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50+ Old Fashioned Christmas Cookie Recipes
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Christmas isn’t Christmas without cookies! Today, I’m sharing a list of over FIFTY Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookie Recipes that are popular on my site and perfect for the holidays. From buttery shortbread to ginger to chocolate chip, we have a little something for everyone! Whether you’re baking for others or yourself, I recommend ALL of these Christmas Cookies.
50+ Old Fashioned Christmas Cookie Recipes to Try This Season!
I thought I’d pull together a list of 50+ Old Fashioned Cookies from my site that are 100% amazing and festive for the holidays! As we get closer and closer to Christmas special occasions, we are all scrambling to find the right recipes for family, friends, neighbors, and Santa! There is bound to be one or two recipes that will give you sweet dreams.
Here are some of my favorite Christmas Desserts if you’re looking for some sweet treats that aren’t cookies that the whole family will enjoy!
Let’s dive into grandma’s recipe box for her classic recipes and Happy Holiday Baking! 🙂
Table of Contents
The recipe card for each cookie can be found by clicking the linked titles below. Happy Holidays!
Ginger Based
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Gingerbread Cookies
Lightly spicy and buttery cookies, these Gingerbread Cookies aren't too bitter or too sweet, and are soft all the way through. Pair with my Royal Icing Recipe! Perfect for a holiday cookie exchange!
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2
Crispy Gingersnap Cookies Recipe
My Crispy Gingersnap Cookies are crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and packed with warm spices for that perfect and cozy seasonal treat.
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3
Gingerdoodles
These soft baked Ginger Cookies, or Gingerdoodles, are the quintessential Christmas cookie! Chewy, buttery and full of warm spices that everyone will love.
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4
Gingerdoodle Sandwich Cookies
These Gingerdoodle Sandwich Cookies are a Ginger Cookie and Snickerdoodle mix that are soft, chewy and so delicious! Filled with Cinnamon Buttercream – the perfect holiday cookie.
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5
Gingerbread Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you’re planning on making treats for neighbors or loved ones this holiday season, these soft and chewy Gingerbread Bars, are perfect for holiday parties.
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Shortbread
6
Shortbread Cookies
My perfect Shortbread Cookies are buttery, tender, and sweet every time. This easy Shortbread Cookie Recipe is a go-to for holiday trays, bake sales, or just because you’re craving something simple and classic.
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7
Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies
These festive Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies are turned into wreaths and topped with powdered sugar and a candied cherry! If you're looking for a unique Christmas Cookie – this is it!
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8
Shortbread Christmas Cookies
These Christmas Shortbread Cookies are so easy and delicious! Fill the middle with anything from strawberry jam to nutella! Enjoy!
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9
Thumbprint Cookies
These Thumbprint Cookies are buttery, sweet and tender shortbread cookies filled with jam and an optional glaze. This classic cookie recipe is perfect for the a holiday party or cookie exchange!
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10
Spritz Cookies
Spritz Cookies are slightly sweet, buttery delights formed with a cookie press and decorated perfectly for your holiday cookie tray! Get out the food coloring, because with these festive and endlessly customizable cookies, they are sure to be a big hit at your Christmas party!
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Peanut Butter
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms are the quintessential cookie for the holidays! They are the perfect combination of sweet, soft, and peanut buttery goodness! I can SMELL these baking in grandma's kitchen!
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12
Peanut Butter Cookies
These Peanut Butter Cookies are soft, chewy, and what dreams are made of! Sweet and a little salty too, you will never need another peanut butter cookie recipe.
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13
Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
Salted Nutella Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies are warm peanut butter cookies, stuffed with Nutella and sprinkled with a little salt.
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14
Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies
Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies are so soft and chewy with little hints of toffee and chocolate throughout! You will absolutely LOVE these for holiday cookie exchanges!
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15
Butterfinger Reese’s Pieces Cookies
Butterfinger Reese's Pieces Cookies are made in one pot, baked soft, and feature peanut butter, chocolate, Reese's pieces, and a Butterfinger bar.
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16
Peanut Butter Coconut Oatmeal Scotchies
Oatmeal Scotchies turn into an irresistible treat by adding peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips and coconut! So good!
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17
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies come out perfect every time thanks to some pudding mix. These are my new favorite cookie!
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Sugar Cookies
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Sugar Cookies
These soft, frosted Sugar Cookies are just what you're looking for! Bakery-style cookies topped with frosting and sprinkles, so good!
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19
Vanilla Bean Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
This Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookie Recipe is easy to cut out, holds its shape after baking and yields soft and chewy sugar cookies.
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20
Decorated Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
Create a beautifully decorated pan of sugar cookie bars that will feed a crowd at Christmas! They look fancy, but couldn’t be easier!
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21
Hot Pot Sugar Cookies
No bowls needed for this sugar cookie recipe! You’re just one small pot away from the chewiest, sweetest and most amazing sugar cookies EVER!
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22
Copycat Swig Sugar Cookies
I love these big, thick, soft Copycat Swing Sugar Cookies! Pressed down with a glass, softly baked then topped with a light pink buttercream, you too will fall in love with these cookies this Christmas!
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23
Sugar Cookie Bars
These simple Sugar Cookie Bars are so easy and sweet! Perfect for any occasion, they are thick, chewy and topped with frosting and sprinkles!
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24
Soft Glazed Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies just got better with a little pumpkin! This recipe creates soft, chewy, lightly spicy glazed pumpkin sugar cookies that are perfect for Fall!
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25
Sugar Cookie Blossoms
These Sugar Cookie Blossoms are a twist on regular peanut butter blossoms that we all know and love. Topped with a delicious orange sugar and Hershey Kisses!
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Cinnamon Based
26
Snickerdoodles
You’ll never need another Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe after this one! These old-fashioned cookies have slightly crispy edges with big chewy centers, just how they should be. Snickerdoodle heaven.
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27
Snickerdoodle Waffle Cookies
Snickerdoodle Waffle Cookies are quickly “baked” in a waffle iron! And they’re extra amazing drizzled with cream cheese glaze! Kinda like Snickerdoodle Cookies but in waffle form. Perfect for Christmas goodie plates!
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28
Caramel Snickerdoodle Bars
Caramel Snickerdoodle Bars are seriously addicting! All the things you love about snickerdoodles plus soft caramel in the middle!
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29
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
If you don’t have the time to make cinnamon rolls, make these Cinnamon Roll Cookies! Chewy cookies that are soft and very sweet! Perfect for any holiday occasion.
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30
Butterscotch Cinnamon Cookies
These Butterscotch Cookies are soft baked, sweet, and comforting with a touch of warm cinnamon. Plus they're so simple and easy to make, all cookies should be this good!
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Oatmeal
31
The BEST Oatmeal Cookie Recipe (no Raisins)
Soft and chewy, this is a classic yet great recipe for oatmeal cookies. No raisins and no chocolate chips, just oatmeal and a ton of sweet flavor.
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32
Apple Oatmeal Cookies
These delicious Apple Oatmeal Cookies are topped with creamy brown butter frosting and a sprinkle of cinnamon. It’s like apple pie meats oatmeal cookie, perfect as a yummy holiday treat!
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33
Oatmeal Cream Pies
These Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cream Pies are easy to make and so much better than store-bought! Soft baked Oatmeal Cookies sandwiched with a simple marshmallow buttercream filling. So sweet, comforting, and classically delicious.
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34
Monster Cookies
Monster Cookies are like three cookies all rolled into one(Oatmeal Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, and Double Chocolate M&M Cookies)! Filled with oats, peanut butter, and M&Ms, these will have you coming back for more.
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Chocolate Chip
35
Actually Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is the best recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies! Soft baked, extra sweet with two kinds of chocolate, and nearly impossible to ruin.
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36
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you like chocolate chip cookies, you will die over Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. They’re soft and chewy and delicious. Our of all the Christmas cookie recipes on this list, this is one of the most popular.
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37
Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies are oh so gooey and so good! Bite into a perfect mix of sweet, salty, and chocolatey!
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38
Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies are simple yet so magical. Eat warm with a cold glass of milk and enjoy yourself!
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39
Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
If you like a lot of goodies in your cookies, then these chewy Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies are perfect!
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40
Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These Chocolate Chunk Cookies are the perfect balance of chewy center and crispy edges, packed with chunks of dark chocolate that melt in your mouth. You’ll find these cookies straightforward and foolproof.
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41
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars recipe! Filled with mini chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and walnuts. Basically Chocolate Chip Cookies but way easier!
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Chocolate Based
42
Hot Pot Chocolate Cookies Recipe
This Hot Pot Chocolate Cookies Recipe is also known as the chewiest chocolate cookies made in a pot on the stove!! The easiest recipe ever!!
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43
Chewy Chocolate Snickers Cookies
I'm not sure there's any better cookie than these Chewy Chocolate Snickers Cookies! Chocolate cookie dough with candy bar pieces stirred in!
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44
Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix Cookies
These Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix Cookies are everything that is right in the world. Soft, sweet, so easy to make!
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45
No-Bake Cookies
These No-Bake Cookies are the perfect dessert when you're short on time. You just need a pot and a stovetop, and voila…10 minutes to a whole batch of delectable chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies.
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46
Chewy Cocoa Mocha Cookies
Chewy, double chocolate cookies with a hint of coffee flavor. These Mocha Cookies will knock your socks off.
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47
Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Cocoa powder, two kinds of chocolate chips with a chewy cookie base makes these Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies pretty amazing. Basically my incredible Homemade Brownie Recipe in cookie form!
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Peppermint and Candy Canes
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Triple Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
These Triple Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies are the perfect Christmas Cookie! Soft, chewy, extra pepperminty, and laden with lots of chocolate! Totally decadent dessert for the holidays.
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49
Chocolate Mint Cookies
Chocolate Mint Cookies are chewy, sweet and SO addicting! Filled with my favorite mint truffle Hershey's Kisses, these soft and minty cookies are so easy and so fabulous. You will LOVE ’em! The ultimate Christmas cookie recipe!
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Miscellaneous
50
Cranberry Orange Cookies
These Cranberry Orange Cookies are a new holiday favorite! Simple to make in one bowl, soft-baked to perfection with the perfect amount of tang and chewy sweet goodness. All the flavors of Christmas in one cookie!
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51
Homemade Red Velvet Oreos
These Red Velvet Oreos will blow you away! They are soft, sweet, and have the lightest cocoa flavor that will knock your socks off! Of course, all inspired by Classic Red Velvet Cake.
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52
Red Hot Cookies
Red Hot Cookies are sweet, spicy, chewy, basically perfect cookies. Great for holiday gifting and/or hoarding!
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53
Sweet Potato Cookies
Sweet Potato Cookies are soft and lightly spiced cookies make with mashed sweet potato, topped with homemade streusel and powdered sugar.
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54
Amaretti Cookies
With a crispy exterior and soft interior, these Italian almond flavored Amaretti Cookies are one of my favorite holiday cookies!
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55
Coconut Macaroons Recipe
This easy Coconut Macaroons Recipe is perfectly soft and chewy on the inside while crisp and toasty on the outside. Chocolate and/or powdered sugar are optional.
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56
Coconut Cookies
These Coconut Cookies will make you swoon! Soft, chewy and loaded with coconut goodness, these will become your new addiction!
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Let me know in the comments if you plan on giving away delicious Christmas Cookies this year and which old fashioned Christmas cookie recipe you’ll be making! Merry Christmas, friends!
If you make these recipes, I would really appreciate it if you would give them a star rating and leave your review in the comments! If you have a picture of your finished dish, post it on Instagram using the hashtag #laurenslatest and tagging me @laurens_latest.
Love all these cookies and your recipes. I am novice and in my old age wanted something do. This will be my therapy!
Thank you Wendy! I love this. 🙂
Love all these cookies and your recipes. I am novice and in my old age wanted something do. This will be my therapy❣️
One sounds better than the other!!!
Gosh! These cookies all look so good. I can’t wait to start baking. I’m glad I found your site.
Jennifer, thank you!
These all look so delicious — I think I will attempt to make some!!
Happy Holidays Lauren!
Also, what cookie cutters do you use?
Best regards
Dee
I have a Christmas set of wilton cookie cutters.
I’ve had this post saved for a while to try the cookies and sweets from this page!! So excited for Christmas.
Ever since you posted the recipe, I have made the Christmas Funfetti Cake Batter Truffles every Christmas. Then, because they were so popular, they got adapted for office birthday parties, family gatherings at Easter, dyed green for St Patrick’s day, etc. So, thanks for making ALL my get togethers more special! I love all the other goodies too!
It is so hard to decide. All the cookies look so good!
Pinning this! Needing inspiration for new treats this Holiday season.
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I can’t wait to try some of these for the holidays! ??
I make your June’s Shortbread Cookies all the time, except I usually fill them with Nutella!! ? Recently, a friend returned from Argentina and brought back some amazing dulce de leche which promptly turned into another batch of these delicious cookies!!