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13 Holiday Cookie Recipes Perfect for Sharing

Cookies are the most popular dessert for every season, but especially over the Christmas holidays. They are perfect for gifts for friends and neighbors, easy to make for cookie exchanges, and a delicious treat while wrapping gifts or watching a Christmas movie.

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Chocolate crinkle cookies on a Christmas plaid tablecloth.
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Our chocolate crinkle cookies are so pretty, and their wintery pattern turns out perfect every time. These cookies have a slight crunch on the outside but are soft and chewy inside. They are the perfect holiday treat!

Get this recipe: Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies

Chocolate cookies with peppermint bits on a white plate in front of Christmas decor.
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Our recipe for these chocolate cookies with peppermint bits is so easy to make. The cookies are soft and chewy and the peppermint bits add crunch and Christmas flavor. These are delicious and fun to serve!

Get this recipe: Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies

Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle

Cookies studded with cranberries and drizzled with white chocolate on a wood board with Christmas decor in the background.
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Adding a drizzle of white chocolate to these cranberry cookies takes them to a whole new level. If you haven’t tried pairing white chocolate with cranberry, you’re in for a treat! Your family will love these flavors.

Get this recipe: Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle

Santa Mickey Sugar Cookies

Cookies decorated like Santa Mickey Mouse and candy canes placed on top of powdered sugar.
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Especially for Disney-loving kids, these cookies will be a huge hit. Shaped like Mickey Mouse and decorated for Christmas, these cookies are fun and delicious. The design was created after seeing similar cookies at Disney World.

Get this recipe: Santa Mickey & Candy Cane Sugar Cookies

White Chocolate Covered Oreo Cookies

White chocolate Oreo cookies with holly and berry sprinkles on a Christmas plate.
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This no-bake treat starts with Oreos and ends with a chocolate-dipped Christmas treat perfect for serving at holiday parties. These are so easy to make, and you can switch up the sprinkles to fit your style. Any way you make them, Oreos dipped in white chocolate are a decadent treat!

Get this recipe: White Chocolate Covered Christmas Oreos

Eggnog cookies

Eggnog cookies on a slate table with a red and white striped cloth in the background.
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Egg nog is one of the best parts of the holiday season, and we love it in recipes as much as we enjoy drinking it. These cookies are so simple to make and are flavored with creamy and delicious store-bought eggnog to make life easier.

Get this recipe: Eggnog cookies

Perfectly Crisp Snickerdoodle Cookies

Snickerdoodle cookies on wood board with cream cloth.
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Our recipe for Snickerdoodle cookies is the traditional classic version. These are so flavorful and perfect for gift-giving or cookie exchanges. Dip in a glass of cold milk for the ultimate Christmas treat!

Get this recipe: Crispy Snickerdoodle Cookies

Peppermint Mocha Cookies

Chocolate cookies dipped in white chocolate and peppermint crunch on a wood boards with peppermint candies.
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Peppermint and mocha are a match made in heaven! These cookies are so easy to make, and the dip in white chocolate makes them so festive. One bite and these will be your new favorite treat.

Get this recipe: Peppermint Mocha Cookies

Pecan Pie Cookies

Pecan pie cookies on plate with more in the back on cookie sheet on wooden table.
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Pecan pie is popular all season long, from Thanksgiving all the way until the end of the year. Once you’ve tasted these pecan pie cookies, we think you’ll agree they deserve a place on the dessert table all year long!

Get this recipe: Pecan Pie Cookies

Cookie dough bites with red and white sprinkles on a wood table.
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These cookie dough balls are a festive chocolate-covered bite of soft and chewy dough. A no-bake treat means they are super easy (and quick!) to make. Kids love this treat but adults can’t resist it either.

Get this recipe: No Bake Cookie Dough Balls

Soft Molasses Cookies

Iced cookies on a white plate with a stack of cookies and a bottle of milk in background.
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These old-fashioned iced molasses cookies remind me of the cookies my grandmother made. They are so simple to make but a classic cookie that never goes out of style.

Get this recipe: Soft Molasses Cookies

Kentucky Butter Cookies with Bourbon Glaze

Cookies spinkled with candy canes on a white plate in front of Christmas decor.
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Our recipe for Kentucky Butter Cookies is easy to make, but the bourbon glaze is so decadent it feels more like a full-fledged dessert and not just a simple cookie! These make great gifts for neighbors and friends. We like gifting them in a pretty Christmas tin.

Get this recipe: Kentucky Butter Cookies

White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

Cookies drizzled with white chocolate and candy cane bits on a marble table.
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These cookies have chunks of white chocolate throughout, and then they’re drizzled with more white chocolate. For chocolate lovers, these are a dream come true! Adding peppermint bits makes them festive and gives them a boost of Christmas flavor.

Get this recipe: White chocolate candy cane cookies

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