35 Festive Cookie Recipes for the Holidays
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Today is National Cookie Day! What a dangerous day! It’s so close to the holidays that there are so many tasty cookies everywhere!
In other English-speaking countries, cookies are called “biscuits”. At first, it was a little confusing but I watch a lot of the Great British Baking Show so I learned to make the distinction. LOL
How can you celebrate this tasty day?
Get cookies from a bakery or bake cookies yourself!
If you want to bake, there are a bunch of cookie recipes from a variety of fabulous bloggers in this post. Even though these are holiday recipes, you can practice them now to get ready for later in the month.
Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies
Gingerbread crinkle cookies are a must-try during the holidays. They are chewy, full of ginger flavor, and coated in sugar with exposed cookie cracks.
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Secret Kiss Cookies
Secret kiss cookies have a hidden chocolate kiss inside! These cookies are the perfect dessert to make for Christmas cookie swaps!
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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
This delicious recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is a great way to get in the Christmas holiday spirit. They are a decadent mix of triple chocolate flavors with a minty kick from crushed candy canes on top. Great to bring to a cookie exchange or leave out for Santa.
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Pignoli Cookies
This easy recipe for Pignoli Cookies is the traditional way to make authentic Italian pine nut cookies. They are a soft and chewy cookie on the inside and have a slightly crispy texture on the outside. Perfect for the holidays!
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The Best Peanut Butter Cookies for Weight Watchers
Want something sweet without the guilt? Here's a lightened-up version of peanut butter cookies made with PB2, truvia and applesauce.
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Brownie Snowflake Sugar Cookies Recipe
These snowflake sugar cookies have all the flavor of a brownie with the crispy crunch of a good sugar cookie!
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Crème Brulée Gingersnap Cookies
This Crème Brulée Gingersnap Cookies recipe takes things to a new level of deliciousness and makes this cookie indulgent and rich, perfect for celebrating holidays! These are perfect for adding to a holiday spread or tucking into a cookie tray to share with someone special.
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Christmas Cookie Sticks Recipe
These easy Christmas cookie sticks call for basic ingredients that probably already have most of them in your pantry. This simple Christmas cookie recipe is perfect for cookie exchange parties or to give as gifts.
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Czech Kolacky
Czech Kolacky might be what's missing from your holiday cookie platter! Flaky, tender cream cheese pastry rounds are filled with poppyseed filling and dusted with powdered sugar. So good!
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Dulce de Leche Cookies
Dulce de Leche Cookies are a perfect marriage of rich, luscious, gooey caramel with crumbly, buttery cookies.
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Cookie Butter Cookies
The ultimate Biscoff cookie butter cookies. The perfect easy soft spiced cookies for the holidays!
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Small Batch Sugar Cookies
Perfect no spread sugar cookies. This small-batch sugar cookie recipe will make delicious buttery sugar cookies without surplus, leaving you plenty of room for all the holiday treats!
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Rainbow M&M Sugar Cookies
These thick and chewy sugar cookies are perfectly soft and filled with M&M candies. This recipe uses a bit of cream cheese to add additional flavor. It's everything you love about a sugar cookie, plus the addition of chocolate.
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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
The soft, thumbprint cookie provides a great vessel for the sweet and salty caramel sauce. Sprinkle coarse finishing salt on top for an extra beautiful garnish.
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Christmas Cowboy Cookies
These Christmas cowboy cookies are sure to be your new favorite Christmas treat. They’re the perfect cookie to bring to holiday parties or gift to neighbors and friends.
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Molasses Crinkle Cookies
These soft and chewy molasses crinkle cookies are full of flavor and have a perfect barely-there crunch on the outside. Perfect for fall and winter or a cookie party!
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Soft and Chewy Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
The best and easy Pumpkin Snickerdoodles cookie recipe made with pumpkin pie spice and pumpkin puree. They are quick and delicious.
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Christmas Sugar Cookies
These Christmas sugar cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough and topped with a simple and easy glaze.
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Hot Chocolate Cookies
These hot chocolate cookies are made with a delicious chocolate cookie that is topped with marshmallows and chocolate ganache.
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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
This delicious recipe for Chocolate Peppermint Cookies is a great way to get in the Christmas holiday spirit. They are a decadent mix of triple chocolate flavors with a minty kick from crushed candy canes on top. Great to bring to a cookie exchange or leave out for Santa.
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Christmas Tree Cookies
This easy shortbread recipe is the perfect way to make quick Christmas tree cookies that you can decorate in many different ways. The dough comes together with 3 simple ingredients and then is cut out into tree shapes to be baked and dressed up for the holiday spirit or turned into an edible 3D Christmas Tree farm.
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Red Velvet Cookies from Cake Mix
4 Ingredient Red Velvet Cookies are perfect for the holidays! They are super simple to make and are full of delicious, melty chocolate chips.
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Paleo, vegan and AIP gingerbread cut out cookies
These paleo, vegan, and AIP gingerbread cut-out cookies are deliciously crispy. With traditional flavor from molasses and spices, these cookies are the perfect treat for the holidays
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Funfetti Cookies
These Funfetti Cookies are everyone's favorite! Made with just 5 simple ingredients, these cookies are fun to make and eat.
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Cherry Christmas Cookies
Old-Fashioned Cherry Christmas Cookies can be made ahead of time and frozen until you’re ready to make them.
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Snowball Cookies
These delicious melt-in-your-mouth snowball cookies are easy to make and reminiscent of Christmas! They’re made without any nuts, so they’re perfect for anyone who wants a delicious, quick, and allergy-friendly cookie.
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Vegan White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
The perfect holiday cookie recipe that tastes just like Christmas! These Vegan White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are gluten-free, allergy-free, and full of dairy-free white chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candies! Easy and delicious, they're a fun addition to your seasonal cookie swap and dessert platters!
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Gluten-Free Anise Cookies
A traditional Italian cookie, these Gluten-Free Anise Cookies are so easy to make! They're vegan, allergy-free, flavored with anise extract, and perfect for your holiday cookie platter! Soft and aromatic cookies with a sweet, subtle licorice flavor and simple icing glaze with sprinkles! Anisette cookies are a classic Italian dessert you'll be making year-round!
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Soft Snickerdoodle Cookies
Soft Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe with golden, chewy edges and buttery, fluffy centers. Learn how to make everyone’s favorite gooey and delicious cinnamon sugar cookie recipe below!
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Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy, and filled with delicious fall flavors such as cinnamon, pumpkin, and vanilla. Loaded with chewy oats and gooey chocolate chips, these family-favorite Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies are easily the best Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies ever!
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Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies
Our gluten-free gingerbread men are no chills and so delicious! Perfectly sweet with just the right amount of spice, they are perfect for the holidays.
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Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies are THE BEST and easiest cookies ever. Keep a dough log in your freezer and slice and bake them as needed
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Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies
These Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies are the perfect Holiday treat. Made with classic ingredients and chilled before baking, you’ll never need another gingerbread recipe!
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Gluten-Free Holiday Sugar Cookies
These super easy, Gluten-Free Holiday Sugar Cookies are so fun to decorate and perfect for the holidays. The cookie glaze is so festive! These sugar cookies will be a family favorite for years to come!
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