Look no further for all your holiday baking needs. Here I’ve put together 30 Great Christmas Cookie Recipes that will tick all the boxes. From no bake, to bar cookies, cut out cookies, easy cookies you can make with kids and much more. Let’s get the baking started.
No Bake Cookies
No bake Cookies are always a great addition to any Christmas cookie platter. No bake cookies are cookies that require no baking at all. Often, no bake cookies need to be refrigerated for them to set.
No Bake Chocolate coconut Bars
If you love Bounty Bars, you'll love these No Bake Chocolate Coconut Bars. With only three ingredients and no baking, they are also fun to make with kids. The perfect holiday treat to add to your festive sweets platter.
Winter White Chocolate Truffles. These white chocolate ones using Lindt chocolate and the secret ingredient of Cointreau are Christmas decadence at it's finest.
Why not dress up some regular rice krispie treats for the holidays. These Christmas Rice Krispie Treats can easily be a last minute addition to a cookie plate through the holiday season. Using just a few basic ingredients and no baking required!
Traditional Newfoundland Snowballs, it wouldn't be a holiday without them. A no bake coconut chocolate treat that freezes great. Make them and freeze them for later.
These four ingredient Chocolate Pecan Cranberry Clusters would look great on a holiday cookie tray. A combination of semi sweet and milk chocolate makes the perfect combination mixed with sweet dried cranberries and pecans.
Filled Cookies are often know as thumbprint cookies. These kind of cookies have a small hole in the center of the cookie that you fill with jam, chocolate, ganache or anything else you might like.
Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies
You need to put these Dulce de Leche Thumprint Cookies on your must bake list! A soft buttery cookie that's filled with rich and creamy dulce de leche A great cookie to make in advance and keep on hand for those sweet cravings.
Whipped Shortbread is an absolute Christmas classic It used the basics, butter, sugar and flour with a cherry on top! These cookies are melt in your mouth and light as air.
Rolled Cookies are simply cookies where the dough is rolled into a ball before baking. Drop Cookies are cookies that you simply scoop onto a baking tray with either a spoon or cookie scoop.
Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Make these Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies to add to the festivities this year. Dark chocolate cookie filled with milk chocolate chunks and absolutely irresistible.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside and just a little bit crispy on the outside. The perfect combination. Think brownies! These cookies would make a great addition to any Christmas cookie platter, as an edible gift or just to eat by yourself!
Continuing the Christmas cookie trend today with these super easy Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies. They are put together in no time at all and freeze really well. They have a nice sweetness from the cranberries and a crunch from the walnuts. A great cookie to add to your Christmas baking.
Mascarpone often gets overlooked in baking in favour of the more popular cream cheese.ย Butย it's adds a bit of a sophisticated touch and a subtle flavour that's feels a bit more grown up.ย Add pistachios and you've got yourself an exotic Christmas cookie!
These Soft Ginger & Cinnamon Cookies are a great make ahead and freeze cookie. A crisp exterior and a chewy soft center filled filled with ginger and cinnamon flavours. A great addition to a Christmas cookie platter.
These Oatmeal Macadamia Nut Cookies are make a great snack any time of the year. A biscuit type cookie filled with oats, macadamia nuts and a touch of cinnamon spice. A great make ahead cookie that freezes well for the holidays.
Cut Out Cookies are cookies that are made out a rolled out dough that is then cut into shapes before baking. This dough often needs to be chilled before baking.
Buttercream Topped Sugar Cookies
You can never go wrong with basic Sugar Cookies.ย They are a Christmas classic that everyone needs to make at some point.ย So for Day Seven of the Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies, that's what I'm sharing.ย And today I'm going over all the tips to get these basic cookies just right!
Shortbread is an absolute Christmas classic. And these Chocolate Drizzled Shortbread cookies are a great alternative to those. A crisp buttery cookie, drizzled with dark chocolate and topped with festive sprinkles.
These Christmas Star Cookies are my basic Sugar Cookie recipe just done with glaze and decorated into these pretty little stars.ย This is a recipe I have been making since the beginning of time and it is a no fail Christmas favourite with the kids.
Shortbread is a classic Christmas favourite for many, me included. And this variety with dried cranberries and a drizzle of white chocolate gives them a bit of an extra festive touch. Make This Cranberry & White Chocolate Shortbread and you won't be disappointed.
This Christmas Crack Recipe is one you'll need to make this holiday season. An easy recipe using saltine crackers, butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips and sprinkles. Together, these simple ingredients create the perfect crisp, caramel and chocolate confectionery.
These Chocolate Macaroon Brownies are a prefect combination of sweetened coconut and a chewy brownie. If you haven't finished off your Christmas baking, it's not too late to add them to the list!
Today marks the finale of The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies.ย And I couldn't think of a better send off than with these Cherry Cake Squares.ย A dense sweet cake filled with chopped maraschino cherries.ย The perfect Christmas treat.
I combined two of my kids' favourites and came up with these.ย It's what you get when you cross a Cream Cheese Brownie with a Chocolate Chip Cookie!ย They are more-ish and would make a great addition to any festivities this December.
Add a touch of decadence to your holiday cookies with these Maple Walnut Bars. A shortbread base topped with a creamy maple filling stuffed full of walnuts.
These Partridgeberry Crumble Squares are a traditional Newfoundland treat that I've always enjoyed at Christmas. A sweet cookie base, topped with tart berry jam and topped with a crumble mixture. Perfect with a cup of tea!
These Lamingtons are a fantastic cake square. A wonderful spongy vanilla cake covered in chocolate and rolled in coconut.ย A perfect addition to any Christmas cookie plate.