If you are looking for delicious, easy to make, crowd pleasing Christmas Cookie recipes, you are in the right place! I’ve been sharing my recipes for Christmas Cookies here on Love From The Oven for the past 15 years. I’m a big fan of simple and easy recipes that produce delicious results!
Here are some of my all time favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes! I hope you enjoy them. You can find all of my Christmas Recipes here and all of my Cookie Recipes here!
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies are a classic holiday treat. Soft buttery sugar cookies topped with an irresistible powdered sugar frosting are always a hit on the dessert table. These beautifully decorated cookies are surprisingly easy to make, even if you’ve never decorated a single cookie! Rumor has it that these just might be Santa’s favorite cookie!
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are the Christmas cookies of any chocolate lover’s dreams. A chewy, rich, double chocolate chip cookie meets its match with the minty, sweet kick from the peppermint candy. Grab your oven mitts, have a glass of milk (or eggnog) on standby, and get ready to make some mouthwatering peppermint chocolate cookies.
Gingerbread Man Cookies
Gingerbread men cookies are a fun and festive treat that the entire family will enjoy eating and making this holiday season. Nothing screams Christmas quite like some warm, chewy, gingerbread man cookies. Grab your rolling pins and cookie cutters and get ready to make some delicious memories this December!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe makes wonderfully soft and chewy cookies that nobody can get enough of! If you enjoy big, buttery cookies that are packed full of chocolate chips, then you are in the right place. This easy recipe will take your chocolate chip cookie making game to the next level, and your friends and family will thank you for it!
Candy Cane Cookies
Candy Cane Cookies are a perfect treat for the Christmas season. These delicious, buttery sugar cookies are easy to make, and they look downright adorable on dessert tables and treat trays. Santa and the elves will love when you add this classic Christmas cookie recipe to your holiday baking lineup.
No Bake Decorated Oreos
These Christmas Oreos are simple, impressive, no-bake treats that are absolutely adorable. There are so many creative and festive ways to design these easy cookies, it’s perfect for kids to have fun with, or to serve to a large crowd in a pinch. You are guaranteed to impress all your friends and family, and you don’t even need to touch the oven!
Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are deliciously sweet, with just the right hint of tart, and super simple to make! With just 6 easy ingredients, you can whip up a batch of these faster than you can say Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies. Make these classic confections for potlucks, a bake sale, or just to enjoy on a lovely afternoon with a cup of tea or coffee.
Coconut Macaroons
Chocolate Dipped Macaroons are delicious and surprisingly easy to make. You can whip up a batch of these bakery style Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons at home in under an hour. That said, when the coconut lovers in your life try these cookies, one batch likely will not be enough!
Spritz Cookies
Spritz Cookies are delicious little buttery cookies that nobody can resist. With only five ingredients, they truly are one of the holiday season’s simple pleasures. Aside from tasting amazing, one of my favorite things about spritz cookies is that you can make a large amount of them very quickly. When it comes to filling up holiday dessert platters and cookie trays, these cookies are a must make item.
Raspberry Crumble Cookies
These copycat Costco Raspberry Crumble Cookies are sweet, tart, crumbly, and best of all, taste exactly like Costco’s! Jam-filled, soft and chewy, these life changing raspberry cookies are made in under 30 minutes, and are one less thing to add to the Costco bill.
M&M Cookies
One of the things I love about holiday baking is all of the fun holiday baking products that fill store shelves. Including lots of holiday M&M options, which are what I used in these delicious cookies. These Chocolate M&M Cookies contain both Peppermint M&Ms (my favorite!) and the holiday mini M&Ms.
Eggnog Cookies
If you love snickerdoodles and you love eggnog, wait until you try these incredible eggnog cookies! Packed full off eggnog flavor, but with the delicious simplicity of snickerdoodles, these eggnog cookies need to make their way onto your holiday baking list!
Cut Out Sugar Cookies
I know what you might be thinking: Does the world need another cut out sugar cookie recipe? My answer to that is a resounding, “Yes!” These rolled sugar cookies stand out from the crowd by not only looking great but tasting amazing, too. Best of all, you don’t have the chill the dough! When you want to make sugar cookies from scratch but don’t have time to waste, this is the recipe you need.
Lofthouse Style Cookies
Who among us hasn’t run to the grocery store for a box of Lofthouse frosted sugar cookies when we forgot we signed up to bring dessert? These super soft sugar cookies topped with a delicious frosting are just like the ones you love from your grocery bakery but even better!
Oatmeal Scotchies
Oatmeal scotchies are one of my all time favorite cookies. There is something absolutely fantastic about the flavor and texture combo in oatmeal scotchies. It doesn’t hurt that they are as easy to make as chocolate chip cookies. These are my favorite butterscotch cookies to make.
Red Velvet Cookies
Red Velvet Cookies made easy by using cake mix! These red velvet cake mix cookies are dotted with white chocolate chips–a perfect treat for Christmas or any time of year.
Snowball Cookies
Adorable, easy and delicious, this Snowball Cookie Recipe is the perfect Christmas treat to make with kids. These festive snowball cookies use sprinkles and white chocolate chips, or mini chocolate chips, instead of nuts. Everyone loves this holiday treat!
Hot Cocoa Cookies
When I first made these hot cocoa cookies, adding hot cocoa mix to a cookie seemed like something that might taste good. But I didn’t quite expect for them to be SO delicious. These Hot Chocolate Cookies have since become one of the most popular cookie recipes on Love From The Oven, and Kraft ended up putting the recipe on their Mallow Bits container. Hot Chocolate Cookies are perfect Christmas cookies and are great cookie for cookie exchanges.
Melted Snowman Cookies
Melted Snowman Cookies are an adorably sweet treat for the holiday season. Buttery sugar cookies are topped with a simple royal icing and decorated to look like darling little snowmen. These impressive treats are actually quite easy to make. Get ready for wide eyes and big smiles when these happy little Christmas Cookies are shared with friends and family.
Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies
Create the sweetest little forest imaginable with these Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies. Buttercream frosting is sandwiched between deliciously simple butter cookies to create picture perfect cookie trees. While they look impressive, they are quick and easy to make. Make up a batch of these darling treats and wow your friends and family!
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms are a classic holiday cookie that you can enjoy year round! Deliciously easy peanut butter cookies are topped with chocolate Hershey’s Kisses for a flavor combination that nobody can resist. These cookies are quick and easy to make – in about thirty minutes you can be enjoying a batch in your own kitchen!
Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are irresistibly fudgey, chewy and delicious. This classic crinkle cookie recipe is a hit year round, but it’s even more popular during Christmas cookie season! With a brownie like taste and texture, your friends and family will love these easy to make cookies that are out-of-the-oven to enjoy in 30 minutes!
Molasses Cookies
Ginger Molasses Cookies are here to ‘spice’ up your cookie game… Literally! These cookies are unbelievably soft, chewy and packed with so much flavor. Once you find out how easy these are to make, and how incredible they taste, you won’t be able to resist grabbing yourself a second or third serving!
Linzer Cookies
Linzer Cookies are a must for any holiday table. These buttery sandwich cookies have a rich, nutty flavor with a dollop of raspberry jam in the center. A dusting of powdered sugar makes them look as good as they taste!
Peppermint Kiss Cookies
Peppermint Kiss Cookies are soft and chewy with the perfect amount of peppermint goodness. Transform ordinary sugar cookie dough into a crowd pleasing Christmas cookies with this easy recipe!
Meet Christi, Love From The Oven
I’m Christi I love sharing easy & delicious recipes that your family & friends will love. I’m a mom, baker, cookbook author and lover of sprinkles.
