31 Best Holiday and Christmas Cookies Recipes

"These Peppermint Mocha Chocolate Blossom cookies are like Christmas in every bite. Densely rich with chocolate and espresso, merry and bright with peppermint, and crunchy with sparkling sugar."

"I can guarantee that these buttery sugar cookies are easy to roll out, they hold their shape well when baking, they don’t spread, and they taste good on their own even without the royal icing."

"These Peppermint Mocha Brownie Cookies are soft and chewy, fudgy with melty chocolate, and addictive with that holiday peppermint flavor."

"Better than store-bought Gingerbread Cookies! Simple ingredients paired with an easy dough method will have you swooning over these homemade delights! Decorated with a 3-ingredient white royal icing. Use your choice of Christmas shaped cookie cutters!"

And this recipe is the one I come back to every season. It just works. And it just tastes really good.

"Delicious, chewy Chai Sugar Cookies drizzled with creamy eggnog icing. An easy cookie recipe that would be great to bring to any Christmas cookie party."

Flavored with peppermint and vanilla, these Candy Cane Cookies will delight everyone at Christmas.

"A simple and even “humble” biscuit can be the purest form of classic sweetness. Classic Scottish Shortbread is a staple in our home during the holidays. It’s always on the top of my son’s Christmas cookie wish list."

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without these—they’re the most wonderful cookie of the season! Pillowy soft with a melty chocolate kiss on top. Does it get better than this?

"It may be Santa’s favorite cookie. I’m mean, mine, of course. Who couldn’t use a little extra chocolate and espresso? All wrapped up in a snowy white? At Christmastime no less. It’s gooey, chocolaty… and so delicious."

Perfectly delicious snowballs are addictive bites of Christmas.

Inspired by the famous Nordstrom Cookies, these chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies are a new favorite in this year's cookie box!

"This buttery hazelnut cookie dough holds onto dried figs, a bit of spice and espresso, then drizzled with bitter dark chocolate."

Filled with the fruit of the season, these easy fruitcake bars taste like anything but... fruitcake. Scrumptiously delicious.

An iconic flavor, perfect for Christmas, and loved by all. They simply have to be on the cookie plate!

A coffee house classic, these Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are decadently delicious, quick to make, deliciously chewy, buttery, and chocolatey.

A festive crumble bar is always delicious at Christmas! Serve with or without tea -- I favor tea! By the way... here are some tea gift ideas just in case you're like m!

Simply delicious and truly authentically Scottish. Absolutely a must for Christmas!

"Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside with golden, crispy edges on the outside. Incredibly delicious drizzled in chocolate and sprinkled with toasted pecans."

These Chocolate Chip Cookies are irresistibly chewy, buttery, and chocolaty. Truly a cookie for all time. America's favorite cookie, hands down. A tried and true recipe to memorize.

"The richly spiced flavors of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and molasses are a comforting and familiar blend that evokes memories of warmth and love and laughter."

An upgraded oatmeal raisin cookie; chewy, dense and richly flavored with cinnamon and maple and pecans. Decadently perfect for the holidays.

"A delicious, melt-in-your-mouth cookie perfect for making ahead and having ready in either the refrigerator or freezer. Slice and bake up in just minutes."

Decadently rich with oatmeal, chocolate, coconut, and toasted almonds. A worthy, perfectly delicious holiday cookie.