My Christmas Cookie Recipes
15+ Christmas Cookie Recipes for you to make this holiday season! Chocolate, peppermint, shortbread, gingersnaps and more!
Christmas baking is the best kind of baking…especially cookies. Everyone loves Christmas cookies! Over the years I have made quite a few different kinds of Christmas cookies here on my blog, so I thought it would be nice to have them all in one place for you to find! So if you are looking for a Christmas cookie to make, look no further, there are some great recipes here.
Simple Butter Spritz Cookies
These Simple Butter Spritz Cookies are a delicious Christmas tradition. Similar to shortbread cookies, Spritz Cookies are buttery and soft, but these also have a hint of almond flavour. Make them with a cookie press and add sprinkles to make them festive.
Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies
These Peppermint Bark Sugar Cookies are perfect for the holiday season! Soft, slightly chewy, pepperminty and chocolatey. Yum. These will quickly become a family favourite!
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.
Santa’s Cookies: White Cake Mix Cookies
If you’re looking for a fun and festive Christmas cookie, try these Santa’s Cookies! The white cake mix in these cookies makes them super delicious (and super easy). They’re soft + chewy.
Peppermint Kiss Sugar Cookies
Not only are these Peppermint Kiss Sugar Cookies so pretty, they are the softest, chewiest sugar cookie around. And so easy to make. Great for bake sales too.
Jewish Shortbread Cookies
These delicious Jewish Shortbread Cookies are perfect for the holiday season! They’re soft, nutty, sweet and cinnamon-y. These are one of my most favourite holiday cookies!
Gumdrop Sugar Cookies
These Gumdrop Sugar Cookies are SO delicious. Soft, slightly chewy and full of yummy gumdrops. Perfect for the holidays!
Cranberry Orange Brown Sugar Shortbread
These Cranberry Orange Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies are a delicious slice and bake Christmas cookie! A rich and buttery brown sugar shortbread with tart cranberries and sweet orange zest.
Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies
These Chewy Ginger Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and full of delicious ginger flavour! A perfect holiday (or any day) cookie. Easy to make and freeze ahead of time.
Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies
How fun are these Ginger Spice Molasses Cookies?! They’re soft, spicy, gingery and really really good! Use cookie stamps to make them extra fun for Christmas.
Sweetened Condensed Milk Shortbread
These Sweetened Condensed Milk Shortbread Cookies are soft, buttery and lightly sweet. Everything you want in a shortbread cookie. Perfect for the holiday season.
Christmas Thumbprint Cookies
A delicious buttery shortbread cookie with jam centres! I think these Christmas Thumbprint Cookies might actually be my favourite Christmas cookie ever. So yummmmy!
Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies
These Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies are chewy, soft and super chocolatey with mint in every bite. Festive, minty and delicious!
Soft Chewy Ginger Cookies
My kids always ask for these Soft Chewy Ginger Cookies at Christmas! These tasty little cookies are soft, chewy and deliciously gingery!
Candy Cane Crumble Nutella Cookies
These Candy Cane Crumble Nutella Cookies are a perfect holiday cookie! Chocolate + candy cane = festive and delicious! These cookies are soft, chewy and chocolatey.
White Chocolate Ginger Thumbprint Cookies
These White Chocolate Ginger Thumbprint Cookies will soon be a family favourite! A delicious ginger cookie base with a sweet and delicious white chocolate centre…then sprinkled with cinnamon. So good!
Peppermint Spritz Sandwich Cookies
Make these cute (and delicious!) little Peppermint Spritz Sandwich Cookies for the holidays! A buttery vanilla cookie sandwiched together with a creamy peppermint buttercream icing. So good.
Apricot Pecan Rugelach
These buttery, flaky Apricot Pecan Rugelach cookies are filled with apricot jam, honey and chopped pecans. They’re so flavourful and delicious, and are a perfect holiday cookie!
Jewish Shortbread Cookie Pie
This Jewish Shortbread Cookie Pie is a fun way to make Jewish shortbread! If you don’t have a cookie pan, don’t fret just roll these into individual crescent shaped cookies too.
Brown Sugar Shortbread
These Brown Sugar Shortbread are a delicious Christmas cookie. This icebox cookie recipe is ideal for last minute cookie baking…bake half the batch now, and bake the other half later!
Iced Sugar Cookies
These Iced Sugar Cookies are a delicious roll-out and cut-out sugar cookie. Perfect for decorating at all skill levels…make them fancy or let your kids have fun with these!
Slice and Bake Shortbread
These Slice and Bake Shortbread are a delicious Christmas cookie! This is another ideal recipe for last minute cookie baking…bake half the batch now, and bake the other half later.
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!
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.
Christmas Oat Drops
These Christmas Oat Drops are a soft, flavourful oat cookie that you can make festive for the holidays with the addition of red and green white chocolate chips!
German Chocolate Cookies
These German Chocolate Cookies are chewy chocolate cookies with a delicious white chocolate and coconut pecan centre. These will fly off your cookie plate!
Hot Chocolate Cookies
These Hot Chocolate Cookies are The Most Chocolatey Hot Chocolate Cookies ever. A rich, chewy chocolate cookie with chocolate chips, topped with a toasted marshmallow. Cookie dreams.
Eggnog Icebox Cookies
Eggnog Icebox Cookies are a delicious and festive cookie. If you love eggnog, you’ll love these too. This is an icebox recipe, so you can bake half the dough now, and save the rest for when you want fresh cookies right out of the oven!
Turtle Cookies
These Turtle Cookies are like Turtle Chocolates but in cookie form! Soft, chocolatey and caramelly! They will disappear off your cookie plate first…trust me.
Whipped Shortbread
This Whipped Shortbread recipe is from my Mom. We’ve been enjoying these delicate and delicious cookies for years, and it’s just not Christmas without them!
Mint Chocolate Chip Blizzard Cookies
These Mint Chocolate Chip Blizzard Cookies are a holiday perfect cookie! A classic chocolate chip cookie base with a chocolate swirl and mint chips.
Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies
These Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies have the perfect balance of sweet and spice. They’re the perfect cookie to nibble on with your favourite hot drink! And perfect with homemade Baileys.
Mincemeat Oatmeal Thumbprint Cookies
These Mincemeat Oatmeal Thumbprint Cookies combine two delicious flavours, oatmeal and mincemeat! They’re rich and decadent, and I’m willing to bet that even the so-called mincemeat haters will love them!
Mom’s Melt-in-your-mouth Sugar Cookies
These are my Mom’s Melt-in-your-mouth Sugar Cookies and they’re the best Christmas cookie! They’re soft, rich and they really do melt in your mouth.
Snickerdoodles
These Snickerdoodles are soft, chewy and cinnamon-y. They’re always a favourite on holiday cookie trays.
Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls
These Peanut Butter Balls technically aren’t cookies, but they almost are so I had to include them. They’re rich and full of delicious peanut butter flavour!
Keep the Cookies Coming!
There you go, 15+ Christmas cookie recipes to inspire your holiday cookie baking this Christmas! I’ll keep adding cookie recipes as I make them, so make sure you PIN THIS POST to come back to later!
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Don’t forget the tunes!
Here is a playlist of 30+ holiday tunes to listen to while you’re baking. Press play, and let’s get this cookie baking party started!
Have a very merry, delicious day!
Its really amazing to celebrate christmas. Congrat…
I love the cookies…Thanks for sharing..
You’re so welcome!
Yummy! These cookies look delicious. Can you give advice about making these and freezing them until time to celebrate?
It really depends on the cookie…is there any one in particular you are wondering about? Generally speaking, any of the cookies with toppings like candy may not freeze well, as the candy tends to soften and lose its crunch. But most of these freeze great. Just store them in airtight containers in the freezer…sometimes I will add parchment paper between the layers of cookies.