Christmas Cookie Recipes

Mrs. Claus' Candy Cane Ginger Snaps

These festive cookies contain three types of ginger--ground, fresh, and candied--plus other spices and a sprinkling of crushed candy canes.

Holiday Cookies

These cookies have holiday flavors of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. White chocolate, pecans and crystallized ginger puts them over the top.

Peppermint Chocolate Hugs

Chocolate cookie dough is formed into balls and a depression is made in each before baking. Peppermint butter cream is spooned in, and the cookie ...

Cheery Almond Cherry Sandwich Cookies

Cherry preserves sandwiched between two delicate almond flavored cookies.

Caramel Christmas Cookies

These spicy bar cookies are made with caramel, toffee, or butterscotch chips, plus macadamia nuts, and a little rum. (If you prefer not to use ...

Mom's Sugar Cookies

These cutout cookies stay tender by rolling between waxed paper and not working in any extra flour. Cut dough with desired-shaped cutters.

Nutmeg Cookies

The delicate flavor of nutmeg flavors these crisp, light cookies.

Double Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

Delicate chocolate cookies with hazelnuts and white chocolate chips.

Christmas Butter Balls

These melt-in-your-mouth favorites (also known as Mexican Wedding Cakes or Russian Tea Cakes) are rich in butter and flavored with mace.

Chocolate Crinkles 2

The dough for these cookies contains melted chocolate, granulated sugar, eggs and oil. It's chilled, then rolled in powdered sugar and shaped into balls before ...

Pumpkin Apple Butter Comfort

Apple butter and pumpkin take the place of fat in these moist and tender fruit cookies.

Cherry Maple Walnut Triangle Bars

A short bread crust filled with a cherries and walnuts, then dipped in white and chocolate candy coating.

Candy Cane Snickerdoodles

Chocolate cookie dough is twisted and formed into candy canes, then dipped in cinnamon-sugar for a Snickerdoodle flavor.

Soft Michigan Rocks

Soft and chewy cookies loaded with raisins, dates, walnuts and maraschino cherries.

Easy Sicilian Christmas Cookies

Delicate bar cookies filled with raspberry or fig jam, sliced almonds and a little brandy or rum.

Christmas Crackle

A dousing of butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips and nuts make this oh-so-simple dessert a special Christmas treat.

Gingerbread Biscotti

Biscotti is Italian for twice baked--producing a cookie that is crisp and perfect for dunking in coffee or hot chocolate.

Praline Congo Bars

Chocolate chip bars topped with crunchy pecan pralines.

Cinnamon Meltaway Cookies

Cinnamon, brown sugar and honey--these cookies will melt in your mouth.

Praline-Filled Sweet Potato-Coconut Thumbprints

Balls of dough are coated in coconut, baked, and a brown sugar and pecan praline mixture is spooned into the dent made in the cookies' ...

Yummy Xmas Cookies

A special treat your kids will love--crisp holiday cookies studded with colorful M & M's.

Pecan Butter Balls

Pecans are on the inside and the outside of these buttery-rich sandy-type cookies, flavored with vanilla.

Date-Filled Spicy Sugar Cookies

These special cookies have a cooked filling of dates, lemon, ginger and molasses that's sandwiched between thin layers of sugar cookie dough.

Orange Hazelnut Fingers in Chocolate

This chocolate dipped holiday cookie is rich and elegant. The exquisite marriage of hazelnut and chocolate in this tender cookie is reminiscent of a fine ...

Chocalate Espresso Christmas Cookies

If you like coffee, or even if you don't, this cookie should not be missed by anyone. The chocolate glaze is the perfect ending to ...