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Christmas Cookie Recipes

Satisfy your cookie cravings with these fun-to-make recipes that are perfect for the holiday season.

Royal Icing

A great icing recipe for decorating cookies for the holidays. Just add a drop of your favorite food coloring.

Christmas Cookies

A holiday tradition, these cookies will surely disappear quickly. A great recipe to get the kids involved.

Almond Butter Cookies

Cookie dough flavored with almond extract is formed into balls and pressed with a cookie stamp to make a design before baking.

Brown Sugar Shortbread

These 3-ingredient shortbread cookies are rolled into balls and then stamped with a cookie stamp before baking.

English Toffee

A crunchy confection of toasted almonds and caramelized sugar, topped with milk chocolate.

Butter-Nut Shortbread Bars

A buttery, nutty crust is the base for these spiced sugar-topped bars.

Peanut Butter No-Bake Bars

Peanuts and cereal are combined with a peanut butter mixture to make these no-bake treats.

Almond Macaroons

You just need 5 ingredients to make these crisp cookies-almond paste, sugar, salt, egg whites, and almond extract.

Buttery Oatmeal Crisps

Make these oatmeal cookies for a great afternoon snack or a holiday cookie platter. Oatmeal and chocolate make these cookies a favorite.

The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

Serve these classic sugar cookies as a dessert at you next get together. These cookies taste even better with icing on top.

Bethany's Powdered Sugar Cookies

Powdered sugar creamed with the butter gives a light tender sugar cookie. Ice with royal icing.

Ukranian Wedding Cakes

This version of an old favorite uses hazelnuts. Roll them in powdered sugar while still warm, then again when cool to coat them well.

Lemon Ginger Cookies

Spice up your cutout sugar cookies with lemon extract, cinnamon, and ginger. Spread cookies with a lemon icing or eat them plain.

Christmas Almond Swirl Cookies

These red-and-white swirled cookies are flavored with almond extract and sprinkled with green sugar crystals before baking.

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' ...

Coconut-Frangipane Tartlets

An almond and orange filling is combined in the food processor along with sugar, butter and egg, then spooned into coconut shells in little muffin ...

Caramel Cinnamon Bars with Meringue Glaze

These diamond-shaped bars are made with butter, brown sugar, egg yolks, cinnamon and honey liqueur. They're spread with a meringue, sprinkled with nuts and dusted ...

Cherry Chocolate Mint Cookies

These colorful drop cookies are simple to make. They start with a cherry cake mix and add eggs, oil, nuts and chopped mint wafer candies.

Berry Delightful Bars

These blonde brownies have colorful pieces of chopped fresh cranberries and plenty of crunchy walnuts.

Chewy Cran-Oat Bars

The cookie crust contains butter, brown sugar and rolled oats. Some of this is reserved to sprinkle on top of the filling, which has sour ...

Double Almond Thumbprints

These cookies are made with a dough that contains almond paste, egg whites, two kinds of sugar, and a small amount of flour. Each ball ...

Cutie Cookie Cones

These crisp cone-shaped cookies can be filled with sweetened whipped cream and served as a sweet appetizer or dessert. Dip edges in melted chocolate and ...

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.

Raspberry Bars

The crust and topper for these bars contains brown sugar, butter, flour and rolled oats, with a filling of seedless raspberry preserves that is spread ...

Dancing Black and Polar Bear Biscotti

These biscotti cookies are made with two colors of dough. The basic dough is divided in half; cocoa powder and white chips are added to ...

Buttercrunch Cookie Squares

Gramma's Christmas Cookies

Walnut Lime Coconut Chews

Fruit Cake Cookies

Granny Hubbard's Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs

Christmas Butter Balls


Chocolate-Spice Cutout Cookies

Choose whatever cookie cutter and icing color you like to make these crisp, spicy cookies.

Classic Gingerbread Cookies

What would Christmas be without gingerbread cutout cookies? These spiced classics are seasoned with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.

St. Nicholas Cookies

Plenty of spices flavor these traditional Dutch sweets. The crisp treats hold the shape of a cookie mold well.

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