25 Christmas Cookies That Will Have Your Instagram Followers Drooling
Decorated Christmas cookies are a beloved holiday tradition, turning simple treats into festive and colorful delights. From frosted snowflakes and candy canes to tiny reindeer and Santas, each cookie captures the joy of the season in edible art. Whether intricately piped with royal icing or dusted with sugar sprinkles, these cookies add warmth and whimsy to holiday gatherings. They make charming homemade gifts and bring a personal, creative touch to dessert tables. Decorating Christmas cookies can be as fun as it is delicious, making them a perfect activity to share with family and friends during the holiday season.
Chewy, Soft Gingerbread Cookies

These Chewy, Soft Ginger Cookies stay wonderfully chewy for days. They are big on holiday spices, making your home smell of ginger, cinnamon, and molasses.
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Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies made with cookie stamps are easy roll out spice cookies and our new favorite Christmas cookie!
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Traditional Swedish Pepparkakor Recipe

My Traditional Swedish Pepparkakor Recipe is a crisp gingerbread cookie that’s a Scandinavian Christmas tradition ~ they’re absolutely delicious!
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Decorated Christmas Tree Cookies With Royal Icing

Learn everything you need to make easy Decorated Christmas Tree Cookies with Royal Icing. Plus a video to help with your Christmas cookie decorating.
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Easy Christmas Light Cookies

Christmas Light Cookies are so easy and fun to make! These festive cookies are perfect for holiday parties, cookie swaps, and edible gifting.
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Christmas Tree Linzer Cookies

These Christmas tree linzer cookies are great for the holidays. Easy to make ahead, they’re ideal for edible gifting or for your cookie tray.
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Father Christmas cookies

These Father Christmas cookies are crisp and light, gently flavoured with lemon and mixed spice and then decorate with sugar paste to create a very fun, very tasty and very festive treat.
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M&M Cookies

These M&M Cookies are the favorite Christmas cookies on the tray. They’re soft, chewy, and freeze well. Fun substitutions provided…
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Perfect Cut-out Sugar Cookies

These cookies have earned their title as Perfect Vanilla Cut-out Cookies. They are easy, retain their shape, and taste SO good.
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Ornament Cookies

When it comes to spreading holiday cheer through your kitchen, few things are as delightful as baking and decorating Ornament Cookies.
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3D Standing Gingerbread Men Sugar Cookies

An adorable 3D Christmas treat – these Gingerbread Men Sugar Cookies stand up on their own! Guaranteed to “stand out” at a holiday party!
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Lofthouse Cookies

Better than store-bought & so easy to make, this Lofthouse sugar cookies recipe is fluffy, sweet, & so fun to make!
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Grinch Crumbl Christmas Sugar Cookies

Grinch Crumbl Christmas sugar cookies are wonderfully sweet, with hints of almond and vanilla extract in every bite.
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Santa Claus Cut Out Cookie Recipe

With a crispy outside and soft on inside, these is the best cut out cookie recipe you will ever try! Perfect plain or decorated.
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Biscoff Reindeer Linzer Cookies

You have to try these super-cute reindeer Linzer cookies this Christmas. They’re ridiculously simple but so charming and adorable as well.
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Gingerbread Men Recipe

This gingerbread men recipe makes classic cut out gingerbread men cookies. The cookies and cookie dough can be frozen for make ahead cookies.
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Snowman Face Cookies

Festive snowman face cookies for holiday baking fun. Cake mix cookies topped with vanilla buttercream, sanding sugar, and candy decorations.
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Christmas Light Cookies

Christmas Light Cookies may be the easiest and cutest way to “light up” the holidays! This foolproof recipe is so simple because it starts with a cookie mix combined with only 2 ingredients (plus water) and ends sweetly with a beautifully decorated Christmas cookie confection that looks delightfully festive in the most delicious way! You must make this for your cookie exchange this year!
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Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies

This Christmas Tree Meringues recipe is light as air, crunchy, melt in your mouth and so fun for the holidays for any cookie plate!
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Christmas Light Cookies

A classic sugar cookie with candy decorations that look just like festive light strands, these gorgeous Christmas light cookies will be the star of any holiday cookie spread!
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Hot Cocoa Cookie Cups

Pair these cute little hot cocoa cookie cups with your favorite hot drink (hot chocolate, coffee, anything goes!) They super-simple to make.
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Gingerbread Sugar Cookies With Buttercream

Skip the gingerbread cookies this year & try something different! These gingerbread sugar cookies are a soft vanilla cookie topped with buttercream.
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Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make for the holidays. Just add cream cheese to your favorite cookie mix, then bake and decorate!
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Christmas Sugar Cookies

These Christmas sugar cookies with royal icing are perfect for holiday baking or gifting. They are tender, buttery, soft and super easy to make!
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Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies

These adorable Ginger Bread Reindeer Cookies are rich, soft, and buttery, with delightful gingerbread spices and molasses flavor.
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