Here are some of the most show-stopping Christmas cookies we have ever seen. With clever ideas and doable recipes, all of these are sure party pleasers!
1. Peppermint Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

These fudgy, minty, delicious cookies are easier to make than they look!
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2. Christmas Lights Cookies
A classic sugar cookie with candy decorations that look just like festive light strands, these gorgeous Christmas light cookies will be the star of any holiday cookie spread!
3. Florentines
This recipe for Florentines yields delicately lacy, crisp cookies with a nutty caramel flavor and a hint of vanilla. A little dark chocolate is the perfect finishing touch.
4. Christmas Cake Mix Cookies
Christmas Cake Mix Cookies are soft, chewy and absolutely delicious! These quick and easy cookies are festive in red and green, perfect for the holiday season!
5. Cocoa Spritz Cookies
Flower-shaped spritz cookies with a chocolate cookie centre are perfect for drinking with a warm cup of tea or coffee in the morning. They make a homemade treat to share with friends during the holiday season.
6. Christmas Sugar Cookies
Christmas Sugar Cookies are made with roll out sugar cookie dough and whatever cookie cutters you prefer. These sugar cookies are wonderfully soft and amazing flavor.
7. Chocolate Sugar Cookies with Chocolate Raspberry Filling
These Chocolate Sugar Cookies sandwich a chocolate ganache and raspberry filling. ‘Tie’ a ribbon around the cookie package to turn these filled sandwich cookies into darling little ‘presents.’
8. Pizzelle Cookies
Pizzelle cookies are delicate and crisp Italian waffle cookies flavored with anise. Make this Italian cookie recipe for delicious holiday pizzelles!
9. Christmas Mitten Sugar Cookies
These Christmas mitten sugar cookies are both beautiful and tasty! They’re guaranteed to bring a smile to all your recipients or stand out on the holiday party table.
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10. Christmas Peanut Butter Blossoms
Christmas Peanut Butter Blossoms – Soft, homemade peanut butter blossoms with chocolate kisses decorated like Christmas trees. They’re the perfect addition to your holiday cookie tray.
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11. Melted Snowman Cookies
These adorable little snowmen are quick and easy to make, and they're a fun project for baking with the kids. You can even cheat and use store bought cookie dough for these!
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12. Stained Glass Cookies
Stained Glass Cookies are Christmas cookie showstoppers! Gorgeous and eye catching, the buttery sugar cookies are filled with a thin layer of edible candy "stained glass" making ornament-worthy treats that everyone will love.
13. Gluten-Free Cherry Pie Cookies
These festive gluten-free cherry pie cookies give you all the flavor of a cherry pie in bite-size cookie form. A tender melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookie topped with sweet cherry pie filling - these cookies are so easy to make!
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14. Christmas Tree Cookies
These adorable Christmas tree cookies are easy to make, and a lot of fun to decorate! If you want to make special holiday 3-D cookies this year, give these Christmas Tree Cookies a try.
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15. Chocolate and Ginger Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate and ginger create a simple but special sweet: fragrant, aromatic, delicate. They are simple, economical, and delicious treats, and they have chocolate!
These are the cookies I'm adding to my must-make list this year. Get the recipe here.
16. Classic Linzer Cookies
These delicious little jam cookies are a traditional favorite. These are another great choice for baking day with the kids, because cutting out those tiny shapes and assembling sandwich cookies is just plain fun.
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17. Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups
This Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups recipe is absolutely the cutest thing. Chocolate cookie cups with candy cane handles are filled with peppermint ganache. The whole precious little concoction is then topped with crushed candy canes and mini marshmallows, for the perfect effect.
If I were judging the cookie swap, these would take home the blue ribbon. Just sayin'.
18. Christmas Tree Thumbprint Cookies
These Christmas Tree Thumbprint Cookies are a fun holiday cookie that everyone will love.
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19. Christmas Oreos
These Christmas Oreos dipped in Belgian Chocolate are adorable! Everyone will fall in love with all the whimsical details of these cookies!
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20. Christmas Candy Cane Macarons (Vegan)
These vegan candy cane macarons are perfect for Christmas! Filled with peppermint buttercream and decorated with crushed candy cane pieces, these are a delicious allergy-friendly dessert that can be enjoyed by all.
Get the recipe here.
21. Peppermint Hot Chocolate Cookies
For all your hot chocolate lovers out there, these peppermint hot cocoa cookies will automatically become your new favorite Christmas cookie!
After all, nothing is better than a mug of warm peppermint hot chocolate on a cold winter day!
22. Biscoff Linzer Cookies
Move over generic sugar cookies, and make way for these Biscoff linzer cookies! The combination of the spiced cookie butter spread and buttery and tender almond cookies is so delicious!
These minimalist Rudolph cookies are super cute but simple and easy to make, and perfect for Christmas!
23. Gingerbread Macarons
These Christmas macarons taste just like traditional gingerbread, but in a form of a macaron! Crispy, ginger-flavored shells are filled ginger buttercream, then topped with white chocolate drizzle and festive sprinkles.
Get the recipe here.
24. Festive Sugar Cookie Blossoms
These Festive Sugar Cookie Blossoms are rolled in sugar and topped off with a sugar cookie kiss!
25. Snowman Meringue Cookies
Cheerful Snowman Meringue Cookies are crunchy, airy, melt in your mouth treats. Place in a mug of hot chocolate to make a melting snowman!
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Anna Chesley
Anna Chesley is a freelance writer living a homestead lifestyle, with a special love for family travel, old books, vintage skills, and seaside living. In addition to founding Salt In My Coffee, she runs the website, New England Family Life, as well as The 1800's Housewife, a website devoted to re-creating authentic 1800's recipes.
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