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These 20 Easy Homemade Christmas Cookies are our favorites and we hope that they become a favorite of yours too.
I have included a variety of cookies that you can make when doing your holiday baking. Whether you love chocolate, peppermint, or peanut butter, we have you covered!
Happy Holidays! I love the holidays and holiday baking, especially baking Christmas Cookies!
I have included 20 of our favorite easy Homemade Christmas Cookies that I think you’ll love.
Starting with cookies with lots of fun, yummy holiday add-ins, to cookies that are delicious on their own with no add-ins needed, to Chocolate based cookies, and finally variations on Peanut Butter cookies. With all these cookie recipes, you are certain to find some that you love.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Happy Holidays from our family to yours! Happy Baking!
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All of these cookies are tried and true and delicious. One of these recipes has resulted in many requests for me to sell the cookies. Can you guess which one it is?
Cookie Baking Tips
Before jumping right into the cookie recipes, let’s review a few important cookie baking tips to ensure you have perfect cookies every time.
- Use Fresh Ingredients. While this may sound like a no-brainer, when was the last time you checked the expiration date on your baking soda? Can’t remember? If it was last Christmas, then you may need to get a new box. Check the date on those eggs as well. A trip to the grocery store may be in order before starting your holiday cookie baking.
- Room Temperature. Does your recipe call for softened butter? Then be sure the butter is room temperature and soft but not close to melting. This is very important to get the right texture of the batter and the cookies. Softened butter allows more air in the batter which results in more fluffy cookies. However, if the butter is almost melted, then it will have the opposite effect. Take the eggs out when you take out the butter as well. This will result in the best fluffy texture of the cookies. This requires a little bit of planning but will be well worth it.
- Refrigerate The Cookie Dough. Some recipes call for refrigerating the cookie dough before baking. If your recipes does, don’t skip that step. Why? Because refrigerating the cookie dough before baking prevents the cookies from spreading too much. The refrigeration allows for the cookie to have the perfect shape and texture. If you skip the step, you may have extra thin, crunchy cookies.
- Prevent Cookies From Sticking. To prevent cookies from sticking to the cookie sheet, use either parchment paper or a silicon baking mat. While some cookies may still stick a little to the parchment paper, you won’t have that problem with the silicon baking mat. Cookies should slide right off.
Now that you are prepared with the necessary cookie baking tips, let’s get to the recipes. Here you go, our favorite 20 Homemade Christmas Cookies!
Christmas Cookies With Holiday Add-Ins
Cookies with No Add-Ins Needed
Chocolate Cookies For Christmas
Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
Bonus Recipe
Which cookie recipes will you be making? Which ones are your favorites?
Which cookie recipe is the fan-favorite on Flavor Mosaic? Year after year, Loaded Christmas Cowboy Cookies have been the most popular cookies on the blog. It is also the recipe that several people have been willing to pay me to make.
Check out the cookie baking tips, then select the recipes that you want to bake this holiday season, and have fun!
Please share the cookies that you made and who you made them with, or who you made them for! I look forward to hearing all about your Christmas cookie baking adventures!
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Mindee Taylor says
What a great “one stop shopping” for Christmas treats list!
Sara Welch says
Such a great round up for the holidays! Going to be giving some of these a try; will be great for gift giving this year!
Toni says
This is so good!! Homemade cookies are always the best!
Angela says
I am not sure which recipe to make first – my son votes for anything with peppermint. Thank you for all the great Christmas cookie ideas.
Andrea says
What an incredible list. I want to make them all and then eat them up. Might save some for gift giving.