20 Best Holiday Cookie Recipes (Plus FREE Printables!)

Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

Baked with Dutch cocoa and a hint of molasses, these cookies are big and chewy and filled with all the warm, cozy gingerbread spices that we look forward to all year long. Rolled in sugar and baked to perfection with no chilling time, these jumbo gingerbread cookies are all I want for Christmas.

Brown Butter Iced Oatmeal Cookies

I’m calling it. These Brown Butter Iced Oatmeal Cookies win MVP for the coziest cookie ever. With their soft centers, crinkly, craggily, chewy edges and buttery, warmly spiced flavor, these snow-capped cookies are reminiscent of the Mother’s iced oatmeal cookies we all know and love from our childhood. Be sure to double (or triple!) the batch because they won’t last long!

Gingerbread Snickerdoodles

Meet the Gingerdoodle. A delicious mash up of two holiday favorites, these cookies are soft and chewy, perfectly spiced and would you just look at that signature snickerdoodle crackle. One bite and you’ll be hooked!! These cookies bake up sturdy and stay fresh for days which makes them perfect for stacking, packing and shipping!

Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars

If you need dessert in a hurry, sugar cookie bars are the answer. These super soft and perfectly buttery sugar cookie bars are the perfect last minute holiday dessert to feed a crowd. Topped with a generous layer of vanilla buttercream and festive sprinkles, these one pan wonders are as easy as they are delicious!

Hot Chocolate Cookies

Rich and fudgy hot chocolate cookies are everything you could want in a cookie…and more! Soft in the center, chewy on the edges and filled with clouds of pillowy white marshmallow fluff. Made with real hot cocoa in the dough, these cookies are the perfect wintertime treat!

Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies

These old fashioned molasses cookies taste like they’re straight from a blue-ribbon bake off. Made with rich, brown butter and bursting with warm cozy spices these cookies are on repeat in my kitchen every holiday season. With their crisp edges, moist centers and rich, brown butter flavor, I have a feeling these cookies will be your new favorite holiday tradition too!

Hot Chocolate Brownie Cookies

These cookies have all the best qualities of a brownie but in cookie form…rich, fudgy centers, chewy edges, shiny crackled tops and mega chocolate flavor. And with a hint of hot cocoa flavor in every bite, they’re can’t-keep-your-hand-out-of-the-cookie-jar GOOD!

Peppermint Brownie Cookies

With their chewy edges and soft centers these cookies are made ultra festive with bits of peppermint bark – perfect for serving up to your holiday house guests and even Santa himself!

Peppermint Brownie Cookie Sandwiches

Since two cookies are better than one, these mini peppermint brownie cookie sandwiches are exactly what the holidays ordered. Filled with a swirl of fluffy peppermint buttercream, drizzled with melted dark chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy canes these cookie will make your holiday extra merry!

Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies

Everyone needs an easy and delicious sugar cookie recipe in their back pocket and this is IT!!! These quick and easy cookies have deliciously crispy edges and super chewy centers that will keep you coming back for seconds (and thirds!). Frost them with icing, roll them in sprinkles, dunk ’em in cinnamon sugar or just devour them warm from the oven. Whatever you do, make these cookies!

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

With their rich and fudgy centers and sugar-dusted tops, these chocolate sugar cookies are a deliciously chocolatey twist on my classic sugar cookies. Easy to make with just a handful of ingredients and no chill time, these cookies belong at the tippy-top of your holiday baking list!

Gingerbread Latte Cookies

Drink your gingerbread latte and eat it to with these delightfully soft and chewy Gingerbread Latte Cookies. Made with a perfect blend of warm, cozy spices and a hint of espresso, these cookies will be all anyone can talk about this holiday season!

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with not two, but three(!!!), kinds of chocolate which makes them positively indulgent. These cookies are a chocolate lover’s dream! Not only do they deliver big-time chocolate flavor, but they’re easy to make and stay fresh for days.

Red Velvet Cookies

Talk about love at first bite! These red velvet cookies are soft and chewy on the inside with a rich, fudgy texture that makes them positively irresistible. You’ll want to make them over and over again! Add a dollop of cream cheese frosting for an extra decadent dessert.

Brookies Cookies

Your sweet tooth is calling but you just can’t decide between a cookie and a brownie. Now you don’t have to! Introducing Brookies Cookies. Half rich, fudgy brownie, half ooey gooey chocolate chip cookie….these brookies cookies are 100% delicious.

Chocolate Snickerdoodles

This delicious, chocolatey twist on the classic snickerdoodle rivals anything you’ll find at your favorite bakery. You’ll love these rich, chewy cookies that taste even better on the second (and third!) day after baking. These cookies have soft, moist centers that hold their flavor and texture for days – if they last that long!

Brown Butter Snickerdoodles

Made with rich, brown butter, a hint of maple and a generous coating of cinnamon sugar, these cookies are the definition of cozy. It’s impossible to eat just one!

Fluffernutter Cookies

These large, bakery style cookies are the ultimate, over-the-top cookie. A close cousin of the s’mores, this peanut butter and marshmallow fluff treat has all the sticky deliciousness without the fuss of a finding a flame. Enjoy these cookies straight from the oven – there is no other way.

Chocolate Dipped Hazelnut Biscotti

These delightfully dunkable classic Italian biscotti are far easier to make than you might think. Loaded with heaps of toasty hazelnut flavor, these cookies will become a delicious holiday tradition. Drizzle, dip or dunk them in melted dark, milk or white chocolate.

Funfetti Sugar Cookies

These easy funfetti sugar cookies feel like an instant party and they are the perfect treat for the kid in all of us. I’m a firm believer that you’re never too old for cookies stuffed with rainbow sprinkles and these confetti cuties are sure to put the happy in your holidays!

Happy Holidays and happy baking!

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