It’s the most wonderful time of the year, isn’t it?? The magic of Christmastime is something we all could use a little more. of to finish out 2020. Twinkling lights, exchanging gifts, and one of my favorites, baking cookies! There are endless Christmas cookies out there and. I honestly want to try them all. I found seventy eight unbelievably creative cookie recipes to present to you the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies! Discover some fun new recipes to try and create new traditions with your family this year. Take a peek at the list of the 12 days below and uncover which ones pique your curiosity (and make your mouth water a little 😉).
- 12 Worldly Creations
- 11 Gingerbread & More
- 10 Lifestyle Treats
- 9 Nuts Galore
- 8 Festive Finds
- 7 Chocolate Concoctions
- 6 Berries and Cherries
- 5 Shortbread Sweets
- 4 Sugary Selections
- 3 Sweet Swirls
- 2 Peppermint Delights
- 1 Faithful Fruitcake
12 Worldly Creations
Ube Crinkles Recipe (with video)
Ube crinkles are soft, fluffy and bursting with the ube flavour you love. They are like mini ube cakes and are perfect for the holidays!
Gingerbread Snowball Cookies
Also known as Mexican wedding cookies, these Easy Gingerbread Snowball Cookies are a simple light, buttery and cakey ball shaped cookie, covered in powdered sugar. They are quick to prepare, making them the ultimate Christmas cookie and the perfect edible gift or addition to any holiday baking tray!
Mini Gizzada’s – Coconut Tarts
Gizzadas are a popular Jamaican snack consisting of a hand-formed pastry shell with coconut “jam”. Make them mini, add a pop of colour and they’re perfect to add to any holiday cookie platter.
Moravian Molasses Cookies
Moravian molasses cookies are a thin and crispy cookie from the Czech Republic
Linzer Cookies
This Linzer cookies recipe makes festive and beautiful cookies that can be served for any occasion, especially during the holidays!
German Bethmännchen marzipan cookies
This traditional recipe for Bethmännchen marzipan cookies is one of the most famous German Christmas cookies. The outside is firm and crisp, the inside is chewy, and they’re studded with three crunchy almonds. Gluten-free. You only need 6 ingredients and 20 minutes.
Icelandic Pepper Cookies – piparkokur
These Icelandic Pepper Cookies, also known as piparkokur or pepparkokur, are a popular Scandinavian Christmas cookie similar to gingersnaps. They are beautifully chewy and easy to make from scratch with no unusual ingredients!
Biscotti Regina
Biscotti Regina or Sicilian Reginelle Biscuits – Crispy and delicious Italian sesame seed coated cookies. They are incredibly great with coffee or tea
Honey, Cinnamon, and Walnut Rugelach (Rogaliki)
We make this honey, cinnamon and walnut rugelach or rogaliki in Russian every year. It’s just not Christmas without these little cookies!
German Elisen Lebkuchen
Getting read for Christmas? Lebkuchen cookies are wunderbar! Warm gingerbread spices meet soft cakey dough and delicate frosting. A German gem that’ll make your holiday party special!
Kue Putri Salju –Indonesian Snow White butter cookies
These Snow White Cookies are one cookies you want to make for Christmas. They only use 3 ingredients and are easy to make. And the icing sugar looks so seasonal and festive that the cookies will make a lovely Christmas decoration and even gift.
Melomakarona – Greek Honey Christmas Cookies
Melomakarona – Traditional Greek Christmas honey spice cookies are made with olive oil, spices and soaked in honey syrup.
11 Gingerbread & More
Best Gingerbread Recipe and Sugar Cookie Mix
When gingerbread is too strong for you, this recipe is a perfect alternative!
Gingerbread Yule Log cookies
Featured in Taste of Home’s “Ultimate Cookie Swap” , this soft gingerbread cookie is a delicious combination of gingerbread, Nutella and lime (and no molasses) all rolled up in a festive yule log cookie!
Hanging Gingerbread Cookies gift
This Hanging Gingerbread Cookies gift is a unique spin on a classic, shared over 100 thousand times! Just add a small candy cane to the back and hang the cookies from a cup of cocoa!
Mickey Mouse Gingerbread Cookies
This recipe combines two beloved pastimes into one great cookie: the fun of Disney and the tastiness of gingerbread!
soft and chewy gluten free gingerbread cookies
These soft and chewy gingerbread cookies are easy to make, gluten free, dairy free, and paleo!
Low Carb gluten-free ginger snaps recipe
This gluten-free ginger snaps recipe tastes like the real thing! You only need 6 ingredients and one bowl to make these easy low carb ginger snaps cookies.
Soft Ginger Cookie Recipe With Real Ginger
These Soft Ginger Cookies are delicious, chewy, and very munchable. Not only do you get plenty of holiday flavors, but you get some wonderful texture in this Soft Ginger Cookie Recipe with real ginger.
Spiced rum slice and bake cookies
Spiced rum slice and bake cookies are a must in everyone’s Christmas cookie box this year! The delicate notes of spiced rum, and warming cinnamon and nutmeg make these butter cookies taste so tasty and festive.
Perníčky (Czech gingerbread cookies)
Gingerbread cookies are synonymous with Christmas, but there are so many different variations to try! These Czech gingerbread cookies are less sweet than their American counterparts
Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
Molasses Cookies are darkly sweet, spicy, soft, & utterly delicious. You need to put these old fashioned cookies into your regular baking rotation!
chewy gingerbread molasses cookies
Super chewy gingerbread molasses cookies drizzled with dark chocolate. Made with wholesome ingredients like oat flour, coconut sugar, and almond butter.
10 Lifestyle Treats
Peppermint-White Chocolate Chickpea Cookies
These uniquely scrumptious “chickpea” cookies magically replace most of the butter in “typical” cookie recipes with a clever chickpea puree to slash the fat while adding loads of nutritious protein and fiber! They’re chewy and satisfying (just like a “normal” cookie), but so much healthier, too!
Keto Almond Flour Linzer Cookies
Gluten free and sugar-free linzer cookies so those with food sensitivities can also enjoy during the festive period
Panellets – Gluten free Sweet Potato and Coconut Cookies
Panellets are small cakes or cookies in many shapes but mainly round. The main ingredients comprises sweet potatoes and almonds. Actually you need just a handful of ingredients.These cookies were dated at least from 18th century.
Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies: 1 Mix, 3 Yummy Options!
Quick and easy gluten free cookies that start with a convenient gluten free cake mix… Make them even more delicious by adding in some M&M’s, Rolo’s or dusting with powdered sugar.
Cranberry Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft, gloriously thick and scrumptious, it’s so hard to stop at just one of these Gluten Free Cranberry Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies – they are a delicious yet healthyish treat your family and friends are sure to love.
Vegan Cinnamon Cookies
Crunchy, sweetly spiced cinnamon cookies that are free from eggs and dairy. Easy to cut out and easy to make!
Low Carb Chocolate Peppermint Stars
Soft low carb chocolate cookies in a chocolate peppermint coating. Sugar-free and grain-free and perfect for the holidays.
Jammy Vegan Biscuits
These festive Christmas stars have a rich shortbread dough sandwiched with cherry jam. Fun to make with kids, they are easy but impressive Christmas gifts!
Gluten-Free French Butter Cookies
French Butter Cookies, know as “Sables Breton” in France, get their flavor from vanilla and salted – yes, salted – butter. So, it’s important to use the highest quality butter and good vanilla in this recipe.
20-Minute Vegan Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut butter blossoms are a holiday cookie table favorite but they are never vegan! This vegan version is SO tasty and worth it!!
9 Nuts Galore
Pecan Sandies
Pecan Sandie Cookies are such a Christmas cookie staple, mostly because they look like snowballs.
Pistachio Butter cookies
Laced with lemon, these butterballs are sensationally nutty, melt-in-your-mouth cookies perfect for gift giving. Roll them in powdered sugar or glaze them, they are both amazing!
Pistachio Cookies with Ruby Chocolate Recipe
Pistachio & Ruby chocolate unite in delicious harmony in these gluten-free, no-bake, Pistachio Cookies with Ruby Chocolate. Made with only 7 ingredients, these no-bake cookies are high on the nutrition scale as well!
Coconut Date Balls
This vintage cookie gets a sweet burst from dates and a crunch from Rice Krispie cereal. A holiday favorite!
Thumbprint caramel pecan turtle cookies recipe – gluten free
An EASY caramel pecan turtle cookies recipe that looks and tastes impressive! No one will believe these thumbprint cookies are sugar-free & gluten-free.
Turtle Cookies
These Turtle Cookies feature a chocolate cookie base rolled in pecans then covered in melty caramel and topped with a chocolate drizzle. They’re bound to be a huge hit with anyone you share them with!
Nutella Sandwich Cookies
Simple vanilla cookies filled with silky Nutella. An easy, delicious and perfect holiday cookies without eggs
gluten-free Edible Flower Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
These beautiful gluten-free Edible Flower Pistachio Shortbread Cookies are sure to wow friends when they see them, and again when they taste them!
Almond Shortbread Cookies
These Almond Shortbread Cookies are the most delicious, buttery and crumbly cookies ever. Perfect for Christmas and the Holidays, these cut-out Almond Meal Cookies are super easy to make from 6 ingredients only and can be decorated in many fun ways!
8 Festive Finds
Grinch Snowball Cookies
What’s more festive than snowball cookies with a Grinch twist?? Don’t miss out on these tasty treats at your next holiday gathering!
Father Christmas Cookies
These Father Christmas cookies are crisp and light, gently flavoured with lemon and mixed spice and then decorate with sugar paste to create a very fun, very tasty and very festive treat.
Santa Claus Cut Out Cookie Recipe
With a crispy outside and soft on inside, these are the best cut out cookie recipe you will ever try! Perfect plain or decorated.
Rudolph Nose Dough Balls No Bake Christmas Cookies
These chocolate covered Rudolph Nose Dough Balls will be the hit of your Christmas get together! They’re amazing edible cookie dough truffles covered in a red chocolate shell for a one of a kind no bake Christmas cookie.
No Bake Christmas Wreath Cookies
These easy and delicious Christmas Wreath Cookies require no baking & few ingredients. Perfect to make with kids. Give them out as gifts or for dessert
Stained Glass Cookies
Stained glass cookies resemble church windows with their melted candy centers!
Easy Christmas Light Cookies
These easy Christmas Light Cookies are a fun and festive way to welcome in the holiday season. Cookie crafts are a great way to get the kids and the whole family into the holiday spirit too.
Snowmen Vegan Meringue Cookies
How cute are these snowmen?! The whole family will enjoy these adorable snowmen meringue cookies this Christmas!
7 Chocolate Concoctions
Chocolate Orange. Cookies
If you get a Terry’s chocolate orange in your stocking, be sure to make these delicious chocolate orange cookies! They’re super chocolatey with hints of orange. We devour these cookies!
Santa’s Chocolate Chip
Santa’s Chocolate Chip Cookies are crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. They’re filled with two types of chocolate, which makes them the biggest and best cookies ever!
Christmas OREO Cookie Balls
Fun, delicious and no-bake Christmas baubles OREO cookie balls, Christmas trees OREO truffles, Hot cocoa mugs OREO truffles and pine cone OREO truffles!
Sweet Potato Cookies with Chocolate Chips and Oats
Need a healthy cookie recipe that’s just as moist and delicious as your old favorites? This Sweet Potato Cookies recipe with chocolate and oats has you covered.
Cranberry Orange White chocolate cookies
With a crisp outer and gorgeously soft inner, these cranberry orange white chocolate cookies cookies loaded with fruit, spices and nuts are packed with the flavours and aromas of Christmas.
Salted Chocolate Toffee Bars
Salted Chocolate Toffee Bars are outrageously good. They’re buttery, crunchy, and filled with salted caramel chocolate in every bite.
Easy Chocolate thumbprint Cookies with Toffee Bits
Crunchy bits of toffee meet sweet and soft cookies for an excellent pair in these chocolate thumbprint cookies!
6 Berries and Cherries
Berry Baked Alaska Cookies
These Berry Baked Alaska Cookies are a simple twist on the great northern classic. Forest berry-stuffed ice cream sitting atop cranberry shortbread cookies, coated in toasted meringue…could it get any better?
Cherry Christmas Cookies
These old-fashioned cherry Christmas cookies are a timeless tradition in our family. Make them today and you will discover why!
Black Cherry Cup Cookies
Black Cherry Cup Cookies are an update on the traditional cherry pie cookie using a homemade filling and a touch of cinnamon and brandy.
Cherry Pie Shortbread
These were a popular cookie that I made for the first time several years ago and are still a hit when I make them now.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Chocolate covered cherry cookies have a chocolate fudge layer that bakes right on top! They’re perfect for the chocoholic in your life.
Jammy Vegan Biscuits
These festive Christmas stars have a rich shortbread dough sandwiched with cherry jam. Fun to make with kids, they are easy but impressive Christmas gifts!
5 Shortbread Sweets
Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies
These brightly-colored and candy cane shaped cookies will be a fun holiday treat for all ages!
Wholemeal Clotted Cream Shortbread
Scrumptious cinnamon flavoured shortbread biscuits made with clotted cream, wholemeal flour and a little chestnut flour. These wholemeal clotted cream shortbread will delight family and friends alike. They make perfect festive gifts too.
Hildabrotchen shortbread cookie with jam
Hildabrotchen or Hilda brotchen are a vintage German shortbread cookie that is filled with currant jam. It’s a beautiful dough to work with!
Vegan Shortbread Cookies Dipped in Chocolate
These buttery vegan shortbread cookies dipped in dark chocolate and dusted with peppermint are simply perfection in every bite! They’re perfect for the holidays, or an anytime treat!
Nankhatai | Eggless Indian Cookies
Nankhatai or Condensed milk cookies are delicious Indian style shortbread eggless cookies! These eggless sugar cookies are light, crumbly, and will instantly melt in your mouth! Make them in just 30 minutes but watch them disappear in seconds!
4 Sugary Selections
How to Make Fancy Cookies
This handed down family”fancy cookies” recipe are sugar cookies that are dipped in the toppings of your choice. These cookies look terrific and are so easy to make!
Eggnog Snickerdoodles
Easy Eggnog Snickerdoodles recipe. A great snack or dessert idea to use up your leftover eggnog over the Christmas holidays.
Delicious Brown Butter Meltaway Cookies
These incredible Brown Butter Meltaway Cookies have only 6 ingredients with no mixer needed! The best easy Christmas cookie recipe you will try!
Christmas Butter biscuits
Three differently coloured and flavoured biscuit doughs are used here to great effect. Simple to make, these vanilla, matcha and chocolate Christmas butter biscuits are also very easy to eat.
3 Sweet Swirls
Cherry Cream Cheese Pinwheel
These flaky Cherry Cream Cheese Pinwheel Cookies are a twist on the traditional Hungarian Kolaches Christmas Cookie recipe.
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
No Who down in Who-ville can resist the mesmerizing swirls of Christmas Pinwheel Cookies rolled in nonpareil sprinkles for an extra festive touch! These swirly treats are sure to be the talk of your next cookie exchange!
Easy Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
These old-fashioned Christmas pinwheel cookies are soft, delicious, and really fun to make! They’re so colorful, Christmassy, and deserve to be in everyone’s Christmas cookie exchange boxes this year!
2 Peppermint Delights
Chocolate-Dipped Peppermint Biscotti
These delicious peppermint biscotti are filled with chopped peppermint candies, dipped in chocolate, and finished with more peppermint candies to yield the perfect Christmas cookies to enjoy with coffee, tea, or hot chocolate!
Chocolate Peppermint Stars
Soft low carb chocolate cookies in a chocolate peppermint coating. Sugar-free and grain-free and perfect for the holidays.
1 Faithful Fruitcake
Irresistible Fruitcake Cookies
These irresistible Fruitcake Cookies will blow your mind with incredible flavor & soft texture. The perfect Christmas cookie recipe for exchanges & parties
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What are some of your favorite memories making cookies.at Christmastime? I hope you and your family build long-lasting memories this year baking some of these amazing treats these bloggers have to offer! Merry Christmas to you all!
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I love this post of the all the wonderful cookies. There are just so many that I can’t wait to try and make! They all look so yummy😋
I hope you find a few to test out this year 🙂
Yummy cookies to bake for this festive season. Those ginger bread cookies looks absolutely delicious. Thank you for sharing.
Don’t they?? I’ve never made my own gingerbread but will have to try these!
I mean, there’s literally every type of cookie you could possible want here! It’s amazing to think there’s so many different flavour combinations too. Would like to try sooo many of these! x
I am amazed at how many varieties there are — the international cookies had me drooling!
Aw, this is such a cute idea, and I love all the suggestions you’ve left here for other bakers, or even just for food-lovers like me 🙂 thanks for sharing x
Thanks so much for reading, it was fun to create!
Oh my gosh! This is absolutely the best idea ever! I love it! So much to choose from and so much fun! I will be here awhile. All the cookies anyone would want! So glad I stopped by from Twitter and the blog thread.
Thanks so much for reading! I love just scrolling through all these mouth watering pics!
They all look amazing and yummy. My favorite is the Almonds bread and chewy bread molasses cookies, or maybe I think it’s easier for me to bake these.
Those both sound great!! I have a lot to try out
Omg this idea is SO CUTE! Those Linzer cookies look amazing to me and I love gingerbread men. I might try this as a challenge and hand them out to friends and neighbors 😊
Aww that’s such a great idea! Lots of Christmas spirit
Everything looks amazing! I will need a bit of time to try and find my actual favourite ha!
Have pinned for future reference, it’s a great list x
Haha I still haven’t found mine either! So many great ones
You had me with the word cookie in the headline. I am dying to try the gingerbread molasses cookies and the orange and chocolate ones. Time to start baking more.
I will need to hit the grocery store to stock up on some flour and butter! lol
I absolutely love cookies so this is like my idea of heaven. There are so many to choose from and I want to try them all.
Me too!! I would love to taste test all of these
Oh wow, so many options! I love the Cherrys and Berries section of cookies – I never think of making fruit-related cookies, but they would be such a nice treat!
I usually only think of them in pies so was excited to see so many berries in cookies!
These all look so amazing! I can’t wait to try them. Thanks for sharing so many wonderful recipes. I’m going to be baking for days! 😊
I love to spend cold afternoons baking in a warm kitchen 🙂 Thank you!
These cookies look delicious and perfect for Christmas! I love the sound of the gingerbread snowball cookies and Oreo cookie balls!
Oreos are my favorite store-bought cookie so I love the idea of making them into another cookie!
Holy Moly!!!!! There were so many that my jaw just dropped reading about. I would love to try plenty but so afraid to mess them up and not end up at all the way they look and taste here. Can I borrow you for a minute to come over and bake???? Lol amazing post on amazing treats!!!
Haha I would need to borrow all of the food bloggers to get these done before Christmas!
Oooh these all sound so yummy! Definitely need to try some of these!
There’s so many great places to start 🙂
I have to keep remembering that Americans call biscuits cookies, whereas for us, cookies are a specific type of biscuits. A LOT of mouth watering biscuits to choose from
Haha that confuses me at times too! I believe there are a few in here with biscuits in the title 🙂
Oh my goodness this is such a great list of cookies…all I want now is a plate full of cookies. I’d eat most of these, but as I’m a lousy baker I would probably only try making the no bake cookies (thank you for including no bake options!!)
As much as I love baking sometimes the no-bake cookies are just SO easy!
Wow my country (Indonesia) is in there! There are also lots of great ideas here to try. I have pinned. Thank you for sharing x
How exciting!! I can’t wait to try treats from around the world 🙂
I am literally craving those sugary goods right now,i definitely want to try baking some of these! 🥺
Haha I am always craving cookies in December I feel like! Thanks for reading
Christmas cookies are my favorite. Thank you for this incredible resource!
You’re so welcome, I will be referring to this for awhile!
What a great roundup of so many yummy Christmas cookies! Great article and resource!
Thanks so much, I appreciate it!
WOW what a great list of Christmas cookies! I love the you modelled it after the 12 Days of Christmas.
Thank you 🙂 It was fun and challenging to put it all together!
Amazing ideas for every taste, looks so delicious.
Love german marzipan bread..
Thank you! I’d love to try the marzipan
Wow I don’t even know where to start!! I am definitely making cookies this weekend, I wish I had some in the oven right now in fact!
You and me both!! Thanks for reading!
What a lovely idea of doing 12 days of Christmas cookies! Some of these are definitely making my mouth water. I love marzipan so I think I’ll be trying that one!
Thank you! There’s so many I wish I could try right now 🙂
What a great list of cookies! I love to bake cookies at Christmas time! It is the best!
Wherr do I start? There are so many here I want to try (except Betmännchen – I won‘t eat them even when Oma makes them). Too many for just 12 days!
I don’t even know where to start with this list! They all sound incredible and utterly delicious! I don’t know which one to make first.
I am fan of chocolate cakes and cookies but faithful christmas cake reminds me of my childhood, when we use to have it during Christmas. Thanks for sharing such a mouth watering post. 😀 ❤️
Aww that sounds sweet! Thanks for reading and sharing!
I love chocolates and I’m so glad that I read this post. Now I can go on a chocolate eating spree. 😁 Thanks a lot for such wonderful recipes. Honestly, I can’t decide which one is my favorite. I love them all. 😍
There’s lots of chocolate recipes here and I’d love them all too!
Wow what a line up, literally my mouth is watering. Thank you for these, bookmarked for reference when I get baking.
There’s some really great recipes here from amazing food blogs!
What a fabulous selection of goodies we should have on the festive table! I’ve already picked a couple I want to make this year. Thanks for sharing this post!
That’s great, thank you for checking it out!
I love this idea – so cute! xx
Thank you! 🙂
Goodness gracious me! Talk about a plethora of festive sweetness! It’s amazing. I am so glad to see some gluten free cookies included here too, it’s always so hard at Christmas to find a Christmas cookie that is gluten free. Thank you for sharing.
Aww I was hoping by including a few lifestyle-based cookies it would provide some helpful options. Thank you for commenting!
All of these sound so AMAZING. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for reading!
I’m so hungry now! This is absolutely amazing. Such a great idea, and it shows just how dedicated you are to your blog! Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it 🙂
This is like… the ULTIMATE guide to Christmas cookies. Now I’ve been put in a serious baking mood and all I want to do is spend time in the kitchen making as many of these recipes as I can!
I love that feeling this time of year!! Thanks for your sweet words!
Amazing!!! 🙂 I want to try out all of these! This is such a great idea to have a whole list of cookies in just one place.
thank you so much! there’s just so many great recipes out there!
My goodness! Who knew there were so many amazing looking cookies! I’ll have to try some of these this holiday season 🙂
Me too!! It’s hard to pick just a few 😉
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Wow all these yummy cookies. We are spoilt for choice.😊 I will definitely try some recipes out!
I’ll be eating these for months!
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Oh wow these all look amazing! I need to get baking!
Thanks, I totally agree!
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