Christmas Cookie Collection

21 Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes That Disappear First

These crowd-pleasing Christmas cookies are ready in under an hour and guaranteed to vanish from your holiday table. From buttery shortbread to chewy gingerbread, this collection has everything you need.

🍪 21 Recipes ⏱️ Under 68 Minutes ⭐ Crowd Favorites
1 Stacked graduated sugar-cookie stars with green icing and a little sugar-cookie star topper. Sugar Cookies

3D Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies

Stacked graduated sugar-cookie stars with green icing and a little sugar-cookie star topper.

⏱️ 156 min Get Recipe →
3 Soft almond sugar cookies with a light almond glaze and optional sliced almonds over gently golden edges. Sugar Cookies

Almond Sugar Cookies

Soft almond sugar cookies with a light almond glaze and optional sliced almonds over gently golden edges.

⏱️ 43 min Get Recipe →
4 Almond butter replaces part of the dairy fat in a compact buckwheat shortbread dough. Shortbread

Almond Butter Buckwheat Shortbread

Almond butter replaces part of the dairy fat in a compact buckwheat shortbread dough.

⏱️ 69 min Get Recipe →
5 Almond-flour shortbread sandwiches reveal raspberry jam through small star windows. Shortbread

Almond Linzer Christmas Shortbread

Almond-flour shortbread sandwiches reveal raspberry jam through small star windows.

⏱️ 78 min Get Recipe →
6 Almond paste contributes sugar and moisture to a firm shortbread topped with sliced almonds. Shortbread

Almond-Paste Christmas Shortbread

Almond paste contributes sugar and moisture to a firm shortbread topped with sliced almonds.

⏱️ 60 min Get Recipe →
7 A batch of almond chocolate spritz cookies arranged on a ceramic plate. Spritz

Almond Chocolate Spritz Cookies

Almond Chocolate Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.

⏱️ 52 min Get Recipe →
8 A batch of almond spritz cookies arranged on a ceramic plate. Spritz

Almond Spritz Cookies

Almond Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.

⏱️ 52 min Get Recipe →
9 A batch of apricot jam spritz cookies arranged on a ceramic plate. Spritz

Apricot Jam Spritz Cookies

Apricot Jam Spritz Cookies: buttery Christmas spritz cookies with title-specific flavor, shaping and finishing details.

⏱️ 52 min Get Recipe →
10 Almond flour gingerbread cut-outs with maple syrup, molasses and tapioca starch, made without wheat flour, egg or dairy. Gingerbread

Almond Flour Gingerbread Cookies

Almond flour gingerbread cut-outs with maple syrup, molasses and tapioca starch, made without wheat flour, egg or dairy.

⏱️ 47 min Get Recipe →
11 Chewy gingerbread drop cookies studded with chopped toasted almonds for a fragrant nutty crunch. Gingerbread

Almond Gingerbread Cookies

Chewy gingerbread drop cookies studded with chopped toasted almonds for a fragrant nutty crunch.

⏱️ 66 min Get Recipe →
12 Gingerbread thumbprints filled with smooth amber apple butter, pairing a molasses cookie with concentrated apple-cinnamon flavor. Gingerbread

Apple Butter Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread thumbprints filled with smooth amber apple butter, pairing a molasses cookie with concentrated apple-cinnamon flavor.

⏱️ 70 min Get Recipe →
13 Lemon-scented Abruzzo-style wafer cookies cooked individually in a patterned ferratelle or pizzelle iron. Italian

Abruzzo Ferratelle

Lemon-scented Abruzzo-style wafer cookies cooked individually in a patterned ferratelle or pizzelle iron.

⏱️ 63 min Get Recipe →
14 Solid almond-butter discs paired around a thin apricot-jam layer, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie. Italian

Almond Apricot Sandwich Cookies

Solid almond-butter discs paired around a thin apricot-jam layer, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie.

⏱️ 81 min Get Recipe →
16 Flat scalloped almond shortcrust rounds joined with dark-chocolate ganache, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie. Italian

Almond Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

Flat scalloped almond shortcrust rounds joined with dark-chocolate ganache, an Italian-style home sandwich cookie.

⏱️ 75 min Get Recipe →
17 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: round peanut butter confections with chocolate shells, with a cut center showing the filling. Peanut Butter

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.

⏱️ 40 min Get Recipe →
18 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms: golden round cookies with chocolate kiss-shaped centers on a ceramic plate. Peanut Butter

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms: three-ingredient no-bake peanut butter blossoms with chocolate centers, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.

⏱️ 20 min Get Recipe →
19 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies: plain golden peanut butter cookies with fork crosshatch markings. Peanut Butter

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies: simple flourless peanut butter cookies, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.

⏱️ 49 min Get Recipe →
20 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: round peanut butter confections with chocolate shells, with a cut center showing the filling. Peanut Butter

4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls

4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls: chilled peanut butter centers under a chocolate coating, with measured ingredients and a complete batch method.

⏱️ 40 min Get Recipe →
21 Dark chocolate espresso crinkles with white sugar cracks and a broken cookie showing chocolate chips Cookie Box

Brown Butter Espresso Chocolate Crinkles

Browned butter, espresso powder and dark chocolate chips build a deep chocolate flavor beneath the white crinkle coating.

⏱️ 72 min Get Recipe →