34 of the Best Christmas Cookie Recipes.

I’m sharing my very best Christmas cookies to bake this season! This list is big, cozy, and filled with my family’s favorite Christmas cookies—plus cookie bars and a few festive homemade candies, too. Below are the classics we all know and love: my fat Santa cookies, Christmas monster cookies, updated favorites, extra-festive frosted gingerbread cookies, and those salty–sweet chocolate pretzels everyone goes crazy for. It’s holiday-cookie central! These recipes are perfect for cookie boxes, gifting, sharing with family and friends, or enjoying warm with a cold glass of milk or a mug of cocoa.

We’re less than two weeks out from Christmas, and the holiday parties, last-minute shopping, and cozy traditions are in full swing. If you can’t tell, I’m excited! And I have zero shame in bringing allll the cheesy, festive holiday energy everywhere I go.

I am that girl spreading Christmas Cheer… and sharing the BEST Christmas cookie recipes too.
It truly makes me so happy!

After more than ten years of creating holiday cookie boxes, I’ve shared countless cookie recipes. At this point, I feel like a cookie-box specialist—and I’m still SO excited to keep creating magical boxes you can find inspiration through.

I’ll be sharing my 2025 cookie box next week, so today I’m rounding up some of our tried-and-true Christmas favorites. The list is big, sweet, nostalgic, and honestly just so cute.

Enjoy! And please let me know what cookies you’re baking this holiday season!

All the Christmas Cookies!

4.64 from 1296 votes

Christmas Monster Cookies

Festive, easy, and sweet…these cookies are perfect for packing up and gifting for the holidays!

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4.50 from 6 votes

Gingerbread Reindeer Cookies

Flip each gingerbread man upside down to create the sweetest reindeer that are even more delicious to eat!

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4.55 from 22 votes

Chocolate Pretzel Toffee

Each piece has a salty chocolate bite with just the right amount of crunch – perfect for eating and gifting!

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4.15 from 1109 votes

Jolly Santa Cookies

Fun to bake, delicious to eat, a great homemade gift, and a festive addition to your holiday cookie box!

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4.11 from 387 votes

The Santa Clause Cookies.

Fun to bake, delicious to eat, a great homemade gift, and a festive addition to your holiday cookie box!

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4.68 from 396 votes

Soft Gingerbread Latte Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

A cross between a really great soft, chewy gingerbread cookie and a delicious steaming gingerbread latte!

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4.46 from 244 votes

Vanilla Hot Chocolate Molten Cookies

These taste like your favorite mug of creamy vanilla hot chocolate…perfect to bake, share, and gift!

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4.36 from 814 votes

Easy Vanilla Bean Christmas Lights Cookies

Fun to bake, delicious to eat, amazingly flavorful…a festive add to your holiday cookie box!

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4.26 from 436 votes

Salted Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter Blondies

Start with melted butter and creamy peanut butter. Add some brown sugar and plenty of vanilla extract. Then add flour and a handful of semi sweet chocolate chips, stir everything up in one bowl (yes stir). Seriously so easy.

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4.13 from 843 votes

Salted Caramel Pretzel Snickerdoodles

For your holiday cookie baking. Crispy edges, soft and gooey centers…with just a little pretzelly crunch.

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4.71 from 24 votes

Salted Pretzel Praline Cookies

Slightly crisp on the edges, soft and gooey in the center with a little salty pretzel crunch and sweet pralines!

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4.42 from 67 votes

Chewy Christmas Snickerdoodles

Made with browned butter, holiday M&M's, pretzels, chocolate chips, and chunks of dark chocolate…so yummy!

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4.49 from 25 votes

Vanilla Brown Sugar Eggnog Cookies

The perfect Christmas sugar cookies – with a whimsical feel plus yummy flavors!

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3.89 from 1647 votes

Hot Chocolate Lace Cookies 

Fun to bake, delicious to eat, a great homemade gift, and a festive addition to your holiday cookie box!

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3.94 from 601 votes

Easy Slice ‘n’ Bake Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookies w/Whipped Buttercream.

These delicious treats are for people who want to have fun making cookies, 

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4.30 from 24 votes

Salted Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Truffles.

Although these truffles may sound like they could potentially be a bit of work, they’re actually very simple. Everything gets made in one pot, then you roll, dip in chocolate and eat till your stomach is full of chocolatey, caramel goodness. Yup. That’s the way you do it.

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4.74 from 319 votes

Chewy Frosted Cinnamon Swirl Snickerdoodles

With pockets of butter cinnamon swirl and sweet cream cheese icing – delicious Christmas Cookies!

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3.95 from 17 votes

Frosted Gingersnaps

Crisp, gingery, and lightly frosted, these snow dusted gingersnaps are the sweetest holiday cookie to bake this season – simple, festive, and so delicious!

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4.11 from 388 votes

Vanilla Ginger Wreath Cookies

So easy to make, so pretty, and are so especially delicious. Be sure to include these cozy winter cookies in your holiday boxes!

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3.83 from 140 votes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Crinkle Cookies.

These cookies are the bomb. And by that I just mean SO FREAKING DELICIOUS. Covered in chocolate, rolled in peanut butter, and doughy in the center, yum and YUM.

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4.56 from 127 votes

Chocolate Espresso Thumbprint Cookies.

Chocolate cookie with chocolate coffee ganache…too good! 

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4.38 from 1194 votes

Brown Butter Chewy Maple Brown Sugar Cookies

Generously glazed brown sugar cookies with a sweet, thick, and creamy maple glaze that melts in your mouth!

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4.45 from 80 votes

Easy Milk Chocolate and Vanilla Oatmeal Lace Cookies

Fun and easy to bake, even yummier to eat, great for gifting, a festive addition to your holiday cookie box!

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4.30 from 10 votes

Frosted Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Blondie Bars

Chewy brown butter blondies layered with cinnamon sugar and topped with cozy apple cider frosting. Perfect for fall baking and gifting!

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3.77 from 13 votes

Vanilla Pecan Snowball Cookies

Sweet, nutty, and snowy-soft—these vanilla pecan snowball cookies are a must-bake this holiday season. So simple, nostalgic, and delicious!

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4.99 from 62 votes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Millionaire Bars

Similar to a classic Millionaire Bar but with a sweet, creamy peanut filling…so delectable!

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3.81 from 557 votes

Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffle Brownies

Package for gifting, or serve for Christmas dessert…simple to make and guaranteed to be hit!

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4.17 from 104 votes

Eggnog Frosted Chai Snickerdoodle Snowmen

Made with a simple cookie base, I used a little cream cheese in my dough to keep the snickerdoodles extra soft and doughy. I then rolled each dough ball in my homemade chai sugar and placed one smaller dough ball on top of a larger one to create a snowman. Simple, fun & delicious!

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4.33 from 267 votes

Chewy Chocolate Ginger Molasses Cookies

These cookies are soft, chewy, filled with molasses and a good amount of ginger, plus sweet and chocolatey…basically they’re just all things perfection.

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5 from 12 votes

Christmas Puppy Chow

The easiest dessert to mix up with zero baking required…it's the perfect treat to package up in a cute box or tin!

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4.34 from 6 votes

Easy Decked Out Christmas Tree Cookies

Easy Decked Out Christmas Tree Cookies: The perfect Christmas cookie to make with kids and a festive addition to your holiday cookie box!

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4.70 from 30 votes

Chocolate Covered Espresso Pretzels

Kind of like your favorite holiday latte, but with a salty pretzel crunch!

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4.33 from 360 votes

Brown Butter Christmas M&M Cookie Bars

Slightly crisp on the edges with soft and gooey centers. Christmas cookie perfection and super easy too!

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4.88 from 8 votes

Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Sugar Pretzels.

I officially bow down to these pretzels. They are that good!

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Lastly, if you make any of these 40 Christmas Cookie Favorites for the Season, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And, of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!