This weekend I plan to bake A LOT of cookies and so in preparation for my cookie baking marathon, I thought I’d make a list of my all time favorite Christmas cookie recipes that I’ve shared here on the blog over the years.
Some, like gingerbread and snickerdoodles are more traditional for this time of year, and others, well they’re just too good not to add to the line up. After all, if I plan on spending all day in the kitchen baking, I might as well go big or go home, right? 🙂
So here’s to sweet and productive weekend, and warm kitchen to boot. 🙂
~Mavis
P.S. If you have a favorite cookie recipe you’d like to share, please leave a comment. I love trying new recipes!!
Traditional Holiday Favorites
More Traditional Favorites
Oldies But Goodies
- The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Creamy Peanut Butter Cookies
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies {Crazy good!}
- Sugar Cookies
- Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Not Your Average Cookie
- Chewy Reese’s Stuffed Monster Cookies
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread Squares
- Salted Chocolate Pretzel Bark
- Pretzel Cookies with Chocolate & Peanut Butter Chips
- Cornmeal-Cranberry Cookies
- Meyer Lemon Cardamom Crinkle Cookies
- S’mores Cookies
- Amoretti Cookies
- Soft and Chewy Coconut Cookies
- Chocolate Pistachio Tea Cookies
Nougat, Brittle and Other Fun Stuff
- Cashew Cranberry Brittle
- Microwave Cinnamon Peanut Brittle
- Chex Muddy Buddies
- Homemade Cherry-Pistachio Nougat
You Can find more cookies recipes HERE.
Lynne says
These all look yummy, but I could probably get by at my house just making chocolate chip cookies – they are regarded as a food group unto themselves here. But my holiday favorite came from the lady who lived in the garden apartment in my grandmother’s Brooklyn brownstone in the 1950s – shortbread cookies. I think of Miss Coleman every time I bake these. Simplest recipe ever – 4 c flour, 1 lb butter, 1 c firmly packed light brown sugar. Combine all into a dough, roll out to about 3/8″ thick, cut out with cookie cutters (or a small glass), decorate with colored sugars and/or sprinkles. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown.
Rosnemary Calhou says
Our family favorite is the Italian Love Knot Cookies. They are a doughy kind of cookie – not too sweet. My kids would be devastated if I didn’t make these cookies at Christmas! The recipe was handed down to me by my aunt. I put the ingredients and directions on my blog.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks says
Hi Rosemary. The Love Knot cookies look good! What is their size and how many does the recipe make as written? That looks like a LOT of little knots! Thank you for posting the recipe.
Rosemary Calhoun says
The cookies are about 1.25-1.5 inches wide and the recipe makes about 6-7 dozen cookies. The photo of the cooked cookies on the blog contain more than one batch – sorry if that was misleading. The day I took those photos, I think I made about 5 batches of those cookies (about 30 dozen).
Rosemary Calhoun says
PS: I changed the last photo on the blog to show the baked cookies. I hope it gives a better idea of the quantity (about 7 dozen) and size of the cookies.
KC says
Gotta have fudge; 3 cups chocolate chips (the better chocolate you put in, the better fudge you turn out; I like guittard 63%); 1 can sweetened condensed milk; pinch salt; 1 tsp vanilla. Prep a surface with foil (cookie sheet or 8*8 pan). Melt chocolate and condensed milk and salt together gently in the microwave; once most of the chips are melted, stir in vanilla. For plain fudge, spread it in the pan; to split, have ingredients at the bottom of large bowls already waiting, stir some of the fudge into each and spatula each out into the pan; to make our favorite trio, do rocky road (nuts and mini marshmallows) in one and orange zest plus partly rehydrated dried cranberries in another.
Chill; cut; devour. (but keep the leftovers sealed in the fridge for best results)
Mel says
I might be skipping cookies this year, but our favorites are sugar cookies, molasses spice crinkles, chocolate chip pretzel cookies, Christmas crack, homemade oreos, and I few others I’m probably forgetting. I also usually make an eggless slice and bake kind for a friend who is allergic to eggs.
Rita says
It’s not Christmas without Swedish Coconut Cookies. My husband’s great-grandparents were Swedish immigrants, but sadly this isn’t an old family recipe. I stumbled upon it when I was looking for egg free cookie recipes, since my daughter is allergic to eggs. Instead of rolling into a log and chilling in the refrigerator for 2 hrs, I scoop them out with my cookie scoop onto parchment lined baking sheets and chill them for 20-30 minutes then bake as directed. Not only do they taste great, but they look lovely on your cookie plate.
https://www.landolakes.com/recipe/20056/swedish-coconut-cookies/
Mavis Butterfield says
I LOVE coconut cookies!! Thanks for the link Rita.
Kirsten says
It wouldn’t be Christmas in our house without Pfeffernusse cookies and Stollen bread! We follow the recipes in the Joy of Cooking cookbook.