200 Amazing Christmas Cookie Recipes for a Sweet Holiday Feast! (2024)

Christmas cookies are an unavoidable part of Christmas time!

With hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookie recipes out there, it is impossible to know which ones you should use for your holiday parties.

Check out these Christmas cookie ideas!

3-ingredient Nutella Truffles

via Crazy for Crust

Simple and inexpensive, these cookies are filled with chocolate and Nutella and topped with sprinkles!

Almond Cut Out Cookies

via Chew Out Loud

Cut out cookies can be shaped in all sorts of Christmas shapes and flavored to personal taste!

Amish Sugar Cookies

via Something Swanky

Amish sugar cookies are simple but delicious!

Andes Mint Cookies

via Chocolate with Grace

Can’t go wrong with chocolate cookies topped with Andes’ mint chocolate!

Andes Mint Cookies Recipe

via Six Sisters Stuff

Cookies are a Christmas staple, tries these chocolate cookies topped with chocolate ganache.

Apple Blondies

via Num’s The Word

These cinnamon apple blondies are perfect for your holiday get together.

Apple Cookies and Cream Cheese Frosting

via Two Sisters Crafting

Taste these Apple filled cookies topped with cream cheese frosting. They are a delicious option for your next holiday party.

Apple Crisp Cookie Cups

via Liv for Cake

Using cookie dough and a mini cupcake pan you can make these cute cookie cups and fill them with apple pie filling.

Apple Crisp Cookies

via Dinner then Dessert

Apples are a staple during Christmas. Try these delicious apple crisp cookies.

Apple Crisp Shortbread Bars

via SoberJulie

Is it even Christmas without shortbread? Try these apple-themed shortbread cookies.

Apple Oatmeal Cookies

via Live Well Bake Often

Mix apple cookies and oatmeal cookies for these delicious Christmas treats.

Apple Pie Cookies

via OMG Chocolate Desserts

Apple pie cookies look like and are as delicious as mini apple pies.

Appledoodles

via Pip and Ebby

Try these snickerdoodles with a twist of apple flavoring.

Award Winning Gingerbread Cookies

via Dinner Then Dessert

Try these gingerbread cookies that are dipped in white chocolate.

Bakery-Style Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies

via Chelsea’s Messy Apron

These classic chocolate chip cookies have delicious pumpkin flavoring as well.

Best Soft Gingerbread Cookies

via Made to be a Momma

For your Christmas party, try these soft and delicious gingerbread cookies.

Blizzard Cookies

via Sugar Spun Run

Top your white chocolate macadamia nut cookies with snowflake sprinkles to add the winter touch!

Brown Butter Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies

via Cookies and Cups

Cinnamon cookies are the epitome of Christmas and they are absolutely delicious!

Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies Stuffed with Nutella

via Yeah Imma Eat That

Oatmeal cookies are delicious, but when you stuff them with Nutella it makes them absolutely delicious!

Brown Butter Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles

via Two Peas & Their Pod

Try these snickerdoodles stuffed with salted caramel and chocolate.

Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies

via The Recipe Rebel

These pecan cookies are frosted with a brown sugar ganache and topped with pecans.

Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies

via Stunning Collection

Top and fill these cake mix cookies with Christmas sprinkles and you have the perfect holiday cookie.

Candy Cane Brownie Cookies

via Something Swanky

Make the classic brownie a Christmas cookie by adding candy cane.

Candy Cane Cookie Dough Truffles

via Inside Bru Crew Life

Truffles scream Christmas. Try these candy cane truffles topped with chocolate!

Candy Cane Cookies

via No. 2 Pencil

By taking red and white sugar cookie dough and twisting it into a candy cane shape, you can make these Christmas themed cookies.

Candy Cane Oreo Truffles

via Cakescottage

Topping classic Oreo truffles with chocolate and candy canes gives it the perfect Christmas flavors.

Caramel Apple Pie Cookies

via CincyShopper

Turn your Christmas cookie into a miniature apple pie with these apple pie cookies.

Caramel Apple Pie Magic Bars

via Crazy for Crust

These cookie bars are filled with caramel, apple and chocolate.

Caramel Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars with a Streusel Topping

via Chelsea’s Messy Apron

Cookie bars filled with cheesecake, caramel and apple are the perfect addition to your Christmas!

Caramel Pumpkin Layer Bars

via Dinner Dishes and Dessert

Santa won’t want to leave after delivering your presents if you leave him these delicious caramel and pumpkin bars.

Caramel Stuffed Brown Sugar Cookies

via Carlsbad Craving

These brown sugar cookies are topped with caramel.

Caramel Surprise Snicker-doodles

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Try snicker-doodles with caramel in the middle.

Chai Shortbread Cookies with Sea Salt

via Foodie Crush

Shortbread cookies are a classic, try adding chocolate and Christmas sprinkles!

Cheesecake Red Velvet Cookies

via Two Peas and Their Pods

These soft red velvet cookies are a perfect Christmas red.

Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Shortbread cookies mixed with cherry are the perfect color theme for Christmas.

Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

via Gimme Some Oven

Ginger molasses cookies add a classic touch.

Chocolate Cherry Blossom Cookies

via Baking Beauty

These chocolate cherry cookies are filled with cherry flavor and topped with a chocolate kiss.

Chocolate Chip Snowballs

via Crazy for Crust

These snowball shaped cookies are delicious and perfect for the season.

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

via Valerie’s Kitchen

Cookies filled with chocolate, topped with chocolate and with a cherry on top are the perfect option for any Christmas get together.

Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Kiss

via Boston Girl Bakes

Turn regular chocolate crinkle cookies into Christmas cookies by topping with a candy cane kiss.

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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via Gimme Some Oven

For a Christmas twist on a classic, try these Chocolate crinkle cookies powdered with powdered sugar.

Chocolate Dipped Toffee Pecan Shortbread Cookies

via Cooking Classy

Chocolate Drizzle Christmas Cookie Sticks

via Creations by Kara

Make the perfect Christmas cookie to go with your hot cocoa with these Christmas themed chocolate cookie sticks.

Chocolate Frosted Christmas Cookies

via Real Housemoms

Chocolate cookies topped with Christmas sprinkles bring the holiday spirit.

Chocolate Mint Truffle Snowball Cookies

via Inside Bru Crew Life

These chocolate truffles are topped with white chocolate making them look like little snowballs.

Christmas Buckeye (Peanut Butter) Balls

via Dinner at the Zoo

By adding Christmas sprinkles to peanut butter buckeyes you can make the perfect Christmas treat.

Christmas Cheesecake Cookies

via Yellow Bliss Road

Cheesecake cookies are very simple to dye red and blue and swirl together to make a Christmas treat.

Christmas Cornflake Wreaths

via Tastes Better from Scratch

Rice crispy treat cookies with green dye and can be formed to make cute Christmas wreath cookies.

Christmas Crinkle Cool Whip Cookies

via Bread Booze Bacon

Cool Whip cookies make a simple Christmas cookie when mixed with red and green dye.

Christmas Lights Cookies

via Fireflies and Mudpies

Sugar cookies frosted and decorated with adorable Christmas lights.

Christmas M&M Mini Cookies

via Two Sisters Crafting

Make M&M cookies scream Christmas by using red and green M&Ms.

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

via Baked by Rachel

Red and White pinwheel cookies are the epitome of the Christmas season.

Christmas Sugar Cookie Truffles

via If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen

Classic truffles dipped in white chocolate and nonpareils are the perfect Christmas treat.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

via Cakescottage

Drop sugar cookies topped with red and green sugar.

Christmas Tree Cookie Stacks

via Delish

Make adorable Christmas trees by stacking drop sugar cookies and green frosting.

Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies

via Smart School House

Meringue cookies make a great Christmas tree cookie because they can be formed and decorated to make little mini Christmas trees.

Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies

via One Little Project

Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies decorated with green frosting.

Church Window Cookies

via The First Year

By using chocolate cookies and mini marshmallows you can make cookies that look like a church stained glass window.

Cinnamon Chip Pumpkin Cookies

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

These festive cookies are filled with cinnamon and caramel chips.

Cinnamon Eggnog Christmas Cookies

via Kevin and Amanda

There is no Christmas without eggnog. These eggnog cookies are fluffy and tasty.

Cinnamon Maple Sugar Cookies

via My Sequined Life

Try these cinnamon cookies frosted with cinnamon and white chocolate ganache.

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Everyone loves cinnamon rolls. Why not turn them into a delectable Christmas cookie.

Classic Gingerbread Men

via Something Swanky

Gingerbread men are a Christmas classic. Make your gingerbread men with multicolored buttons to add an extra Christmas touch.

Confetti Cake Batter Cookies

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Add a pop of color to Christmas with Confetti cake cookies.

Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies

via Wholefully

Bake delectable sugar cookies with colorful frosting for your Christmas.

Cranberry Orange Cookies

via Lets Dish

Basic sugar cookies get an extra kick by adding cranberry and orange flavoring.

Cream Cheese Red Velvet Thumbprints

via Something Swanky

By using red velvet cake and cream cheese, these adorable cookies are naturally Christmas colored.

Creme Brûlée Sugar Cookies

via Delish

Because using a blowtorch to Creme’ Brulee’ the frosting is required, these cookies are delicious and very fun to make!

Crinkly, Cranky, Grinch Cookies

via Simplistically Living

These green drop crinkle cookies make the perfect Grinch.

Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies

via Crazy for Crust

Mix a love for snow and a love for chocolate with these chocolate cookies dipped in powdered sugar.

Dutch Apple Pie Cookies

via Lovely Little Kitchen

Dutch apple pie cookies are the perfect mix of crunch and soft.

Easy and Delicious Sugar Cookies

via Mini Pie KItchen

Sugar cookies are great for Christmas season because they are universal and can be cut into any shape you want.

Easy Slice ‘n’ Bake Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookies

via Half Baked Harvest

These cookies are filled with vanilla flavor and are decorated to match the Christmas season.

Eggnog Cheesecake Cookie Cups

via Liv for Cake

Bake cookies in a small muffin pan to make little cups. Then fill with delicious cheesecake.

Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies

via Wicked Good Kitchen

Eggnog cookies are soft with an outside crunch. They are a simple holiday snack.

Eggnog Snickerdoodles

via Taste of Home

Cinnamon mixed with eggnog makes a perfect holiday cookie.

Frosted Cranberry Cookies

via The Novice Chef

Frost a basic drop sugar cookie with white chocolate frosting and cranberry pieces to make this simple cranberry cookie.

Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

via Cafe Delites

Chocolate cake batter cookies dipped in powdered sugar make a crunchy but fudgy cookies.

Funfetti Shortbread Bites

via Cooking Classy

Shortbread cookies with Christmas colored nonpareils make a Christmas snack that everyone will love.

Gingerbread Blossoms

via Something Swanky

Gingerbread with hershey’s kisses on top are the perfect mix of cinnamon and chocolate.

Gingerbread Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

via Clean and Sensible

Push a hershey’s kiss upside down into a gingerbread cookie to make a simple chocolate and cinnamon cookie.

Gingerbread Christmas Trees

via Skinny Taste

Cut gingerbread into triangles and decorate with green frosting to create a cute Christmas tree.

Gingerbread Magic Cookies

via The Kitchen is My Playground

Gingerbread cookie bars make a great base for cheesecake, nuts and cranberries.

Gingerbread Oreo Balls

via Sweet Recipes

Oreo truffles are an absolute must at Christmas time. Make them even more Christmasy by adding mini gingerbread men.

Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

via Saving Dessert

Make a whoopie pie Christmas flavored by using gingerbread!

Gooey Salted Caramel Vanilla Butter Cookies

via Kevin and Amanda

Spice up your vanilla cookies by adding a gooey caramel to the center.

Grinch Sugar Cookie Bars

via Wine and Glue

Green frosted sugar cookie bars make a perfect Grinch cookie.

Hershey’s Secret Kiss

via Crazy for Crust

Using basic cookie dough, spice it up by adding a Rolo in the center!

Holiday Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

via Averie Cooks

Make a basic sugar cookie bar scream the holidays by adding white cream cheese frosting and green and red sprinkles.

Holiday Vanilla Pudding Cake Cookies

via Moms Test Kitchen

Try these cookies made from pudding cake and decorated with holiday sprinkles

Hot Chocolate Cookies

via Big Bear’s Wife

Make perfect hot chocolate cookies by adding marshmallows to a chocolate cookie.

Hot Cocoa Marshmallow Cookie Cups

via Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons

By adding a dollop of chocolate to the top of a marshmallow and a peppermint handle you can make adorable hot chocolate cookies. But them on the basis of a basic cookie.

Iced Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

via Baking a Moment

Try making these chocolate cookies with royal icing in Christmas colors.

Italian Ricotta Cookies

via Cooking Classy

This italian recipe for ricotta cookies is the perfect base for white frosting and Christmas sprinkles.

Kris Kringle Christmas Cookies

via Kim’s Cravings

Make naturally colored Santa cookies by adding cranberries to a white drop sugar cookie dough.

Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

via The Girl Who Ate Everything

Pumpkin cookies with white frosting dusted with cinnamon are simple.

Melt-In-Your-Mouth Eggnog Cookies

via Cooking Classy

These delicious eggnog cookies are frosted with eggnog frosting and dusted with cinnamon.

Melted Snowman Cookies

via My Frugal Adventures

Using a sugar cookie with white frosting, a marshmallow and colored frosting, you can make these adorable melted snowman cookies.

Melted Snowman Oreo Balls

via The Girl Who Ate Everything

Oreo truffles frosted with white frosting make a melted snowman look. Top with oreo top hats for the snowman!

Mint Chip Sugar Cookies

via Little Dairy on the Prairie

Mint chocolate chip cookies make a minty grinch cookie.

Mint Oreo Truffles

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Oreo truffles with a hint of mint are the perfect base for chocolate frosting and Christmas colored sprinkles.

M&M Christmas Cookies for Santa

via No 2 Pencil

Basic M&M cookies can be Santa themed by using only green and red M&Ms to fill them

M&M Shortbread Cookies

via Something Swanky

Shortbread cookie bars are great for topping with chocolate and red and green M&Ms.

No Bake Oreo Truffles

via Inside Bru Crew Life

No bake oreo cookies are soft and delicious and can be turned into a Christmas cookie by adding red and green sprinkles.

No Bake Peppermint Bark Cookies

via The Suburban Soapbox

No bake peppermint cookies are delicious when topped with candy canes and white chocolate.

No Roll Holiday Sprinkles

via Averie Cooks

Christmas colored sprinkles on top of any cookie can give it a Christmas touch.

Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies

via Little Dairy on the Prairie

Pumpkin cookies are delicious but they are even better with the addition of oatmeal and chocolate chips

Ooey Gooey Red Velvet Bars

via A Night Owl

Red velvet cookie bars are soft and gooey and are perfect Christmas cookies with red and green sprinkles

Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies

via My Incredible Recipes

These easy to make basic peanut butter cookies are topped with a red and white hershey’s kiss.

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

via The Girl Who Ate Everything

Make cookies in a mini muffin tin and add a mini hershey’s kiss to the middle for a nice peanut butter surprise.

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

via Betty Crocker

Peanut butter hershey’s kiss cookies are simple but delicious.

Pecan Pie Bars

via Rock Recipes

These cookie bars are simple. They are made by using cream cheese, pecans and basic cookie dough.

Pecan Pie Cookies

via Spend with Pennies

These sugar cookies are topped with caramel, pecans and chocolate.

Pecan Tassies

via Brown Eyed Baker

These cookie cups are filled with cream cheese, pecans and caramel.

Peppermint Chocolate Thumbprint

via Small Town Woman

Chocolate cookies can be in the christmas spirit by putting an upside down red and white kiss in them.

Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies

via Crumbs and Chaos

You can make your sugar cookies have a peppermint crunch by adding crushed candy canes

Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups

via The Gunny Sack

Adorable cookie cups can be made by adding a peppermint handle, chocolate filling and mini marshmallows on top!

Peppermint Kiss Thumbprint Cookies

via Creme de la Crumb

Make a drop sugar cookie scream christmas by adding red coloring and upside down red hershey’s kisses.

Peppermint Meltaway Cookies

via Cooking Classy

These pillowy soft sugar cookies are topped with cream cheese frosting and peppermint.

Peppermint Pattie-Stuffed Chocolate Cookies

via Taste of Lizzy T

These chocolate cookies are flavored with peppermint patties and filled with white filling.

Perfect Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

via Well Plated

Adding cream cheese to sugar cookies adds an extra touch of smooth. They can be cut into any Christmas shape you want.

Perfect Peanut Butter Cut-Out Cookie

via Sweetopia

These adorable snowmen can be made with a peanut butter dough.

Polar Bear Cookies

via Noshing with the Nolands

Use white frosting to frost these white polar bear cookies.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

via A Treats Affair

These pumpkin bars are filled with cream cheese filling.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies

via Center Cut Cook

By adding pumpkin to a basic cookie you can make these simple, sugary cookies.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Snickerdoodles

via The Recipe Critic

Fill a delicious snickerdoodle with cream cheese frosting!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars

via Mom Endeavors

Take basic pumpkin cookie dough and cook in a cake pan to make these simple pumpkin bars.

Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies

via Two Peas and Their Pod

Gingersnap cookies are the perfect mix of sugar and cinnamon and are especially delicious with the added pumpkin flavor

Pumpkin Pie Crumb Bars

via Cooking Classy

These Christmas cookies are filled with pumpkin flavor and have a crispy outer shell.

Pumpkin Pie Sugar Cookies

via Betty Crocker

By using sugar cookies as an outer shell and filling with pumpkin cookies, you can make these delicious cookies.

Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

via Two Sisters Crafting

Add cream cheese and cinnamon to these pumpkin cookies for a delicious christmas cookies.

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

via Food Folks & Fun

A twist on the classic whoopie pie by adding pumpkin cookies and cream cheese filling.

Pumpkin-Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

via Cooking Classy

Basic pumpkin cookies are even better with chocolate chips and oatmeal.

Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprints

via Land O Lakes

Make these delicious cookies by using shortbread and filling with raspberry filling.

Red Velvet Butter Cookies

via Chef in Training

Make these Christmas colored cookies with red velvet cookie dough and dusted with powdered sugar.

Red Velvet Christmas Cookies

via Butter with a Side of Bread

Take a new spin on the red velvet cookie but adding white frosting and Christmas sprinkles.

Red Velvet Cookie Sandwiches

via Life Love and Sugar

Make red velvet whoopie pies by using red velvet cookies and white frosting filled with Christmas sprinkles.

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

via Cooking Classy

Drop red velvet crinkle cookies on a pan and then dust with powdered sugar to make easy cookies.

Red Velvet Snowballs

via Boston Girl Bakes

Make Christmas snowballs by using red velvet cookie dough and dusting the outside with powdered sugar.

Red Velvet Sugar Cookies

via Cooking Classy

Use red velvet sugar cookies as a base for white frosting and christmas sprinkles

Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Get another take on the Christmas whoopie pie with red velvet cookies, white cream cheese frosting and Christmas sprinkles.

Reindeer Poop Cookies

via Life is Sweeter by Design

Make these cookies resembling reindeer poop by using cookie dough mixed with pecans.

Reindeer Sugar Cookies

via One Little Project

Frost sugar cookies with little horns and colored noses to make adorable reindeer.

Rolo Double Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies

via Living Locurto

Make double chocolate chip cookies with this basic cookie dough with a rolo.

Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars

via Sally’s Baking Addiction

Take cookie dough and top with caramel, apple and pecans.

Salted Caramel Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

via Cooking Classy

Make these easy chocolate thumbprint cookies by putting caramel in the middle and coating with nuts.

Santa Claus Cookies

via Taste of Home

Using nutter butters as a base, frost one side with white frosting and the other with red to make a cute santa.

Slice n’ Bake Christmas Tree Cookies

via Mom Loves Baking

Make these easy christmas tree cookies by using slice and bake dough.

Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookie Bars with Pumpkin Buttercream Frosting

via A Kitchen Addiction

Mix snickerdoodle with pumpkin and frost with cream cheese frosting to make these Christmas cookie bars.

Soft Baked Gingersnap Cookies

via Dessert Now Dinner Later

Make these gingerbread cookies with a little extra butter and a little less baking to make them soft and pillowy.

Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

via The Salty Marshmallow

Coat these delicious soft cookies in Christmas sprinkles.

Soft Batch Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

via Southern Made Simple

Make these soft pumpkin cookies and coat them in sugar.

Soft Pumpkin Cookies

via Lovely Little Kitchen

These easy crinkle pumpkin cookies are even better when they are dusted with powdered sugar.

Sticky Toffee Pudding Cookies

via Cookies and Cups

Get away from the traditional christmas cookies by making these toffee, coffee, caramel cookies.

The Best Snickerdoodles

via Lil Luna

The best snickerdoodles are soft and coated with lots of cinnamon.

Thin Mint Oreo Cups

via Chelseas Messy Apron

Homemade reese’s cups but mix it up by adding oreo and Christmas sprinkles.

Turtle Snickerdoodles

via Small Town Woman

Make simple snickerdoodles extra delicious with adding a pecan to the middle.

Twix Cookies

via This Grandma is Fun

Make using sugar cookie dough as a base, caramel in the middle and chocolat on top you can make these twix cookies

Ultra Soft Peppermint Sugar Cookies

via Chelseas Messy Apron

Use super soft sugar cookie dough coated with white ganache and topped with crushed candy canes to make these cookies.

White Chocolate Cranberry Crinkle Cookies

via 36th Avenue

These easy cookies can be made by using crinkle cookie dough and mixing cranberry in.

White Chocolate Dipped Ginger Cookies

via Cooking Classy

These ginger cookies are dipped in half white chocolate.

White Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

via Brunette Baker

Make those christmas cookies by dipping peanut butter cookies in white chocolate and Christmas sprinkles.

White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Sugar Cookies

via Cooking Classy

These cookies are made by taking a sugar cookie and dipping it in white chocolate and red sprinkles.

White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

via Completely Delicious

These easy to make cookies are basic cookie dough filled with white chocolate and peppermint.

White Chocolate Peppermint Pudding Cookies

via Here Comes the Sun

Add a soft touch to a white chocolate cookie by adding pudding.

White Chocolate Ting-a-Ling

via Lemon Tree Dwelling

These no bake cookies are pretzels and white chocolate.