great selection, Liz! I just bought a couple of Christmas cookie cookbooks and now I can add these to the collection. Thanks!
Now if that’s not inspiring, I surely don’t know what is? What a gorgeous round-up of Christmas baking, perfect because by the time December rolls around, I’ve already decided what I’m baking and won’t have time to fit in anything else.
Great roundup and perfect timing! I have a cookie exchange to attend soon and needed some inspiration. 🙂
We can never have enough cookie recipes to try, no?
Great collection Liz!