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40 Popular Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes

11-photo picture collage of cookies which include peanut butter blossoms, shortbread peppermint kiss, s'more chocolate chip cookies, cranberry bliss bars, meltaway cookies, gingersnaps, no-bake cookies, and hello dolly bars. The text of the title is overlaid and centered on the photo collage.

 40 Popular Classic Christmas Cookies

Start your Christmas baking this season with these 40 Popular Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes. There is a Christmas cookie for everyone on this list–gingersnap, peppermint kiss, sugar, chocolate chip, gluten-free, thumbprint, and more.

These cookies are perfect for exchanges, family, coworkers, and neighbors. One of the things that makes this the most wonderful time of the year is the joy of Christmas cookie baking and sharing them with others. 

If you’re looking to elevate your Christmas cookie plates this year, make The Best Pfeffernusse Cookies, a German cookie full of warm spices; and/or Biscochitos, a flaky Mexican shortbread cookie. They both have a surprising ingredient that you would not normally find in a cookie, but they only enhance the flavor of them. These cookies fall in the category of “bet you can’t eat just one.” Soooo good!

Spread some holiday cheer this season with this festive list of cookies.

Cookies with Ground Ginger

Cookies laid out in a half circle on a white plate. Cookies are brown.Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
A white dessert plate stacked with German Pfeffernusse cookies. Under the plate is a red and white patterned table runner with red fringes on the border.The Best Pfeffernusse Cookies
large pumpkin chocolate chip cookies on a white plateThe Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Shortbread Cookies

a small white plate with amazing meltaway cookies on it. There is a grey tablecloth in the picture as well.Amazing Meltaway Cookies
A white plate full of Mexican Shortbread Cookies. A hand is held above the plate holding a half eaten cookie. In the right upper background is a cup of cinnamon sugar.Biscochitos (Mexican Shortbread Cookies)
Holiday Snowball Cookies {Mexican Wedding Cookies w/out Pecans}
Frosted Lemon Meltaway Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies on a white plate. A grey kitchen towel is wrapped around the left side of the plate.Thumbprint Cookies
A plate salted caramel crush squares with the squares stacked on top of each other.Salted Caramel Crush Bars

Peppermint Cookies

A hand holding a peppermint kiss cookie above more peppermint cookies and Peppermint Hershey Kisses all sitting on a crumpled brown paper.Shortbread Peppermint Kiss Cookies
A large blue plate with a dark blue border filled with white chocolate peppermint cookies with white chocolate chips and peppermint pieces surrounding the plate.White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
The Best Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies stacked on a white plate with a white and blue squared striped pattern kitchen towel above it. In the bottom left corner is a partial picture of two candy canes.The Best Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
A stack of three white chocolate peppermint pretzel cookie bars surrounded by twist pretzels and small candy canes.White Chocolate Peppermint Pretzel Cookie Bars

Cranberry Cookies

White chocolate chip Craisin cookies sitting on a cooling rack.Best Ever White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
A piece of cranberry bliss bars on a white plate with a fork about to take a bite. Extra craisins on and around the plate for decoration.Cranberry Bliss Bars
A dark blue Polish Pottery plate with white polka dots filled with cranberry orange oatmeal cookies and dried cranberries scattered around the plate. A half of an orange is in the upper right corner and bottom left corner.The Best Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Heart-shaped sugar cookies frosted and decorated sitting on a black wire cooling rack.Easy Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
The-Best-classic-Snickerdoodle-Cookies-1The Best Classic Snickerdoodle Cookies
Knockoff Swig Sugar Cookies
a sheet pan covered with a silpat. the cookie sheet also has a dozen old fashioned sour cream drop cookies on it. the cookies are frosted with pink frosting.Old Fashioned Sour Cream Drop Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting

A cooling rack with soft and fluffy sugar cookies.Soft and Fluffy Sugar Cookies
Jello Sugar Cookies {Leprechaun Bait}

Peanut Butter Cookies

rows of chocolate kisses on top of sugar rolled cookies on a black cookie rackPeanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Better-Than-the-Bakery-Peanut-butter-M&M-Cookies-recipeBetter than the Bakery Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
A plate with small swirling dark blue pattern filled with Classic Peanut Butter Cookies.Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
A white polka dotted dark blue plate of square-cut monster cookie bars with m&ms and chocolate chips surrounding the plate.Monster Cookie Bars

Swig Cookie Bars

A white plate with a stack of three sugar cookie bars stacked on top of each other with a bite out of a corner of the top bar. Faded in the background are more cut frosted sugar cookie bars. Overlaid at the bottom is the text "reallifedinner.com"Swig Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe
Toasted Coconut Swig Sugar Cookie Bars in a glass 9x13 dish cut into 15 squares.Toasted Coconut Swig Cookie Bars
Pinterest picture with the text of the title overlaid on the photo at the top.Reese’s Swig Cookie Bars
Lemon-Swig-Cookie-Bars-4Lemon Swig Cookie Bars

Chocolate Chip Cookies

A plate of S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Hershey bar in the upper left corner and mini marshmallows scattered around the plate.S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies
A hand holding a partially broken chocolate chip cookie above a white plate full of cookies.Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
A partial picture of Shanna's amazing chocolate chip cookies sitting in a white rectangle dish.Shanna’s Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies
A plate full of easy almond flour chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chips scattered around the plate.Easy Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last, but Not Least...

a white plate with three homemade oreos on it. They are stacked like a pyramidHomemade Cake Mix Oreo Cookies
Stacks of soft and chewy toffee cookies on a wire cooling rack.Soft and Chewy Toffee Cookies
sheet pan of no bake cookies on parchment paperClassic No-Bake Cookies
A hand holding a hello dolly bar with a bite taken out of it, and a plate of the bars in the backgroundHello Dolly Bars

Cooling rack of delicious Heath bar Pudding cookiesHeath Bar Pudding Cookies
12 triple chocolate cookies on a wire cooling rack.Triple Chocolate Cookies

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