Easy Sweet Treats for your Christmas Cookie Box
25+ Easy Sweet Treats for your Christmas Cookie Box or Christmas Cookie Platters! Festive and delicious ideas that everyone will love, from classic cookies to irresistible candies and more!
Tasty and Festive Treat Ideas
If you’re looking to put together a cookie tray for visits with family and friends, or you’re making a cookie box as a gift, or you need to take an assortment to potlucks and parties, I’ve got loads of recipe ideas for you!
About My Cookie Box:
You can fill your cookie boxes or holiday treat trays with any of your favourite cookies, squares or candies! Here’s what’s in my box (refer to the image below). But make sure to scroll down to see more delicious recipe ideas to add to your cookie box or platter!
MY Favourite
Tips for the ultimate cookie box or tray!
- Add classics like shortbread or gingersnaps.
- Bake ahead of time and freeze.
- Not everything needs to be homemade.
- Make a variety of cookies.
- If you can, don’t make the cookies too big.
- Use large muffin papers or parchment to separate goodies.
- Fill spaces with candy or ornaments.
- Use cardboard trays, boxes or giftable tins.
- Don’t assemble the box too soon. Try to put it together right before serving or gifting.
- Make it festive and fun!
More Treats for cookie boxes or cookie platters:
Gumdrop Nougat Candy
While these are not a cookie, these Gumdrop Nougat Candies are a must on every Christmas treat plate and in every cookie box! This nougat is an easy no-bake treat that’s perfect for the holiday season. It’s always a favourite!
No Fail 3-Ingredient Fudge
This Easy No Fail Fudge comes together in just minutes with only 3 simple ingredients! No fancy ingredients, no candy thermometer and no double boiler required, just simple and tastes so delicious. It’s rich, fudgy and so chocolatey.
Whipped Shortbread
These Whipped Shortbread Cookies are so buttery, light and fluffy! They’re a classic cookie that’s perfect for your holiday cookie tray. Love at first bite.
Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies
There’s just nothing more delicious on the holiday cookie platter than a chewy, buttery and sweet sugar cookie. Especially one loaded with chunks of chocolate peppermint bark. These Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies are the ultimate Christmas cookie!
Santa’s White Cake Mix Cookies
If you’re looking for a fun and festive Christmas cookie, try these Santa’s Cake Mix Cookies! The white cake mix in these cookies makes them super delicious (and super easy).
Chocolate Caramel Nut Clusters
These Chocolate Caramel Nut Clusters are made up of 3 layers: toasted nuts layer, creamy caramel, and rich and smooth chocolate layer. Easy and so good. Better than store-bought!
Chocolate Covered Potato Chips
Homemade Chocolate Covered Potato Chips are a fun and delicious addition to holiday treat plates and cookie boxes! These easy no-bake treats are salty, sweet, chocolatey and pepperminty. So good.
Jam Jam Thumbprint Shortbread
This really is the Best Jam Thumbprint Cookies Recipe! These cookies taste like a brown sugar shortbread cookie with jam. Perfect for the holiday treat platters and boxes!
Snowball Cookies
These Snowball Cookies melt in your mouth! They’re sweet, buttery, nutty and so delicious. A perfect treat for your Christmas cookie tray this year!
Jewish Shortbread
These delicious Jewish Shortbread Cookies are perfect for the holiday season! They’re soft, nutty, sweet and cinnamon-y. These are probably my most favourite holiday cookie, so I always have them in my treat boxes!
Toblerone Slice-and-Bake Shortbread
These Toblerone Shortbread Cookies are buttery and loaded with bits of chopped Toblerone chocolate! These slice-and-bake icebox cookies are perfect for the holiday season.
Sweetened Condensed Milk Shortbread
If you’re looking for a quick and simple cookie for your holiday cookie platters, these Sweetened Condensed Milk Shortbread Cookies are perfect! Make them festive by adding sprinkles, then watch them disappear quickly! Yum.
Butter Spritz Cookies
These Simple Butter Spritz Cookies are a delicious Christmas tradition. Similar to shortbread cookies, Spritz Cookies are buttery and soft, but also have a hint of almond flavour. Make them with a cookie press and add sprinkles to make them festive!
Christmas Crack
This Easy 5-Ingredient Christmas Crack Recipe is a holiday favourite! It’s sweet, salty, caramel-y and so chocolate-y. Everyone asks for this year after year, so how can I not include it in my cookie boxes?!
Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookies
These Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookies are soft, chewy and deliciously gingery. They’re a definite must-have cookie for your holiday platters (they disappear fast) and cookie boxes!
Cranberry Orange Shortbread
These Cranberry Orange Brown Sugar Shortbread are a delicious slice and bake Christmas cookie! A rich and buttery brown sugar shortbread with tart cranberries and sweet orange zest. No cookie platter is complete without them!
Caramel Popcorn
This Caramel Popcorn is a always a holiday favourite here, I look forward to it every year! It’s chewy, rich, creamy and full of delicious caramel flavour. A perfect holiday treat for treat trays!
Turtle Cookies
These Chocolate Caramel Turtle Cookies are perfectly soft and chewy and crunchy and chocolatey and nutty and caramel-y all at the same time. Delicious! And perfect for festive cookie boxes!
Butter Tart Squares
These Butter Tart Squares with a Shortbread Cookie Crust are sweet and taste just like a Butter Tar. It’s not Christmas in our house if these aren’t on the treat plate! SO GOOD.
Candy Cane Nutella Cookies
These Candy Cane Crumble Nutella Cookies are a perfect holiday cookie! Chocolate + candy cane = festive and delicious! And soooooo pretty on holiday trays!
Fruitcake Shortbread Squares
These Fruitcake Shortbread Squares are like little bites of fruitcake but without all the work! Top them off with a delicious and rich rum glaze, then cut them into bite-sized pieces for your holiday trays.
Easy Peppermint Bark
This Peppermint Bark treat is so easy to make is is made with just 3 simple ingredients! If you make it with good quality white and milk chocolate, it’s as good, if not better, than store-bought.
Mincemeat Thumbprint Cookies
These Mincemeat Oatmeal Thumbprint Cookies are a chewy oatmeal cookie with a delicious mincemeat centre. A festive and tasty Christmas cookie for your cookie box.
Peppermint Kiss Sugar Cookies
If you’re looking for a delicious and easy cookie recipe to make for the holiday season, these Peppermint Kiss Sugar Cookies are it! They’re soft, chewy and will disappear fast from your holiday cookie tray!
Hazelnut Linzer Cookies
These Hazelnut and Jam Linzer Cookies are tasty, crispy-tender hazelnut cookies that are perfect for a Christmas cookie platter! Make them in any shape you like. This delicious recipe is from my Mom’s blog.
Ginger Oatmeal Cookies
If you love oatmeal cookies and chewy ginger cookies then you will LOVE these Chewy Ginger Oatmeal Cookies! This easy recipe makes the most gingery, delicious oatmeal cookie that are a perfect addition to cookie plates.
Gumdrop Sugar Cookies
If you’re looking for a simple and delicious cookie that everyone will love, these Gumdrop Sugar Cookies are it! They’ll be the first to disappear off the dessert platter. You just can’t go wrong with a soft sugar cookie full of candy.
Candied Pecans
This Easy Candied Pecans Recipe is SO delicious. These pecans are crunchy and sweet with flavours of cinnamon and vanilla. A great addition to holiday treat platters!
Not a Cookie, but fun to gift!
These are NOT a cookie. I repeat, they are NOT cookies! BUT they’re soooooo cute I had to add them. These are handmade Gingerbread Salt Dough Ornaments that are the cutest addition to holiday boxes. Just make sure your recipient knows not to eat them…they’re for hanging on the tree!
I hope you found some delicious inspiration for your holiday treat boxes and cookie platters! Have a festive and delicious day!
