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Bless This Mess › Recipes › Desserts › Cookies › Christmas Cookies

Best Ever Christmas Cookie Recipes

Looking for the Best Ever Christmas Cookie Recipes for your holiday baking? Here are 50+ of the best Christmas cookie ideas to choose from—and counting!

Not sure where to start? These easy gingerbread cookies are always a hit and are super fun to decorate. We also love Grandma Lucy’s Christmas Sugar Cookies!

Our family enjoys giving these Easy Vanilla Melt Away Cookies and the Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies to friends and family.

A baking tray with decorated gingerbread cookies in various shapes: hearts, stars, and gingerbread people. Green and red icing for gingerbread cookies with sprinkles. Nearby are bowls of red and green icing and a bowl of sprinkles.

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The Perfect Icing for Gingerbread Cookies

Assorted festive sugar cookies in the shapes of Christmas trees and stars, decorated with a sugar cookie icing recipe in green, red, and yellow hues, plus colorful sprinkles, resting on a cooling rack.

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Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe for Perfect Holiday Decorating

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Italian Wedding Cookies

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Gingerbread Wreath

black and white iced cookies exactly half and half split of each color on a cooling rack

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Black and White Cookies

top view of traditionally decorated holiday ginger-people cookies on a sheet pan

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Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

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Christmas Cookies

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close up top view of a cooling rack cracked cookies that are nearly white on top but the cracks reveals dark chocolaty lines

Christmas Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Christmas Cookies

Gingersnap Cookies

POV a hand putting icing along the bottom of a gingerbread bird house

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A gingerbread house recipe brings to life Santa's Workshop, featuring colorful candy roof tiles, icing, peppermint poles, and a sign reading "Elves at Work." Green iced trees and a candy path lead to the door.

Christmas Recipes

Best Homemade Gingerbread House | Recipe + Template

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From Scratch Recipes

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