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Christmas Cookie Recipes - Christmas Cookies

A big variety of Christmas cookies, including sugar cookies, spritz cookies, wreath and candy cane cookies, and more.

Snickerdoodles

These all butter snickerdoodles are the perfect cookies for a Christmas or holiday party or gathering. In this recipe, the cookies are coated with an egg wash before dipping them in the cinnamon sugar, making an yummy, slightly crusty exterior. Try this version of snickerdoodles!

Chocolate Christmas Cookies

These chocolate Christmas cookies are easy to make and shape into little butterballs, rolled in sugar or powdered sugar. Delicious chocolate Christmas cookies, makes about 5 dozen.

Chocolate Crinkles

Chocolate crinkles are baked with a powdered sugar coating, leaving a crackled look on these delicious chocolate cookies.

Festive Almond Coconut Shortbread Squares

Shortbread crust with a tasty coconut and candied cherry topping. These festive bar cookies with red and green candied cherries are perfect for the holidays.

Sugar Cookies

These old-fashioned sugar cookies are made with butter and shortening, along with sprinkles or icing, if desired. Cut and decorate for any occasion.

Cherry Ice Box Cookies

These refrigerator cookies are made with chopped candied cherries, pecans, and flavorings. Delicious icebox cookies made with butter and with chopped candied cherries.

Festive Almond Coconut Shortbread Squares

Shortbread crust with a tasty coconut and candied cherry topping. These festive bar cookies with red and green candied cherries are perfect for the holidays.

Iced Cranberry Orange Cookies

Tasty cranberry-orange drop cookies are made with butter, pecans, dried cranberries, oats, and other ingredients. Cranberry orange drop cookie recipe.

Cinnamon-Scented Christmas Shortbread

Buttery shortbread cookies are generously spiced with cinnamon and flavored with vanilla. Delicious cinnamon shortbread Christmas cookies.

Sugar Cookie Recipe - Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookie recipe, shared on our forum. Sugar cookies with vanilla and butter.

Raspberry-Filled Almond Cookies

Delicious filled almond cookies with raspberry jam and cream cheese cookie dough. These delightful cookies are made with a cream cheese cookie dough, rolled in coarsely ground almonds, and filled with a dab of seedless raspberry jam.

Christmas Wreath Cookies - Butter Cookie Wreaths With Candied Fruit Decorations

Butter cookie recipe, Christmas wreath cookies with candied fruit or nut decorations, or any candy decorations you like.

Fruitcake Balls Cookie Recipe - Fruitcake Cookies

Easy no-bake fruitcake balls, made with candied fruits, spices, graham cracker crumbs, and chopped pecans. Little fruitcake recipe with candied fruits.

Pecan Tassies - Cream Cheese Tart Cookies With Pecan Filling

These little pecan tart cookies are very popular for Christmas. Delicious pecan tassies with cream cheese cookie dough and a raisin pecan filling.

Sour Cream Cookies - Sour Cream Cut Out Cookie Recipe

This cookie dough makes great Christmas cookies. Cookie recipe - cut out cookies can be frosted or sprinkled with sugar or spices before baking.

Magic Cookie Bars - A Christmas Cookie Favorite

Favorite cookies for Christmas, Magic Cookie Bars. Always a hit, these cookies are made with butter, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, pecans, coconut, and sweetened condensed milk.

Florentines - Cookies With Cream, Almonds, and Chocolate Icing

Chocolate iced Christmas cookie recipe with almonds or hazelnuts and heavy cream, along with candied orange peel.

Corn Flake Macaroons - Corn Flake Cookies With Coconut

Easy corn flake cookies with almond and vanilla flavorings. Corn flake macaroons.

Secret Kiss Cookies - Chocolate Kiss Cookie Recipe

Secret kiss cookies are made with a butter cookie dough and chocolate candy kisses.

Cream Cheese Cookies - Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe for Christmas

Christmas cookies, a recipe for Cream Cheese Cookies, made with cream cheese, cereal, pecan halves, almond flavoring, and sugar.

Cream Cheese Crescent Cookies

Cream cheese cookie recipe with butter and sugar and flavorings, dipped in chocolate or vanilla.

Lemon Spritz Cookies Recipe - Cookie Press Lemon Cookies for Christmas

These lemon spritz cookies are a good Christmas cookies recipe choice for the holidays made with a cookie press.

Sand Tart Cookie Recipe - Christmas Sand Tarts

Sand tart cookies, a Christmas cookie baked with cinnamon sugar topping. Yummy holiday cookie recipe with cinnamon sugar topping.

Springerle - Springerle Cookies With Anise

Springerle cookies are made with anise, eggs, and sugar. A springerle cookie recipe, prepared with a springerle rolling pin.

Fruit Jewels Cookies Recipe

Fruit Jewels Cookie Recipe. These cookies are made with candied fruits.

Ribbon Cookie Recipe - Recipe for Ribbon Cookies with Chopped Cherries

Ribbon cookies are made with chocolate, candied cherries, and pecans. Ribbon cookie recipes are great for the holidays.

Christmas Cookies Recipe - Recipe for Christmas Cookie Cutouts

Christmas cookie recipe. These Christmas cookies are cut out and sprinkled with colored sugars.

Cookie Press Cookie Recipe - Cookie Press Cookies with Butter

Cookie press cookies with butter and shortening. Cookie press cookie recipe, also known as a spritz cookie.

Cherry Rum Balls

Made with crushed vanilla wafers, candied cherries, powdered sugar, butter, and other ingredients.

Cherry-Nut Cookies

Chopped nuts and maraschino cherries are among the ingredients in this refrigerator cookie.

Christmas Cookies

Christmas cookie cutouts are made with butter, vanilla, eggs, and other ingredients.

Christmas Lizzies

Butter cookies with chopped dates, cherries, candied fruits, pecans, and bourbon.

Christmas Sand Tarts

These sugar cookies are made with cinnamon.

Classic Shortbread

Buttery shortbread recipe with butter, sugar, and flour.

Fruit Jewels

Cookies with brown sugar, nutmeg, nuts and candied fruits. Great holiday cookies.

Fruit Nut Wreaths

Very pretty for the holidays!

Stained Glass Cookies

These stained glass cookies are made with oats, butter, and preserves for the "glass."

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