Christmas cookies are an unavoidable part of Christmas time!
With hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookie recipes out there, it is impossible to know which ones you should use for your holiday parties.
Check out these Christmas cookie ideas!
3-ingredient Nutella Truffles
via Crazy for Crust
Simple and inexpensive, these cookies are filled with chocolate and Nutella and topped with sprinkles!
Almond Cut Out Cookies
via Chew Out Loud
Cut out cookies can be shaped in all sorts of Christmas shapes and flavored to personal taste!
Amish Sugar Cookies
via Something Swanky
Amish sugar cookies are simple but delicious!
Andes Mint Cookies
Can’t go wrong with chocolate cookies topped with Andes’ mint chocolate!
Andes Mint Cookies Recipe
Cookies are a Christmas staple, tries these chocolate cookies topped with chocolate ganache.
Apple Blondies
via Num’s The Word
These cinnamon apple blondies are perfect for your holiday get together.
Apple Cookies and Cream Cheese Frosting
Taste these Apple filled cookies topped with cream cheese frosting. They are a delicious option for your next holiday party.
Apple Crisp Cookie Cups
via Liv for Cake
Using cookie dough and a mini cupcake pan you can make these cute cookie cups and fill them with apple pie filling.
Apple Crisp Cookies
Apples are a staple during Christmas. Try these delicious apple crisp cookies.
Apple Crisp Shortbread Bars
via SoberJulie
Is it even Christmas without shortbread? Try these apple-themed shortbread cookies.
Apple Oatmeal Cookies
Mix apple cookies and oatmeal cookies for these delicious Christmas treats.
Apple Pie Cookies
Apple pie cookies look like and are as delicious as mini apple pies.
Appledoodles
via Pip and Ebby
Try these snickerdoodles with a twist of apple flavoring.
Award Winning Gingerbread Cookies
Try these gingerbread cookies that are dipped in white chocolate.
Bakery-Style Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies
These classic chocolate chip cookies have delicious pumpkin flavoring as well.
Best Soft Gingerbread Cookies
For your Christmas party, try these soft and delicious gingerbread cookies.
Blizzard Cookies
via Sugar Spun Run
Top your white chocolate macadamia nut cookies with snowflake sprinkles to add the winter touch!
Brown Butter Cinnamon Crinkle Cookies
via Cookies and Cups
Cinnamon cookies are the epitome of Christmas and they are absolutely delicious!
Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies Stuffed with Nutella
Oatmeal cookies are delicious, but when you stuff them with Nutella it makes them absolutely delicious!
Brown Butter Salted Caramel Snickerdoodles
Try these snickerdoodles stuffed with salted caramel and chocolate.
Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies
via The Recipe Rebel
These pecan cookies are frosted with a brown sugar ganache and topped with pecans.
Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies
Top and fill these cake mix cookies with Christmas sprinkles and you have the perfect holiday cookie.
Candy Cane Brownie Cookies
via Something Swanky
Make the classic brownie a Christmas cookie by adding candy cane.
Candy Cane Cookie Dough Truffles
Truffles scream Christmas. Try these candy cane truffles topped with chocolate!
Candy Cane Cookies
via No. 2 Pencil
By taking red and white sugar cookie dough and twisting it into a candy cane shape, you can make these Christmas themed cookies.
Candy Cane Oreo Truffles
via Cakescottage
Topping classic Oreo truffles with chocolate and candy canes gives it the perfect Christmas flavors.
Caramel Apple Pie Cookies
via CincyShopper
Turn your Christmas cookie into a miniature apple pie with these apple pie cookies.
Caramel Apple Pie Magic Bars
via Crazy for Crust
These cookie bars are filled with caramel, apple and chocolate.
Caramel Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars with a Streusel Topping
Cookie bars filled with cheesecake, caramel and apple are the perfect addition to your Christmas!
Caramel Pumpkin Layer Bars
Santa won’t want to leave after delivering your presents if you leave him these delicious caramel and pumpkin bars.
Caramel Stuffed Brown Sugar Cookies
via Carlsbad Craving
These brown sugar cookies are topped with caramel.
Caramel Surprise Snicker-doodles
Try snicker-doodles with caramel in the middle.
Chai Shortbread Cookies with Sea Salt
via Foodie Crush
Shortbread cookies are a classic, try adding chocolate and Christmas sprinkles!
Cheesecake Red Velvet Cookies
These soft red velvet cookies are a perfect Christmas red.
Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies mixed with cherry are the perfect color theme for Christmas.
Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies
via Gimme Some Oven
Ginger molasses cookies add a classic touch.
Chocolate Cherry Blossom Cookies
via Baking Beauty
These chocolate cherry cookies are filled with cherry flavor and topped with a chocolate kiss.
Chocolate Chip Snowballs
via Crazy for Crust
These snowball shaped cookies are delicious and perfect for the season.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Cookies filled with chocolate, topped with chocolate and with a cherry on top are the perfect option for any Christmas get together.
Chocolate Crinkle Candy Cane Kiss
Turn regular chocolate crinkle cookies into Christmas cookies by topping with a candy cane kiss.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
via Gimme Some Oven
For a Christmas twist on a classic, try these Chocolate crinkle cookies powdered with powdered sugar.
Chocolate Dipped Toffee Pecan Shortbread Cookies
via Cooking Classy
Chocolate Drizzle Christmas Cookie Sticks
Make the perfect Christmas cookie to go with your hot cocoa with these Christmas themed chocolate cookie sticks.
Chocolate Frosted Christmas Cookies
via Real Housemoms
Chocolate cookies topped with Christmas sprinkles bring the holiday spirit.
Chocolate Mint Truffle Snowball Cookies
These chocolate truffles are topped with white chocolate making them look like little snowballs.
Christmas Buckeye (Peanut Butter) Balls
By adding Christmas sprinkles to peanut butter buckeyes you can make the perfect Christmas treat.
Christmas Cheesecake Cookies
Cheesecake cookies are very simple to dye red and blue and swirl together to make a Christmas treat.
Christmas Cornflake Wreaths
via Tastes Better from Scratch
Rice crispy treat cookies with green dye and can be formed to make cute Christmas wreath cookies.
Christmas Crinkle Cool Whip Cookies
Cool Whip cookies make a simple Christmas cookie when mixed with red and green dye.
Christmas Lights Cookies
Sugar cookies frosted and decorated with adorable Christmas lights.
Christmas M&M Mini Cookies
Make M&M cookies scream Christmas by using red and green M&Ms.
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
via Baked by Rachel
Red and White pinwheel cookies are the epitome of the Christmas season.
Christmas Sugar Cookie Truffles
via If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen
Classic truffles dipped in white chocolate and nonpareils are the perfect Christmas treat.
Christmas Sugar Cookies
via Cakescottage
Drop sugar cookies topped with red and green sugar.
Christmas Tree Cookie Stacks
via Delish
Make adorable Christmas trees by stacking drop sugar cookies and green frosting.
Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies
Meringue cookies make a great Christmas tree cookie because they can be formed and decorated to make little mini Christmas trees.
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies decorated with green frosting.
Church Window Cookies
via The First Year
By using chocolate cookies and mini marshmallows you can make cookies that look like a church stained glass window.
Cinnamon Chip Pumpkin Cookies
These festive cookies are filled with cinnamon and caramel chips.
Cinnamon Eggnog Christmas Cookies
via Kevin and Amanda
There is no Christmas without eggnog. These eggnog cookies are fluffy and tasty.
Cinnamon Maple Sugar Cookies
via My Sequined Life
Try these cinnamon cookies frosted with cinnamon and white chocolate ganache.
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Everyone loves cinnamon rolls. Why not turn them into a delectable Christmas cookie.
Classic Gingerbread Men
via Something Swanky
Gingerbread men are a Christmas classic. Make your gingerbread men with multicolored buttons to add an extra Christmas touch.
Confetti Cake Batter Cookies
Add a pop of color to Christmas with Confetti cake cookies.
Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies
via Wholefully
Bake delectable sugar cookies with colorful frosting for your Christmas.
Cranberry Orange Cookies
via Lets Dish
Basic sugar cookies get an extra kick by adding cranberry and orange flavoring.
Cream Cheese Red Velvet Thumbprints
via Something Swanky
By using red velvet cake and cream cheese, these adorable cookies are naturally Christmas colored.
Creme Brûlée Sugar Cookies
via Delish
Because using a blowtorch to Creme’ Brulee’ the frosting is required, these cookies are delicious and very fun to make!
Crinkly, Cranky, Grinch Cookies
These green drop crinkle cookies make the perfect Grinch.
Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies
via Crazy for Crust
Mix a love for snow and a love for chocolate with these chocolate cookies dipped in powdered sugar.
Dutch Apple Pie Cookies
Dutch apple pie cookies are the perfect mix of crunch and soft.
Easy and Delicious Sugar Cookies
via Mini Pie KItchen
Sugar cookies are great for Christmas season because they are universal and can be cut into any shape you want.
Easy Slice ‘n’ Bake Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookies
These cookies are filled with vanilla flavor and are decorated to match the Christmas season.
Eggnog Cheesecake Cookie Cups
via Liv for Cake
Bake cookies in a small muffin pan to make little cups. Then fill with delicious cheesecake.
Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies
Eggnog cookies are soft with an outside crunch. They are a simple holiday snack.
Eggnog Snickerdoodles
via Taste of Home
Cinnamon mixed with eggnog makes a perfect holiday cookie.
Frosted Cranberry Cookies
via The Novice Chef
Frost a basic drop sugar cookie with white chocolate frosting and cranberry pieces to make this simple cranberry cookie.
Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
via Cafe Delites
Chocolate cake batter cookies dipped in powdered sugar make a crunchy but fudgy cookies.
Funfetti Shortbread Bites
via Cooking Classy
Shortbread cookies with Christmas colored nonpareils make a Christmas snack that everyone will love.
Gingerbread Blossoms
via Something Swanky
Gingerbread with hershey’s kisses on top are the perfect mix of cinnamon and chocolate.
Gingerbread Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Push a hershey’s kiss upside down into a gingerbread cookie to make a simple chocolate and cinnamon cookie.
Gingerbread Christmas Trees
via Skinny Taste
Cut gingerbread into triangles and decorate with green frosting to create a cute Christmas tree.
Gingerbread Magic Cookies
via The Kitchen is My Playground
Gingerbread cookie bars make a great base for cheesecake, nuts and cranberries.
Gingerbread Oreo Balls
via Sweet Recipes
Oreo truffles are an absolute must at Christmas time. Make them even more Christmasy by adding mini gingerbread men.
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
via Saving Dessert
Make a whoopie pie Christmas flavored by using gingerbread!
Gooey Salted Caramel Vanilla Butter Cookies
via Kevin and Amanda
Spice up your vanilla cookies by adding a gooey caramel to the center.
Grinch Sugar Cookie Bars
via Wine and Glue
Green frosted sugar cookie bars make a perfect Grinch cookie.
Hershey’s Secret Kiss
via Crazy for Crust
Using basic cookie dough, spice it up by adding a Rolo in the center!
Holiday Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
via Averie Cooks
Make a basic sugar cookie bar scream the holidays by adding white cream cheese frosting and green and red sprinkles.
Holiday Vanilla Pudding Cake Cookies
Try these cookies made from pudding cake and decorated with holiday sprinkles
Hot Chocolate Cookies
via Big Bear’s Wife
Make perfect hot chocolate cookies by adding marshmallows to a chocolate cookie.
Hot Cocoa Marshmallow Cookie Cups
via Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons
By adding a dollop of chocolate to the top of a marshmallow and a peppermint handle you can make adorable hot chocolate cookies. But them on the basis of a basic cookie.
Iced Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
via Baking a Moment
Try making these chocolate cookies with royal icing in Christmas colors.
Italian Ricotta Cookies
via Cooking Classy
This italian recipe for ricotta cookies is the perfect base for white frosting and Christmas sprinkles.
Kris Kringle Christmas Cookies
via Kim’s Cravings
Make naturally colored Santa cookies by adding cranberries to a white drop sugar cookie dough.
Melt In Your Mouth Pumpkin Cookies
via The Girl Who Ate Everything
Pumpkin cookies with white frosting dusted with cinnamon are simple.
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Eggnog Cookies
via Cooking Classy
These delicious eggnog cookies are frosted with eggnog frosting and dusted with cinnamon.
Melted Snowman Cookies
Using a sugar cookie with white frosting, a marshmallow and colored frosting, you can make these adorable melted snowman cookies.
Melted Snowman Oreo Balls
via The Girl Who Ate Everything
Oreo truffles frosted with white frosting make a melted snowman look. Top with oreo top hats for the snowman!
Mint Chip Sugar Cookies
via Little Dairy on the Prairie
Mint chocolate chip cookies make a minty grinch cookie.
Mint Oreo Truffles
Oreo truffles with a hint of mint are the perfect base for chocolate frosting and Christmas colored sprinkles.
M&M Christmas Cookies for Santa
via No 2 Pencil
Basic M&M cookies can be Santa themed by using only green and red M&Ms to fill them
M&M Shortbread Cookies
via Something Swanky
Shortbread cookie bars are great for topping with chocolate and red and green M&Ms.
No Bake Oreo Truffles
No bake oreo cookies are soft and delicious and can be turned into a Christmas cookie by adding red and green sprinkles.
No Bake Peppermint Bark Cookies
No bake peppermint cookies are delicious when topped with candy canes and white chocolate.
No Roll Holiday Sprinkles
via Averie Cooks
Christmas colored sprinkles on top of any cookie can give it a Christmas touch.
Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies
via Little Dairy on the Prairie
Pumpkin cookies are delicious but they are even better with the addition of oatmeal and chocolate chips
Ooey Gooey Red Velvet Bars
via A Night Owl
Red velvet cookie bars are soft and gooey and are perfect Christmas cookies with red and green sprinkles
Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
These easy to make basic peanut butter cookies are topped with a red and white hershey’s kiss.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
via The Girl Who Ate Everything
Make cookies in a mini muffin tin and add a mini hershey’s kiss to the middle for a nice peanut butter surprise.
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
via Betty Crocker
Peanut butter hershey’s kiss cookies are simple but delicious.
Pecan Pie Bars
via Rock Recipes
These cookie bars are simple. They are made by using cream cheese, pecans and basic cookie dough.
Pecan Pie Cookies
These sugar cookies are topped with caramel, pecans and chocolate.
Pecan Tassies
via Brown Eyed Baker
These cookie cups are filled with cream cheese, pecans and caramel.
Peppermint Chocolate Thumbprint
via Small Town Woman
Chocolate cookies can be in the christmas spirit by putting an upside down red and white kiss in them.
Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies
via Crumbs and Chaos
You can make your sugar cookies have a peppermint crunch by adding crushed candy canes
Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups
via The Gunny Sack
Adorable cookie cups can be made by adding a peppermint handle, chocolate filling and mini marshmallows on top!
Peppermint Kiss Thumbprint Cookies
Make a drop sugar cookie scream christmas by adding red coloring and upside down red hershey’s kisses.
Peppermint Meltaway Cookies
via Cooking Classy
These pillowy soft sugar cookies are topped with cream cheese frosting and peppermint.
Peppermint Pattie-Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
via Taste of Lizzy T
These chocolate cookies are flavored with peppermint patties and filled with white filling.
Perfect Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
via Well Plated
Adding cream cheese to sugar cookies adds an extra touch of smooth. They can be cut into any Christmas shape you want.
Perfect Peanut Butter Cut-Out Cookie
via Sweetopia
These adorable snowmen can be made with a peanut butter dough.
Polar Bear Cookies
Use white frosting to frost these white polar bear cookies.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
via A Treats Affair
These pumpkin bars are filled with cream cheese filling.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
via Center Cut Cook
By adding pumpkin to a basic cookie you can make these simple, sugary cookies.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Snickerdoodles
Fill a delicious snickerdoodle with cream cheese frosting!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars
via Mom Endeavors
Take basic pumpkin cookie dough and cook in a cake pan to make these simple pumpkin bars.
Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies
Gingersnap cookies are the perfect mix of sugar and cinnamon and are especially delicious with the added pumpkin flavor
Pumpkin Pie Crumb Bars
via Cooking Classy
These Christmas cookies are filled with pumpkin flavor and have a crispy outer shell.
Pumpkin Pie Sugar Cookies
via Betty Crocker
By using sugar cookies as an outer shell and filling with pumpkin cookies, you can make these delicious cookies.
Pumpkin Spice Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Add cream cheese and cinnamon to these pumpkin cookies for a delicious christmas cookies.
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
via Food Folks & Fun
A twist on the classic whoopie pie by adding pumpkin cookies and cream cheese filling.
Pumpkin-Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies
via Cooking Classy
Basic pumpkin cookies are even better with chocolate chips and oatmeal.
Raspberry Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
via Land O Lakes
Make these delicious cookies by using shortbread and filling with raspberry filling.
Red Velvet Butter Cookies
via Chef in Training
Make these Christmas colored cookies with red velvet cookie dough and dusted with powdered sugar.
Red Velvet Christmas Cookies
via Butter with a Side of Bread
Take a new spin on the red velvet cookie but adding white frosting and Christmas sprinkles.
Red Velvet Cookie Sandwiches
Make red velvet whoopie pies by using red velvet cookies and white frosting filled with Christmas sprinkles.
Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
via Cooking Classy
Drop red velvet crinkle cookies on a pan and then dust with powdered sugar to make easy cookies.
Red Velvet Snowballs
Make Christmas snowballs by using red velvet cookie dough and dusting the outside with powdered sugar.
Red Velvet Sugar Cookies
via Cooking Classy
Use red velvet sugar cookies as a base for white frosting and christmas sprinkles
Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
Get another take on the Christmas whoopie pie with red velvet cookies, white cream cheese frosting and Christmas sprinkles.
Reindeer Poop Cookies
Make these cookies resembling reindeer poop by using cookie dough mixed with pecans.
Reindeer Sugar Cookies
Frost sugar cookies with little horns and colored noses to make adorable reindeer.
Rolo Double Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookies
via Living Locurto
Make double chocolate chip cookies with this basic cookie dough with a rolo.
Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars
Take cookie dough and top with caramel, apple and pecans.
Salted Caramel Turtle Thumbprint Cookies
via Cooking Classy
Make these easy chocolate thumbprint cookies by putting caramel in the middle and coating with nuts.
Santa Claus Cookies
via Taste of Home
Using nutter butters as a base, frost one side with white frosting and the other with red to make a cute santa.
Slice n’ Bake Christmas Tree Cookies
via Mom Loves Baking
Make these easy christmas tree cookies by using slice and bake dough.
Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Cookie Bars with Pumpkin Buttercream Frosting
Mix snickerdoodle with pumpkin and frost with cream cheese frosting to make these Christmas cookie bars.
Soft Baked Gingersnap Cookies
Make these gingerbread cookies with a little extra butter and a little less baking to make them soft and pillowy.
Soft Batch Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Coat these delicious soft cookies in Christmas sprinkles.
Soft Batch Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Make these soft pumpkin cookies and coat them in sugar.
Soft Pumpkin Cookies
These easy crinkle pumpkin cookies are even better when they are dusted with powdered sugar.
Sticky Toffee Pudding Cookies
via Cookies and Cups
Get away from the traditional christmas cookies by making these toffee, coffee, caramel cookies.
The Best Snickerdoodles
via Lil Luna
The best snickerdoodles are soft and coated with lots of cinnamon.
Thin Mint Oreo Cups
Homemade reese’s cups but mix it up by adding oreo and Christmas sprinkles.
Turtle Snickerdoodles
via Small Town Woman
Make simple snickerdoodles extra delicious with adding a pecan to the middle.
Twix Cookies
Make using sugar cookie dough as a base, caramel in the middle and chocolat on top you can make these twix cookies
Ultra Soft Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Use super soft sugar cookie dough coated with white ganache and topped with crushed candy canes to make these cookies.
White Chocolate Cranberry Crinkle Cookies
via 36th Avenue
These easy cookies can be made by using crinkle cookie dough and mixing cranberry in.
White Chocolate Dipped Ginger Cookies
via Cooking Classy
These ginger cookies are dipped in half white chocolate.
White Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies
via Brunette Baker
Make those christmas cookies by dipping peanut butter cookies in white chocolate and Christmas sprinkles.
White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Sugar Cookies
via Cooking Classy
These cookies are made by taking a sugar cookie and dipping it in white chocolate and red sprinkles.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These easy to make cookies are basic cookie dough filled with white chocolate and peppermint.
White Chocolate Peppermint Pudding Cookies
Add a soft touch to a white chocolate cookie by adding pudding.
White Chocolate Ting-a-Ling
These no bake cookies are pretzels and white chocolate.