These 52 Christmas Cookies Will Make Santa Stay All Night
If there’s one thing that truly captures the magic of the holiday season, it’s Christmas cookies. From the sweet aroma wafting through the kitchen to the joy of decorating with family and friends, these festive treats are a must-have for spreading holiday cheer. Whether you’re baking for a party, leaving some for Santa, or just indulging your own sweet tooth, these cookie ideas will make your holiday season unforgettable. Let’s dive into the most delicious, eye-catching Christmas cookies you’ll ever bake!
Christmas Tree Linzer Cookies
These Christmas Tree Linzer Cookies are beautiful cookies that are filled with jam and are the perfect addition to your holiday cookie tray!
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Christmas Lofthouse Cookies
Christmas Lofthouse Cookies are the perfect festive copycat of the popular grocery store bakery lofthouse cookies.
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Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies
These thick and soft chocolate sprinkle cookies are so easy and take less than 30 minutes! With an epic crisp outside and tender inside.
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Peppermint Chocolate Roll Cookies
These peppermint chocolate roll cookies are a chocolate cookie tube, filled with peppermint fondant filling, then sealed with more chocolate.
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Easy Peppermint Meringues
These peppermint meringues are a light, crispy, minty Christmas treat. Dipped in chocolate and crushed candy canes and only 6 ingredients.
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Gingerbread Snowflakes
These homemade Gingerbread Snowflakes are full of tasty, warm spices! They are cut into snowflake shapes and finished with sweet icing, perfect for the holidays or anytime.
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Splatter Paint Christmas Cookies
These splatter paint cookies are the perfect way to treat friends and family this Christmas. Delicious sugar cookies are so festive!
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Christmas Sugar Cookies
This is the BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe (Santa’s favorite cookies)! This Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe checks all the boxes. The Perfect Christmas Sugar Cookies.
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Christmas Butter Cookies With Powdered Sugar Icing
Christmas Butter Cookies with Powdered Sugar Icing are a MUST for the holidays. Simple iced cookies are one of the best treats for Christmas!
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Christmas Shortbread Cutout Cookies
These Christmas shortbread cookies are shaped like snowflakes and decorated with royal icing for the perfect Christmas cutout cookies!
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Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread Cookies
These chocolate peppermint shortbread cookies are dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed peppermint for easy Christmas cookies!
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Peppermint Kiss Cookies
These peppermint kiss cookies have a sugar cookie base topped with candy cane kisses! A fun, cute Christmas cookie that the kids will love!
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Peppermint Macarons with White Chocolate Ganache
These peppermint macarons are filled with creamy white chocolate ganache and rolled in crushed candy canes! Perfect for the winter holidays!
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Brown Butter Maple Sandwich Cookies
These brown butter maple sandwich cookies are light, buttery and filled with a creamy maple buttercream filling! Perfect Christmas cookies!
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Gingersnap Cookies
Ultra crisp and crunchy Gingersnap Cookies with a punchy ginger flavor that’s totally addictive! A must make holiday cookie!
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Easy Red Velvet Kiss Cookies
These festive and easy Red Velvet Kiss Cookies are made with a cake mix, rolled in sugar and finished with a chocolate kiss.
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Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies are an easy-to-make holiday treat that creates a sweet, peanut-buttery cookie with a chocolate dip and sprinkles! Each batch takes just 12 minutes to bake!
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Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies
Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies are a fun no bake treat that the whole family can make together using Pinwheel cookies, Twizzlers, and chocolate! Takes just 30 minutes or less to decorate a batch!
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Soft Christmas Sugar Cookies
This Soft Christmas Sugar Cookie recipe makes the softest sweet cookies that are perfect for decorating with the kids and giving to Santa!
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Meringue Christmas Trees
Meringue Christmas Trees are light and crispy sweet treats that’ll spread some holiday cheer with their green color and festive sprinkles!
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Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Peppermint Sugar Cookies are soft, airy homemade cookies that are finished off with a 5-ingredient creamy peppermint buttercream frosting!
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Avalanche No-Bake Cookies
Avalanche no-bake cookies with peanut butter, marshmallows and Rice Krispies. These 5-ingredient treats are ready in less than 30 minutes.
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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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Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Festive Christmas Cake Mix Cookies with semi-sweet chocolate chips, M&Ms, marshmallows, pretzels, and sprinkles. Perfect for the holidays!
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Peppermint Bark Brownie Cookies
Peppermint Bark Brownie Cookies – a fudgy fusion of brownie mix, peppermint, and white chocolate. Perfect for festive Christmas baking!
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Fudge Covered Oreo Reindeer Cookies
Whip up festive joy with these no-bake fudge-covered Oreo Reindeer cookies. A delightful addition to your Christmas dessert lineup!
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Adorable Penguin Christmas Cookies
On a cuteness scale from 1 to 10, these penguin Christmas cookies are… off the scale. With delicate vanilla sugar cookies, a decadent chocolate ganache filling and simple (yet effective) decorations, they are a fun holiday DIY project – that just so happens to taste AMAZING.
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Chocolate Peppermint Crinkle Cookies
Add a festive twist on a classic holiday cookie and bake these chocolate peppermint crinkle cookies! They are soft, chewy and chocolatey!
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Classic Snowball Cookies with Pecans
Made with only 5 ingredients, these snowball cookies are a must-try this holiday season. The powdered sugar give the cookies a snowy look!
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The BEST Soft Eggnog Cookies
Get in the mood for Christmas with these soft eggnog cookies with frosting. They tender, sweet and perfectly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg.
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Christmas Cookie
Here is a quick and easy list of Christmas cookie recipes for the holiday season! Classic recipes and more unique recipes are right here in this roundup.
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Candy Cane Cookies
Twist candy cane cookies are made with red and white peppermint shortbread cookie dough twisted together to look like candy canes.
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Secret Kiss Cookies
Secret kiss cookies have a hidden chocolate kiss inside! These cookies are the perfect dessert to make for Christmas cookie swaps!
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Christmas Tree Cookies
These Christmas Tree Cookies have 3 tiers of homemade sugar cookies that are layered with green frosting and then finished off with sprinkles!
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Almond Spritz Cookies
Try these popular, melt-in-your-mouth spritz cookies for Christmas. Made with almond extract, these butter cookies are hard to resist!
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Hot Cocoa Cookies with Marshmallows
Cozy up this winter with some hot cocoa cookies topped with gooey marshmallows. This Christmas treat is ready in 30 minutes!
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Quick Cranberry Pistachio Cookies
These delicious quick cranberry pistachio cookies make the best holiday treat! They are soft, buttery and so easy to prepare in 25 mins.
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Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
Gingerbread crinkle cookies are a must-try during the holidays. They are chewy, full of ginger flavor and coated in sugar with exposed cookie cracks.
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Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
Peanut butter reindeer cookies are made with chocolate covered pretzels for antlers, chocolate chips for eyes and red m&m candy for the nose!
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Easy Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Easy cut out sugar cookies won’t spread and the dough requires no chilling! Decorate them with royal icing.
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling
Pillowy soft red velvet whoopie pies are the perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day! They taste delicious with cream cheese filling.
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Easy Eggnog Snickerdoodles
Add a festive touch to a classic cookie. These eggnog snickerdoodles are soft, chewy and perfectly spiced.
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Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
Christmas sugar cookie bars are soft and chewy cookie bars baked in a sheet pan, dipped in royal icing, and decorated with festive sprinkles!
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Christmas Kiss Cookies
Christmas kiss cookies are soft chocolate sprinkle cookies topped with a Hershey kiss. These easy Christmas cookies are tasty and colorful!
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Frosted Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Frosted chocolate peppermint cookies are soft, cake-like chocolate peppermint cookies topped with chocolate frosting and peppermint candy.
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Andes Mint Cookies
These easy Andes mint cookies are soft chocolate cookies topped with Andes mint frosting. This easy, one-bowl recipe takes just 20 minutes!
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Chocolate Kiss Cookies
Chocolate Kiss Cookies are an easy triple chocolate cookie recipe that’s a perfect Christmas or Valentine’s Day cookie recipe!
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Reindeer Cookies
Reindeer cookies are soft chocolate cookies with candy faces and pretzel antlers. This is the best and easiest Christmas cookie recipe!
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No Chill Sugar Cookies
No chill sugar cookie recipe makes easy sugar cookies! This one bowl no-chill sugar cookie recipe can be made from scratch in just 20 minutes.
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Best Molasses Cookies
Best Molasses Cookies! These soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies don’t need to be chilled before baking. Perfect Christmas cookie recipe!
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Cut Out Sugar Cookie
This cut out sugar cookie recipe makes soft sugar cookies that are perfect for decorating! This easy recipe is made with a pantry ingredients.
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