35 Of The Most Delicious Christmas Cookie Recipes You'll Find (2024)

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There are many reasons to love the holidays, but Christmas cookies are definitely on the top of that list. With that in mind, we gathered together all the important Christmas cookie recipes you need to get through this season — we’re talking shortbread, sugar cookies and lots of peppermint. We have some great twists on classics, too (think crinkles with a mocha coconut upgrade).

We have easy recipes for the amateur baker, like holiday shortbread — seriously, anyone can make these — and then we have Christmas cookie recipes that require a little more work, like linzers. Give a few (dozen) of them a try.Because it isn’t really the holidays unless you bake some cookies, whether you’re a baker or not.

Easy Slice ‘N’ Bake Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookies

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Peppermint Pattie Cookies

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Brown Butter Shortbread

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Chocolate Dipped Vanilla Bean Cashew Crescent Cookies

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Red Velvet Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies

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Pink Peppermint Macarons

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Chewy Triple Ginger Cookies

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Chocolate Mint Thumbprint Cookies

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White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

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35 Of The Most Delicious Christmas Cookie Recipes You'll Find (2024)

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What are the top 5 favorite cookies? ›

Some of the most popular cookie flavors include:

Chocolate chip.
Peanut butter.
Peanut butter blossoms.
Double chocolate chip.
Snickerdoodle.
Sugar.
Shortbread.
Pumpkin.

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What is the least popular Christmas cookie? ›

On the naughty list of cookies, Americans gave the lowest win records to anise cookies, which only won 29% of its matchups.

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Which cookie has been deemed most popular during Christmas? ›

Gingerbread Cookies are the most popular Christmas cookies Virginia and Ohio. 19% of the American population enjoyed baking cookies during the holiday season. Snickerdoodles hold the position of top Christmas cookie in Idaho. Peanut Butter Blossoms are most popular in Michigan.

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What is the #1 cookie in the United States? ›

The chocolate chip cookie is far and away America's favorite cookie This should come as no surprise to anyone who enjoys the tasty treat. More than 53% of American adults prefer the cookies over the next most popular kind, peanut butter.

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What is the number one holiday cookie? ›

Peanut Butter Blossoms are America's favorite Christmas cookie, based both on total number of pageviews from the U.S. population as a whole, and number of states that ranked it as their top cookie (which is six, by the way).

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What is the #1 cookie in the world? ›

Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co.

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What is the most loved cookie? ›

Chocolate chip cookies

What is the most popular type of cookie? It might just be this one.

What is the 2nd most popular cookie? ›

Nabisco Oreo was the second ranked cookie brand of the United States with about 674.2 million U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2017.

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What is America's favorite Christmas cookies? ›

Speaking of holiday baking, nearly half of the country has a favorite Christmas cookie. Among those who can make a single choice, frosted sugar cookies lead the list (32%), with gingerbread (12%) and chocolate chip (11%) rounding out the top three.

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What is the most popular cookie in December? ›

What are the most popular Christmas cookies? Our survey found frosted sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies to be the most popular Christmas cookies in the country. They were the fan favorites in 39 states.

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What is Santa Claus's favorite cookie? ›

Chocolate Chip cookies

Santa himself lists these as his favorites, and he prefers them soft and gooey with lots of chocolate chips. If you decide to leave these out for him, make sure there's a glass of cold milk nearby!

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What was the first Christmas cookie? ›

History. Modern Christmas cookies can trace their history to recipes from Medieval Europe biscuits, when many modern ingredients such as cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, almonds and dried fruit were introduced into the west.

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What is the most sold cookie? ›

Oreo is the world's best-selling cookie and has been a favorite for over 100 years. Its popularity can be attributed to its unique sandwich cookie design and creamy filling.

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What is the name of Christmas cookie? ›

Classic Christmas Cookies

They're the ones you might remember from the platters of your childhood, like snickerdoodles, molasses cookies, macaroons, sugar cookies and more. Every single one of these recipes is a tried and true favorite and is perfect for carrying on your cookie traditions year after year.

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What is Santa's second favorite cookie? ›

2. Holiday Candy Cookie Bites – Number two on the list of Santa's favorite cookies is Holiday Candy Cookie Bites, which is a holiday version of the year-round favorite, Chocolate Chip Cookies. Instead of traditional chocolate chips, these cookies are studded with red and green candies and white baking chips.