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Home | Recipes | Desserts | Christmas Cookies | Page 2

Christmas Cookies

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to celebrate than by baking some delicious Christmas cookies? From classic Christmas Sugar Cookies to delicate Windowpane Cookies and spicy Lebkuchen, a traditional German Christmas cookie, our recipes are perfect for adding a festive touch to your holiday season.

Our easy-to-follow instructions and tips ensure that even novice bakers can create beautiful and delicious cookies. Whether you’re baking for friends, family, or a holiday party, our Christmas cookie recipes will help you spread the joy of the season with every sweet bite.

A scalloped round sugar cookie with a heart-shaped windowpane cutout hanging from a tree branch.
A wooden tray with 4 squares of double butterscotch blondies, with nuts sprinkled around them.

Double Butterscotch Blondies

50 mins

Nine chocolate thumbprint cookies and a chocolate covered spoon on a round wooden board.

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

1 hr 25 mins

A pink bowl filled with flower-shaped sugar cookies topped with decorating sugar

Valentine’s Sugar Cookies

30 mins

Squiggles of melted chocolate on a piece of parchment with a piping bag lying beside.

How To Decorate With Melted Chocolate

30 mins

A plate with seven chocolate-ginger crinkle cookies

Chocolate Ginger Crinkle Cookies

1 hr 15 mins

Coconut lime cookies drizzled with icing and garnished with lime zest on wax paper.

Coconut Lime Cookies

1 hr 15 mins

Three stacks of chewy molasses cookies on a white marble cake stand.

Chewy Molasses Cookies

45 mins

A pile of cream-filled macarons, each in a white wrapper.

Cream-Filled Meringue Cookies

2 hrs 30 mins

Walnut crescents stacked on a white stand with Christmas decorations and greenery around them.

Walnut Crescent Cookies

50 mins

A baking sheet with four rows of baked fig rugelach.

Fig Rugelach

3 hrs

Ten whole, plus one broken butter cookies on a piece of crumpled parchment paper.

French Butter Cookies

2 hrs 30 mins

A stack of cranberry pistachio biscotti cookies tied together with raffia. with cranberries scattered around.

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

1 hr 45 mins

An elaborately decorated gingerbread house

How To Make A Gingerbread House

4 hrs

Three stacks of gingersnaps, one broken cookie, and a glass bottle of milk

Bacon Fat Gingersnaps

45 mins

Five round pistachio shortbread cookies with a few broken pistachios on the side.

Pistachio Shortbread Cookies

45 mins

Royal icing being piped onto a cookie by a young girl being helped by her mother, surrounded by jars of sprinkles, cookie cutters, and wooden spoons.

Royal Icing

10 mins

Star-shaped cookies on a piece of parchment paper.

Chinese Five-Spice Cookies

1 hr 40 mins

Pieces of light and dark gingerbread, with two people cut out of the dark, and a tree shape cut out of the light gingerbread.

Light and Dark Gingerbread Cookies

3 hrs

Assorted shaped lebkuchen decorated with white and chocolate icing.

Lebkuchen

5 hrs

A pile of diamond-shaped biscochitos in a wooden bowl.

Biscochitos

1 hr 30 mins

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