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Christmas cookies are the highlight of the holiday season, and these recipes are here to make sure your treats stand out. Whether you’re hosting a big family gathering or just need something sweet to nibble on, these cookies are great for any occasion. Simple to make and impossible to resist, they’ll have your guests coming back for seconds. Get ready to bake up a storm and impress everyone with cookies they won’t forget.
Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Christmas Shortbread Cookies are a festive treat that combines a rich, buttery flavor of shortbread with the sweet & fruity goodness of jam.
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Gingerbread Cookies
Lightly spiced and buttery Gingerbread Cookies that aren’t too bitter, aren’t too sweet and are soft all the way through. Perfection.
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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!
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Cranberry Orange Cookies
Cranberry Orange Cookies are simple to make and have the perfect amount of chewy-yet-tangy goodness. Perfect for Holiday baking!
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Hazelnut Shortbread Wreath Cookies
Enjoy the nutty goodness of Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies. With a crumbly texture & buttery richness, these cookies are perfect for gifting or festive gatherings.
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Thumbprint Cookies
These Thumbprint Cookies are buttery, sweet and tender shortbread cookies filled with jam and an optional glaze.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms Recipe
These soft and chewy peanut butter blossoms are the right answer to your sugar cravings. Check out my extraordinary peanut butter blossoms recipe here!
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Perfect Shortbread Cookies (Tender & Buttery)
Get perfect Shortbread Cookies every time with this buttery, sweet Shortbread Cookie Recipe. Just in time for Christmas Cookie exchanges!
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Gingerdoodle Sandwich Cookies
These Sandwich Cookies are a Ginger Cookie-Snickerdoodle mix that are soft, chewy and so delicious! Filled with Cinnamon Buttercream!
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Frosted Sugar Cookies
These Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies will be the star of your Christmas, believe me. Bakery-style cookies topped with frosting and sprinkles, so good!
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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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Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies
These Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies are warm peanut butter cookies, stuffed with Nutella and sprinkled with a little salt. Naturally gluten-free!
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Snickerdoodles
Bake the perfect Snickerdoodles with this classic recipe. Soft, pillowy cookies with a tangy twist, coated in cinnamon-sugar goodness.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
These Peanut Butter Cookies are soft, chewy, and what dreams are made of! Sweet with a little salty bite, you will never need another recipe.
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Butterscotch Cookies (Chewy & Sweet)
These Butterscotch Cookies are soft, chewy and buttery. Similar to chocolate chip cookies, but made with butterscotch chips and a secret ingredient!
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Snickerdoodle Waffle Cookies
Snickerdoodle Waffle Cookies are quickly “baked” in a waffle iron! And they’re extra amazing drizzled with cream cheese glaze!
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Apple Oatmeal Cookies
These delicious Apple Oatmeal Cookies are topped with creamy brown butter frosting and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Perfect as a yummy Fall treat!
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Cinnamon Roll Cookies
If you don’t have the time to make cinnamon rolls, make these cinnamon roll cookies! Chewy, soft, and very sweet! Perfect for any occasion.
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Decorated Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars
Create a beautifully decorated pan of Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars that will feed a crowd! They look fancy, but couldn’t be easier!
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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!
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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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Double Chocolate Cookies Recipe
This Double 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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No-Bake Cookie Recipe
If you’re looking for an easy dessert recipe that requires very little skill, this no-bake cookie recipe is ideal. Read on to discover the joys of simple cookies.
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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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Christmas Candy Cane Cookies (Chewy & Sweet!)
These sweet and chewy Candy Cane Cookies are the best way to enjoy a candy cane at Christmas! A minty, holiday cookie everyone will love.
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Gingerdoodles
These soft baked Gingerdoodles (ginger cookies) are the quintessential Christmas cookie! Chewy, buttery and filled with warm spices.
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Spritz Cookies
Spritz Cookies are slightly sweet, buttery delights formed with a cookie press and decorated perfectly for your holiday cookie tray!
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Simple To Make Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Christmas Sprinkle Cookies combine the BEST sprinkle cookie ever with some holiday decorations. Fun to decorate but even more fun to eat!
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Super Easy Christmas Cake Mix Cookies With Only A Few Ingredients
This Christmas cookie recipe with only a few ingredients you normally keep on hand has 4 ingredients and it take less than 5 min. to make.
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