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Let the holiday baking begin! Here are 15 fun and festive Christmas cookie recipes, perfect for sharing with family and friends.
Bring on the holiday baking! These are some of our favorite festive cookie recipes, perfect for the Christmas season. They're as beautiful as they are delicious, which is exactly what you want when it comes to cookies!
Each post includes helpful tips and tricks to ensure decorating success, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned baker. You'll also find classic favorites like molasses, peppermint, and butterscotch, so there's truly something for everyone. A few of these recipes even come with free printable labels that we're happy to send your way. Just leave a comment on the posts you're interested in. Happy baking!
Berries on the Wreath Shortbread Cookies
With a super simple, dip, drip and flip decorating technique, these buttery melt-in-your-mouth Berries on the Wreath Shortbread Cookies always bring smiles of delight and rave reviews.
Easy Molasses Ginger Cookies
If you love baking and sharing delicious cookies but don't have a lot of time to fuss with fancy recipes, these Easy Molasses Ginger Cookies are for you. Me too!
Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies
Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies - easy, whimsical and eye-catching, these incredibly delicious cookies have a buttery shortbread base and a sprinkle coating, topped with a Hershey's candy-cane kiss.
Copycat Crumbl Christmas Sugar Cookies
Everyone falls in love with the first bite of these Copycat Crumbl Christmas Sugar Cookies. The melt-in-your-mouth, buttery cookies with a cloud of sweet Christmasy buttercream are irresistibly delicious!
Easy Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies
With lots of chocolate chips and crushed peppermint both inside and as a pretty topping, these cookies will disappeared like hotcakes!
Red Velvet Kiss Cookies
These Red Velvet Kiss Cookies would be perfect for any special occasion! They're fun, delicious, festive ... and quite romantic!
Ridiculously Easy Orange Cranberry Amaretti Cookies
These delicious Orange Cranberry Amaretti Cookies are a beloved Italian gluten-free treat. With a thin, crisp outer shell, a chewy interior, and a fabulous seasonal flavor combination of sweet orange zest and bits of tart cranberries, they are an instant hit with the first bite!
Christmas Tree Shortbread Cookies
These one-bowl, no-mixer Christmas Tree Shortbread Cookies are not only delicious but the pretty decorating technique is super simple!
Ridiculously Easy Gingerdoodle Cookies
These Ridiculously Easy Gingerdoodle Cookies are the best of both worlds, a mashup of snickerdoodles and ginger cookies! Soft and chewy with crisp edges, warm spices, and a crackly cinnamon-sugar coating, they're perfect for everyday baking or holiday gifting.
Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookies
Beautiful, easy and delicious, these buttery Christmas Wreath Shortbread Cookies are a one-bowl, no-mixer recipe with an easy, fun decorating technique.
Sugar Plum Fairy Shortbread Bites
These buttery, melt-in-your-mouth Sugar Plum Fairy Shortbread Bites are super easy to make with no rolling or cutting out and make a delicious, quite magical gift with the free printable labels!
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
With an easy decorating technique, these fun, festive and super delicious, Christmas Shortbread Cookies look like they came from a fine bake shop!
Crinkly Crackly Butterscotch Cookies
With a crisp, crinkly, crackly exterior, chewy interior (and free printable gift labels), these easy Butterscotch Cookies are always a huge hit!
Easy Decorated Christmas Cookies (aka A Snowy Night in the Mountains Cookies)
Don't fancy yourself as a fancy cookie maker? Check out these Easy Decorated Christmas Cookies, they're one-bowl, no-mixer and simply delish!
Flourless Toffee Chocolate Cookies
These decadent Flourless Toffee Chocolate Cookies taste like a moist, chewy, toffee-studded brownie with deliciously crisp edges. A crazy-delicious, super-easy, gluten-free, no-mixer recipe!
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My favorite time of the year because we get to bake for many family and friends. Thank you so much for the free cookie labels. If you could please send me the Berries on the Wreath, Sugar Cookies & Sugar Plum. Also if i missed any. Thank you so much Chris for gifting such a wonderful gift this time of year. Many Blessings and Enjoy this beautiful, magical season. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Hi Coli, we are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
Please send me the printable labels to your recipes. Thank you.
Hi Margaret, we are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
Lovely cookies and the decorating tips are very helpful. Please send the labels with much appreciation.
Merry Christmas to The Whole Team!
Hi Francoise, we are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
So lovely…and yummy! Please send the labels. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Hi Sandy, we are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
Love all these cant wait to gift them to my friends and family please can I have all the labels
Many Thanks x
Hi Sharon, we are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
The recipe for molasses cookies asks for shortening. I avoid shortening in food because it clogs arteries and is an artificial ingredient. Can butter or a vegetable oil be substituted?
Hi Pamela, I haven't tried this particular recipe with butter so I can't say for sure. This one does call for butter: https://thecafesucrefarine.com/easy-bakery-style-molasses-cookies/#recipe
I really love making the Christmas tree shortbread; love the marbling, even going tie-dyed. As a baker in the past I used to make huge sheetpan fulls, and I'd take a brush after glazing them and just fling another contrasting glaze across the pans...abstract and so much fun!
That's great, Mary!
Would love to have Cookie Labels and information on getting the boxes you show.
My name is Pat and my email is turner62@yahoo.com. Thanks and have a Merry Christmas.
Hi Pat, we're happy to send you all that info, we just ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
The best time of year. Please send me the labels. Thank you.
Look forward to each weeks recipes. Also I appreciate the scriptures and music, very encouraging. I would
So glad to hear that, Lynn!
Thanks, Peggy! We are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!
All look very yummy! I can not wait to try some of them. May I have the labels also.
All your recipes are greatly appreciated. Can’t wait to try the gnocchi turkey soup.
Thanks, Sandra! We are happy to send the labels but ask that you leave a comment on each post. That's how we stay organized. Thanks!