Whether you’re looking for simple and delicious, or for crowd-pleasing favorites, these 50 Christmas cookies recipes are sure to get your creative juices flowing! Feeling ambitious? You can use one recipe each day in December! Well there’s a little bit more than that, so why not try to get two different cookies in each day! There’s nothing wrong with that right?! I am going to try my hand at my mom’s cherry cookies. They are amazing!’
Every holiday season, my mom always had the best Christmas Cookies Recipes. She would make these “cherry cookies” that were short bread cookies with candied cherries and pecans in them. They were slightly sweet and crisp, but the candied cherries were chewy and sugary sweet. It was probably one of the best Christmas cookie recipes that I remember from my childhood.
Now fast forward thirty some odd years later, and I am making my own Christmas Cookies Recipes for my family. I think my kids favorite is my Butterscotch Cookies of Awesomeness. They have Bailey’s Irish Cream in them (don’t worry the alcohol burns off) and creamy butterscotch chips. Let’s just say those bad boys flew off of the plate! You can get the recipe in this post too!
Drunken Snickerdoodles (made with RUM!)
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Santa’s Whiskers Cookies
Amazing Thumbprint Cookies
Snowball Trees
Cake Batter Fudge
Snowman Cookies
Santa Sugar Cookies
Rum Balls
Salty Sweet Butterscotch Cookies
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate Cherry Thumbprints
White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread
Salted Chocolate Caramel Rounds
Dark Chocolate Amaretto Macaroons
Bailey’s Irish Cream Butterscotch Cookies
Do you have any special memories about Christmas and your favorite holiday cookies? What’s your favorite holiday cookie recipe?
Want more fun things to do this holiday season? Check out these great Christmas Craft posts too!
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Heather says
We’re always looking for new cookie recipes. Thanks!
Crunchy Frugalista says
You’re welcome. I love Christmas cookies!
Kelly R says
Thank you for the recipes, I have such wonderful memories of baking with my mom as a little girl, I now bake with my daughter..
Crunchy Frugalista says
That’s such a great tradition Kelly. I am sure your daughter loves it!
Hollyn says
Wow!! These look amazing! I can’t even decide which ones I want to try!
Thank you for putting this together!
Crunchy Frugalista says
You’re very welcome. It’s always good to have some to choose from 😉
angela says
Great roundup! Thanks for including mine. 🙂
Crunchy Frugalista says
You’re very welcome, Angela. It was a great recipe!
Tara says
Now, if I could only get someone to bake these for me, I’d be set!
Crunchy Frugalista says
If you find someone, make sure to send them to my house too!
Becky says
Thanks for including a recipe from Mrs. Claus’ Cookbook! 🙂