All the Best Holiday Cookie Recipes
The holiday season’s other name is, of course, cookie baking season. The possibilities are endless, and cookies make not only a great dessert, but the perfect edible gift for friends, family, and neighbors.
From soft gingerbread people, classic sprinkles, or deep chocolate fudge cookies, here are Unpeeled’s best Christmas cookie recipes to sweeten your season.
Fudgy Double Chocolate Cookies
These fudgy double chocolate cookies take the cake (brownie?). Soft and decadent with a crisp, brownie-like exterior.
Soft + Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft and chewy in the middle, but perfectly crisp on the outside, these cookies are loaded with dark chocolate chips. Oatmeal flour, a hint of salt, and extra vanilla makes them extra homey and satisfying.
Classic Gingerbread Man Cookies
This soft, spiced gingerbread cookies recipe, full of molasses and spice, is easy to make — and even easier to devour. Get the recipe.
Italian Ricotta Cookies
A soft, happy sprinkle cookie with just the right notes of vanilla and lemon. This recipe makes a traditional, easy cookie perfect for the holidays.
Slice and Bake Butter Cookies
A recipe for tender, sweet slice-and-bake butter cookies, rolled in sugar and baked to golden perfection.
Soft Molasses Ginger Cookies
These soft, sweet holiday cookies, fragrant with ginger, baking spice, and molasses for your best holiday baking. Get this favorite recipe.
Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
Yum. This chewy chocolate chip pecan cookie recipe is the perfect combination of sweetness, texture, and buttery goodness. Easy and festive.
Cinnamon Rugelach Cookies
Classic cinnamon raisin rugelach cookies! A flaky, sweet treat for the holiday season and year round.
Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
A big batch of soft peanut butter cookies. Nothing fancy, just really good.
Snowball Cookies (Mexican Wedding Cookies)
Nutty sweet shortbread cookies that are a festive, easy to make favorite.
Shortbread Linzer Cookies
Valentine’s Day desserts don’t get sweeter than these easy, beautiful linzer sugar cookies with fresh strawberry jam. Get the recipe.
Soft Sprinkle Cookies
This recipe for rainbow sprinkle cookies makes a batch of soft, chewy homemade funfetti cookies that are a true party on a plate.Â
Soft Italian Sprinkle Cookies
A family recipe for soft, homey Italian cookies handed down through generations. Happy little rounds of rainbow-sprinkled goodness that are sweetly simple to make.
Buttery Pecan Shortbread Cookies
This buttery, sophisticated shortbread cookie recipe inspired by a famous NYC pastry chef is loaded with toasted pecans, rolled in rustic turbinado sugar and baked for sweet, festive results.
Chewy White Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best white chocolate chip cookies recipe: soft, buttery cookies with white chocolate chips, baked until golden. Easy to make, quick to bake.
Mexican Cornmeal Shortbreads
These sweet and soft cornmeal shortbread cookies bake up a light golden brown, with just the right amount of flavor and homey grit from fine yellow cornmeal. Simple to make, and perfect with a cup of tea.
What are your Christmas cookies recipes to bake this holiday season? Share below!
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