Top 9 Christmas Cookie Recipes

My top 9 Christmas cookie recipes to bake this season- from Gingerbread to Cowboy Cookies- you will find something you’ll love.

a plaid plate with a slice of chocolate cake and a gingerbread cookie

Who doesn’t love it when a neighbor shows up with a tin of homemade cookies during the holidays.

If you do not have time to bake, consider reaching out to a local bakery and creating a tin of your own. Add cookies, muffins, pasties or breads. Boxes and tins can be found at Home Goods, TJ Maxx, World Market, Michael’s, and other gift shops. Wrap in cello wrap and tie with red and white kitchen twine or an extravagant silk bow.

I found beautiful gold rectangular tins HERE.

1. Chewy Cocoa Molasses Cookies

These easy to make cookies are flavored with four spices and molasses for that Christmas flavor you are craving right now. Rolled in sugar and baked to a chewy bite, these mouth watering cookies are perfect for holiday gifting. Click HERE for the recipe. It is a classic Christmas cookie recipe you’ll use over and over.

a Christmas cookie recipe for chewy molasses cookies intros picture show a white plate filled with cookies and a vintage glass jug of milk surround by pinecones and evergreens

2. Lemon Coconut Wedding Cookies

A classic holiday pairing- citrus and coconut. Whether you prefer ambrosia or in a cookie- these light as a feather confections dusted with confectioner’s sugar look beautiful in a glass jar or on a plate with a grown up glass of “milk”, aka White Russian . Recipe is HERE.

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3. Salted Brown Butter Pecan Cookies

Worth the bit of effort of browning the butter. Once you do this step, you may never bake cookies any other way. Smokey, nutty and full of buttery goodness. My son- in law, Michael, declared this was the best cookie he had ever eaten. Click HERE for buttery yumminess.

4. Gingerbread with Royal Icing

It wouldn’t be a complete Christmas Cookie Recipe list without a classic gingerbread. I have made this recipe dozens of times and it never lets me down. One year, I decorated our entire tree with gingerbread ornaments made with this recipe. * Note- do not hang the ornaments where animals can reach them. My favorite use is making place cards for my Christmas table with these cookies. Cut them into any shape you like and be creative. Click HERE for the spicy recipe.

5. Dark Chocolate Christmas Crackers

If you do not like to bake- this recipe is for you. Using packages of saltine crackers, these flakey, salty sweet shards make a great gift. this super simple recipe requires no mixing. Make a double recipe, you will definitely want a batch for yourself. Click HERE for my version of “Christmas Crack”.

a tray of Dark Christmas Crackers  for Christmas cookie recipe collections

6. Bourbon Oatmeal Cowboy Cookies

Dark chocolate, oats, bourbon soaked raisins and coconut. Who’s with me? I tested this recipe over and over to make sure this would be your go to favorite this year. And it is cowboy approved by the wranglers at the Bar W Ranch next door to us. This cookie may put a little hair on your chest it has so much liquor in it. Yes Haw! Click HERE for the recipe.

a blue pail filled with oatmeal cookies with a large black horse and cowboy the background

7. Oatmeal Pecan Scotchies

Let’s keep the oatmeal cookie train going with these classic scotchies. I adore the pumpkin, butterscotch and spice flavors. Just because fall is over, doesn’t mean we have to give up our PSL anytime soon. You know you bought too much canned pumpkin this year, and here is the perfect way to use it all up. Click HERE for the scrumptious recipe.

  • A pile of orange white and yellow pumpkins
    Piles of plump pumpkins

8. Brown Sugar Bourbon Pecan Bars

While not really a ‘cookie”, I love to pack a cookie gift box with a bar, brownie or blondie type treat. They are portable, sticky, nutty and so fantastic. Leave a copy of the recipe in the cookie tin, because I promise you, everyone will want this recipe. Click HERE for pecan perfection.

9. Traditional Rum Balls

This no-bake confection is perfect when you have no time to bake but want to deliver something big on taste. made with Nilla wafers, cocoa, pecans, and a healthy pour of rum and bourbon, these spitted little snacks will be the toast of the holidays. Click here for the Rum Ball Recipe.

 Christmas cookie recipes include this plate of rum balls dusted with confectioner's sugar next to a nutcracker

Making lots of Christmas Cookies recipes? Don’t for get to stock up on the best vanilla products for your holiday baking:

a bag of vanilla sugar, vanilla paste, vanilla maple syrup and vanilla extract

Bonus- 6 more Christmas Cookies recipes to try from my favorite chefs and websites:

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