50 Creative Christmas Cookie Recipes

These incredibly rich and tender pistachio shortbread cookies are baked with a dollop of cranberry orange sauce, then drizzled with vanilla icing, and topped with a crunchy sprinkle of roasted pistachios.

These are the BEST tasting frosted cookies I've ever eaten. Brown butter citrus shortbread is buttery, not overly sweet, and laced with the subtle flavors of orange, lemon, and lime.

The dark and white chocolate fondants are easy to work with, gorgeously glossy, and taste wonderful with the brown butter citrus flavored cookies.

Tender cream cheese dough and triple chocolate flavor make a crave-able combination in these delicious holiday cookies.

This easy, no-fuss bar cookie recipe resembles a holiday wreath, is not overly sweet, and makes the perfect addition to the dessert table at any Christmas gathering.

Christmas Funfetti Cookies are super soft and chewy, bursting with the flavors of butter and vanilla, and packed with Christmas funtetti sprinkles. The perfect holiday recipe for those times when you want something uncomplicated, delicious, and fun, fun, fun.

These creative and simple Christmas cookies are made from white-fudge-covered Oreos and look like cute little melting snowmen.

Buttery shortbread cookies flavored with white chocolate and malted milk powder filled with delicious halva buttercream and drizzled with white and dark chocolate. 

Who knew that gingerbread, Nutella and lime make such a great trio? These flavors really do perfectly balance each other in this delicious holiday cookie.

Gingerbread Yule Log Cookies are a unique addition to any holiday baking tray and something that will stand out from the usual shortbread and lemon square suspects.

Cranberry Orange Swirl Cookies are a tasty little sugar cookies that are perfect for the holidays. Fresh cranberries and orange zest flavor the cookie dough and the filling, ensuring a deliciously flavor-packed cookie.

Brownie-like chocolate crinkle cookies sandwiched together with homemade marshmallow that's piped onto the cookies while still warm. These cookies are chewy, fudgy, soft and gooey, with crispy brownie edges.

Make decorated Christmas cookies with this no-fail recipe for cut-out cookies and royal icing. The cookie recipe cuts out and bakes beautifully without changing shape, and the icing dries well enough for handling, freezing, and shipping, but it tastes delicious.

Is there any flavor more emblematic of the holidays than peppermint? These peppermint sugar cookies are full of bright colors and bright flavor, and tailor-made for the Christmas season!

Sticky bun, meet Rugelach! A twist on the traditional Jewish cookie, these rugelach are filled with caramelized nuts and topped with streusel and drizzled with sweet caramel.

Hello chocolate lover. Meet your new favorite cookie. Buttery chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with a dollop of peppermint spiked hot fudge.

These Oatmeal Rolled Sugar Cookies are an old-fashioned cut-out sugar cookie recipe with a chewy twist thanks to the addition of rolled oats and almond extract. We love them frosted with buttercream frosting and topped with colorful sprinkles!  

These little chewy Gingersnap Cookies are all about sugar and spice, and everything nice. They are sweet little two-bite treats, bursting with Christmas spices, and positively addicting.

These colorful Diwali Cookies with delicate and ethnic designs are truly drop dead gorgeous. Elevate your holiday cookie spread with something colorfully different this year!

This easy recipe for Chocolate Eggnog Cookies combines the flavors of creamy eggnog with the rich sweetness of chocolate in one pillowy soft bite! A drizzle of eggnog icing makes them look extra pretty on a Christmas dessert tray but is totally optional. 

Learn how to make stunning stained glass cookies with this detailed tutorial! Perfect for holiday cookie exchanges or hanging on your tree.

Biscotti (delicious twice baked Italian cookies) packed with fresh cranberries, roasted almonds, a hint of orange, and dipped in dark chocolate. A smattering of Christmas sprinkles are fun, but optional.

This Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe is fun to make and delicious to eat. Use pretzels, mini chocolate chips and M&Ms to create your own Rudolph cookies!

Peppermint Sugar Cookies are a fun and festive treat for any holiday table, cookie exchange, or given as an edible gift. Made with basic sugar cookie dough, with the addition of dark chocolate and crushed peppermint candies, they are super easy to make!

These Eggnog Linzer Cookies will be the hit of the holiday cookie platter! With a delicious eggnog icing sandwiched between two eggnog cookies, these make a delightful holiday treat.

These Peppermint Christmas Wreath Cookies are wonderfully festive and so easy to make. Peppermint flavored sugar cookies can be decorated any way you like with peppermint flavored icing.

Involve the kids and tap into your creative side to decorated these fun, slightly crispy, holiday cookies.

These Vegan Christmas Cookies are studded with pistachios and cranberries and then shaped into festive raspberry linzer cookies! Easy to make using common pantry staples.

Everyone loves a surprise, and that is what you get with these tasty buttery-almond flavored Christmas Surprise Inside Cookies with a fudge middle layer. Rolled in red, green, and white sprinkles these are the ultimate Christmas cookies. Seriously, who can resist cookie cuteness?

The classic combination of chocolate and peppermint make these Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies the perfect treat for the holidays!

Grinch shortbread bites are melt in your mouth little cookies that will help your inner Grinch grow a heart three sizes bigger at least.

They are simple to make, so you won’t shrink your heart two sizes too small trying to make them either.

These Santa cookies are so adorable, so tasty and great to make with your kids! With their buttery flavor, chocolate eyes and frosted beards, they’ll stand out at any Festive party.

Hands down the yummiest Christmas cookies to come down your chimney!

If you’re collecting cookie recipes, and looking for something unique and delicious, these naturally sweetened Maple Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies are going to be a huge hit!

They’re made with granulated maple sugar, ground hazelnuts and have a dollop of pure maple cream in the center of each! The best part is they can be made ahead and frozen!

This figgy pudding Christmas cookie has all of the flavors of a traditional figgy pudding in a bite-sized, adorable Christmas cookie.  It's the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray.

Soft, fudgy and crunchy, these Juniper Berry Spiced Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies have so much going on, but they are so easy to make, and have a unique bittersweet, chocolatey, nutty, floral flavor profile!

If you like the chocolate and hazelnut flavor combo (think Nutella), you’ll find these cookies absolutely addictive!  

Peppermint Sugar Cookie Whoopie Pies are an easy, sweet, fun festive dessert made with frosting between two sugar cookies and rolled in crushed peppermints.

These Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups made with sugar cookie dough are filled with hot chocolate ganache, have a pretzel handle and mini marshmallows on top!

Cheerful Snowman Meringue Cookies are crunchy, airy, melt in your mouth treats. Place in a mug of hot chocolate to make a melting snowman!

Pretty cookies are so fun to gift at the holidays. These Finnish apricot pinwheel cookies are simple to create and look wonderful when gifting. Use apricot jam or plum preserves which is traditionally used. Either way these cookies will be a hit!

Christmas Wreath Cookies are perfectly beautiful & super easy to make. They are full of spices and decorated with cranberries, white chocolate & pistachios.

If you haven’t tried kifli cookies, then you are sure in for a treat! I hadn’t had them either until I made this batch but after hearing stories about how incredible these cookies were, I knew I had to give them a shot. 

This kifli recipe that been passed down through the family for generations and is actually authentic.

Homemade carrot jam is a unique addition to classic thumbprint cookies, and believe me, it’s delicious! 

Festive and bright, these Poinsettia Cookies are a perfect way to celebrate Christmas and winter. Cherry flavored Jell-o cookies shaped like the classic flowers will be a hit!

These warmly-spiced cardamom orange paleo shortbread cookies are dipped in orange-cardamom chocolate for a decadent treat. Made with almond flour, coconut oil, and coconut sugar, this shortbread recipe is, gluten free, vegan, and paleo.

Secret Kiss Cookies are soft, cake-like morsels with rich chocolaty flavor. Baking in a mini muffin pan gives these treats their distinctive round shape, perfect for hiding a candy kiss inside.

This Maple Pecan Potato Chip Cookies Recipe features a deliciously balanced salty/sweet flavor profile and is easy to make! They’re perfect for any time of year, and are a fun addition to a festive holiday cookie tray.

These delicious little chocolate shortbread cookies have a surprise chocolate kiss in the center. These are especially great cookies to bake with young children. The dough is a simple shortbread requiring only a handful of ingredients, and rolling it around a chocolate kiss is a fun and easy task for small hands.

Instead of wearing ugly Christmas sweaters to the party, have your guests decorate and eat them!

These elegant German Hazelnut Cookies filled with hazelnut meringue and chocolate chips are a traditional German Christmas cookie that is served all through the holiday season. 

Did you know you can use avocado in place of oil in baked goods? These double chocolate cookies use avocado instead of oil for a deliciously fudgy texture.

These vegan rocky road cookies are soft, chewy and chocolatey. They’re filled with mini marshmallows, chunks of digestive biscuits and dairy-free white chocolate chips. They’re perfect for sharing and would make a delicious edible gift.

Raw gingerbread cookie bites are tasty, easy to make and kids love them! If you are a fan of gingerbread, you will love these raw cookie bites. Gluten-free, dairy-Free, Paleo-friendly, Vegan.

These easy to make Mini Meringues with Salted Caramel & Dark Chocolate in the perfect candy size are just the treat you need. Sweet and crispy with just a hint of salt - you won't be able to stop at one, or ten... Great on their own - as well as on top of ice cream and other desserts.

Chai Tea Shortbread Cookies are crisp, buttery, richly spiced, and laced with vanilla bean; they’re the perfect fall treat with a cup of tea!