Holiday Cookie Recipes & Tips

Christmas cookies make wonderful gifts, and cookie baking and decorating is a special event for many families. Most baked cookies can be frozen decorated or undecorated, or you can freeze your cookie dough now for baking and decorating just before the holidays. Here are dozens of cookie recipes, including basic shortbread cookies, refrigerator cookies, fancy bars, and traditional Christmas cookie recipes. Try one of the cookie recipes below, and use the index to the right for cookie mailing help, gift tags, baking and freezing tips, and links to even more cookie recipes.

Happy Holidays!

Cookie Recipes
Pecan Praline Cookies
Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Logs
Fruitcake Balls
Christmas Wreath Cookies
Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies
Candy Cane Cookies
Butterscotch Snaps
Butterscotch Pecan Refrigerator Cookies
Nut Crescent
Jam Crescents
Maple Shortbread Squares
Mocha Butterballs
Hazelnut Crackles
Toasted Sesame Seed Cookies
Peanut Butter Mini Chocolate Chip Drop Cookies
Orange Shortbread Cookies
Butter Rum Cookies
Meringue Cookies
Snow Balls
1954 Sugar Cookies
Meltaway Butter Cookies
Lemon Snowballs
Cashew Cookies
Butter Pecan Cookies
Butter Pecan Wafers
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Bright Eyed Thumbprint Cookies
Christmas Lizzies
Chocolate Coconut Macaroons
Chocolate Meringue Cookies
Anise Cookies
Anise Cookies II
Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
Shortbread
Peanut Butter Chocolate Pinwheels
Chocolate Shortbread
Chocolate Chip Thumbprint
Springerle
Easy Cherry Rum Balls
Rocky Road Cookies
Pinwheels with Cinnamon
Candied Fruit Jewels
Almond Crescents
Ginger Spice Cookie
Shortbread Cookie
Lemon Butter Cookies
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Aunt Frieda's Brown Sugar Cookies
Festive Spice Cookies
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Brown Sugar Hazelnut Cookies
Lemonade Cookies
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Reindeer Cookie Recipe
Jam Filled Cookies
Basic Cookie Dough and Ribbon Cookies
Melting Moments
Old-Fashioned Walnut Balls
Chunky Brazil Nut Drop Cookies
Fruit Nut Wreaths
Cream Cheese Cookies
Chocolate Pecan Wafers
Walnut Crescents
Cherry-Nut Cookies
Date Pecan Oatmeal Cookies
Secret Kiss Cookies
Orange Slice Cookies/Bars
Thumbprint Cookies
Date Fingers
Coconut Balls
Christmas Sand Tarts
Coconut Macaroon Cookies
Jubilee Jumbles
Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Forgotten Cookies
Lemon Spritz Cookies
Cream Cheese Crescents
Butterscotch-Pecan Shortbread
Cocoa Drop Cookies
Chocolate Pinwheels
Buttery Almond Balls
Chocolate Crinkles
Corn Flake Macaroons
Magic Cookie Bars
Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps
Peanut Butter Biscotti
Pecan Fingers
Sour Cream Cookie Dough
Sugar Cookies
Pecan Tassies

More Cookies and Related Recipes and Cookie Baking Tips

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Mailing Cookies
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