Best Christmas Cookies

These Christmas macarons look absolutely beautiful, don’t you think? I love anything sprinkled with crushed candy canes. This recipe makes 22 macarons, so it’s perfect if you’re planning on hosting a Christmas party with a dessert table full of festive and fun cookies and desserts.

You can’t go wrong with a batch of freshly baked triple chocolate chip cookies. This recipe is a real crowd-pleaser, and perfect for the festive season. These triple chocolate chip cookies would also make a lovely personal Christmas gift for someone you love.

Making Christmas gingerbread houses is so much fun but requires a little bit of skill. Simply Recipes shares lots of tips and tricks for creating your very own Christmas gingerbread house, that you can be proud of. Pick out what festive candy you would like your gingerbread house to have and start baking.

Turns out, adding crushed candy canes to your Christmas cookies is a VERY good idea. This is the perfect cookie recipe to share over the festive season. These Christmas Peppermint Meltaway Cookies are easy to make and are completely irresistible.

You don’t get more festive than Candy Cane Cookies! These sweet Christmas cookies are so much fun to make. Begin twisting the two long pieces of cookie dough together to create a cookie that resembles a candy cane shape, bake and serve. These cookies are the perfect shape to hang over the side of a mug of creamy hot chocolate, don’t you think?

Forget drinking hot chocolate this season and have a gooey hot chocolate cookie instead. Or, even better, have this perfect chocolate cookie with a mug of creamy hot chocolate. These festive cookies complete with a melted marshmallow on top will just melt in your mouth. They’re irresistibly delicious.

These Cherry Almond Shortbread Cookies have a soft and buttery texture and are topped off with a drizzle of sweet white chocolate. Cherry and almond are such a good flavor combination, making these the perfect festive cookies for Christmas parties and cookie exchanges. Be warned! These are dangerously delicious.

These Christmas Pinwheel cookies look like they just came straight from Santa’s grotto. Everything about these festive cookies screams “Christmas is here”! These strikingly, colorful pinwheel cookies are easier to make than you think and completely irresistible.

We can’t leave the Grinch out at Christmas.
Let’s make a batch of these gorgeous festive green Grinch cookies, complete with a heart that’s three sizes too small. To be honest, these crinkly-topped cookies bear a little resemblance to Mr. Grinch himself, don’t you think? The great news is that they only take 20 minutes to make.

How beautiful do these Christmas tree shortbread cookies look? These festive cookies are a little different from your usual shortbread cookies as they’re made with fresh minced rosemary. This literary sends the scent of the rosemary around the kitchen, making you think of warm Christmassy thoughts as you’re baking. Decorated with frosting and beautiful tiny sugar sprinkles that will wow your family and friends.

Sprinkling candy canes on homemade cookies is a must for the festive season. These delicious dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies are the perfect addition to any Christmas party. Chocolate and peppermint are such a lovely flavor combination, they’re perfect together.

This super quick and easy festive stained glass cookie recipe is made with simple ingredients and is ready in less than 20 minutes. They are beautiful classic Christmas sugar cookies filled with rock candy, to get that stained glass look. These would be a fun recipe to make with the kids to bring a little Christmas magic into the kitchen.

If you’re looking for a cookie with a bit of a twist, this is it. These Sea Salt Butterscotch Pretzel Cookies are both salty yet sweet and totally yummy. It’s love at first bite and perfect for the festive season. They also have chocolate chips, so it’s a win-win if you love chocolate chip cookies.

Coconut Macaroons are one of my favorite cookies to make. They’re soft, chewy, and simple to make. These classic coconut macaroons only require 5 ingredients and would be a great addition to any Christmas party.

Instead of making fruitcakes this Christmas, why not try your hand at these amazing fruitcake cookies instead? Fruitcake cookies turn classic Christmas fruitcakes into light and fruity festive bites.

Act quickly as these super cute melted snowman cookies are melting away fast. These cookies are so much fun to make with the kiddies this holiday season. You can easily make this Christmas recipe unique by swamping out the candy buttons for something a little different. This is a recipe you can have fun with and experiment with the decorations.

Almond Crescent Cookies are a must-have cookie this Christmas. They’re made with just a handful of ingredients and are easy to prepare too. Coating the cookies in the cinnamon and powdered sugar while they’re still warm allows the sugar to stick to the outside of the cookie creating the most fantastic texture. These are a little messy to handle, but they’re too irresistibly delicious not to eat.