If you're looking for easy soft Christmas cookie recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth and give to friends and family this year - Look no further! In this huge list of cookie recipes, you'll find delicious classic Christmas cookies, festive cookies, shortbread, cutouts, no bake, cookie bars, and even delicious cookies from around the world. So grab your mixing bowl and your favorite cookie cutters and let's get baking!
This collection of soft cookies is all easy to make and they freeze well so you can make them ahead of time and save yourself time during the holiday season.
Ultimate Guide to Popular Easy Soft Christmas Cookie Recipes
During the holiday season, a holiday tradition is to make an assorted cookie platter to give to loved ones. Baking cookies during this time is not only a yummy treat to share with loved ones but also a joyful holiday tradition.
You'll find some of the most popular Christmas cookies in this list such as Peanut Butter Blossoms, Chocolate Chip Cookies, soft sugar cookies, and shortbread cookies. There's a wide variety of the best Christmas cookies to make in this collection; you are sure to create a delightful assortment of Christmas goodies that everyone can enjoy.
Cookie Baking Success Tips
These cookie baking tips will improve your cookie baking technique and ensure to create the softest, most flavorful, and beautiful cookies to give out this year.
Room temperature ingredients - Use room temperature ingredients unless the recipe calls for melted or chilled. Most recipes call for room temperature ingredients for a good reason. Using room temperature butter will allow it to cream to the perfect consistency for cookie baking and using room temperature eggs make it super easy to blend the egg into the cookie dough without overbeating.
Measure the flour - If the cookie recipe is grams, then use a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients and if it's in cups then use a spoon to stir your flour to fluff it up and scoop it out using the spoon into a measuring cup. Use the handle of the spoon or a knife to level off the excess flour from the top of the measuring cup. This will reduce up to 50% extra flour that you don't need in your recipe!
Chill the dough - If the recipe you are following says to chill the dough - chill it! There are a few reasons behind this: either the chilled dough will result in a more puffy cookie or it is to allow the flavors to meld together and create a deeper flavor.
Line the cookie sheets - Line the cookie sheets with parchment paper but don't grease them. Using parchment will not only make clean up easy but it will also reduce the amount of spread that your cookies will have.
One cookie sheet at a time - This is a big one! Bake one cookie sheet at a time to get evenly browned cookies. Overloading your oven can create hot spots which result in burnt edges on some of your cookie batch. Allow the cookie sheet to cool between baking.
Use a cooling rack - As a cookie sits on the pan it was baked on, it continues to bake as it cools. Once the cookies have firmed up enough to move (about 5 minutes), it's a good idea to transfer the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Keep these tips in mind, and you'll be on your way to baking easy soft Christmas cookies that will come together easily and be delicious. Happy baking!
Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes
Everyone enjoys a good classic cookie recipe during the holidays and you can't go wrong with these!
When it comes to classic cookie recipes for the holidays, you can't go wrong with these soft and delicious options. Classic Christmas cookies look beautiful on cookie platters for gift giving or to set out during a Christmas party.
There's something warm and comforting about a classic cookie for Christmas and your cookie tray wouldn't be complete without it.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These classic Chocolate Chip Cookies are loaded with chocolate chips and are ready to eat in no time. They're not only easy to make but they're fast to get into the oven, too! These cookies are sweet, chewy, and delicious,.
Italian Cookies
These Italian cookies are soft, almond flavored cookies topped with icing and colorful sprinkles. A classic dessert that’s perfect for the holidays or any other special event.
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Classic snickerdoodles rolled in a cinnamon-sugar mixture. These cookies are crisp around the edges and soft and chewy on the inside.
Double Chocolate Chewy M&M Cookies
Chewy M&M cookies are the best kind of chocolate cookies — soft and chewy, so chocolatey and a breeze to make! Use holiday M&Ms and you’ll have cookies that will be the star of your Christmas cookie tray.
Snowball Christmas Cookies
Snowball Christmas Cookies also are known as Mexican Wedding Cakes or Russian Tea Cakes are a buttery cookie filled with pecans or other nuts and rolled in powdered sugar.
Macaroon Kiss Cookies - The Cookin Chicks
Treat the coconut lovers in your life to a dessert just for them. Macaroon Kiss Cookies combine flaky sweetened coconut flakes and cream cheese for a soft, chewy cookie everyone will enjoy!
Soft & Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
Unlike gingersnaps, these chewy gingersnap cookies are chewy and flavorful turning this holiday classic into something you can sink your teeth into.
Chocolate Star Cookies
Chocolate Star Cookies are a classic treat that many people enjoy, especially during the holiday season. These yummy cookies combine the rich flavors of peanut butter and chocolate, creating a classic and favorite cookie no matter the time of year.
Best Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe
These delightful holiday whipped shortbread cookies will melt in your mouth. They are light, buttery, and SO easy to make.
Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
These Old fashioned molasses cookies have a rich, warm flavor and a chewy texture that makes them a beloved favorite among many. These nostalgic cookies are perfect for the holiday season and are also a great choice during the fall and winter months.
Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies
These sour cream cookies are super easy to make and topped with the yummiest glaze. Soft and cake-like, you’ll love these any time of year.
Chocolate Chip Cookies (DoubleTree Copycat)
Nothing beats a chocolate chip cookie and this DoubleTree copycat is perfect for the holidays for that reason. These cookies are incredibly chewy and delicious served warm with a glass of milk.
Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies
These cookies are made with a blend of cinnamon and nutmeg and are a Christmas classic.
Old-Fashioned Butter Cookies
Old Fashioned Butter Cookies are a Christmas must-make. These tender buttery cookies are easy to make and are perfect for holiday gifting or your cookie tray!
Gingerbread Man Christmas Sugar Cookies
These Christmas Sugar Cookies are made with a gingerbread man cookie cutter and decorated with cookie icing. These delicious cookies are perfect to put out for Santa.
Monster Cookies (Gluten-Free Option)
This Christmas classic cookies is incredibly flavor with the additon of peanut butter, chocolate chips, and M&M's. This cookie has been handed down many generations in my own family it's one that we absolutely love.
Soft Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Festive Christmas Cookie Recipes
One of the most enjoyable parts of holiday baking is creating festive and easy Christmas cookies. Getting creative with Christmas and winter-themed treats is a fun way to get kids involved in cookie baking and a great way to start a new holiday tradition.
In this list of festive cookie recipes, you'll find colorful and flavorful, soft Christmas cookies that impress your family and friends. Have fun experimenting with colors, flavors, and textures, you may just find some new favorite cookies to make during the Christmas season.
Gingerbread Cookies - with Cream Cheese Frosting - the most requested Christmas Cookie Recipe.
These Gingerbread Cookies are soft spiced cookies topped with cream cheese frosting and holiday sprinkles. The most requested Christmas Cookie Recipe and so easy to make.
Christmas Kiss Cookies
These peanut butter Christmas Kiss Cookies are rolled in red and green sanding sugar to make them extra festive for the holiday season. Nestled in the center of each peanut butter cookie is a milk chocolate star candy.
Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are a super easy holiday sugar cookie – no rolling the dough required! Packed with red and green sprinkles, perfect for the holidays! These sprinkle sugar cookies are the best, easiest, Christmas cookies around!
Christmas Cookie Butter Cookies
These Christmas Cookie Butter Cookies are made with cookie butter spread, chocolate and white chocolate chips, and holiday M&M's. These cookies are perfect for Christmastime and for setting out for Santa on Christmas Eve night.
Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies
Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies are deliciously soft and chewy and they’re a favorite during the Holidays! The candy colors can be swapped for any holiday! They’re perfect for all year round!
Hot Cocoa Cookies
Hot Cocoa Cookies are the best combination of a soft, chewy chocolate cookie, a brownie, and hot cocoa with marshmallows. They are such a classic Christmas cookie favorite and perfect dessert all winter long.
Snowball Grinch Cookies
These Snowball Grinch Cookies have a surprise inside. Inside each of these Grinch cookies is something sweet - a chocolate Hershey's kiss!
Grandma's Soft Sugar Cookies
Grandma’s Soft Sugar Cookies are super soft, light, and fluffy. They are perfect with just a little sugar on top or with some icing.
Snowman Cookies
These Easy Snowman Cookies are made from a cake mix and are perfect for the holidays! They’re delicious and fun to decorate, too.
Peppermint Hot Cocoa Crinkle Cookies
These Peppermint Hot Cocoa Crinkle Cookies are perfect for the Christmas holiday and for cookie trays to give to friends and family.
EASY Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
These melted snowman cookies are easy to make with a few store bought ingredients. This increases the decorating fun time!
Sanded Sugar Cookies
Perfect for any Holiday or season, this cookie is a classic and easy to make and decorate.
Christmas Crumbl Sugar Cookies (SOFT!) - Borrowed Bites
These Christmas Crumbl Cookies are ultra-thick and super soft with a creamy vanilla buttercream and festive sprinkles! They are a mouthwatering bakery-style Christmas cookie that’s delicious all holiday season!
Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
These Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies offer a delightful treat for all chocolate aficionados! With just five straightforward ingredients - chocolate cake mix, butter, egg, vanilla extract, and chocolate kisses - you can whip up a delectable batch of cookies in no time.
Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Festive and irresistible Christmas Cake Mix Cookies with vanilla cake mix, chocolate chips, M&Ms, marshmallows, pretzels, and sprinkles. Easy, flavorful, and perfect for holiday celebrations
Chocolate Crinkle Kiss Cookies
These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies have a soft and fudgy center, are rolled in powdered sugar and have a candy kiss pressed into the center when they're hot out of the oven.
Green Grinch Sugar Cookies With Buttercream Frosting
These Grinch vanilla sugar cookies are topped with soft buttercream frosting for the perfect bite. You’ll be surprised how easy they are to decorate!
Soft Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies
These adorable soft gingerbread reindeer cookies are easy to make and fun for the kids.
Peppermint Stuffed Snowman Cookies
These adorable chocolate snowman cookies are stuffed with peppermint and topped with melted marshmallow. Perfect for a sweet treat during the holiday season.
Gluten-Free Matcha Shortbread Cookies
These chocolate-dipped matcha shortbread cookies are buttery soft, creamy, and put a unique spin on the classic shortbread recipe. They are gluten-free and easily vegan. The perfect holiday cookie recipe!
Santa's Cookies
Santa's cookies are made with chocolate chips, M&M's, and jimmies. They're easy enough to make with the kids and perfect to set out for Santa on Christmas Eve night.
Grinch Sugar Cookies
This super easy recipe for Grinch Sugar Cookies doesn't require any chill time in the fridge, and comes together in just minutes! Easy drop sugar cookies made with melted butter, green food coloring and a single red sprinkle to represent the Grinch's heart.
Matcha Brookies
These matcha brookies are part cookie and part brownie with the flavors of matcha and chocolate. These cookies are festive enough for the holiday season and deliciously fudgy.
Soft Frosted Christmas Cookies
These soft frosted Christmas cookies take little time to make are a family favorite Christmas cookie.
Christmas Tree Brownies
Christmas Tree Brownies are fun festive treats that are easy to make. They’re perfect for holiday parties and adding to Christmas cookie trays.
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies are a holiday favorite that only take a few ingredients and they're easily made.
Here are a few tips for creating the perfect shortbread cookies:
- For the best taste and texture, use good quality butter and flour.
- Have fun with extracts: almond, orange, lemon, and classic vanilla all taste wonderful in a shortbread cookie..
- Keep an eye on the oven. Don't over bake the cookies, they should have a light brown exterios and a chewy soft center. Overbaking will lead to them being dry and crumbly.
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Buttery, soft and sweet, these raspberry thumbprint cookies have a delicious burst of fruity jam in the center. These cookies are perfect with a glass of milk and for cookie trays!
Chocolate Dipped Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
Rich, buttery shortbread butter cookies with crunchy pistachios and dipped in melted chocolate and sprinkled with fresh orange zest and chopped pistachios. A beautiful and festive Christmas cookie!
Orange Shortbread Cookies
These Orange Shortbread Cookies are little sweet buttery balls that also have a slight tartness and tang! They have a typical shortbread crumbly texture, are rolled in an orange sugar and they're topped with a zesty glaze!
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies
These chocolate dipped shortbread cookies are crispy, melt in your mouth deliciously, and are dipped in your favorite chocolate! These cookies are made with only 5 ingredients!
Peanut Butter & Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
Give your childhood lunchbox favorite a sweet makeover with this easy recipe for Peanut Butter and Jelly Vegan Thumbprint Cookies! Made with just 6 ingredients, these sweet & salty gluten-free peanut butter & jelly bites are both easy and delicious, making them a favorite for holiday cookie plates.
Red Velvet Shortbread Cookies
Get your Christmas cookie cutters ready and have fun making these red velvet shortbread cookies. They give a pop of color to Christmas cookie platters and they're fun to decorate with icing.
Strawberry Jam Cookies
These strawberry jam cookies are easy to make and require no chill time! They have melt-in-your mouth shortbread cookie base, strawberry jam filling, and a simple icing on top.
Christmas Cut Out Cookies
Grab your favorite cookie cutters and rolling pin and let's get baking. Cutout cookies are a classic Christmas cookie because they are fun to make and it's a chance to get creative. The whole family can get involved and share their creativity.
Here are a few tips for making cutout cookies:
- To prevent the cookie dough from sticking to the rolling pin, place a sheet of parchment paper between it and the dough for easy rolling.
- Chill the dough if directed in the recipe to make it more pliable and easy to move after using cookie cutters.
- Dip your favorite cookie cutters in flour before cutting into the dough. This will help prevent the cutters from sticking to shapes.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting. This way the royal icing or buttercream frosting will not melt down in the cookies.
- Store the cookies with parchment paper between each layer to prevent the cookies from sticking together if they have been decorated.
Sugar Cookie Bites + Video
These delightful Sugar Cookie Bites are irresistibly soft, each one a tiny, delectable masterpiece. Their buttery, melt-in-your-mouth texture, and subtle vanilla sweetness create a heavenly snacking experience.
Gingerbread Man Cookies
These soft and chewy gingerbread man cookies are perfect during the Christmas season and they're easy to decorate with royal icing.
No Chill Sugar Cookies
No chill sugar cookies are the easiest sugar cookies to make! This quick, one-bowl sugar cookie recipe can be made from scratch in just 20 minutes.
The Best Cut Out Sugar Cookies (They Melt in Your Mouth!)
The best cut out sugar cookies! My sugar cookie recipe uses simple ingredients and is so easy to make! Perfect buttery cookies with soft and chewy centers. Decorate them with royal icing or my easy sugar cookie frosting recipe.
Coconut sugar cookies with sprinkles
Make these easy, soft cut out coconut sugar cookies for Christmas! They require no chill time and are decorated like Christmas trees. You can dive into them in 40 minutes!
Christmas Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These delicious but easy Christmas sour cream sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting are the perfect Christmas sugar cookie recipe! They are perfect for cutting into festive shapes with cookie cutters, and the frosting is easily dyed red and green.
Easy Bisquick Sugar Cookies
Making Christmas cutout cookies doesn’t have to take all day! These cookies are made with Bisquick baking mix, for an easy shortcut recipe.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
These Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies are a fun twist on classic gingerbread. They’re soft, perfectly spiced and flavored with cocoa powder.
Easy Soft Gingerbread Men Cookies Recipe
Is there a more iconic Christmas cookie than a Gingerbread man? These Easy Soft Gingerbread Men Cookies are super festive, delicious and the very best part is they start with a cake mix.
No Bake Cookies for Christmas
It doesn't get easier than no bake cookies, and here's a list of cookies that are super easy to make and have lots of flavor. With this variety of no-bake Christmas cookies, you can create delicious, easy, and soft treats that your family and friends will love during the festive season.
No Bake Cookies
These no-bake cookies have a rich, chocolatey flavor with a hint of peanut butter and oats. Simmer on the stove, stir, and chill.
No Bake Cookie Dough Bars
These no bake cookie dough bars are delicious no bake treats glazed with chocolate.
Oreos Covered in Chocolate
Incredibly easy to make, these Oreo cookies are dipped in chocolate and decorated in sprinkles for a delicious no bake dessert.
Chocolate Dipped Fluffernutter Ritz Cookies
Sweet and salty come together for the ultimate no-bake treat. These Chocolate Dipped Fluffernutter Ritz Cookies are quick and easy to make in just a matter of minutes.
No Bake Haystack Cookie Recipe
Haystack Cookies are an easy treat to make during the holiday season. They are delicious no bake cookies that are made from a combination of melted chocolate, creamy butterscotch, salty peanuts, and crunchy chow mein noodles.
Peanut Butter White Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies
When unexpected guests drop by you can whip up some Delicious no bakes in minutes! These peanut butter white chocolate no bake cookies are perfect!
Christmas Cookie Bars
Bar cookies are a fantastic option for easy Christmas treats as you don't have to scoop, cut, or shape them. Simply press the dough into the prepared baking dish and bake.
Having a cookie bar recipe on your list of cookies for the Christmas time of year is a good idea and the cut squares add a little variety to cookie platters.
Snickerdoodle Blondies
Snickerdoodle Blondies are a delightful twist on the classic snickerdoodle cookie and are perfect for the holiday season.
Cranberry Bliss Bars (Starbucks Copycat Recipe)
Cranberry Bliss Bars is a Starbucks Copycat Recipe that has a cream cheese frosting, a white chocolate drizzle, and chewy cranberries! This recipe makes two dozen bars that are filled with the delicious flavors of the season!
Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
These Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars are a fun treat to serve during Christmastime. These soft sugar cookie bars are decorated with Christmas M&M's, white chocolate chips, and semisweet chocolate chips.
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
Gingerbread cookie bars are the perfect dessert! The recipe uses a 9×13 pan, which yields plenty of dessert bars for a party. Your guests will love the chewy texture, spiced flavor and rich cream cheese frosting.
Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars
Soft, chewy, and delicious sugar cookie bars. These sweet and flavorful treats are topped with vanilla buttercream frosting and decorated with sprinkles. Great to decorate for Christmas!
Hawaiian Magic Cookie Bars
These Hawaiian Magic Cookie Bars feature the tropical flavors of pineapple and coconut. A deliciously bright addition to any holiday cookie tray!
Reindeer Sugar Cookie Bars
These Reindeer Sugar Cookie Bars are made with mini pretzel twists, candy eyeballs, M&M's, and homemade buttercream frosting.
M&M Christmas Cookie Bars
Christmas M&M Cookie Bars– soft, gooey, and loaded with both chocolate chips AND M&M’s throughout! Easy to make and perfect for cookie exchanges or goodie trays!
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
In search of a festive and straightforward cookie recipe for the holiday season? Give Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars a try!
These delightful bars come topped with a velvety, minty frosting that's simply delectable, making them a perfect holiday indulgence!
Christmas Cookies From Around the World
Christmas cookies are a beloved holiday treat enjoyed by people all around the world. Every country has its own unique take on these sweet treats including different flavors, shapes, and traditions.
Some examples are Lebkuchen cookies from Germany, Vanillekipferl and Linzer cookies from Austria, Pepparkakor from Sweden, and other cookie recipes from around the world.
These cookies are flavorful and delicious so make sure to add some of these delicious Christmas cookie recipes to your holiday baking list!
Coconut Meringue Cookies
These 4 ingredient Kokosbusserl - Austrian Coconut Meringue are usually served during the Holidays and are dairy and gluten free which makes these ideal for those with dietary requirements.
Turkish Apple Cookies (Elmali Kurabiye)
Elmali Kurabiye or Turkish Apple Cookies are delicious pastries that are filled with apples, cinnamon, and walnuts.
Linzer Cookies
These Linzer Cookies are made from homemade sweetened cut-out cookie dough made with almonds with raspberry jam sandwiched between them and topped with powdered sugar!
Soft & Chewy Italian Amaretti Cookies
A classic for the holidays, these soft, chewy Italian Amaretti cookies are simple, easy, and bursting with big almond flavor.
Scottish Shortbread Cookies {Made with Powdered Sugar}
Easy Scottish shortbread cookies are a great holiday treat.
Vegan Lebkuchen
These vegan Lebkuchen cookies are made with simple ingredients and are fun to make. They’re soft and cakey and covered with a zesty lemon glaze.
Sugar Free Raspberry Linzer Cookies Recipe
These adorable raspberry linzer cookies are also sugar-free. They’re a perfect holiday cookie for diabetic family members or anyone watching their holiday sugar intake.
Cuernitos de Nuez (Butter Pecan Cookies)
Spread holiday cheer with these mouthwatering Butter Pecan Cookies! Your loved ones will be indulging in happiness when they receive these homemade treats as a sweet surprise!
Pignoli Cookies – Easy Italian Pine Nut Cookies
Pignoli cookies are traditional Italian almond paste cookies. These sweet and chewy cookies are a favorite during the holidays and special occasions.
Cornstarch Cookies (Condensed Milk Sequilhos) – Milk and Pop
Cornstarch cookies are a delicious gluten-free version of shortbread: soft on the inside, a bit crumbly, and have a melt-in-your-mouth texture thanks to the cornstarch. Adding gingerbread spice transforms this cookie into a Christmas delight!
Pepparkakor (Swedish Gingerbread Cookies)
Pepparkakor (Swedish gingerbread cookies) are thin, crisp cookies flavored with cinnamon, ginger and cloves. These delicious traditional Swedish Christmas cookies are a must for the holiday table. And your house will smell like Christmas when they're baking!
Almond Crescent Cookies
Almond Crescent Cookies: These buttery, melt-in-your-mouth biscuits, delicately shaped like crescents, are infused with the irresistible flavor of almonds, making them a perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray.
German Lebkuchen - Something Sweet Something Savoury
German Lebkuchen Cookies are a classic holiday treat, known for their warming, spicy flavours like cinnamon, ginger and cloves. They make a lovely Christmas gift!
Pepperkaker (Norwegian Gingerbread Cookies)
Spicy and subtly sweet, these traditional Norwegian gingerbread cookies known as pepperkaker are sure to bring joy to your kitchen this holiday season.
Scottish Shortbread Recipe
How to make traditional Scottish Shortbread! Perfect, melt in the mouth shortbread cookies that no-one will be able to resist!
Christmas Drop Cookies
Drop cookies are a classic holiday treat that is easy to make and perfect for Christmas. They require no rolling, shaping, or cutting. Simply drop by the tablespoons two inches apart onto the cookie sheet and bake!
Tip: Use a cookie scoop to get uniform-sized cookies and take the guess work out of portioning your dough.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies have a soft and fudgy center and are perfect for the Christmas season. Rolled in powdered sugar, these cookies are great additions to cookie platters.
Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
These chewy gingersnap cookies have a soft and chewy center and crisp edges. They have the classic flavors and are perfect for gifts, for dunking in milk or coffee.
Soft Persimmon Cookies with Orange Glaze
Enjoy the seasonal availability of fresh persimmons during the autumn and winter months to create delectable Soft Persimmon Cookies infused with persimmon pulp, fragrant spices, dried cranberries, and a delightful orange glaze.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
These thick Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies and soft and chewy and taste amazing. They're quick and easy to make the perfect Christmas cookie!
Pistachio Cookies
These pistachio pudding cookies add a pop of color to cookie platters. They're sweet and salty and have a nice balance between soft and crunchy thanks to the crushed pistachios.
Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy, and has the wonderful flavor of cranberries. It’s the perfect cookie for the Holidays!
Amish Sugar Cookies
These Amish sugar cookies are a delicious Christmas cookie recipe. They are soft, chewy and the perfect addition to any cookie or dessert platter!
Soft Baked Gingerbread Cookies without Molasses
Gingerbread Cookies without Molasses are soft and fluffy cookies filled with warm and spicy flavors. Delicious rolled in sugar, irresistible frosted with easy browned butter frosting. Perfect sweet cookies for the Christmas season.
Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Just like your favorite Lofthouse cookies, but homemade! These buttercream frosted sugar cookies are so simple to make and ready in just 20 minutes.
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
These incredibly soft and chewy gingerbread crinkle cookies are rolled in powdered sugar and baked to chewy perfection.
Frosted Eggnog Cookies
Celebrate Christmas with these mouth-watering, cakey, soft eggnog cookies. They are an eggnog lover’s dream and are filled with incredible flavor to make the perfect holiday treat.
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These easy drop Chocolate Sugar Cookies are rolled in sugar before being baked into a soft chewy sugar cookie. The added chocolate flavor makes this a great cookie for those that love chocolate.
Hot Cocoa Crinkle Cookies
These hot cocoa crinkle cookies are fudgy cookies that taste like brownies and are made with hot cocoa mix and cocoa powder.
These cookies are rolled in powdered sugar before being baked to create a beautiful crackle on the tops of the cookies.
Andes Mint Cookies
Andes Mint Cookies are so easy to prepare. Made with refrigerated chocolate chip cookies and cocoa powder to make a double chocolate cookie dough that’s wrapped around an Andes mint and rolled in sugar!
Spice Cookies with Rum Glaze
These Spice Cookies are made with a blend of warm spices and iced with a sweet rum glaze.
Gingerdoodles
Gingerdoodles are the best of what gingerbread and snickerdoodles have to offer. These scrumptious treats combine the warm spices of gingerbread with the soft and chewy texture of snickerdoodles, making them the perfect addition to your holiday cookie tray and making great gifts!
Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are made using browned butter. The flavors are elevated with a nutty flavor in this traditional cookie and they are coated with a cinnamon sugar mixture much like snickerdoodles.
Chocolate Chip Ginger Cookies
Chocolate Chip Ginger Cookies – Thick, soft, and chewy ginger-spiced cookies that are loaded with molasses and chocolate chips. These are the BEST cookies to make for Christmas!
The Best Cookie Baking Tools and Supplies
Having the proper tools and supplies on hand is important to have when baking cookies, especially when making several holiday cookie recipes at a time.
- Cookie Scoop - every cookie baker should have this handy little tool. It is perfect for getting the same size cookies every time and it makes scooping the dough easier!
- Cookie sheet - Using a light-colored baking sheet will slow down the browning process during baking and having more than one on hand will help bake batches quicker.
- Parchment paper - Parchment paper helps keep cookies from spreading too much and it also makes clean-up easier. Using a silicone mat instead of parchment paper is also useful but it will need to be used.
- Digital kitchen scale: When measuring in grams, this is a very useful kitchen tool.
- Stand mixer or hand mixer: Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment is very useful when making large batches of cookies. A hand mixer is an essential tool for cookie baking.
- Cooling racks: Allows proper airflow to cool your cookies evenly and prevents them from overbaking on the hot cookie sheet
- Store in an airtight container: Allowing air to hit your cookies in storage will make them go stale and hard. Store frosted sugar cookies in layers with parchment paper to prevent them from sticking together.
- Leavening agents: Use fresh baking powder and baking soda in your cookie recipes. By using old or expired ingredients it will prevent your cookies from rising or spreading. It's a good idea to replace these ingredients every 3 months if the container has been opened for the best quality and freshness.
- Cookie Cutters: A variety of Christmas cookie cutters are essential when making cut out cookies.
Helpful tip: If you find your cookies have gotten a little hard, toss a slice of bread in the container and check it in a few hours. Voila! You'll have soft cookies again.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I make my Christmas cookies stay soft?
To make your Christmas cookies stay soft, you use the correct amount of flour by spooning and measuring it before using it in your dough. Having too much flour will result in dense cookies. Keep an eye on the oven to prevent the cookies from overbaking. When baking cookies, the edges of the cookies should be lightly browned and the centers still soft.
Keep in mind that cookies will continue to bake as they cool on the cookie sheet. Another tip for retaining softness is to store the cooled cookies in an airtight container with a piece of bread, which will keep the cookies soft. A slice of bread added to cookies that have already been stored and no longer soft will help soften them up again.
Which types of cookies are best for cutouts?
Sugar cookies dough and gingerbread dough is best for cutout cookies. These cookies keep their shape as they don't spread too much during baking.
How can I ensure my cut out cookies maintain their shape?
Chill your dough before rolling and cutting is an important to step to maining the cookie cutter shape will baking. Chilling the dough slows down how much the ingredients heat up in the oven and will result in a better shape than if the cookies had not been chilled.
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jamie
Saturday 28th of October 2023
I am saving this as my reference in making these delicious recipes. Thank you!
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Saturday 28th of October 2023
I love all these recipes! They are all delicious and I can't wait to make these recipes at home.
Nickki
Saturday 21st of October 2023
This is the ultimate collection of Christmas cookies - there’s truly something for everyone here. They all look so delicious!