50+ Fun and Festive Christmas Cookies!

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While yesterday was the last recipe in the 2016 cookie palooza, today is the official last day (sad!!). But it’s all good because we have so much cookie baking ahead of us these next 2 weeks. Today I’ve gathered 50 more tried-and-true recipes for Christmas cookies, both from around the web and some of my own favorites.

Let’s gather in the kitchen with our loved ones and spend time creating delicious sugary creations from scratch. Here are plenty of cookie ideas to inspire you from festive and simple to ooey gooey and melt-in-your-mouth irresistibility.

Super Festive Christmas Cookies

  1. Chewy Christmas sprinkle cookies on Namely Marly
  2. Red velvet sugar cookies on Wine and Glue
  3. Maple cinnamon cut-out cookies (oh the flavor!)
  4. Brown butter sugar cookies (I repeat, oh the flavor!)
  5. Slice ‘n’ bake Christmas tree cookies on Mom Loves Baking
  6. Spritz cookies on Rasa Malaysia (love these!)
  7. Cranberry orange linzer cookies on Jessica Gavin
  8. Candy cane kiss cookies
  9. Gingerbread Cookies
  10. Stained Glass Window Cookies
  11. Soft-baked white chocolate chip cranberry cookies
  12. Peppermint snowball cookies on Mom on Timeout
  13. Magic 5 cookies aka white chocolate, cranberries, coconut!
  14. Hot chocolate cookies (!!!) on Love From The Oven

Chocolate to the Max

  1. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
  2. Nutella stuffed deep dish gingerbread cookie on Cafe Delites
  3. Chocolate cherry blossom cookies
  4. Chocolate toffee cranberry cookies on Taste and Tell
  5. Mexican hot chocolate snowball cookies on Love & Olive Oil
  6. Butterscotch toffee chocolate fudge cookies
  7. Chocolate gooey butter cake cookies on Dessert for Two (the real deal from my St. Louis living friend!)
  8. Chocolate dipped almond biscotti
  9. Flourless (GF) dark chocolate almond butter cookies
  10. Chewy chocolate chip cookies
  11. Salted caramel dark chocolate cookies
  12. Salted chocolate pistachio shortbread

Minty Goodness

  1. Oreo peppermint crunch cookies on Inside BruCrew Life
  2. Peppermint white chocolate cookies
  3. Soft peppermint sugar cookies on Chelsea’s Messy Apron
  4. Homemade thin mint cookies
  5. Oreo stuffed peppermint cookies on I Am Baker
  6. Andes mint chocolate chunk cookies
  7. Peppermint candy cane Christmas cookies on Number 2 Pencil
  8. Peppermint meltaway cookies on Cooking Classy

Totally Easy Christmas Cookies

  1. No-bake chocolate peanut butter and oatmeal cookies on Brown Eyed Baker
  2. Red velvet whoopie pies (surprisingly simple and quick!)
  3. Classic peanut butter blossoms
  4. Butter almond meltaways on Back for Seconds
  5. Pumpkin spice thumbprints on Pass The Sushi
  6. Crisp molasses cookies
  7. Coconut macaroons (also gluten free!)
  8. Old-fashioned sugar cookies on The Domestic Rebel
  9. Chocolate chip cookie bars – easier than baking cookies and you can use red and green M&Ms instead of chocolate chips!
  10. Rugelach – love this stuff and I promise it’s so simple!

Iced & Frosted

  1. Slice and bake vanilla bean cookies with whipped buttercream on Half Baked Harvest
  2. Frosted chai spice snickerdoodles (I LOVE THESE.)
  3. Cream cheese sugar cookies (cream cheese in dough changes everything!)
  4. Soft frosted eggnog cookies on Life Made Sweeter
  5. Perfect sugar cookies on Happy Food, Healthy Life

Don’t forget the dogs!

  1. Soft peanut butter carrot dog treats โ™ฅ

Have a great weekend and let me know if you have any questions about my cookie recipes.

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Sally McKenney

Sally McKenney is a baker, food photographer, and New York Times best-selling author. Her kitchen-tested recipes and step-by-step tutorials have given millions of readers the knowledge and confidence to bake from scratch. Sallyโ€™s work has been featured on TODAY, Good Morning America, Taste of Home, People, and more.

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Reader Comments and Reviews

  1. Rochella Farnand says:
    October 8, 2024

    I have greatly enjoyed your recipes! Especially since you experiment to find the best possible recipe. My husband loves cannelloni at Christmas. Unfortunately, we have no place to purchase them in Portland, Oregon. My attempts have been dismal. Any possibility that youโ€™ll have a recipe for cannoli this year?! Thank you so much for sharing all your expertise.

    1. Stephanie @ Sally's Baking says:
      October 10, 2024

      Hi Rochella, We don’t have a cannoli recipe at this time but let us know if you find one that you love!

  2. Eileen says:
    November 28, 2022

    The link for the Candy Cane Kiss Cookie doesnโ€™t work.

    1. Lexi @ Sally's Baking says:
      November 29, 2022

      Hi Eileen, we actually just republished the recipe for Candy Cane Kiss Cookies today — very similar to the original, but with a few tweaks to keep the dough from over spreading. Hope you’ll give them a try!

  3. Carolin Eichholz says:
    November 17, 2017

    What a wealth of cookie recipes to try! Thank you for this compilation. I was just looking for something cute to make for the cookie sale at my little one’s playschool and I will def go for the Funfetti cookies. Who does not love sprinkles?!

  4. Miranda says:
    December 17, 2016

    Wow, these all look so incredible! I don’t know which to make first!

  5. Chantel says:
    December 13, 2016

    Yummy. Thanks so much for sharing.

  6. Nancy Baxter says:
    December 10, 2016

    Thank you so much for this great list, Sally!!!ย 

  7. Dee Dee says:
    December 10, 2016

    This is a great list of cookies, Thanks for compiling the list for the rest of us!

  8. Kate says:
    December 10, 2016

    Yay! Where do I even start? Thanks for the round up.