Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes

Baking

Brown Butter Shortbread Cookies

A brown-butter twist on French sablés, with toasted sugar and malted milk powder for extra richness and complexity.

Cookies

Cocoa Butter Cookies With Chocolate Chips

Fragrant, chocolaty, and rich (but just a little playful, too).

Nuts

Hazelnut Cookies With Milk Chocolate

Soft and chewy hazelnut cookies with a light drizzle of milk chocolate.

Baking

BraveTart's Cookies 'n' Cream Cookies

A scoop of cookies 'n' cream in...cookie form?

Pastry

Crispy Lemon-Ginger Sandwich Cookies

Crunchy lemon-ginger cookies with a refreshing creme filling.

Pastry

Homemade Fig Newtons

Fig cookies that taste as cakey and soft as you remember.

Cookies

BraveTart: Quick and Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

A fast and easy recipe for old-school chocolate chip cookies.

Cookies

BraveTart: Homemade Oreo Cookies

Chocolate and vanilla, together forever.

Stovetop

No-Bake Cookies With Chocolate, Peanut Butter, and Chewy Oats

Simple, fast, and foolproof.

Cakes

Homemade Biscoff (Belgian Speculoos Cookies)

How to make the world's best caramelized biscuits.

Shortbread Cookies

E.L. Fudge-Style Chocolate and Vanilla Sandwich Cookies

Cookies so good, they're almost magic.

Dairy-Free

Vegan Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits

A vegan twist on chocolate digestive biscuits.

Baking

Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits (McVities)

Sweet whole wheat crackers, covered in your favorite chocolate.

Desserts

Malted Chocolate Chip-Pecan Cookies

Cookies for the malt fanatic.

Shortbread Cookies

Easy Mexican Wedding Cookies

These nutty shortbreads are quick, easy, and meltingly tender.

Cookies

Rolled Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Bake them crisp and golden or keep them soft and pale: These sugar cookies are perfect for care packages and holiday gifts alike.

Cookies

Lofthouse-Style Frosted Sugar Cookies

Cakey-cookie lovers, unite!

Nuts

PB&J Sandwich Cookies

The classic sandwich, cookie-ized.

Chocolate

Homemade Star Crunch

No-bake cookies made from gooey caramel, creamy milk chocolate, and crunchy rice.

Pastry

Alfajores Con Cajeta (Vanilla Shortbread With Goat's-Milk Toffee)

Crisp-tender cookies with a gooey milk-candy filling.

Lemon

Lemon Meltaways

These cookies are like a cross between lemon shortbread and cotton candy.

Cookies

New-Fashioned Snickerdoodles

These snickerdoodles have crispy edges and chewy middles, with a rich and tender crumb beneath their shimmery crusts.

Cookies

The Best Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons

Chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outside, coconutty all the way through.

Desserts

Snowball Cookies

Buttery and nutty and melt-in-your-mouth tender.

Desserts

Easy One-Bowl Oatmeal Cookies

Thick and chewy oatmeal cookies with crispy edges and butterscotch-y middles.

Cookies

Moist and Chewy Lebkuchen (German Spiced Christmas Cookies)

These classic German Christmas cookies are rich with warm spices, toasted nuts, and candied fruit, with a cakey, chewy texture and a sweet, crackly glaze.

Desserts

The Best Gingersnaps

With two types of ginger and a dose of molasses, these cookies are earthy and spicy.

Cookies

Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies

These old-fashioned sugar cookies bake up soft and chewy, but lightly crisp around the edges.

Gluten-Free

Gluten-Free Snickerdoodles

Tender and buttery, with a crisp crust and a cinnamon-sugar sweetness.

Desserts

Sweet and Salty Stout Marshmallow Bars

Salty snacks replace the rice cereal in this chocolaty spin on a childhood classic.

Chocolate

Salted Dulce de Leche Brownies

Fudgy brownies topped with generous dollops of homemade dulce de leche and crunchy sea salt.

Sandwiches

Waffled Almond Sandwich Cookies

These buttery, lightly sweet almond cookies take a beautiful shape in the waffle iron.

Desserts

Chocolate-Covered Caramel-Filled Shortbread Cookies (a.k.a. Homemade Twix)

This recipe replicates the familiar flavors of Twix, but with high quality dark chocolate, buttery homemade caramel, and crisp, flavor-packed shortbread cookies.

Almonds

Cherry-Honey Blondies With Marcona Almonds

These rich blondies are flavored with honey, studded with dried cherries, and topped with salty, crunchy Marcona almonds. They'll satisfy fruit and nut lovers alike.

Cookies

Candied Almond Chocolate Chip Biscotti

If you're looking for an extra crunchy biscotti with updated flavors, give this chocolate chip and candied almond version a try.

Chocolate

Dark Chocolate Cashew Sea Salt Cookies

Cashews add a mildly nutty flavor and depth to these cookies, while allowing the dark chocolate to reign.

Cookie Monster

Fiori di Sicilia Cookies

Pillowy ricotta cookies are scented with Fiori di Sicilia, a fragrant blend of citrus extracts.

Almonds

White Chocolate Cherry Almond Biscotti

White chocolate, cherries, and almonds make these dessert-worthy biscotti.

Cookie Monster

Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy peanut butter cookies with dark chocolate chips.

American Classics

Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch Squares

These peanut butter cereal bars topped with chocolate are a surefire crowdpleaser.

Cookie Monster

Brown Butter Bourbon Cookies

These cookies marry the flavors of brown butter, pecans, and bourbon.

Appetizers and Hors d'Oeuvres

Whole Wheat Sables With Za'atar

French butter cookies topped with za'atar for a unique savory-sweet snack, perfect to pass around with wine.

Coconut

Gluten-Free Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Gluten-free cookie bars with coconut and chocolate chips get their nutty caramel flavor from browned butter.

Cookies

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy chocolate chip cookies with crisp edges, a rich, buttery, toffee-like flavor, big chocolate chunks, and a sprinkle of sea salt.

Chocolate

Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms

A holiday take on the traditional blossom cookie: a cakey chocolate cookie with a festive peppermint Kiss.

American Classics

These cookies are a hybrid of a classic Italian and a classic American treat. They're soft and chewy like a really good sugar cookie, but with more than a hint of pucker from lemon juice, zest, and extract.

Desserts

Crispy Brown Sugar Shortbread

With brown sugar for sweetness and turbinado sugar for crunch, this shortbread is crisp, yet rich, and can be cut into any holiday shape you like.

Chocolate

Chocolate Peppermint Snowflake Cookies

Chocolate and peppermint, all dressed up for the season.

Cookies

Peppermint Brownie Cookies

These fudgy, cakey cookies are perfect for those of us who love brownies but perhaps don't trust ourselves around a full unguarded pan.

Cookie Monster

Cranberry Chocolate Walnut Brickle

There's a reason that brickle is also called 'crack'—this stuff is crazy addictive.

Cookies

Butterscotch "Salty Oat" Cookies

Crunchy salt crystals and butterscotch chips make these oat cookies really special.

One Bowl Baking

Chewy Brown Sugar Cookies

Warm and chewy brown sugar cookies really hit the spot, and in only 30 minutes.

Nuts

Peanut Butter Oat Cookies With Salted Honey Buttercream

Thick and chewy peanut butter oat cookies with a salted honey butter cream filling.

Nuts

Hello Dolly Bars

Coconut, chocolate chips, pecans, and a graham cracker base.

Nuts

Olive Oil Pistachio Biscotti

These cookies pair fruity olive oil with earthy pistachios to make a salty-sweet treat.

Candy

Bourbon Balls

Buttery chocolate-covered bourbon balls with pecans are a perfect holiday treat.

Cookies

Soft Chocolate Molasses Cookies

These cookies are beautifully cracked, crunchy around the edges, soft and chewy in the middle, and full of deep, caramelized flavor from the addition of molasses and chocolate.