Ready to roll, drop, shape, and cut out cookies to your heart’s content?
Here are some of our favorite holiday recipes to do just that.
Growing up, I loved Christmas time!
Elise Bauer
For obvious reasons (yes, the presents!)
but I always enjoyed leaving out cookies for Santa too.
As an adult, my love for cookies during the holiday season has not wavered.
Claudia Cash
for everyone on this list.
Sweet sugar cookies are a classic way to spend a cold afternoon during the holiday season.
Candy Cane Cookies
Festive red and white twists with a sweet peppermint flavor!
Irvin Lin
Kids love making them as much as they do eating them.
Whatever shape your cookies take, this recipe is a snappy, gingery classic for the holidays.
Thumbprint Cookies
Heres a cookie that’s a lot of fun to make with kids.
Elise Bauer
The shells are made with almond flour and meringue then sandwiched together with a peppermint white chocolate ganache filling.
These small sandwich cookies taste like Christmas in every bite.
Make a batch or two and give them as gifts this season!
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Linzer Cookies
These pretty shortbread cookies are like mini tarts inspired by the Austrian classic linzertorte.
Almond flour gives them a distinctive flavor..
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Roll half of them on powdered sugar and the other half in cocoa powder.
Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon
This recipe makes a ton, so it’s great for sharing!
You may know them by alternate namesRussian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding cookies.
And then eating the delicious results.
Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon
This is just such a cookie, and it is a MUST for the holiday dessert table.
Chocolate Crinkles
Anything sprinkled or coated with powdered sugar automatically looks festive.
These cookies are soft and cakey, and look so fun on a cookie platter.
Irvin Lin
These are a little delicate, though, so not necessarily ones to ship to your friends and family.
Even better, these keep well for a week or two and ship well.
Classic Shortbread Cookies
Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm
Buttery shortbread, simple and elegant.
Alison Bickel
Perfect for filling tins or cookie boxes.
Lofthouse-Style Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies
These soft and cakey Lofthouse-style cookies will be calling your name this season.
Add a layer of frosting and festive sprinkles, and its time to get the party started.
Elise Bauer
Almond Crescent Cookies
Amazing with a cup of tea or a mug of cocoa!
They’re sturdy, keep well, and are great for shipping.
Instead of buying traditional gifts this year, ship your family and friends some cookies.
Irvin Lin
Christmas Cracker Candy
Chocolate, brown sugar and saltines come together in a whole new addictive way.
Pecan Pralines
Pralines are a traditional Southern treat: pecans held together with a thick, sugary glaze.
Like candied nuts, but better.
Irvin Lin
They are an easy to make edible holiday gift.
you’ve got the option to also make them ahead of time and freeze them.
Cross one cookie off the list!
Elise Bauer
English Toffee
Gift alert!
Pack shards of this toffee in glass jars or cute boxes and ship to friends.
It keeps forever, but we bet it wont last that long.
Irvin Lin
Dunk these in milk (or even coffee in the morning).
Don’t worry your secret is safe with me!
Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread
Simply Recipes / Karishma Pradhan
So festive!
Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm
Chinese Almond Cookies
These are too good to save just for Lunar New Year.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Leaving out chocolate chip cookies for Santa always happened in my house every year.
This year Im thinking about an upgrade with these extra fluffy and chewy peanut butter cookies.
Cindy Rahe
These cookies have a cake-like texture and are sure to impress everyone at first bite.
Hungarian Butterhorn Cookies
Meet the cookie that will blow your holiday gift exchange out the water.
Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
This cookie is a cross between a chocolate chip cookie and a coconut macaroon.
Sheryl Julian and Emma Christensen
Theyre soft, chewy and packed with chocolate chips (yum!)
It’s nostalgia at first bite.
When assembled, its drizzled with even MORE peanut butter.
Elise Bauer
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter is the secret ingredients to these insanely delicious Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.
The brown butter adds extra nuttinessif you haven’t tried brown butter cookies, here is your chance!
Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
It’s always nice to have options for special diets around the holidays.
Irvin Lin and Emma Christensen
It’s even better when those options taste amazing regardless of your food restrictions.
A bowl and a fork is all you gotta make these oh-so-easy flourless, gluten-free cookies.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Its chocolate on chocolate!
Steve-Anna Stephens
A peanut butter cookie base gets “kissed” with a chocolate kiss to create a to-die-for flavor combination.
These are made with oat flour and rolled oats for a nutty twist on a classic cookie.
Brookies (Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies)
Its a brownie, no its a cookie.
Elise Bauer
These cookies melt in your mouth and only take 15 minutes to make.
The earthy sweetness of the pecans offsets the crispy sugary bit from the meringue.
Oatmeal, almond butter, and chocolate chip cookies sounds like the perfect breakfast to me.
Irvin Lin
Its our little secret.
Molasses Spice Cookies
Think gingersnap cookies, but chewier and thicker.
Marzipan Shortbread
Simply Recipes / Coco Morante
With their patterns from ornate molds, these have an old-fashioned appeal.
Irvin Lin
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Any cookie that incorporates candy instantly qualifies as fit for the holidays.
Butterscotch Cookies
Are you in love with butterscotch?
Add these cookies to your must make list.
Irvin Lin
These crisp and crunchy cookies are made with browned butter and brown sugar.
Grab a glass of milk and get ready to dunk ‘em.
Oatmeal Lace Cookies
The Spruce / Elaine Lemm
These aren’t your traditional oatmeal cookies.
Irvin Lin
When making them (it’s less like cookie dough) and more like cookie batter.
Oat and Tahini Breakfast Cookies
Simply Recipes/Sally Vargas
Cookies for Christmas morning breakfast?!
I’ll take any excuse to nosh on dessert for breakfast.
Simply Recipes / Karishma Pradhan
These cookies oatmeal based cookies are chock full of dried fruit, tahini, and nuts.
Nutella Cookies
Simply Recipes / Annika Panikker
The perfect cookie for hazelnut lovers.
Pecan Tassies
They’re basically tiny pecan pies.
Elise Bauer
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
If you couldnt tell by now, I love cookies!
But I do have to say this is probably one of my favorite cookie recipes.
Not only do I make them for the holidays, but I make them any chance I get really.
Michelle Becker
Giant Ginger Cookies
Ginger cookies are good, but extra-large ginger cookies are even better!
Maple Cookies
Maple syrup isnt just for French toast.
It’s used in these cookies to make a soft and chewy holiday treat.
Marta Rivera
Oh, and let’s not forget about the chopped walnuts here that add crunch and flare.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Are you looking for a show stopping cookie this season?
Look no further than these White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.
Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon
Theyre tart from the sweet dried cranberries and have loads of sweetness from the white chocolate pieces.
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