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20 Easy Homemade Christmas Cookies

20 Best Homemade Christmas Cookie Photo Collage Pin

20 Easy Homemade Christmas Cookies

BY: Michele
PUBLISHED: Dec 8, 2021
UPDATED: Dec 27, 2021
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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.
Angela
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5-photo collage pin with a red label with the title in white text in the middle, 20 easy christmas cookie recipes.
20 Best Homemade Christmas Cookie Photo Collage Pin

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!

20 Best Homemade Christmas Cookie Photo Collage Pin

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!

Jump to:
  • Cookie Baking Tips
  • Christmas Cookies With Holiday Add-Ins
  • Cookies with No Add-Ins Needed
  • Chocolate Cookies For Christmas
  • Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies
  • Bonus Recipe
  • ⭐ Reviews

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

Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies
Christmas Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies, with Buttercream Icing, are colorful, sweet, buttery shortbread thumbprint cookies, covered in red and green sprinkles and topped with either red, green, or white buttercream frosting!
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of red platter with shortbread thumbprint cookies covered in red and green sprinkles with red green and white buttercream frosting on a marble counter with a red napkin, glass of milk and red and green sprinkles in the background. A few cookies are placed in front of the platter.
Christmas M&M Cookie Bars
These festive Christmas M&M Cookie Bars are magic cookie bars with red and green M&M candies that are a perfect addition to your holiday baking list.
Check out this recipe
Cranberry Orange Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Cookies are soft, sweet, slightly tart, nutty cookies, with dried cranberries and orange zest, and will be a favorite on your Holiday cookie tray.  
Check out this recipe
Cranberry Orange Cookies
Loaded Christmas Cowboy Cookies
Loaded Christmas Cowboy Cookies are oatmeal cookies with white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, red and green chocolate chips, dried cranberries, coconut, and pecans.
Check out this recipe
Cowboy Cookies {with M&M and Pretzels}
These Cowboy Cookies are similar to my popular Loaded Christmas Cowboy Cookies except I have added Christmas M&Ms and crushed pretzels to the coconut and pecans!  These sweet, chewy cookies are sure to become a favorite for your holiday baking list!
Check out this recipe
Confetti M&M Cookies
These fun, colorful, festive Confetti M&M Cookies are as sweet and delicious as they are pretty, yet very easy to make! They are a must for your holiday baking list!
Check out this recipe
Confetti M&M Cookies - a fun, colorful, festive cookie that is as sweet and delicious as it looks.

Cookies with No Add-Ins Needed

Molasses Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Molasses Crinkle Cookies, AKA Molasses Crinkles, are soft, thick, spiced molasses cookies, covered in powdered sugar, and are delicious for the holidays or any day!
Check out this recipe
A Dozen Molasses Crinkle Cookies on a baking rack over a dark wood background with red and white bows and greenery in the background.
Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe
Mexican Wedding Cookies, AKA Russian Tea Cookies, are butter pecan shortbread cookies coated in powdered sugar that melts in your mouth with sweet buttery goodness.
Check out this recipe
plate with about a dozen Mexican Wedding Cookies covered in powdered sugar and with a few pecan halves sprinkled on the plate, with 3 white vases and a teal napkin in the background.
Eggless Sugar Cookies Recipe
Eggless Sugar Cookies are thick, soft, sweet, buttery drop sugar cookies made without eggs, but taste like the old fashioned sugar cookies you remember as a kid.
Check out this recipe
A white plate with lots of thick sugar cookies stacked in a pile on top of the plate.

Chocolate Cookies For Christmas

Peppermint Kiss Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Peppermint Kiss Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are yummy chocolatey, minty cookies that are perfect for any Christmas Cookie tray.
Check out this recipe
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies Recipe
Incredibly soft and chewy, and covered in white chocolate with crushed peppermints, these Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are everything you could ever dream for in a holiday cookie recipe. Made with chocolate cake mix and pure peppermint extract makes them extra soft, flavorful, and oh so simple to enjoy.
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of chocolate peppermint cookies dipped in white chocolate and covered with crushed peppermint pieces.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies are chewy delicious cookies that use a base recipe for chocolate chip cookies and adds white chocolate chips and cranberries instead. These should definitely be on your holiday baking list.
Check out this recipe
German Chocolate Cookie Cups
German Chocolate Cookie Cups are easy, delicious cookie cupcakes with a chocolate cookie crust with a coconut pecan filling with chocolate chips  that makes a wonderful dessert.
Check out this recipe
German-chocolate-cookie-cups
Mini M&M Chocolate Cookies
Mini M&M Chocolate Cookies are easy to make and fun to eat for dessert or an after school treat.
Check out this recipe
Cookies and Cream Cookies Recipe
Cookies And Cream Cookies, also known as Oreo Cheesecake Cookies, combine Oreos and cream cheese to make a sweet, chocolatey cookie recipe that is sure to become a family favorite!
Check out this recipe
Close up of stack of cookies and cream cookies and the cookie on top has a bite taken out of it.
Dark Chocolate Chunk Walnut Cookies
Dark Chocolate Chunk Walnut Cookies are soft and thick and have chunks of dark chocolate, and chopped walnuts.  
Check out this recipe

Peanut Butter Christmas Cookies

Peanut Butter Snowballs Recipe
Peanut Butter Snowballs are a no-bake peanut butter candy with crunchy graham crackers and covered in decadent white chocolate coating that is decorated with Christmas-colored sprinkles. These make a wonderful holiday sweet treat!
Check out this recipe
A white player with Peanut Butter Snowballs covered in multi-colored sprinkles.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These awesome Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are loaded with creamy peanut butter and chocolate chips for an awesome chocolate peanut butter flavor combination.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Best Old Fashioned Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies
Best Old Fashioned Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies are simple homemade peanut butter cookies made with no eggs but taste just like the classic peanut butter cookies you remember from your childhood.
Check out this recipe
Best Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies combine our two favorite cookies, peanut butter cookies, and oatmeal cookies, into one awesome cookie that is crisp on the edges and soft in the middle.
Check out this recipe

Bonus Recipe

Shortbread Chocolate Christmas Cookies
These Shortbread Chocolate Christmas Cookies are buttery shortbread sandwich cookies are filled with semi sweet melted chocolate to form sandwich cookies which are then fully coated in melted white chocolate! Drizzle colored chocolate over these Christmas shortbread cookies with festive sprinkles or sanding sugar and you’ll have a fight on your hands to keep them from disappearing!
Check out this 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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Hi, I’m Michele Feuerborn, wife, and dog Mom, with 20+ years experience as a home cook. I’m the Founder of Flavor Mosaic, as well as the author, recipe developer, and photographer. I share fast, easy, flavorful recipes with bold flavors, featuring Instant Pot recipes and Southern and Mexican cuisines.

Comments

  1. Mindee Taylor says

    December 8, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    What a great “one stop shopping” for Christmas treats list!

    Reply
  2. Sara Welch says

    December 8, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    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!

    Reply
  3. Toni says

    December 8, 2021 at 1:59 pm

    This is so good!! Homemade cookies are always the best!

    Reply
  4. Angela says

    December 8, 2021 at 2:19 pm

    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.

    Reply
  5. Andrea says

    December 8, 2021 at 3:20 pm

    What an incredible list. I want to make them all and then eat them up. Might save some for gift giving.

    Reply

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