Don’t waste your precious time flipping through cookbooks or endlessly scrolling Pinterest ~ here are the 50+ best Christmas cookie recipes of all time, right at your fingertips!

When it comes to Christmas cookies, our motto is: bake the best and forget the rest. This is the ultimate holiday cookie collection.
Finding the right Christmas cookie recipes can be even more trouble than making them, am I right? I get that, and that’s why I’ve corralled all my best cookies right here, in one convenient spot. After 10 years of recipe development I know a thing or two about what makes a great holiday cookie, and here’s the proof. These tried and true recipes are all you need to get through the holiday season, year after year ~ so let’s get baking!
Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies

Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies

Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

Soft Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Easy Gingerbread Cookies with Royal Icing

Cardamom Spritz Cookies

Honey Spice Hazelnut Cookies

Holiday Sugar Cookies and DIY Colored Sugar

Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

Best Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Pfeffernusse (German Spice Cookies)

Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Dipped Churro Shortbread Cookies

Sprinkle Sugar Cookies

Maple Glazed Oatmeal Cookies

Italian Christmas Cookies

Easy Cocoa Meringues

Lemon Snowball Cookies

Perfect Pecan Sandies

Traditional Swedish Pepparkakor Recipe

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

Copy Cat Harry and David Fruit Galettes

Easy No Bake White Chocolate Thin Mints

How to Make Meringue Mushrooms

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

Fruitcake Shortbread Cookies

Starry Night Gingerbread Cookies

Melting Moments

Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Glazed Gingerbread Spritz Cookies

Maple Walnut Shortbread Cookies

Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

New Fallen Snow Shortbread Cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Cardamom Walnut Crescent Cookies

Swedish Sugar Cookies

Toasted Almond Russian Tea Cakes

Acorn Meringue Cookies!

Chocolate Gingerbread Stamped Cookies

Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies

Embossed Gingerbread Cookies

Fudgy Brownie Cookies

Paste di Mandorla ~ Sicilian Almond Paste Cookies

Flourless Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Nutella Sandwich Cookies

Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Douglas Fir Shortbread Cookies

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

Turkish Coffee Shortbread Cookies

Chewy Chocolate Chip Ginger Cookies

Double Dark Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies


Wow, what a stunning list of yummy cookies. I don’t know where to start! But will definitely try a few of them for sure this holiday season.
Thanks so much for all the cookie recipes. Look yummy.
But wait! You didn’t include my mom’s 100 year old recipes!
Send them along, I’d love to try!!
Thank you so very much for these. This does look like the best collection of cookies that I have seen. My children and I are so excited to try some of these! Thank you for happy baking memory making!
So many fabulous cookies. I have bookmarked a few to try this year. Thank you for HARING YOUR COOKIES AND YOUR STUNNING PHOTOS.
Sue Moran, you are an outstanding food photographer. Each photo entices one to try the recipe. Thank you for sharing your generous compendium of cookies. I have some spectacular family recipes of my own but would be happy to “adopt” you into my family! Ellen Easton
🙂 awwww thanks Ellen!