One of the best parts of holiday baking is making festive holiday Christmas cookies. It's a fun way to get kids involved and start a new tradition.
In this list of cookie recipes, you'll find colorful and flavorful treats to impress your family and friends. Have fun experimenting with colors, flavors, and textures to find new favorite cookies for the Christmas season.
Gingerbread Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These Gingerbread Cookies are soft, spiced cookies topped with cream cheese frosting and holiday sprinkles, making them the most requested Christmas Cookie Recipe and so easy to make.
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Christmas Kiss Cookies
These peanut butter Christmas Kiss Cookies are coated in red and green sanding sugar to make them more festive for the holiday season. Each peanut butter cookie contains a milk chocolate star candy in the center.
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Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are an easy holiday sugar cookie – no need to roll the dough! Packed with red and green sprinkles, perfect for the holidays. These sprinkle sugar cookies are the best and easiest Christmas cookies around!
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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.
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Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies
Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies are soft, chewy, and a favorite during the holidays. The candy colors can be changed for any holiday, making them perfect for any time of year.
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Hot Cocoa Cookies
Hot Cocoa Cookies are a delightful combination of a soft, chewy chocolate cookie, a brownie, and hot cocoa with marshmallows. They are a classic Christmas cookie favorite and the perfect dessert all winter long.
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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!
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Grandma's Soft Sugar Cookies
Grandma's Soft Sugar Cookies are incredibly soft, light, and fluffy. They are delicious with just a sprinkle of sugar on top or with some icing.
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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 as well.
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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.
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Melted Snowman Cookies
These melted snowman cookies are easy to make with a few store-bought ingredients, which increases the decorating fun time!
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Sanded Sugar Cookies
Perfect for any holiday or season, these sanded sugar cookies are a classic and easy to make and decorate.
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Christmas Crumbl Sugar Cookies
These Christmas Crumbl Cookies are extra thick and super soft, topped with a creamy vanilla buttercream and festive sprinkles. They are a mouthwatering bakery-style Christmas cookie that is delicious all holiday season!
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Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
These Chocolate. Cake Mix Cookies are a quick and delicious treatovers. With just five simple ingredients, you can easily whip up a batch in no time.
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Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Festive and irresistible Christmas Cake Mix Cookies made with vanilla cake mix, chocolate chips, M&Ms, marshmallows, pretzels, and sprinkles. They are easy to make, flavorful, and perfect for holiday celebrations.
Get the recipe: Cake Mix Christmas Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Kiss Cookies
These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies feature a soft, fudgy center, are coated in powdered sugar, and have a candy kiss pressed into the center while they're still hot from the oven.
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Peppermint Stuffed Snowman Cookies
These delightful chocolate snowman cookies are filled with peppermint and topped with melted marshmallow, making them a perfect sweet treat for the holiday season.
Get the recipe: Peppermint Stuffed Snowman Cookies
Matcha Cookies
These matcha brookies are a combination of cookie and brownie, featuring the flavors of matcha and chocolate. They are perfect for the holiday season and have a deliciously fudgy texture.
Get the recipe: Matcha Cookies
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