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Christmas Cookies Recipes

These Christmas cookies are recipes you will want to make again and again.
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  4. Sugar Cookie Recipes (10)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy -- perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges.

Chocolate Covered Shortbread Recipe

Shortbread is baked in a round cake pan then drizzled with chocolate in this buttery, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate-covered shortbread recipe.

Chocolate Cranberry Brownie Mix Cookies

These chocolate cranberry cookies are moist and chewy, with just the right amount of punch from the sweetened dried cranberries.

Chocolate Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe

This chocolate Mexican wedding cookies recipe is similar to the Mexican wedding cookies you've always enjoyed, but with a chocolate dough.

Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies - Christmas Cookies

These chocolate peppermint pinwheel cookies aren't too sweet, and they really look attractive on a display of Christmas cookies.

Christmas Cookies

These Christmas cookies are the most requested recipes of the year. Tender and sweet, these Christmas cookies include classic recipes for sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies, plus some new updates.

Christmas Cookies

These Christmas cookies include traditional sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, wedding cookies, chocolate chip cookies and more easy Christmas cookies recipes.

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cranberry white chocolate chip cookies are chewy and cakey -- the perfect drop cookie recipe for all occasions.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

This double chocolate chip cookies recipe is for the chocolate-lovers at your Christmas cookie swap or tree-trimming party. A soft chocolate cookie is enhanced with chocolate chips for a double dose of chocolate flavor in this incredible chocolate chocolate chip cookies recipe.

Easy Kids Christmas Cookies

These easy kids Christmas cookies are recipes that appeal to kids and are easy enough to make with kids. Classic Christmas cookie recipes are featured here, including recipes for sugar cookies, plus some new easy Christmas cookies, like recipes for key lime sugar cookies. Try them all!

Freezing Cookies 101

Freezing cookies for Christmas or anytime is easy when you follow these simple tips. To freeze cookies, you can freeze cookie dough or freeze baked cookies. When ready to heat, you can thaw cookies in the refrigerator, then bake, or bake your freezer cookies right from the frozen state.

Haystacks

These haystacks are made with chocolate chips, butter and chow mein noodles for a sweet treat that takes just a few minutes to prepare.

Holiday Cookies

Welcome to Holiday Cookies 101, your virtual class on holiday cookie ideas, making holiday cookie recipes in advance and freezing them, decorating holiday cookies and sharing your cookies and recipes through holiday cookie exchanges.

Holiday Cookies for Every Taste

These holiday cookies are perfect for cookie exchange parties, giving to friends or Santa. Make these holiday recipes with the kids!

Jam Filled Cookies Recipe

This jam cookies recipe is easy to make because you make the jam-filled cookies in one long strip. The jam cookies are then cut into strips. A drizzle of white chocolate makes these jam filled cookies delish.

Key Lime Mexican Wedding Cookies - Mexican Wedding Cakes

Mexican wedding cookies get a little taste of the tropics with the flavors of lime and coconut added to this key lime Mexican wedding cookies recipe.

Kiss Cookies Recipes

Kiss cookies are the perfect easy Christmas cookies to make with the kids. These kiss cookie recipes come in all sorts of flavors.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Peanut butter blossoms are a soft peanut butter cookie topped with Hershey kiss. A crowd-pleasing cookie recipe, these peanut blossoms are perfect for everything from picnics to bake sales.

Peanut Butter Cookies with Mini Peanut Butter Cups

This peanut butter cookies recipe is ideal for people who love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Mini peanut butter cups dot these peanut butter cookies.

Pretzel Kisses Recipe

This pretzel kisses recipe makes a terrific Christmas cookie for cookie swaps or just to give to friends. Kids love making these pretzel kisses cookies.

Soft Chocolate Cookies with Chocolate Peanut Butter Icing

These soft chocolate cookies make a wonderful Christmas cookie recipe for cookie swaps, tree-trimming parties or just munching on while opening presents.

Wedding Cookies with Oatmeal

These wedding cookies, also called Mexican wedding cookies and Italian wedding cookies, are made with butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla, flour, oatmeal and pecans. Two dustings of confectioners' sugar lends a melt-in-your-mouth taste to these wedding cookies.

White Chocolate Raspberry Tartlets

White chocolate chips and raspberry preserves fill these mini chocolate tart cookies.

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