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12 easy, delicious, beautiful, easy Christmas cookie recipes to make, exchange and/or share this holiday season. Everyone will love these festive treats!
Are you ready to do some fun holiday baking? I always feel that once Thanksgiving passes by, it's time for FULL-ON holiday baking! And what's better than a collection of beautiful, delicious, EASY Christmas cookie recipes?
These are some of our favorite festive cookie recipes. They are perfect for a family baking project, making a memory with your kids, grandkids, neighbor kids... actually, kids of any age! These recipes are also great for sharing with friends or neighbors and for holiday parties.
Each post has lots of tips and tricks for baking and decorating to ensure success. We also have more classic cookies like molasses, peppermint and butterscotch... that means, there's something for everyone! Take a peek, and put a few of these easy Christmas cookie recipes on your holiday baking docket!
Some of these cookie recipes have free printable labels to make them extra special. To receive the labels you just need to leave a comment on the post you are interested in and we will email them to you. Happy baking!
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!Â
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
With an easy decorating technique, these delicious, Christmas Shortbread Cookies look like they came from a fine bakeshop!
Crinkly Crackly Butterscotch Cookies
With a crisp, crinkly, crackly exterior and a chewy, intensely butterscotch interior, these one-bowl, easy-to-put-together cookies always bring rave reviews. And the free printable labels make these delicious Butterscotch Cookies perfect for gifting!
Easy Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies
The easiest, most delicious, one-bowl chocolate chip cookie recipe; all dressed up in holiday attire!
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.
Red Velvet Kiss Cookies
These Red Velvet Kiss Cookies just might be the most fun, delicious, festive and romantic cookies that you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting!
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 Tree Shortbread Cookies
This one-bowl, no-mixer Christmas Tree Shortbread Cookies are not only delicious but the pretty decorating technique is super simple!
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!
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!
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.
Thought for the day:
But He was pierced for our transgressions;
He was crushed for our iniquities;
upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with His wounds, we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5
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Hi Chris - May I please have the labels when you have time to send them
Many thanks Glynis
Hi Glynis, we are happy to send the labels. Just leave a comment on each post you are interested in. That's how we stay organized.
May I have the labels please. Thank you
Hi Dotti, just leave a comment on each post you are interested in. Thanks!
Will have to start baking. Recipes look great!
Thanks, Lorna! Enjoy!
Hi, please send me labels, I really appreciate it,
Karen
Hi Karen, just leave a comment on each post you are interested in. Thanks!
What a lovely assortment. I'll be adding a few to my baking list this year.
Thanks, Jeannette! Enjoy!
Thank you for all these yummy recipes. I will try some of them and bring them to our church. God bless you❤️
Thank you for the kind comment, Violet!
Your recipes are so beautiful and your loving spirit comes through this page! Thank you for your amazing site. Please know you are bringing joy and inspiration each day ❤️
Aww, thanks so much, Cheryl! You are very thoughtful and encouraging 🥰
I was looking for the same cookie.
Hi Charlotte , I’ll be sharing that one tomorrow!
Me, too!
Hi i saw a rolled ball cookie with cranberries? and covered in icing sugar but could not find the recipe. Did I just miss it? thanks.
Hi Josephine, that’s the Orange Amaretti Cookie recipe I’ll be sharing tomorrow.
Yum! Sounds delicious! Can’t wait for the recipe!
I was wondering what was the round ball cookie that looks like it has a cranberry in it on the email you sent out. Looks very interesting.
Hi Nancy, , that’s the Orange Amaretti Cookie recipe I’ll be sharing tomorrow.
In your picture on email this morning the one cookie is what appears to be a rolled cranberry sugar or shortbread cookie some rolled in sugar and the ones behind it look like they are rolled in powdered sugar. Could you give the name of that cookie and link to the recipe, it was the one that caught me eye when I opened the mail this morning.
I have made many of your cookie recipes and don't remember seeing that one before.
Thank-you
Nancy
Hi Nancy, that’s the Orange Amaretti Cookie recipe I’ll be sharing tomorrow.