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    Home » Holiday

    20 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes – Best of the Best

    By: Jessica · Posted: Dec 8, 2015 · Updated: May 24, 2022 · This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

    Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes: Best of the best, cookies for the cookiest time of year! Perfect to serve Santa or to take to that holiday gathering!

    Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes

    What is it about Christmas, that makes me think that I can, and NEED to make every stinking Christmas cookie out there?

    But instead of spending a million hours in the kitchen doing that, I think I’ll just stare at these 20 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes… AND share them with you. Less calories that way too. 😉

    These are from some of my favorite food bloggers out there, and they’re totally doable. The recipes below are for people like me. Good… easy… Christmas Cookies. 🙂  Have fun drooling…

    Christmas Cookie Recipes

    1. Melissa’s Cuisine – Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti

    Wouldn’t these be amazing to dip into your coffee on Christmas morning?

    Peppermint Chocolate Biscotti
    2. Shaken Together Life – No Bake Eggnog Cookies

    I absolutely love this spin on no-bake cookies! If you’re an eggnog fan, you should love these!

    No Bake Eggnog Cookies
    3. Shaken Together Life – Eggnog Pudding Pies

    Mini pies are one of my favorites and so easy to make. So although not really a cookie, they fit the individual serving idea, so it’s cookie list worthy!

    No Bake Mini Eggnog Pudding Pies

    4. Recipe Girl – Crispy Molasses Cookies

    Molasses makes me think of my grandma. (Or a really horrible joke that my dad likes to tell.) Either way, I’d sink my teeth in to these in a heart beat!

    Crispy Molasses Cookies Recipe
    5. Overstuffed Life – Chewy Gluten-Free Holiday Cookies

    I’m such a sucker for a chewy cookie, and the fact that these are gluten-free just makes my day!

    Chewy Gluten Free Holiday Cookies
    6. Over the Big Moon – Molasses Cookies with Vanilla Glaze

    A vanilla glaze? I mean, I could probably just eat the glaze right out of the bowl.

    Molasses Cookies with Vanilla Glaze
    7. The Girl Who Ate Everything – Peppermint Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

    Why oh why are peppermint and chocolate so good together!?

    Peppermint Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
    8. Our Best Bites – Chocolate-Peppermint Thumbprint Cookies

    It’s just something about that minty flavor combined with a sweet chocolate that sets my tastebuds on cloud 9!

    Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprint Cookies
    9. Amanda’s Cookin’ – Thumbprint Cookies

    How sweet are these thumbprint cookies? I love the different colors, and they kind of look like some type of Christmas ornament! Perfect for the Christmas dessert table!

    Thumbprint Christmas Cookies
    10. A Farm Girl’s Dabbles – Dark Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Bites with Peppermint Buttercream

    “Peppermint buttercream?” Oh heavens yes… sign me up for these!

    Dark Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Bites with Peppermint Buttercream
    11. Shaken Together Life – Mint Chocolate No Bake Cookies

    Yet another fun spin on no bake cookies with these mint chocolate nobakes!

    No Bake Mint Chocolate Cookies
    12. “Shared Appetite‘s”

    Chocolate Orange Truffle Crinkle Cookies

    I don’t know if I’m just obsessed with this amazing photo, or if I should make the cookies!? Maybe when I get done staring at this image, I’ll head to the kitchen. But aren’t these beautiful!?

    chocolate orange truffle crinkle cookies
    13. Recipe Girl – Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies

    Oh man alive… Gooey Butter Cookies are my WEAKNESS. Hence the reason I also have different types of gooey butter cookies here on the blog too! (Chocolate Caramel Gooey Butter Cookies and Strawberry Shortcake Gooey Butter Cookies)

    Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies
    14. Overstuffed Life – Peppermint Meltaways

    These look mouthwatering and I can almost imagine what they taste like, can’t you?

    Peppermint Meltaway Cookies
    15. Inside Bru Crew Life – Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Macaroons

    Salted caramel and chocolate go together like a pb&j. How fun to munch on these around the Christmas table this year!

    Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Macaroons Cookies
    16. Our Best Bites – Candy Cane Kiss Cookies

    Aw, these are so sweet! Well, sweet in taste and cute too!

    Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
    17. No-Bake Nutter Butter Truffle Recipe

    Although this post is FULL of Milk and Cookies party ideas, you’ll find a delicious No-Bake Nutter Butter Truffle Recipe too!

    Milk and Cookies Party Play Date Ideas. Snowman Nutter Butter Truffle

    18. The Girl Who Ate Everything – Candy Cane Kiss Sugar Cookie Bars

    Get in my belly! Sugar cookies are a girls best friend aren’t they?

    Candy Cane Kiss Sugar Cookie Bars
    19. Amanda’s Cookin’ – Chocolate Snow Cookies

    Now THIS is the kind of snow that I like!

    Chocolate Snow Cookies
    20. Recipe Girl – Chocolate-Peanut Butter Snowballs

    For some reason snowball cookies help justify eating too many! I can just pop one in and pop the next one in without hesistating!

    Filled Snowball Cookies

    They all look so good, right!? Do you see your favorite Christmas cookie recipe here? Tell me. I’d love to hear what your favorite is!

    Looking for more easy Christmas dessert recipes?

    If you love easy cookie recipes, then I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you love easy dessert recipes too?

    Here are some of the tastiest Christmas recipes here on the blog:

    BEST Punch Recipe

    Peppermint Mocha Crunch Cake

    Mint Chocolate Brownies

    Tree Forest Winter Cupcakes

    Cookie Decorating for Beginners

    Sugar Cookies with Nutella Frosting

    Christmas Party Play Date – Has super cute dessert ideas!

    Milk and Cookies Play Date – Also has adorable dessert ideas!

    Christmas Cookie Recipes

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    Comments

    1. Lara @ Overstuffed says

      December 08, 2015 at 9:35 pm

      Thanks so much for featuring two of my recipes! The Peppermint Meltaways are definitely our favorite holiday cookie, but now I’m seeing a bunch of others on this list that I need to try!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        December 09, 2015 at 3:36 am

        You bet! They look delicious! Oh gosh I know… I’m going to be on cookie overload! Lol! 🙂 Thanks for popping by!

        Reply
    2. Tanya says

      December 13, 2015 at 3:44 am

      Chocolate-Peanut Butter Snowballs – it very opportunely!

      Reply
    3. Karen Wood says

      December 19, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      The Eggnog Pudding Pies took me by surprise! As much as I love homemade cookies…I love pies even more.

      Reply

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