Nothing says Christmas better than Christmas cookies! This holiday season I want to share some of my favorite cookies to bake for my family. So here they are, my Top 20 Christmas Cookie Recipes!

Top 20 christmas cookie recipes.

Christmas Theme Cookie Recipes

Grinch cookies with heart sprinkles.

1. Grinch Cookies

These Grinch cookies are so cute and festive! They taste delicious, too. Filled with an Andes mint, these cookies bring the Christmas cheer!

Close up of reindeer cookies.

2. Reindeer Cookies

These adorable Reindeer cookies are easy to make and decorate. They are double chocolate chip cookies with chocolate cream cheese frosting. They have candy eyes, red candy noses, and pretzel antlers.

Close up of Christmas tree cookies.

3. Christmas Tree Cookies

These Christmas tree cookies are chocolate cookies decorated with a cute Christmas tree on top! They are rolled in cane sugar and have a simple tree design that you won’t mind piping on a whole batch of cookies!

Bite missing from cookie.

4. Snowman Cookies

These Snowman cookies are so cute! They are gingerbread cookies for that maximum festive spirit.

Stack of cookies.

5. Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

These Christmas cookies are fun, easy, and perfect for celebrating the holiday season!

One chocolate peppermint cookie taken a bite out of it.

6. Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Peppermint is one of the best Christmas flavors. It goes perfectly with chocolate in these delicious cookies.

Close up of a bite of hot cocoa cookie blossoms.

7. Hot Cocoa Blossoms

These hot cocoa blossoms are perfect for a cold winter night! My family loves them after coming in from playing in the snow!

Classic Cookie Recipes

One cookie with a bite missing.

8. The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Chocolate chip cookies are THE classic cookie, and this recipe gives you the perfect chewy cookies. There is no wrong time to make these!

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Bite missing from chocolate crinkle cookie.

9. Chocolate Crinkle Cookie

This take on the classic chocolate crinkle cookie combines the powdered sugar and crinkle top with a soft cookie and a rich chocolate taste. They are amazing!

Side view of cookies.

10. Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies

These brown butter and cinnamon cookies are stuffed with butterscotch chips and chocolate chips for a perfect upgrade from chocolate chip cookies.

Bite missing from cookie on parchment paper.

11. Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies

When you have too small of a gathering for a regular sized batch of cookies this small batch recipe is here to save the day! They are all of the joy of a full-sized batch without so many leftovers.

A bite missing from one mini M&M cookie.

12. Mini M&M Cookies

These mini M&M cookies add the color and fun of M&Ms to a chocolate chip cookie. They have mini chocolate chips and mini M&Ms so you get chocolate in every bite.

Close up of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.

13. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies bring the classic combination of peanut butter and chocolate to traditional chocolate chip cookies. You can’t go wrong with the classics!

Bite missing from peanut butter cookies.

14. Reese’s Cup Peanut Butter Cookies

These soft and chewy peanut butter cookies have a Reese’s cup in the center of the cookie! They are perfect for the Reese’s cup fans in your family.

Gourmet Cookies

Bite missing from Oreo brownie cookies.

15. Oreo Brownie Cookie

Brownie and cookie is already a delicious combination and Oreos just bring it to another level!

Oreo brookie cookie on parchment paper.

16. Oreo Brookies

These Oreo brookies are a twist on the Oreo brownie cookies where there is regular chocolate chip cookie swirled with brownie throughout the cookie. The contrast between the cookie and brownie parts makes it feel like you are getting twice the desserts.

A cherry cookie split in half showing the inside.

17. Cherry Cookies

Cherry is such a delicious flavor and it always makes me think of the holidays. These cookies are so hard to stop eating!

One chocolate marshmallow cookie split in half.

18. Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies

Toasted marshmallows are a delicious way to warm up during the winter months. There is not better way to eat them than on a chocolate cookie!

One cookie split in half.

19. Coffee Cookies

For all of you coffee lovers out there this is the perfect cookie! You can have the warm and comforting feeling of a hot cup of coffee with the joy of a cookie!

A bite missing from white chip double chocolate cookies.

20. White Chip Double Chocolate Cookies

These cookies really kick it up a notch from regular double chocolate cookies with the white chocolate chips mixed in.

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