
100 Easy Christmas Cookies
This holiday season make a few of these easy Christmas cookies to give as gifts and to enjoy at home! It can be argued that the tradition of giving Christmas cookies started in Medieval times, as winter solstice rituals transformed into holiday celebrations.
Just like today, food was an integral part of gatherings in those days. With a shift into celebrations instead of ritual, the parties became grander — less about sustenance before a bleak winter and more about feasting together to ring in the season.
Back in those days, sugar was considered a delicacy reserved for important occasions, and Christmas was one of the *most* important. Unlike pies and cakes, cookies were more portable and easily shared with friends and family.
Most modern day Christmas dinners don’t end with cookies, but we’ve still carried on the tradition of baking cookies with the intent to share among family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, teachers, school bus drivers, favorite delivery drivers … the list goes on and on!
100 Easy Christmas Cookies
Baking Christmas cookies is a holiday tradition that so many people cherish year after year.
Growing up, my extended family lived within fifteen minutes of each other in the D.C. suburbs. In early December we’d gather together and spend an entire Saturday baking all kinds of cookies, then package them up in themed tins to give out as gifts to neighbors and friends.
Obviously we’d each take a big box home, too.
My favorites were the iced sugar cookies and snowball cookies, but I have a soft spot for all the varieties we’d make each season like pinwheels, mini chocolate chip cookies and chocolate crinkles.
Even though making the same recipes over and over is fun, I also like finding new ones to add to the mix — the only catch is, they have to be easy to make.
100 Easy Christmas Cookies
This holiday season make a few of these easy Christmas cookies to give as gifts and to enjoy at home! Be sure to scroll to the bottom if you're looking for some vegan recipes to add to your collection. Happy baking!
Almond Lime Snowball Cookies
Almond lime snowball cookies are the perfect, festive holiday recipe to add to your cookie list!
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars
These peppermint sugar cookie bars are a breeze to make and have a fun candy *crunch* from the fresh and flavorful peppermint baking chips!
Reindeer Cookies
Easy Reindeer Cookies make an adorable addition to the holiday dessert table or Santa’s cookie plate! Make these super simple with pre-made cookie dough or bake sugar cookies from scratch.
Chewy Chocolate Chip and M&M Cookies Recipe
Chewy Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies are exactly what Santa will love. These jumbo crowd-pleasing cookies are the perfect dessert for Christmas bake sales, parties, or cookie swaps.
Lemon and Ginger Christmas Cookies
These beautiful lemon, ginger and white chocolate Christmas cookies are the perfect treat for the holidays! A divine combination of flavors that would make a wonderful homemade gift.
Cherry Cordial Cookies Recipe
A sinfully decadent chocolate cookie surrounds a cherry surprise in the middle! These easy to make cookies are fun and tasty.
Cake Mix Christmas Crinkle Cookies
These easy and delicious Cake Mix Christmas Crinkle Cookies make the perfect cookies for the holidays.
Soft & Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies
These chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies are a holiday favorite!
Vanilla Chai Shortbread Cookies
These Vanilla Chai Shortbread Cookies are simple to make with just butter, flour, sugar, and tea, they have a little spice and a whole lot of cozy!
Melting Moments Cookies
These melt in your mouth melting moments cookies are the perfect mix of simplicity and deliciousness.
Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
If you are a peanut butter lover, you will love these peanut butter blossoms! So full of delicious flavor that melt in your mouth from the first bite.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Snowball Cookies
These festive cookies feature a dark chocolate snowball cookie dough wrapped around a maraschino cherry for a fun Christmas cookie unlike any other! They aren't too sweet and just the right size for a couple bites and a smile.
Chunky Christmas Cookies Using a Brownie Box Mix
My recipe for super yummy, super crowd-pleasing, super simple, and super easy chunky Christmas cookies using a brownie box mix.
Buttery Almond Thumbprint Cookies
These Buttery Almond Thumbprint Cookies are melt in your mouth delicious. These use a raspberry jam filling, but any flavor would work.
Sugar Cookie Pudding Cups Recipe
What would the holidays be without sugar cookies? This year, why not try something different with these easy and adorable sugar cookie pudding cups!
St. Louis Style Gooey Butter Cake Cookies Recipe
The best, simple holiday cake cookie recipe! These Gooey Butter Cake Cookies are sweet, buttery and super moist. These cookies are perfect for the Christmas cookie season.
Crispy Clementine Cookies
These Crispy Clementine Cookies are a family favorite each Christmas with their Clementine flavor and sugary crispy topping! Easy enough for kids to make and make great gifts for teachers or family and friends!
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies With Pretzels
Looking for the perfect salty and sweet combo?! Check out these Peanut Butter Cup Cookies loaded with mini peanut butter cups and pretzels for a delicious flavor combination.
Vegan Crescent Cookies
A rich and buttery almond crescent cookies are the light and crispy nostalgia of childhood holidays. the star of our gift cookie trays!
Sparkly Apricot Rosemary Jewels
Crisp shortbread thumbprint cookies topped with a bright punch of flavor – apricot jam with a festive sparkle and a hint of rosemary – holiday perfect!
Cannoli Cookies
An easy recipe for cannoli cookies with ricotta, chocolate chips, and pistachios! Fun Italian Christmas cookies, inspired by Italian cannolis, that will make a great addition to your Christmas cookie baskets and gifts this year!
Peppermint Bark Shortbread
Peppermint bark is a favorite Christmas treat and it’s pretty easy to make, except that you have to temper the chocolate. No tempering is needed for Peppermint Bark Shortbread.
Spiced Gingerbread Man Cookies Recipe
Warming and enticing spiced gingerbread man cookies that are easy to roll out and do not spread or puff during baking.
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Soft, chewy chocolate peppermint cookies are an essential part of any holiday cookie platter. These chocolaty favorites are easy to make ahead and share with family or friends.
Best Oatmeal Cookies (Soft & Chewy) + Video
The BEST Oatmeal Cookie Recipe – crispy edges with soft and chewy centers, these oatmeal cookies are easy to make (no chilling, simple ingredients) and out-of-this-world delicious. Add your favorite mix-ins for an extra special twist!
Lekker Holland — Dutch Boterkoek
Dutch boterkoek is more widely known as Lekker Holland in Indonesia, and just as popular, a perennial favorite on festive occasions.
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies Three Ways
How do you make buttery, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies taste even better? Dip them in chocolate, of course! I'm sharing three irresistible combos for chocolate dipped shortbread cookies that will wow your friends & family with hardly any work.
Zimtsterne: German Cinnamon Stars
Zimststerne means Cinnamon Stars in German and they are a traditional (naturally gluten free) cookie in Germany for the festive season. Very easy to make and so delicious!
Shortbread Cookies With Pecans
These cookies are a holiday tradition. Easy to prepare and perfect for sharing.
Best Old Fashion Sugar Cookies EVER!
Best Old Fashion Sugar Cookies made with real butter and flour are seriously THE BEST SUGAR COOKIES EVER! They simply cannot be beat.
Simple and Easy Low Sugar Gingerbread Cookies
Another reason you should make my gingerbread is the recipe is that they are really easy! These Simple and Easy Low Sugar Gingerbread Cookies are a one bowl, 7 ingredient recipe that comes together relatively quickly (except the chill time). Which is what you want when you have little helpers.
Christmas Funfetti Cookies
Christmas Funfetti Cookies are super soft and chewy, bursting with the flavors of butter and vanilla, and packed with Christmas funtetti sprinkles. The perfect holiday recipe for those times when you want something uncomplicated, delicious, and fun, fun, fun.
Easy Lemon Drop Cookies
Lemon drop cookies are easy to make and packed with lemon flavor. Lemon lovers go crazy for them!
Biscochitos (Cinnamon Anise Shortbread Cookies)
Biscochitos are shortbread cookies flavored with anise and cinnamon. They’re easy to make and they’re such a crowd-pleaser!
Classic Chewy Gingersnap (Ginger Molasses) Cookies
Check out these delicious sweet and spiced ginger molasses cookies! Makes 32 tasty classic cookies in under 30 minutes!
Eggnog Cookie Recipe for the Holidays
These soft sugar cookies feature eggnog inside as well as in the icing. All the festive flavor you love!
Snowman Peanut Butter Cookies
These festive Snowman Peanut Butter cookies are perfect for your next Christmas or holiday party. This peanut butter cookie recipe results in soft and chewy peanut butter cookies decorated with powdered sugar, chocolate chips and Reese’s pieces.
Double Chocolate Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
An easy recipe for double chocolate peanut butter cookies that are thick, soft, cakey and heavenly straight out of the oven while the chocolate chips are all melty. Make a batch in about 20 minutes start to finish with simple ingredients from your fridge & pantry.
Homemade Iced Oatmeal Cookies
These Iced Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious cookie treat that will bring you a delicious chewy crunch and sweet icing in every bite. No need for fancy decorating - just dip them for perfectly easy icing!
Rudolph Cookies for Kids
If your kids are itching to get in the kitchen this holiday season, break out the heart-shaped cookie cutter and make these Rudolph Cookies with your kids!
Easy Melted Snowman Cookies
If you’re looking for a fun and unique cookie recipe for cookie exchanges this year, check out this adorable and easy Melted Snowman Cookies recipe!
Christmas Tree Cookies Recipe
This Easy Christmas Tree Cookies recipe is made from scratch with fondant, icing, and sprinkles! These are some of the cutest Christmas cookies you’ll find!
No-Bake Christmas Cookies From Store Bought Pizzelles
These easy no-bake Christmas cookies are made from store bought pizzelles! Perfect for non-bakers to still be able to participate in the holiday cookie exchanges!
Chocolate Chip & Cranberry Shortbread Cookies
Studded with bits of chocolate and dried cranberries and spiced with warming spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice – these delicious Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Shortbread Cookies are unbelievably easy to make. Great for holiday baking.
Easy Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Spiked with a tad bit of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, these soft and chewy oatmeal cranberry cookies are big on taste!
Triple Chocolate Meringue Cookies
These Triple Chocolate Meringue Cookies are dark, decadent, and bursting with flavor. A crispy chocolate meringue outside, a fudgy chocolate inside, and a delicious spattering of dark chocolate chips. This is the kind of cookie you make to celebrate, or to get that someone special to smile just a little wider than usual.
Double Chocolate Kiss Cookies
These delicious little chocolate shortbread cookies have a surprise chocolate kiss in the center.
Gingerbread Cookies for Christmas
If you expect this post to be about gingerbread cookies for Christmas, then you’d be right. But you’d be forgetting that this recipe is one that results in soft centers, crisp edges, and yes … delicious everythings.
Yummy Grinch Sugar Cookies
These Grinch sugar cookies are soft and chewy, the way a perfect sugar cookie should be. Add a bit of green frosting and a single heart sprinkle and you've got yourself a fun Christmas themed cookie, Grinch-style!
Funfetti Cookies
Soft, buttery and oh-so milky, with just the right amount of sweetness, and plenty of color – there’s a reason why kids love these Funfetti Cookies, and they are so popular during the holidays!
Chocolate Chip Cookies With Pistachios
Chocolate chip cookies with pistachios have just the right balance of sweet and salty. Mmm…
Orange Cardamom Almond Flour Cookies
Orange Cardamom Almond Flour Cookies dipped in chocolate make a beautiful addition to a holiday cookie tray. Great for cookie swap parties, too!
Easy Coconut Macaroons Recipe - Crispy, Chewy, and Fantastic
Coconut macaroons are incredibly easy to make! They are crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside and have a wonderful coconut flavor.
Peppermint Brownie Cookies
Make these easy Peppermint Brownie Cookies for the holidays this year — they are so incredibly chewy and fudgy, the best Christmas treat out there!
Whipped Shortbread Cookies
These delightful holiday cookies will melt in your mouth. They are light, buttery and SO easy to make.
Maltese Almond Cookies {Gluten-free + Dairy-free}
Sweet, aromatic, naturally gluten-free and dairy-free, you only need 5 ingredients and 20 mins to make these traditional Maltese almond cookies.
Chewy Butterscotch cookies
This recipe for chewy Butterscotch Cookies with pecans is delicious! Brown sugar and butter combine with butterscotch chips to give the cookies a delicate and rich taste.
Honey Cinnamon Cookies
Honey Cinnamon Cookies are perfect Holiday treat. Made with all healthy ingredients, whole grain and refined sugar-free, these cookies are festive as well as delicious.
The Ultimate Best Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Best melt in your mouth Shortbread cookies! These are no fail cookies and perfect.
Mandarin Melomakarona
Mandarin Melomakarona are Greek honey cookies, made with olive oil, flavoured with mandarin and drenched in a honey syrup, with lots of walnuts on top.
The Best No-Chill Sugar Cookies
Ultimate no chill Sugar Cookies — the best cut out Christmas cookies!
Christmas White Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers
Looking for a fun and easy Christmas treat to make for your holiday festivities? Give these Christmas White Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers a try! They're an easy, adorable, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing festive treat that can even be made last minute if need be. Adored by both kids and grown-ups alike, a platter of these beauties will disappear in a flash.
Buckeye Brownie Cookies
Buckeye Brownie Cookies are decadent pieces of brownie-like cookies, topped with peanut butter and chocolate! Satisfy your sweet tooth with this chocolaty dessert!
Chocolate No Bake Cookies for Christmas
A decorated no bake cookie shaped like a Christmas tree!
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
Peanut butter kiss cookies are soft cookies made of peanut butter and topped with chocolate kiss candy at the center.
Magical Peanut Butter M&M Christmas Cookies
Magical Peanut Butter M&M Christmas Cookies are soft, delicious, and have festive, red and green peanut butter M&M chocolate candies that everyone will love to eat for Christmas!
Cashew Snow Cookies
Cashew snow cookies are simple egg less cookies made from cashews given generous dusting of powdered sugar so it resemble snow balls.
Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies (Only 4 Ingredients)
Red velvet cake mix cookies are soft, chewy, and made with just 4 ingredients. The beautiful red velvet and white chocolate chips are perfect for Christmas!
Homemade Jammie Dodgers
A classic Christmas cookie from across the pond in Britain, like a thumbprint but even better!
Amaretti Style Cranberry and Orange Almond Cookies
Amaretti Style Cranberry and Orange Almond Cookies. These amaretti-style cookies use minimal flour and have a light airy finish, fit to accompany desserts and drinks light as a feather and fat-free too!
Cranberry Orange Almond Shortbread Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Almond Shortbread cookies are a family favorite and so easy to make. Keep them in the freezer and slice and bake when you need them.
Rose Pistachio Cookies {Shortbread}
Crumbly and fragrant, these Pistachio Cookies (shortbread) are the perfect melt-in-your-mouth cookies. Make a large batch and freeze for an anytime Christmas treat.
Keto Coconut Macaroons
No one will suspect these little morsels are sugar free and low carb. Easy to make, and easier to eat!
Christmas Sprinkle Pudding Cookies
You don’t want to miss these soft baked sprinkle pudding cookies. They are perfectly sweet vanilla cookies loaded with two different kinds of Christmas sprinkles.
Joy's Classic Sugar Cutout Cookies
Classic Sugar Cookies are the simplest and tastiest cookie ever. All natural, with just a few ingredients; you can dress them up with frosting, dress them down with plain sprinkles!
Chocolate Dipped Fluffernutter Ritz Cookies
These No Bale Fluffernutter Ritz Cookies are so fun and easy to make, and always the first to disappear at parties!
Mint Chip Cookies
This mint chip cookies are studded with green chips and get a bit of sparkle from a roll in sugar. You only dirty one bowl and don't need a mixer for this recipe.
Ritz Cracker White Chocolate Christmas Cookies
You'll love these white chocolate covered Ritz Cracker almond butter cookies because they're simple to make and perfect for Christmas!
Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are soft, irresistible and filled to the brim with sweet chocolate chips and ruby red dried cranberries. Enjoy a big batch of this Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for the holidays or as a special wintertime treat.
Stained Glass Cookies {So Festive and Easy to Make + Video!}
Easy holiday cookies that can also double as ornaments and gifts!
Santa Belly Oreos Recipe
Santa Belly Oreos are cute and easy-to-make! These festive and colorful treats are perfect for any type of holiday gathering!
Sugar Cookie Cake
The best way to eat a sugar cookie is when it’s the size of a cake! This soft sugar cookie cake is so easy you will want to make it for birthday’s, Christmas cookie exchanges, and just because!
Raw Rose Hips Cookies
These raw rose hip cookies require only two simple ingredients, they are easy to make and most importantly, they are healthier than any other traditional cookies.
Honey and Oat Cookies
These egg free and dairy free honey and oat cookies are a healthier spin on a childhood favorite, with whole wheat flour and a little ginger for kick.
Chocolate Cookies
These chocolate cookies are rich and decadent and packed with chocolate chunks.
Almond Shortbread Cookies
These delicious almond shortbread cookies that are dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with toasted almonds are crunchy and so easy to make!
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Kourabiedes
These melt-in-your-mouth kourabiedes (Kourabies (pl. kourabiedes, pronounced kou-rah-be-EH-thez), are the Greek shortbread cookies made during Christmas.
Holiday Shortbread Cookies With Candy Cane Blossoms
Holiday Shortbread Cookies with Candy Cane Blossoms are a simple yet lovely twist on an old classic.
The Best Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Looking for the best iced oatmeal cookies recipe? Look no further! These iced oatmeal cookies are soft, chewy, and absolutely delicious!
Raspberry Pinwheel Cookies
Raspberry Pinwheel Cookies are so much fun to put together. While these may look challenging they’re really quite simple with stellar results.
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies. The BEST soft chocolate chip cookies baked in the air fryer. The problem is you can’t just stop at one air fryer cookie.
Best Ever Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft, thick, and infused with the rich nutty flavor of brown butter, these bakery-style cookies are a family favorite and best served with a tall glass of milk.
Perfectly Chewy Vegan Brown Sugar Cookies
Sweet. chewy, molasses-y Vegan Brown Sugar Cookies are an essential holiday treat. The molasses in the brown sugar gives them a lovely, complex flavor!
Awesome Vegan Sugar Cookies
The easiest holiday cookies that are so fun to decorate. Paleo-friendly, gluten-free and vegan!
Vegan Thumbprint Cookies With Raspberry Jam
The combination of tart jam and a buttery-sweet crumb is pure bliss in every bite.
Vegan Spice Sugar Cookies
These easy vegan spice sugar cookies are like gingerbread without molasses. Made with coconut sugar and ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg for a holiday worthy flavor without any hard to find ingredients.
Cocoa-Coconut Macaroons (Vegan, Nut-Free, Gluten-Free)
Keep your cookie swap super simple this year with these no-bake coconut chocolate macaroons! They're made of just a few simple ingredients, and are easy enough to make with kids! Use white chocolate or colorful red and green sprinkles for a festive touch!
Vegan Ginger Chews
Chewy vegan ginger cookies, with caramel-like coconut sugar, molasses, and plenty of spices.
Vegan No Bake Cookies (aka Eskimo Cookies)
One of my favorite family cookies we made around the holidays, made vegan and gluten free: Chocolate No Bake Cookies! These are a favorite around our house and so addicting.
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread cookies for a fun-filled holiday season! Allergy-friendly cookies that you'll make over and over!
Last Updated on August 29, 2020 by Liza Hawkins


2 Comments
thatskinnychickcanbake
Pinning this fabulous roundup for my 2020 cookie exchange. So much yummy inspiration!! Merry Christmas, Liza!
Liza Hawkins
Thanks so much, Liz! Merry Christmas!