13 Holiday Cookie Recipes Perfect for Sharing
Discover 13 delightful holiday cookie recipes perfect for sharing with family and friends. Make your celebrations sweeter with these easy and festive treats!
These treats are perfect for gifts for friends and neighbors, easy to make for a cookie exchange and a delicious treat while wrapping gifts or watching a Christmas movie.
Our Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipes
When the Christmas season creeps up on us, as it always seems to do, I want to make sure I’ve got my list of cookies so I can head to the store and begin the baking bonanza.
We love gifting cookies (and eating them!) and these are a handful of our best recipes for making Christmas just a little sweeter.
1
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These delicious chocolate crinkle cookies are perfect with a cup of tea in the afternoon or with a glass of cold milk before bed.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
2
Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
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!
Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
3
Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle
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.
Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle
4
Santa Mickey Gingerbread Cookies
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.
Santa Mickey Gingerbread Cookies
5
White Chocolate Covered Oreos
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!
White Chocolate Covered Oreos
6
Eggnog Cookies
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.
Eggnog Cookies
7
Snickerdoodle Cookies
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!
Snickerdoodle Cookies
8
Peppermint Mocha Cookies
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.
Peppermint Mocha Cookies
9
Pecan Pie Cookies
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!
Pecan Pie Cookies
10
No Bake Edible Cookie Dough Balls Recipe
This no-bake cookie dough is so good and so easy to make! We’ve used Christmas sprinkles, but you can switch it up for any holiday! The best part is that you don’t even have to turn on your oven. We like easy!
No Bake Cookie Dough Bites
11
Soft Molasses Cookie Recipe
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.
Soft Molasses Cookie Recipe
12
Kentucky Butter Cookies
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.
Kentucky Butter Cookies
13
White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
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.
White Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
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