60+ Favorite Christmas Cookies Ideas

Ultimate list of Best Christmas Cookies! If you're searching for Christmas Cookies Ideas, these are our favorite Christmas cookies to bake!

 

Our biggest struggle during the holiday season is choosing which Christmas cookies to bake!

Whether you are a chocolate recipe lover or more of a gingerbread fan, you’re sure to find the perfect cookie recipe for you with this collection of Christmas cookie recipes.

Chocolate Christmas Cookie Ideas

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy, delicious and every chocolate lover’s dream! Truly the Best Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe!

Chocolate Spritz Cookie Recipe that everyone will love! These Chocolate Spritz Cookies are perfect for the holidays. Buttery & yummy!

Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies! These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are easy to make with only 4 ingredients and SO delicious!

Italian Chocolate Cookies that are filled with chocolate and spices. Delicious and easy to make!

Nutella Cookies are stuffed with nutella, crispy out the outside and soft in the center!

Chocolate Caramel Cookies are easy to make and fun to eat! Perfect for the holidays or any time of year!

Hot Cocoa Cookies are perfect for colder weather! Sweet hot chocolate cookies are topped with marshmallows and baked to perfection!

Snicker Cookies are loaded with peanuts, Snickers and chocolate. Rich and delicious!

Andes Mint Cookies are so easy to make from scratch! These Chocolate Mint Cookies are tasty and fudgy - loaded with Andes Mints

No Bake Oatmeal Cookies are a classic! Always a great choice for dessert whether you’re in a hurry or not. 

Peppermint Chocoholic Cookies are oat-filled double chocolate cookies dipped in peppermint white chocolate and topped with crushed candy cane pieces.

Homemade Oreos have all the things you love about Oreos, crispy crunchy chocolate cookies on the outside with creamy vanilla frosting in the middle. Why buy Oreos from the store when you can make your own at home?

Paleo No Bake Christmas Cookies taste like chocolate peanut butter cookies but with no peanuts. They are low in sugar and they freeze well.

Coconut Macaroons are classic bite-sized treats with a crispy coating and chewy interior. But when dipped in chocolate, they make for one indulgent dessert.

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies combine the flavors of chocolate and coffee in a decadent cookie for the holiday season.

Triple Chocolate Christmas Cookies! These made-from-scratch cookies are perfect for the holidays and the frosting is soft and delicious!

Best Christmas Cookie Recipes: Drop Cookies

Easy Snickerdoodle Recipe are soft, chewy and full of spice. They're truly the best snickerdoodles you'll ever make!

Peppermint Sugar Cookies! These Candy Cane Sugar Cookies are crispy on the outside and chewy in the center - absolutely delicious!

Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies are soft in the center and crispy on the outside - absolutely delicious!

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles are the great too! Chewy in the center and crispy on the outside!

Best Whipped Shortbread Cookies are lightly sweet, buttery, and delicious. Learn how to make easy shortbread cookies in under an hour!

White Chocolate Cookies are made with white chocolate chips, these cookies have a crisp edge and a soft and chewy center.

Soft Pumpkin Cookies are the perfect treat! A delicious pumpkin spice cookie recipe that is light, fluffy and so easy to make!

Butterscotch Haystack Cookies are a classic recipe! A delicious cookie made with crunchy chow mein noodles and butterscotch chips.

Christmas Butter Cookies are easy to make, quick to bake, and super yummy to eat - perfect for Santa!

Almond Flour Cookies are the perfect low-carb cookie you never knew you needed in your life! They're simple, delicious, and keto 5-ingredient cookies. What more could you ask for?

Frostbite cookies are the perfect combination of everything you'd want in a cookie. They have just a hint of peppermint filled with that sweet buttery cross between being crunchy and melt-in-your-mouth.

Red velvet crinkle cookies can be described in many words – deliciously soft, thick, cakey, buttery, and best for any celebration. Slightly crispy on the outside like a cookie should be, soft and chewy inside making it taste just like a cake.

Cherry drop Christmas Cookies are an old-fashioned refrigerator cookie that is sure to become a holiday tradition in your family!

Peanut Butter Drop Cookies

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies are the best dessert! Hershey Peanut Butter Blossoms are soft, chewy, delicious and so simple to make!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with only 4 ingredients!

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are the ultimate Reeses Cup Cookies! Soft and chewy with a crisp outer edge- the perfect peanut butter cup cookie!

Peanut Butter Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with creamy peanut butter and oats and loaded with pretzels, M & Ms, and chocolate chips. These are festive holiday cookies or perfect for any time of the year.

Favorite Christmas Cookies: Ginger Flavored

The BEST Gingersnap Cookie Recipe! A gingersnap recipe that is crispy, sweet and slightly spicy. The best gingersnap cookies!

Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies with Royal Icing are extremely easy, but a smidge labor-intensive. It’s a matter of blending spices like ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, salt, and baking soda into all-purpose flour.

Gingerbread Yule Log Cookies are a delicious combination of gingerbread, Nutella, and lime (and no molasses) all rolled up in a festive yule log cookie!

Gingerbread molasses cookies drizzled with dark chocolate. Made with wholesome ingredients like oat flour, coconut sugar, and almond butter.

Crispy Gingersnap Cookies are the perfect holiday treat! Snappy, low sugar, and easily made gluten-free. Our favorite cookie!

Honey Gingerbread Cookies are a perfect and delicious combination! These cookies are very easy, so no worries if you are late with your Christmas cookie baking.

Spiced Gingerbread Cookies are deepened with the flavor of stout beer, and they're topped with a rich brown butter cream cheese frosting for the perfect Christmas cookie!

Chewy gingerbread cookies are rolled in colorful Christmas sprinkles! A colorful and delicious Christmas gingerbread cookie recipe you will want to make over and over again.

Gingerbread Men cookies. Bake up a batch of these soft and chewy Christmas cookies to decorate with your family.

Best Christmas Cookies with Fruit

Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are easy to make with only 5 ingredients! Buttery, sweet, delicious Jam Thumbprint Cookies everyone will love!

Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies are easy to make with basic ingredients. Simply delicious!

Raspberry Linzer Cookies Recipe! These Linzer Tarts Cookies are so easy to make! Rich, buttery & delicious with a sweet raspberry jam filling.

Black Cherry Cup Cookies are a level up on the traditional cherry pie cookie using a homemade filling and a touch of cinnamon and brandy. Add these gourmet cookies to your Christmas cookie tradition for a delicious treat!

1-Bowl Chocolate Orange Cookies are made using fresh orange juice and zest and they’re dipped in scrumptious dark chocolate. They are SUPER EASY to make and require only 1-BOWL!

Raspberry Pinwheel Cookies are an old-fashioned Christmas tradition! Raspberry jam and walnuts are rolled up inside a rich, buttery dough. The cookie log is then sliced and baked for a delicious and pretty raspberry swirl cookie.

Cranberry Shortbread Cookies are studded with bits of chocolate and dried cranberries and spiced with warming spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice.

Raspberry Jam Tarts (a.k.a. jam cakes) are amazing! Crumbly and sweet, it's like a filled shortbread baked in muffin tins. Perfect to add to your holiday baking they are a total crowd-pleaser.

Frosted Christmas Cookie Ideas

Best Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe! Thick and chewy, these frosted sugar cookie bars are easy to make and the most delicious dessert! Top with festive sprinkles for a Holiday treat!

Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe! This fool proof sugar cookie recipe is perfect for any holiday! Adorable, delicious and easy to make!

Eggnog Shortbread Cookies are a fantastic holiday bite! A little eggnog icing and an easy spiced shortbread cookie make for a killer Christmas cookie you’ll want to make every year.

Frosted Peppermint Cookies are soft sugar cookies studded with peppermint pieces and topped with peppermint buttercream and crushed candy canes that are perfect for cookie trays and Santa treats.

Easy Melted Snowman Cookies are a fun and easy way to get the kids baking with you. You only need 6 ingredients to make these adorable and festive cookies.

Christmas Cookie Pops for the holidays! These vanilla bean Christmas cookie pops are so easy to make, and so much fun to eat. They’re cookie lollipops!

Santa Sugar Cookies are so incredibly adorable and easy to make thanks to some shortcuts.

Christmas Pudding Cookies are chocolate sugar cookies decorated to look like a traditional Christmas pudding which is a date pudding popular in the U.K.

International Christmas Cookies Ideas

Pizzelle Cookies are a classic Italian treat everyone loves. Crispy and light – you can flavor this recipe with vanilla or anise extract. Great for giving as a holiday gift or enjoying with family and friends!

Pecan Snowball Cookies are buttery, sweet and easy to make! The perfect holiday dessert.

Moravian Molasses Cookies are a traditional holiday cookie from the Czech Republic. They are wafer-thin and crisp, but they are not delicate cookies. With lots of dark molasses, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger, they’ve got a nice spicy flavor!

Keto Christmas Cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday cookie tray! Buttery shortbread, pecans, and a touch of vanilla make for the best pecan cookie ever! Bring this all-time favorite homemade classic recipe back to your keto kitchen this festive season!

Icelandic Pepper Cookies, also known as piparkokur or pepparkokur, are a popular Scandinavian Christmas cookie similar to gingersnaps. They are beautifully chewy and easy to make from scratch with no unusual ingredients!

German cinnamon star cookies – Zimsterne – make a great edible Christmas gift. Flavored with cinnamon and covered with snowy white royal icing, these cookies bring the German holiday tradition to your home!

Italian Fig Cookies known as Cuccidati are appropriately festive with a snowy white glaze and colored sprinkles. Take a bite and you know it’s Christmas time. Italian Fig Cookies are full of dried fruits, toasted nuts, spices, and a touch of liqueur.

Italian Ricotta Cookies are sure to become a family favorite! Soft, delicious cookies topped with an almond glaze and sprinkles!

Italian Christmas cookies have a unique licorice flavor and are topped with a sweet glaze and sprinkles. These soft and chewy cookies are a must-have in every Christmas cookie spread!

Biscotti Regina or Sicilian Reginelle Biscuits – Crispy and delicious Italian sesame seed-coated cookies. They are incredibly great with coffee or tea.