★ The Ultimate Collection ★

25 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes from The Cookie Index

The ultimate Christmas cookie collection featuring 25 crowd-pleasing recipes from Italian biscotti to classic sugar cookies. Everything you need for the perfect holiday cookie platter.

⭐ 25 Cookie Ideas 🎯 Every Style Covered 🏆 Crowd Pleasers
1 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 →
2 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 →
4 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 →
5 Tender almond-scented dough knots with sliced almonds and a light sugar glaze, an Italian-style home adaptation. Italian

Almond Knot Cookies

Tender almond-scented dough knots with sliced almonds and a light sugar glaze, an Italian-style home adaptation.

⏱️ 72 min Get Recipe →
6 Star-piped crisp meringues with almond aroma and finely broken almond flakes on top, an Italian-style home variation. Italian

Almond Meringue Kisses

Star-piped crisp meringues with almond aroma and finely broken almond flakes on top, an Italian-style home variation.

⏱️ 165 min Get Recipe →
7 Golden almond biscotti with fragrant orange zest and crisp, diagonally sliced edges. Italian

Almond Orange Biscotti

Golden almond biscotti with fragrant orange zest and crisp, diagonally sliced edges.

⏱️ 100 min Get Recipe →
8 Soft ricotta cookies with almond flour and lightly toasted sliced-almond crowns, a home adaptation rather than almond paste biscuits. Italian

Almond Ricotta Cookies

Soft ricotta cookies with almond flour and lightly toasted sliced-almond crowns, a home adaptation rather than almond paste biscuits.

⏱️ 60 min Get Recipe →
9 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 →
10 Golden brown-butter thumbprint cookies with chopped pecans in glossy brown-sugar filling Cookie Box

Brown Butter Pecan Pie Thumbprints

Browned-butter shortbread wells hold a spoonful of chopped pecans in a brown-sugar cream filling.

⏱️ 82 min Get Recipe →
11 Powdered-sugar snowballs, one split to reveal pecans, mini chocolate chips and peppermint flecks Cookie Box

Chocolate Chip Peppermint Snowball Cookies

Pecan snowballs hide miniature chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candy beneath a double powdered-sugar coating.

⏱️ 70 min Get Recipe →
12 White powdered-sugar pecan snowballs with a broken cookie showing the crumbly nut-filled center Cookie Box

Classic Pecan Snowball Cookies

Small buttery pecan cookies receive powdered sugar while warm and again after cooling for a snowy finish.

⏱️ 70 min Get Recipe →
13 Scalloped Linzer sandwich cookies with sugar-dusted star windows and ruby cranberry-orange filling Cookie Box

Austrian-Style Cranberry Orange Linzer Cookies

Almond cut-out cookies sandwich a tart cranberry-orange filling, with sugar-dusted windows on the top halves.

⏱️ 98 min Get Recipe →
14 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 →
15 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 →
16 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 →
17 Large bakery-style gingerbread cut-outs with thick centers, neat outlines and a generous decorating surface. Gingerbread

Bakery-Style Gingerbread Cookies

Large bakery-style gingerbread cut-outs with thick centers, neat outlines and a generous decorating surface.

⏱️ 77 min Get Recipe →
18 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 →
20 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 →
22 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 →
23 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 →
24 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 →
25 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 →