75+ In style Christmas Cookie Recipes

On this final information to Christmas cookies, I’m sharing my finest cookie success suggestions, really useful instruments, a free buying checklist printable, and top-rated cookie recipes from my web site. In the event you want cookie assist or inspiration, this web page is for you!

Welcome to my full cookie information. There’s sufficient sugar to final us a whole yr!

After years of baking cookies—and writing a cookie cookbook—I’ve a fairly good understanding of what works and what doesn’t. Let me aid you keep away from a failed batch of cookies with my highest rated recipes and no-fail success suggestions. I like to recommend beginning with my beloved Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies—additionally a reader favourite. 🙂

My Cookie Success Guides

Room Temperature Butter

Most cookie recipes name for room temperature butter. There’s reliable science behind this, so don’t overlook it. Room temperature butter is cooler than you suppose, so assessment my Room Temperature Butter web page. And right here’s my trick to soften butter shortly.

Let’s speak recipes. Listed here are 75+ Christmas cookies together with traditional Christmas cookies, embellished Christmas cookies, allergy-friendly cookies, chocolate, white chocolate, shortbread cookies, and a class for QUICK cookies!

I’m assured you’ll discover a cookie to like this vacation season. 🙂

Traditional Christmas Cookies

1) Spritz Cookies and Butter Cookies
2) Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
3) Peanut Butter Blossoms and Peanut Butter Cookies
4) Mushy Molasses Cookies and Crisp Molasses Cookies
5) Pinwheel Cookies
6) Iced Oatmeal Cookies
7) Raspberry Pistachio Linzer Cookies
8) Snowball Cookies
9) Gingerbread Cookies or attempt Gingerbread Oatmeal Cookies
10) Christmas Sugar Cookies
11) Snickerdoodles (no dough chilling)
12) Jam Thumbprints from Sally’s Cookie Habit
13) Cinnamon Spice Palmiers

Tremendous Festive Christmas Cookies

14) Selfmade Gingerbread Home
15) Drop Model Christmas Cookies and Christmas Cookie Sparkles
16) Andes Mint Cookies
17) Brown Butter Sugar Cookies
18) Straightforward Cookie Icing for adorning or attempt traditional Royal Icing
19) Crimson Velvet Kiss Cookies
20) Snowmen Sugar Cookies
21) Chocolate Swirled Meringue Cookies
22) Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies
23) Sweet Cane Kiss Cookies
24) Stained Glass Window Cookies

No Chill/Fast Christmas Cookies

25) Christmas Cookies in a Jar
26) Crimson Velvet Whoopie Pies
27) Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches (like Nutter Butters!)
28) Mini M&M Cookies and M&M Cookie Bars
29) Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
30) Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies (use festive sprinkles!)
31) Peanut Butter Cup Shock Monster Cookies
32) Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
33) Big Chocolate Chip Cookies
34) Vanilla Bean Biscotti and Darkish Chocolate Orange Biscotti
35) Magic Cookie Bars

Allergy-Pleasant Christmas Cookies

36) Lace Cookies (GF and no dough chilling)
37) No-Bake Chocolate Coconut Snowballs (nut free + GF, however make certain oats are licensed GF)
38) Coconut Macaroons (nut free + GF)
39) Almond Butter Coconut Macaroons (GF)
40) No-Bake Cookies (make certain oats are licensed GF)
41) Flourless Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (make certain oats are licensed GF)
42) French Macarons (GF)
43) Rice Krispie Treats (GF)
44) Chocolate Truffles (GF)

*Listed here are all of my egg free baking recipes.

Chocolate Lovers Christmas Cookies

45) Peppermint Mocha Cookies
46) Chocolate Turtle Cookies
47) Brownie Cookies (fast dough chilling)
48) Chocolate Dipped Almond Biscotti (no dough chilling)
49) Butter Cookies with Orange & Chocolate Ganache
50) Mint Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies
51) Darkish Chocolate Cranberry Almond Cookies
52) Caramel Stuffed Nutella Cookies
53) Salted Darkish Chocolate Cookies
54) Chocolate Sugar Cookies and Chocolate Ginger Cookies
55) Selfmade Skinny Mint Cookies
56) Chocolate Chip Cookies
57) Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (may use purple & inexperienced M&Ms as a substitute of chocolate chips)

White Chocolate Lovers Christmas Cookies

58) Peppermint Bark Cookies
59) Peppermint White Chocolate Cookies
60) Vacation Magic 5 Cookies
61) Maple Cinnamon Star Cookies (dipped in white chocolate!)
62) White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies
63) White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti (no dough chilling)
64) Coconut Macadamia Nut Cookies (with white chocolate drizzle!)
65) Mushy-Baked White Chocolate Chip Molasses Cookies
66) White Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
67) Ginger Molasses Cookies from I Coronary heart Naptime (dipped in white chocolate!)

Shortbread/Slice & Bake

68) Santa’s Whiskers Cookies
69) Pecan Shortbread
70) Salted Chocolate Pistachio Shortbread (no dough chilling)
71) Toasted Hazelnut Slice & Bake Cookies
72) Raspberry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
73) Neapolitan Cookies
74) Salted Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Slice & Bake Cookies
75) Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies
76) Pistachio Cookies
77) Wedge Shortbread Cookies (no dough chilling)
78) Cranberry Orange Cookies

Want A number of Batches? Learn how to Maximize Your Time

In the event you’re something like me, you need to bake a minimum of 5 totally different sorts of Christmas cookies directly. The truth is, I’ve a devoted Vacation Cookie Baking Day each single yr. After a couple of worrying experiences making an attempt to cram a bunch of recipes into 1 day, I discovered the right mixture of cookies that maximizes my time.

I’m glad to share my schedule and recipe strategies with you:

1. Make 1 sort of embellished cookie. I desire my gingerbread cookies or Christmas sugar cookies. Make the dough the evening earlier than, then bake the cookies very first thing within the morning so they’re prepared to brighten.
2. Make an excellent festive cookie. I recommend my peppermint mocha cookies or Santa’s whiskers cookies. Both dough should chill, so make the dough the evening earlier than. The peppermint mocha cookies are one of the vital well-liked cookie recipes on my web site.
3. Make a bar cookie and bake them as you put together the subsequent cookie. I recommend my final magic cookie bars, M&M cookie bars, or peanut butter blondies. (Use festive coloured M&Ms as a substitute of Reese’s Items if desired.)
4. Make a no-bake recipe because the bar cookies bake. I recommend my chocolate coconut snowballs, scotcheroos, or no bake cookies.
5. Bake the cookies from #2. Enhance the cookies from #1 as #2 bakes.
6. Lastly, make a no-chill cookie recipe resembling spritz cookies (pictured under) or mini M&M cookies. Proceed adorning cookies from #1 as these cookies bake, if wanted.

Free Printable – Components & Purchasing Chart

To make buying simpler, my group and I knew readers would discover an ingredient chart useful when looking for substances. This chart suits 6 recipes—you may checklist the recipes on the prime, then write within the quantities so you may see what number of cups, bottles, teaspoons, and so on that you should buy for every ingredient. You may add extras on the backside too like sweet canes, Hershey Kisses, molasses, and so on. (This chart doesn’t embrace fundamentals like salt, baking soda, and baking powder.)

**Free Baking Components Chart PDF: Sally’s Baking Recipes Components Chart

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Last Cookie Baking Success Ideas

1. Chill the cookie dough. If the cookie dough is especially sticky, moist, or greasy– chilling is in its finest curiosity. Chilling cookie dough helps stop spreading.
2. Ditch the desired baking time. I by no means have a look at recipe instances once I bake cookies. I have a look at the cookies themselves. The cookies are accomplished when the sides are set and flippantly browned.
3. One batch at a time. You get the absolute best outcomes when the oven solely concentrates on that 1 batch. If you should bake a couple of batch at a time, rotate the baking sheets from the highest rack to backside rack a pair instances by way of the baking course of to encourage even browning.

Q: Which Christmas cookies are you making this yr? You may additionally take pleasure in making a masterpiece yuletide log, too!