40 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes
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If you're searching for the best Christmas cookie recipes to bake this season, you're in the right place. This list of 40 easy Christmas cookies has everything from classic gingerbread and snowball cookies to rich chocolate favorites, cookie bars and quick no-bake options.
I've grouped them so you can find what you need fast: classic Christmas cookies, chocolate cookies, peanut butter and oatmeal cookies, cookie bars and no-bake treats. Whether you're prepping for a holiday party, a cookie exchange, or filling the family cookie jar, these simple, crowd-pleasing recipes will make your kitchen smell amazing and your season a little sweeter.
Why You'll Love These Christmas Cookies
Classics and new favorites. Traditional Christmas cookies sit right next to fun candy-loaded and cake mix cookies.
Something for every baker. There's everything from decorated gingerbread to no-bake cookies that don't need the oven.
Made for sharing. They're great for cookie trays, cookie exchanges, holiday parties and gifts.
Cookie Baking Tips
- Make sure you spoon and level the flour. If you scoop your flour up, it will pack down and cause the dough to become dry.
- Softened butter doesn't mean melted. I like to leave mine out for a couple of hours to come to room temp.
- Most cookie dough freezes really well for up to 3 months but just allow them time to thaw a bit before baking.
- To make perfectly shaped cookies right when they come out of the oven use a biscuit cutter or glass larger than the cookie and place it over the hot cookie and rotate in a circular manner. The warm cookie will form into a perfect circle. At this time you can add any mix-ins on top like chocolate chips to make an extra pretty cookie.
Classic Christmas Cookies
Classic Gingerbread Cookies
Classic Gingerbread Cookies recipe is filled with a sweet molasses flavor and topped with a delicious homemade icing. They are easy to make, perfect for decorating, and the perfect cookie for this holiday season.
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Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies
Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies are soft, buttery, and coated in a sweet cinnamon-sugar mixture that makes every bite irresistible. With their slightly tangy flavor and perfect chew, they’re a cozy classic you’ll want to bake again and again.
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Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies
Butter cookies are a classic cookie everybody loves. They have a rich and buttery flavor with a crisp texture. Simple to make and delicious dipped in dark chocolate.
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Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies
These old-fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are soft in the middle with crisp, crunchy edges, and are topped with a delicious homemade vanilla icing.
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Old Fashioned Snowball Cookies
Snowball butter cookies are one of those must-haves during the holiday season. They are buttery, nutty, and have a melt-in-your-mouth texture that reminds me of cotton candy.
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Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are one of my favorite holiday cookies to bake and enjoy. These cookies are made with a buttery, crisp shortbread base and topped with a deliciously sweet raspberry jam for an outstanding texture and flavor combination
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Ginger Snap Cookies
Soft and chewy ginger snap cookies will make the perfect treat this holiday season.
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Meltaway Cookies
Meltaway cookies is a simple cookie recipe that delivers a soft and buttery cookie, the vanilla and almond extract gives them fabulous flavor. Topped off with a sweet icing.
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Pecan Pie Cookies
This amazing pecan pie cookie recipe takes the classic baked dessert and turns it into a delicious and handheld treat, perfect for the holidays!
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Brown Sugar Cookies
Soft and chewy Brown Sugar Cookies with deep caramel flavor, warm cinnamon, and perfectly crisp edges. These delicious cookies are easy to make, no-fuss, and ready in under an hour.
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Chocolate Christmas Cookies
Chocolate Fudge Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate fudge crinkle cookies are traditional Christmas cookies that are rich and fudgy and rolled in a thick coating of powdered sugar which gives them that crinkled look.
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
These Ghirardelli White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies are soft, buttery, and packed with sweet and salty flavors for the perfect treat!
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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
These homemade chocolate chip cookies are chewy and soft, just like the kind you might buy at your local bakery!
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Soft and Fudgy Brownie Cookies
Soft and fudgy brownie cookies have rich chocolate flavor. The cocoa powder and chocolate chips are the star ingredients, creating an intensely decadent treat that is sure to become a favorite.
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Classic M&M Cookies
Crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside, with M&Ms in every bite. Use red and green M&Ms for an easy Christmas version.
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Triple Chocolate M&M Cookies
Triple chocolate M&M cookies are rich, fudgy, chewy, and loaded with three kinds of chocolate, a chocolate lover's dream, and no chilling time required!
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Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
These Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate chips. Easy to make, bakery-style cookies everyone will love!
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Chocolate Wafer Cookies
Snappy, light chocolate wafer cookies made with common pantry ingredients. They add a nice crisp cookie to a holiday cookie tray.
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Cake Mix Whoopie Pies
These tasty and easy whoopie pies made with cake mix are ready in under half an hour and will satisfy any sweet tooth!
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Chewy Chocolate Caramel Chip Cookies
Chewy chocolate cookies with caramel chips, a rich one for the chocolate lovers on your list.
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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies are soft and moist and are ready in under 20 minutes and you only need 6 ingredients to make them.
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Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Holiday Cookies
Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Cookies
Reese's Pieces peanut butter cookies are soft with a chewy texture loaded with peanut butter candies, 15-minute prep time, and no chilling required!
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Caramel Pecan Oatmeal Cookies
Caramel Pecan Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious twist on a classic favorite. Soft, chewy oats blend perfectly with the crunchy pecans, while pockets of gooey caramel melt into every bite.
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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Soft peanut butter cup cookies made with pudding and loaded with chocolatey mix-ins. These are a must for peanut butter lovers.
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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Soft peanut butter cookies made with just 3 ingredients. They're one of the easiest cookies you can add to your holiday baking list.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
Super soft chocolate pudding cookies with peanut butter. They're a peanut butter cup lover's dream cookie.
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Kitchen Sink Cookies
Kitchen Sink Cookies are thick soft cookies loaded with delicious mix-ins like chocolate chip, toffee bits, and salty pretzels. Everyone goes crazy for these!
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Snickers Cookies
Buttery cookie dough with gooey caramel, crunchy peanuts and chocolate. It's everything you love about a Snickers bar in cookie form.
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Easy Cowboy Cookies
Thick, chewy cookies loaded with oats, chocolate chips, pecans and coconut. They're great fresh out of the oven with a glass of milk.
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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
Oatmeal butterscotch cookies have crispy edges and chewy texture loaded with oats and packed with lots of butterscotch chips in every bite!
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Spiced Oatmeal Cookies (No Eggs)
Oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies with a hint of warm spice, and no eggs needed. They're handy when you run out of eggs on baking day.
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No Bake Christmas Cookies
No Bake Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
No-bake oatmeal peanut butter cookies with just 6 ingredients and easy prep. They're a quick option when the oven is full of holiday baking.
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No-Bake Avalanche Cookies
Avalanche cookies are a simple no-bake cookie recipe. The ultimate treat thats perfect for those summer months or your Holiday cookie list.
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Oreo Dipped Christmas Cookies
Oreo dipped Christmas lights cookies are super cute and fun to make. The perfect holiday treat!
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Chocolate Peppermint Dipped Oreos
Oreos dipped in chocolate and finished with peppermint for a festive no-bake treat. They're great for holiday parties and gift giving.
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Polar Bear Cookies
No-bake polar bear cookies that are super easy and absolutely adorable. They’re perfect for a cookie exchange or a winter party platter.
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Christmas Cookie Bars
Sugar Cookie Bars
Sugar cookie bars are everything you love about classic sugar cookies—soft, buttery, and perfectly sweet—without the fuss of rolling or cutting. Just spread the dough in a pan, bake, frost, and watch them disappear.
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Ritz Cracker Toffee Cookies
Buttery toffee and melty chocolate over a crunchy cracker base. They're sweet and salty, and they disappear fast from a cookie tray.
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M&M Christmas Cookie Bars
Soft, chewy cookie bars loaded with red and green M&Ms, chocolate chips and sprinkles. You get all the fun of Christmas cookies without scooping every one.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Chocolate chip cookie and creamy cheesecake in one easy bar. They make a bakery-style dessert for holiday parties.
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Recipe FAQ's
What are some traditional Christmas cookies?
Gingerbread cookies, snowball cookies, thumbprint cookies, crinkle cookies and butter cookies are all Christmas classics. You’ll find all of them on this list, including... in the Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes section, including Classic Gingerbread Cookies, Old Fashioned Snowball Cookies and Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies.
What are the easiest Christmas cookies to make?
The no-bake cookies are the easiest, like No-Bake Avalanche Cookies, Polar Bear Cookies and Oreo Dipped Christmas Cookies. For a baked cookie, 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies and Sugar Cookie Bars are both simple, with no rolling or cutting.
What Christmas cookies are good for a cookie exchange?
Cookies that hold their shape and travel well are a good choice, like Chocolate Fudge Crinkle Cookies, Chocolate Dipped Butter Cookies and Ginger Snap Cookies. Cookie bars like M&M Christmas Cookie Bars are also easy to cut and pack.
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