46 Festive Christmas Cookies To Bake This Holiday Season

All the flavors of Christmas in a single cookie topped with a delicious and fluffy peppermint buttercream frosting.

Recipe: Mint Chocolate Cookies With Mint Frosting

These might be the easiest, laziest sugar cookies of all time, but they still taste amazing. You can use cold butter (a major time saver), you don't need to chill the dough for hours (20 minutes in the freezer is good enough), and you don't even need any cookie cutters, piping bags, or food dye.

Recipe: Unfussy Sugar Cookies

A classic cookie with an unexpected twist: adding sumac to your snickerdoodles turns basic cookies into a sweet, tangy, and unique treat.

Recipe: Sumac Snickerdoodles

Yes to anything chocolate and salted caramel. Yes to how pretty these are. Yes to everything about them.

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Cookies With Salted Caramel

If you prefer your dessert a little boozy, these Bourbon cookies are for you.

Get the recipe: Bourbon Balls

Disclaimer: these rainbow cookies take 11 hours to make, but you'll only be actively baking for about two hours. The rest is just waiting around, and the result is well worth the time and effort.

Recipe: Seven-Layer Cookies

Even if you don't own a cookie stamp set, you can still absolutely make these cookies.

Recipe: Stamped Christmas Cookies: Brown Butter Muscovado

These soft and chewy cookies are filled with cream cheese frosting and topped with honey and crushed Graham crackers. Need I say more?

Recipe: Frosted Honey Graham Cookies

These masterpieces are filled with white chocolate buttercream, but if you get lazy you can also use marshmallow fluff. I won't tell a soul.

Recipe: Molasses Cream Pie Cookies

The best of French and Japanese flavors combine to make these delicate treats.

Recipe: Matcha Macarons

These are almost too pretty to eat (key word: almost). You won't be able to resist going back for seconds and thirds of these sugar cookies.

Recipe: Glazed Sugar Cookies With Buttercream "Embroidery"

All the flavors of carrot cake in cookie form? Sign me up!

Recipe: Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies With Cream Cheese Glaze

Any excuse to bake with lemon curd is a win in my book.

Recipe: Lemon Curd Cookies

These are a take on Anzac biscuits, which are made with oats, golden syrup, and coconut and are very popular in Australia and New Zealand. This recipe calls for dried cranberries, but you can also use raisins or dried cherries.

Recipe: Cranzac Cookies

These soft and chewy cinnamon cookies are topped with cream cheese so they taste like cinnamon rolls in cookie form.

Recipe: Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Double the chocolate is always a good idea.

Recipe: Double Chocolate Peppermint Fudge Cookies

This baking project is a bit of an undertaking, but for anyone looking for a challenge this holiday season, you'll be so proud of the results.

Recipe: Macchiato Macarons

Inspired by Neapolitan ice cream, this cookie flavor trio includes vanilla, matcha, and hojicha (another Japanese green tea).

Recipe: Matcha Neapolitan Cookies

These sweet and tender cream cheese cookies are so easy to make, they're a great baking project to make with kids.

Recipe: Classic Cream Cheese Cutout Cookies

Do these cookies and cream bars count as cookies? I'm going to say yes.

Recipe: Cookies and Cream Breakaway

A quick and easy cookie recipe, these don't require any chilling and are ready in under an hour.

Recipe: Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies

Whoever first came up with the idea to put pretzels in cookies deserves a Nobel prize. This recipe adds chocolate chunks and mini marshmallows into the mix for even more deliciousness. We are truly not worthy.

Recipe: Chubby Rocco Cookies

There's no icing or fancy decorating required for these crispy-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside cookies.

Recipe: Brown Sugar Cookies

Ok, technically these are pastries and not cookies, but who cares? They're filled with rhubarb jam and rosewater and topped with toasted pistachios.

Recipe: Rhubarb and Pistachio Rugelach

Turning your favorite candy bar into cookies is never a bad idea.

Recipe: Twix Thumbprint Cookies

Go ahead and decorate your heart out. These sugar cookies are the ultimate festive treat.

Recipe: Slice ‘n’ Bake Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookies With Whipped Buttercream

This chewy, indulgent dessert is ready in just 40 minutes.

Recipe: Chewy Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

As if shortbread cookies weren't delicious enough, add some rich melted chocolate and crunchy hazelnuts to the mix.

Recipe: Chocolate-Hazelnut Shortbreads

They smell like Christmas and they taste like Christmas. These cookies are basically Christmas.

Recipe: Gingerbread Cookies

IMHO, dark chocolate and orange is one of the best flavor combos in the world. Don't at me.

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Orange Biscotti

If you've ever been to Canada, you've probably seen these iconic maple cookies. This is a homemade version, but with some chai spices added to the mix.

Recipe: Chai Spiced Maple Sugar Cookies

If you liked "The Cookie", you're going to love these salted pistachio and chocolate slice-and-bake beauties.

Recipe: Salted Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Slice and Bake Cookies

Half brownies, half cookies, these sweets offer the best of both worlds.

Recipe: Salted Chocolate Brownie Cookies