25 Holiday Cookie Favorites
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If you’re looking for tried and true holiday cookie recipes that’ll be a hit with your family, friends, and cookie exchanges you’re a part of, you’ve come to the right place.
Here are 25 of my favorites!
Chocolate Kiss Powder Puff Cookies – Easiest cookies ever with only 3 ingredients! The Kiss in the middle makes everyone smile! So fun!
The Best Snickerdoodles – Soft, pillowy puffs that are so irresistible! The closest recipe to Mrs. Fields snickerdoodles that you’ll find!
Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies – Move over butter, cream cheese makes these cookies thick and super soft!
Soft and Chewy Nutella White Chocolate Chip Cookies – Thick, rich, chocolaty cookies that are so soft you won’t be able to resist them!
Soft and Chewy Molasses Gingerdoodles – 3 favorites combined! Soft molasses cookies, chewy gingerbread and crinkly snickerdoodles! So good!
Soft and Chewy White Chocolate Cream Cheese Cookies – Move over butter, cream cheese makes these cookies thick and super soft!
Andes Mint Chip Soft Fudgy Chocolate Cookies – Big, thick, fudgy chocolate cookies with a hint of mint and loads of chocolate in every bite!
The Best Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies – My favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies! Just one bite and I think you’ll agree!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Turtle Cookies – Soft and chewy cookies with a Turtle in the middle and drizzled with salted caramel! So.darn.good.
Soft and Chewy Sugar-Doodle Vanilla Cookies – Part soft sugar cookie, part chewy snickerdoodle, with tons of rich vanilla flavor!
Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies – For true chocolate lovers, these super soft cookies are loaded with chocolate!
Molasses Triple Chocolate Cookies – Soft, chewy molasses cookies get jazzed up with three kinds of chocolate! Molasses and chocolate is an amazing combo!
Chocolate Lava Nutella Cookies – Triple chocolate cookies with flowing, melted dark chocolate in the middle! Out of this world good!
Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Scotchies Cookies – My favorite oatmeal cookie base loaded with sweet butterscotch chips! A classic cookie that you’ve just got to try!
Red Velvet Gooey Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies – The softest, moistest, gooiest cookies ever! They’re so buttery they just melt in your mouth!
Cream Cheese Cookies – Big, soft, buttery cookies with sweet and tangy cream cheese in the middle!! Oh my….Best thumbprints ever!
Reese’s Pieces Soft Peanut Butter Cookies – Peanut butter lovers’ will go nuts for these super soft cookies loaded with Reese’s Pieces & chocolate!
Soft Molasses Coconut Oil Crinkle Cookies – No butter, no problem! Some of my favorite molasses cookies ever and you’ll never miss the butter!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies (GF) – There’s NO Flour, NO Butter, and NO White sugar used! Soft, chewy and oozing with dark chocolate. Crazy good!
Cranberry and White Chocolate Chip Cookies – Tastes like a Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bars in cookie form!
The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies – Soft, chewy, loaded with chocolate, and they turn out perfectly every time! Totally irresistible!
Homemade Thin Mints – Only 3 ingredients in this spot-on copycat version of real Thin Mints! Ridiculously easy recipe!
Soft and Chewy Seven Layer Magic Bar Cookies – All the ingredients in the classic bars, but baked in cookies! They’re loaded with graham crackers, coconut, butterscotch, and chocolate!
Vanilla Melting Moments Sandwich Cookies with Nutella-Cream Cheese Filling – So soft that they literally melt in your mouth! And the filling is the kind you want to eat by the spoonful!
Thick and Soft Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies – Richly and intensely chocolate-flavored cookies with NO Flour, NO Butter, and NO White sugar used. They’re thick, dense, soft, chewy and almost brownie-like!
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31 Comments on “25 Holiday Cookie Favorites”
These look amazing! Do they freeze well? I assume you make cookie balls and stick them in the freezer then defrost for 15 minutes or so and bake? My 4 year old said we have to make them all today 😜 I’ll try to oblige 😁😉
Yes regarding freezing in balls and then defrosting. Or just bake straight from freezer to oven, add a couple extra mins to baking time.
Hi Averie! I just wanted to say thank you for your recipes. They are well-written, easy to follow, and delicious. I also appreciate the storage and freezing tips that you give. Truly complete recipes. Thank you for your time and for sharing the results.
You are welcome and so glad you are happy with my recipes and find them well written, easy to follow, and delicious!
I seriously want one of each!! I love them all! ;) You cookie queen you ;) Pinned!
Thanks for pinning!! :)
Holy wow, what a great recipe roundup!! They all look and sound absolutely delicious. I’m celiac but still drooling over all of them! Keep up the great work!
Pinned it! They look so delicious, can’t choose wich one to bake :)
Thanks for pinning!
Oh I love your cookies. I want one of each!
How do you even pick 25 out of all your recipes?
I ilove that these are all “basic” recipes. Nothing crazy – no over the top, outrageous, loaded with everything, no weird ingredients – just COOKIES. GOOD cookies.
Soooo many cookies. So hard to pick, but yes, I tried to stick with some basics and nothing weird. You know I’ll never put beans in brownies type of thing!
Averie,
Love these cookies. So many delicious recipes, I can’t pick just one.
Annamaria
Can’t wait to start my holiday cookie baking!!!
Averie, I am dying over those molasses cookies!!
I’ll take 1 of everything. And eat them all in a single sitting. Then run 15 miles the next day. And repeat every day until Christmas. ;) Pinned!
Thanks for pinning and tis the season for cardio :)
Ahh! All of these look so amazing! I will have to make some of these recipes.
Chocolate Lava Nutella Cookies! Averie, seriously, where have you been all my life?!? Amazing. I’m bookmarking your blog right.this.second.
Enjoy! :)
Oh my goodness! So many amazing cookie recipes where do I begin!!! pinned :)
Thanks for pinning and going through these made me want one of each all over again :)
I love (and want) every single one!!
I do too. Except I’m drinking beet juice right now rather than cookies…girl. I know you know what it’s like to have SO MANY COOKIES around :)
Amazing collection of holiday cookies! Going to be trying a few on this list!
They all look amazing! So hard to pick just one so I’d like a sample of all. :)
Enjoy your Friday, Averie!
These cookies look incredibly tempting! What a fabulous holiday baking lineup. Your Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies look especially delicious.
This is one sweet round up–they all look amazing and beautiful! It would be fun to have a big cookie exchange with some of your other readers–we could all use your recipes and sample everything that way!
I am actually going to a craft fair with my daughter and am going to clean out my freezer stash of literally hundreds of dough balls and bake them off :) I love things like that to sample other people’s homemade stuff!
Oh My! Averie, these all look amazing! Are you trying to make me fat? I can’t wait to try them all.
SENSATIONAL cookie recipe roundup!