25 Holiday Cookie Favorites
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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Oh My! Averie, these all look amazing! Are you trying to make me fat? I can’t wait to try them all.
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!
These cookies look incredibly tempting! What a fabulous holiday baking lineup. Your Quadruple Chocolate Soft Fudgy Pudding Cookies look especially delicious.
They all look amazing! So hard to pick just one so I’d like a sample of all. :)
Enjoy your Friday, Averie!
Amazing collection of holiday cookies! Going to be trying a few on this list!
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 :)
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 :)
Chocolate Lava Nutella Cookies! Averie, seriously, where have you been all my life?!? Amazing. I’m bookmarking your blog right.this.second.
Enjoy! :)
Ahh! All of these look so amazing! I will have to make some of these recipes.
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 :)
Averie, I am dying over those molasses cookies!!
Can’t wait to start my holiday cookie baking!!!
Averie,
Love these cookies. So many delicious recipes, I can’t pick just one.
Annamaria
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!
Oh I love your cookies. I want one of each!
Pinned it! They look so delicious, can’t choose wich one to bake :)
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!
I seriously want one of each!! I love them all! ;) You cookie queen you ;) Pinned!
Thanks for pinning!! :)