Ignite holiday joy with these delectable Christmas cookies! A festive tradition in numerous homes, they add excitement for both kids and the young at heart during the holidays. Whether you prefer classic red-and-green treats or adorable cut-out cookies, there's a variety to spread the seasonal cheer! Share the love by gifting these Christmas cookies for a delightful homemade touch!
1. Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies
These gluten free Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make in one bowl with pantry staples. The result is a soft, chocolatey cookie with a sweet outside.
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2. Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These Gluten Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are perfect for holiday gift-giving and cookie exchanges. They are made with almond flour and have a fudgy, not too sweet flavor that everyone will love.
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3. Gluten Free Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
The holidays are right around the corner so why not share some love with someone special? These Gluten Free Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are sure to brighten someone's day. They are filled with a sweet, creamy buttercream and topped with holiday sprinkles.
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4. Linzer Sugar Cookies with Lemon Curd
Linzer Sugar Cookies with lemon curd are tangy and delicious! Sprinkled with powdered sugar, these easy Christmas cookies are ideal for cookie exchanges, holiday gift-giving, and hostess gifts.
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5. Hershey Kiss Cookies
These Hershey kiss cookies are too cute! They feature a soft baked chocolate cookie rolled in sugar. Then, a Hershey kiss is pressed into the middle. The end result is a chocolaty, rich and delicious cookie! They are festive for the Christmas holiday season, Valentine's Day, birthdays and more.
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6. Soft and Chewy Sprinkle Cookies
These soft and chewy sprinkle cookies are the perfect way to add a little extra colour and fun to your cookie tray this Christmas.
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7. Maple Snickerdoodles
These Maple Snickerdoodles have the great cinnamon flavor that everyone loves, with the yummy added bonus of maple syrup.
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8. White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
White chocolate peppermint cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie for holiday baking. These easy to make buttery shortbread cookies are dipped in rich white chocolate and topped with crushed peppermint candies.
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9. Chewy Amaretti Cookies
These Chewy Amaretti Cookies are one of the easiest recipes you will make. Containing just five ingredients, these delicious, simple cookies will be a welcome addition to your baking repertoire. They have a slightly crispy exterior with a chewy centre. They are naturally gluten and dairy-free.
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10. Cranberry Cookies
Cranberry Cookies made with nuts and fresh cranberries are so amazingly delicious. They are the perfect combination of sweet, tart, crunchy, and tender!
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11. Cut Out Sugar Cookies
The best cut out sugar cookie recipe. These cookies hold their shape and are perfect for buttercream frosting and sprinkles.
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12. Molasses Ginger Cookies
Classic old-fashioned Molasses Ginger Cookies made gluten-free. Perfectly crispy on the edges and chewy in the centers, these crinkly wonderfully spiced cookies are always a hit.
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13. Snowflake Cookies
These Snowflake Cookies are fun, festive, and so easy to make -- with no chill time required! Tasty sugar cookies are decorated with a classic royal icing and decorating sugar for the full holiday effect. Perfect for your holiday dessert table or cookie exchanges!
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14. Dried Fruit Cookies
Pleasantly soft, chewy and full of fruit flavours, these Dried Fruit Cookies are a perfect morning or afternoon breakfast! If you want to prepare easy and tasty cookies this Christmas or simply want to enjoy a special snack with your coffee or hot chocolate, I recommend you to try this recipe.
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15. Gluten Free Gingerbread Cookies
These gluten-free gingerbread cookies are dairy-free, too! They're made with gluten-free flour, coconut oil, and lots of ginger and cinnamon spices. These cookies are so easy to make and are perfect for Christmas baking!
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16. Peppermint Meringues
Ring in the holidays with festive peppermint meringues! This Christmas dessert is super easy to make. If you love Trader Joe's Peppermint Meringues, or these , you'll enjoy these too.
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17. Holiday Reindeer Cookie Treats
These easy holiday reindeer cookie treats make perfect Christmas treats for holiday parties. You don't need a long list of ingredients to make these Nutter Butter reindeer cookies and they're not difficult at all to prepare. Everyone is going to love these cute Christmas cookies with eyes and you're going to have fun making them.
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18. Frosted Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Frosted chocolate peppermint cookies are soft, cake-like chocolate peppermint cookies. These cookies are topped with rich chocolate buttercream frosting and crushed peppermint candy.
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19. Hot Cocoa Cookies with Marshmallows
Hot cocoa cookies are warm chocolate cookies topped with gooey marshmallows toasted in the oven. They're perfect for Christmas!
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20. Italian Cookies Canestrelli
These easy and pretty Italian cookies with flower shape are also very delicious! They look so elegant on the Christmas table and are the perfect edible gift for the holidays.
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21. Snowman Cookies
These snowman cookies are a gingerbread Christmas cookie, topped with a peanut butter cup, melted white chocolate and snowman sprinkles. They look like melted snowmen!
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22. Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies
Let's make festive and unique Christmas cookies this year that will wow your friends and family! Christmas tree meringue cookies will look amazing on your cookie trays plus they are tasty and really cute.
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23. Santa's Cookies (Red Velvet Christmas Cookies)
These stunning Santa's Cookies are bright red, packed with semi-sweet chocolate chips and mini marshmallows, and then topped with icing, crushed candy canes, chunks of cookie dough, holiday sprinkles, and more chocolate chips and mini marshmallows!
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24. Stained Glass Cookies
If you've never made stained glass window cookies before, this is the year you need to try. They're unique, pretty and so very festive!
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25. Almond Spritz Cookies
Try these melt-in-your-mouth almond spritz cookies this Christmas. Made with a little almond extract, these butter cookies are hard to resist! Use different cookie press discs to create various festive shapes and decorate with some holiday sprinkles.
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26. Easy Sugar Cookies
This is, without a doubt, the easiest and most delicious Sugar Cookie Recipe. This simple recipe makes versatile vanilla sugar cookie dough that is easy to roll and holds its shape while baked, giving you sharp, beautiful, defined edges perfect for decorating with your favorite homemade or storebought frosting.
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27. Eggnog Cookies
These eggnog cookies are warm, cozy and soft baked! They are topped with an eggnog icing. These cookies are so fun and festive for the Christmas holiday season. Only one mixing bowl and no dough chilling required. They are unique and so flavorful!
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28. Christmas Macarons
Create a beautiful and delicious holiday cookie with a macaron recipe and three festive buttercream flavors: gingerbread, eggnog and peppermint. You will have a stunning and festive cookie box!
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29. Old Fashioned Butter Cookies
Old Fashioned Butter Cookies are a Christmas favorite. These crisp yet tender buttery cookies are easy to make and are perfect for holiday gifting or bringing to a cookie exchange.
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30. Grinch Crumbl Christmas Sugar Cookies
Crumbl Christmas sugar cookies are wonderfully sweet sugar cookies with hints of almond and vanilla extract in every bite. This cute vanilla sugar cookie recipe is decorated with Christmas themed frosting and sprinkles, making them perfect for the festive season.
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