Christmas cookies are more than dessert, they’re tradition.
Whether you’re baking for a cookie swap, leaving treats out for Santa, or filling your freezer for family and holiday guests, these 10 cookie recipes will keep the season merry and bright.
Each one is easy, delicious, and perfect for gifting or sharing.
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10 Easy Holiday Cookies Everyone Will Love
Gooey Butter Cake Cookies with Holiday Sprinkles
Buttery, soft, and dusted with powdered sugar, these cookies are holiday magic in every bite. The festive sprinkles make them perfect for cookie trays.
Gooey Butter Cake Cookies
Rolled Sugar Cookies with No-Spread Dough
These classic cut-out cookies keep their shape for all your Christmas designs. Top with royal icing or buttercream for a festive finish.
Grab the Rolled Sugar Cookie Recipe
Italian Butter Cookies
These piped cookies are a classic during the holidays. Top with chocolate frosting or sprinkles or leave plain and let the butter flavor shine through.
See Italian Butter Cookies
Sprinkles Sugar Cookies
Maybe you'd like a bright, colorful, cheerful cookie on your holiday platters but are buttercream challenged?
No problem, make this easy drop sugar cookie and douse them in sprinkles. These are soft, chewy, and festive enough for holiday cookie boxes.
Grab the Sprinkles Cookie Recipe
Gingersnap Cookies
Perfectly spiced, chewy, and rolled in sugar. A must-have on any holiday cookie platter and this is my Grandma's recipe.
See the Gingersnap Cookie Recipe
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Rich, fudgy chocolate cookies with a signature crackled sugar coating — a Christmas classic that’s as beautiful as it is delicious.
Check out the Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Mint Thumbprints
Soft chocolate cookies filled with cool, minty frosting or ganache. Perfect for peppermint lovers.
Chocolate Mint Thumbprints
Brownie Mix Cookies
If you've got a box of brownie mix, you have the foundation of an incredibly easy, chocolatey, decadent batch of cookies.
These chewy, quick and easy cookies will have your coworkers wondering how late you stayed up baking.
Sprinkle with peppermint chips for festive Christmas Brownie Cookies.
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
A holiday classic, this recipe makes soft, chewy cookies loaded with chocolate chips. Pair them with milk for Santa or gift in festive tins.
Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Blossoms
The ultimate sweet-salty combo: soft peanut butter cookies crowned with a Hershey’s Kiss. A nostalgic favorite for Christmas cookie trays.
Let me see Peanut Butter Blossoms
Are you craving the perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate in a soft, chewy cookie? Look no further than my Best Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookie Recipe! This beloved classic gets a delicious twist with a few simple tricks that take the flavor and texture to the next level.
Planning a holiday cookie swap? Save this roundup to your holiday baking board on Pinterest so you'll have it later when you're ready to bake.
Snow Globe Cookies
now Globe Cookies are the kind of Christmas cookie that make people think you spent hours in the kitchen (spoiler: you didn’t).
Decorated with marshmallow snowmen, pretzel stick arms, and sparkly sugar “snow,” these cookies are way easier than they look. Perfect for cookie exchanges, holiday parties, or impressing that one relative who thinks store-bought is fine (bless their heart)
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If you're baking for friends and family or for cookie swaps, you're probably curious about freezing either cookie dough or freezing already baked cookies.
But wait, what size cookie scoop should you use for these easy cookie recipes? And why do you even need a cookie scoop?
Cookie Baking Advice
You may find these baking posts helpful: from How to Avoid Flat Cookies, How to Freeze Cookie Dough, Room Temperature Butter for Baking to Salted or Unsalted Butter for Cookies? to Do I Need A Cookie Scoop?, Cookie Size Chart to What Should a Beginner Bake? to Where Can I Buy Sprinkles?, Why is my sugar cookie dough too sticky? and Cookie Holidays. What is Sanding Sugar and Do I need Parchment Paper? might also be helpful. This Cuisinart 5-speed is my favorite hand mixer. Why do my hand mixer beaters fall out? Cookie dough freezes great as do already baked cookies but find out what other desserts you can freeze.
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