It’s the MOST wonderful time of the year so what better way to get into the spirit of the season than making Christmas Cookies? Here, you will find my Ultimate Christmas Cookie Recipe Guide with ALL my favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes in one place. I’ve got all your holiday treats and desserts covered.
Cookies aren’t just cookies during the most magical Christmas season, they are baked gifts, sentimental memories and special traditions that take us back to the nostalgic feeling of being a kid again. These cookie recipes with get you feeling festive and cozy for this holiday season.
Each of these recipes share how to make Christmas cookies from scratch. They are easy Christmas cookie recipes with simple ingredients. Plus, these are all Christmas cookie recipes you can make with kids.
What Makes a Cookie Recipe the best for you?
If I were to describe my ideal cookie it would be a soft chewy cookie with a gooey doughy center with crispy edges. Smooth and something that gifts it a bite with the perfect salty to sweet ratio… do you relate? OR maybe you have another preference. Perhaps a cakey fluffy cookie with frosting or even a crispy crunchy cookie with flavors that remind you of your childhood.
Whatever your IDEAL COOKIE RECIPE preference is, it’s all here and there is a recipe for you. Whether you are a professional baker or this is your first time baking, I’m going to share my favorite Christmas Cookie recipes here that ANYONE can make and enjoy.
Let’s talk ingredients:
While making cookies, ingredients do matter. Although some substitutes are ok, (for example, GLUETN FREE PEEPS, you can switch out the flour in these recipes for gluten free flour and they will most likely turn out incredible) some substitutes are not and could effect how your cookies turn out. one example is that these recipes call for butter, not margarine and using margarine you would get a different outcome.
While other ingredients wouldn’t affect it as much like if you were to use vanilla bean paste verse pure vanilla extract or imitation vanilla extract. Though that may effect the flavor, it should effect the recipe or how they turn out overall.
So this is just your friendly reminder that if you do decide to switch out an ingredient… THAT’S OK, but it may not turn out exactly like the original recipe. This doesn’t mean you have to use the most expensive butter or flour brand on the shelves to make them, but the better ingredients you bake with, most likely, the better your cookies will be.
What to make these for?
Christmas is a time for family time, baking and generous giving and an amazing opportunity to pay it forward. A Christmas Tradition of mine is to bake Christmas Cookies every year, of course leaving some out for Santa on Christmas Eve as well.
You can bake these easy and delicious Christmas cookie recipes for Holiday parties whether that’s for co-workers at your job, a gift swap with friends or your family holiday gathering. You can also bake them for your community at church or a special city gathering, a school event or classroom party, or even to bring to your local essential workers.
Of course you could make them for a Christmas cookie swap or cookie exchange and for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day desserts.
To share the love even further, any of these baked cookies would be a great gift to share with your neighbors, delivery drivers and mail carriers, teachers or professors, and anyone in your life you wish to bless. Even those who are struggling around us who also deserve a festive cookie or holiday dessert.
A Christmas Movie night may just be the perfect time to make these easy Christmas cookie recipes. Cozy up with you favorite cup mug filled with warm Hot Cocoa after making these homemade Christmas cookies and call it a night well spent.
The Festive Flavors of Christmas
Christmas is such a special and nostalgic time of year partially because of the flavors and aromas of the Christmas season we all grew up on. My biggest goal is to capture that in my Christmas Cookie recipes and that they are so delicious they are the first to disappear at every party. The kind of Cookies with will become staples year after year because of how memorable they are.
Here are some cookie flavor combinations that will be featured in these cookie recipes:
- chocolate + peanut butter
- cranberry + orange
- marshmallow + chocolate
- maple + gingerbread
- peppermint + chocolate
- salted caramel
- gingerbread + cream cheese
- coconut + white chocolate
- butterscotch + pecans
- vanilla + oatmeal
- white chocolate + cranberry
I am so thankful to be able to share these recipes with you and I hope they bless you and your loved ones this holiday season- enjoy!! HERE WE GO!!
Hot Cocoa Cookies
These Hot Cocoa Cookies take the nostalgia of hot chocolate but put in cookie form. They make for the most perfect holiday treat and chocolate fix. The chocolate cookie with ooey gooey marshmallow in the middle is the ultimate indulgement. These festive Christmas cookies will have your loved ones back begging for more.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are so soft and chocolatey and have the perfect peanut butter flavor. They are super easy to make and showcase one of the best flavor combinations, chocolate and peanut butter. They are chewy and soft and have the perfect texture. The mini Reese’s cup top them off perfectly. They are a delicious easy Christmas treat.
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Cinnamon Roll Cookies are soft, chewy and so delicious. They are a cinnamon roll spin on a snickerdoodle so if you like cinnamon, you’ll love these cookies. The cinnamon swirl and glaze drizzle take these cinnamon roll cookies to the next level making them a fun and easy holiday
Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
Soft and chewy cutout gingerbread cookies that are packed with flavor and hold their shape. These cookies have great texture and gingerbread flavor. You can decorate them with buttercream, cream cheese frosting, sprinkles, red hots, chocolate chips, etc.
Muddy Buddy Cookies
Muddy Buddy Cookies are soft and delicious. They have a chocolate peanut butter cookie base base and topped with muddy buddies (aka puppy chow) for a nice crunch. The dusting of powdered sugar on top makes these beautiful. They are a fun and festive Christmas cookie to bake and can’t wait for you guys to try them!!
Old- Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are a classic cookie we all grew up on. They are soft chewy and icing that glazes over on top makes them. They are perfect for the holidays or anytime of year and even better than the packaged Iced Oatmeal Cookies. A festive fun quick Christmas cookie recipe. My grandpa always LOVED the packaged iced oatmeal cookies so I made these inspired by him.
Christmas Marbled Sugar Cookies
Soft & chewy Marbled Christmas Sugar Cookies are a delicious sugar cookie with a fun and festive spin. Made with Flourish flour, these cookies are fluffy and soft and oh so good. Such an amazing Christmas Cookie recipe for you, your friends, family, co-workers and Santa to enjoy.
Cookie Butter Swirl Cookies
These Cookie Butter Swirl Cookies are soft, chewy and filled with cookie butter flavor. Think peanut butter cookie but with cinnamon warm flavors. They are so easy to make and the perfect cookie to fulfill your sweet tooth.
Christmas M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Christmas M&m Chocolate Chip Cookies are a chewy cookie with pools of chocolate, crunchy m&ms, a hint of saltiness and made with brown butter. If you’re looking for the ultimate chocolate fix with a tad of christmas cheer, these are for you!
Peanut Butter Blossoms
These Peanut Butter Blossoms are a soft and chewy peanut butter cookie topped with a chocolate kiss. Perfect for the holidays, to fulfill your peanut butter fix, or a late night treat for your sweet tooth.
Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies
These Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies are SO fun and festive to make. They are soft, chewy and stuffed with a whole marshmallow. SO GOOD. Just like Peppermint Hot Cocoa but in cookie form so it’s the perfect Christmas cookie.
Confetti Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Confetti Sprinkle Sugar Cookies. Soft and chewy sugar cookies filled with fun rainbow sprinkles. These are perfect for any birthday or event because who doesn’t love a good sugar cookie that taste like birthday cake.
White Chocolate Coconut Macadamia Nut Cookies
These soft and chewy White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies are so delicious. They are packed with flavor and the perfect crunch. The toasted coconut and toasted macadamia nuts add such a wow factor.
Maple Brown Sugar Cookies
These Maple Brown Sugar Cookies are soft, chewy and have such perfect maple flavor. They are the perfect holiday cookie and super easy to make. Inspired by the Christmas movie Elf, these cookies have real pure maple syrup in them and topped with a maple glaze.
Triple Chip Cookies
Elevate your classic chocolate chip cookies with what? MORE CHIPS!! These Triple Chip Cookies are filled with not 1 or 2 but 5 kinds of chips!! They are perfect for any get together or just for the perfect indulgence to fulfill your sweet tooth.
Salted Caramel Cookies
These soft & chewy Salted Caramel Cookies are the perfect indulgence. They are swirled with homemade salted caramel and topped with a drizzle more and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt. A perfect cookie for caramel lovers and sweet & salty combos.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Marbled Cookies
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Marbled Cookies take the classic peanut butter cookies and marble them with delicious chocolate flavor making it the best peanut butter chocolate cookie. Perfect to make for your friends and family. Soft, chewy, delicious and done in no time.
Double Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms
Double Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms are the perfect christmas cookies. They are soft, chewy, thick and chocolatey and have the perfect amount of peppermint flavor. The peppermint Hersheys Kiss top these off nicely. Chocolate and peppermint is such a delicious flavor combination and these cookies are so yum.
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