50 Amazing Christmas Cookie Recipes - Perfect For Your Christmas Cookie Exchange

Christmas Cookies

Whether it be cookies for Santa or an amazing collection for the holiday cookie exchange. There is something to be said about enjoying homemade holiday cookies. Discover 50 amazing Christmas cookie recipes perfect for the beginner baker, the family baking evening or the homemaker at heart.

Holiday Cookie Exchange

I think there is something great about a Christmas cookie exchange. At a holiday cookie exchange you bring a large batch (a predetermined number of dozen cookies) of one type of cookie you make. This is then exchanged with other members for their baked cookies. After the cookie exchange party you end up with several different types of cookies for your family to enjoy over the holiday. Cookie exchanges are a great place to visit with friends, enjoy some holiday cheer and get new cookie recipes and sweet treats.

Christmas Cookie Ideas

Hands down my favorite cookie and call me old fashioned is a thumbprint cookie with raspberry jam. My grandma made them for years and I loved that she always had a tin full of cookies when we went to visit. Your favorite Christmas cookie may be snowballs, sugar cookies, shortbread, gingerbread or another holiday favorite.

Baking Christmas Cookies

A great family holiday activity is getting everyone together one weekend afternoon or holiday evening and baking a batch of Christmas cookies. Granted some cookies may never make their way to the cookie tin. Fresh cookies anyone?

Christmas Cookie Ingredients

The ingredients in your holiday cookies will vary from recipes to recipe but here is a list of basic holiday cookie ingredients:

Flour
Butter
Sugar
Milk
Icing Sugar
Eggs

Christmas Cookie Recipes

Now it’s time to bake and create. Whether you are only baking one type of cookie for this years cookie exchange or whether you are creating an entire assortment of holiday cookies you are sure to find some great recipes below.

Easy Christmas Cookies

Ginger Molasses Cookies – The Busy Baker

M&M Dream Bars – Mom On Time Out

Peppermint Crunch Cookies – Inside BruCrew Life

Toffee Shortbread Cookies – Little Sweet Baker

Gingerbread Cookie Bars – Easy Budget Recipes

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies – Chelsweets

Graham Cracker Toffee Bars – Tastes Better From Scratch

Almond Joy Cookies – Snug & Cozy Life

Traditional Christmas Cookies

Danish Butter Cookies – Veronika’s Kitchen

3 Ingredient Shortbread Cookies – An Italian In My Kitchen

Snowball Cookies – Kitchen Fun With My Three Sons

Russian Tea Cakes – The Seasoned Mom

Italian Christmas Cookies – A Farmgirl Gabs

German Poppy Seed Marzipan Cookies – Cinnamon & Corriander

Pfeffernusse Spice Cookies – Simply Recipes

Linzer Cookies – Lord Byron’s Kitchen

Fun Christmas Cookies

Black & White Cookies – Ready, Set, Eat

Hot Chocolate Cookies – Big Bear’s Wife

Salted Brownie Cookies – Beyond The Butter

Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies – Small Town Woman

Frosted Eggnog Cookies – Taste of Lizzy T

Classic Pizzelle – Unsophisticook

Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms – House of Nash Eats

Gingerbread Crinkles – Self Proclaimed Foodie

Peppermint Ganache Bars – Redpath Sugar

Assorted Christmas Cookies

Chocolate Mint Nanaimo Bars – Hershey

Pecan Shortbread Cookies – Crazy For Crust

Turtle Cookies – The Kitchen Is My Playground

Fresh Cranberry White Chocolate – OMG Chocolate Desserts

Double Chocolate Biscotti – Salads 4 Lunch

Thumbprint Cookies – Princess Pinky Girl

Maple Snickerdoodles – A Latte Food

Cannoli Cookies– Snappy Gourmet

Christmas Cookies To Make With The Kids

Gingerbread Cookies – Life, Love & Sugar

Sugar Cookies – The Seasoned Mom

Hot Chocolate Cookies – Love From The Oven

Grinch Cookies – The Soccer Mom

Iced Gingerbread Oatmeal Cookies – Amy’s Healthy Baking

Orange Meltaway Cookies – Great Grub, Delicious Treats

Fruit Galettes – The View From Great Island

Double Chocolate Shortbread – Back For Seconds

Caramel Macchiato Cookies – Tammilee Tips

Gluten Free Christmas Cookies

Almond Flour Shortbread – Mile High Mitts

Gluten Free Cinnamon Shortbread – The Loopy Whisk

Peppermint Brownie Cookies – Peanut Butter Plus Chocolate

Dairy Free Cranberry Almond Biscotti – Cathy’s Gluten Free

Gluten Free Vanilla Crescent Cookies – The Loopy Whisk

Ginger Molasses Cookies – Iowa Girl Eats

Vegan Chocolate Crinkle Cookies – Delightful Adventures

Gluten Free Sugar Cookies – Lazy Spoon Farms

Lemon Crinkle Cookies – Foodfanatic

Christmas Cookies For Santa

Cookies and milk or maybe a hot chocolate? No matter what type of cookies you leave for Santa I’m sure he will enjoy the treat. Our children love to leave Santa sugar cookies and we have to make sure to leave carrots for the reindeer. Everyone has their holiday traditions even the kids.

Gifting Christmas Cookies

Homemade Christmas cookies are a great gift to box up this year and tie with a pretty bow. A simple assortment of two or three types of cookies is perfect.

Making Extra Money Selling Christmas Cookies

If you are looking to make some extra money around the holidays and you love to bake selling Christmas cookies might just be the perfect solution. We have a lady locally that does this. She sells assorted cookie boxes or single varieties. She sells out fast so you know the market is there.

50 Amazing Christmas Cookie Recipes – Perfect For Your Christmas Cookie Exchange