These easy Christmas cookie recipes and swap cookie ideas are great for holiday party treats or Christmas cookies for a cookie exchange, cookies contest, holiday bake sale ideas, or Christmas party foods. Start a new Christmas tradition this year with friends and family with these easy recipes and homemade food gifts for holidays.
Best Christmas Cookies For Cookie Swap Cookie Ideas or Christmas Party Treats
These cookie exchange ideas and recipes are perfect for cookie walk cookies, holiday treat exchange ideas, or fun additions to your Christmas desserts table.
This list of Christmas assorted cookies includes the best no spread cookie cutter sugar cookies for traditional Christmas cookies, old fashioned Christmas cookies / vintage Christmas cookie recipes, easy Christmas cake mix cookies and even some homemade candy and to mix in with your cookie platter and Christmas party baked goods!
No Spread Sugar Cookies
We have a cookie decorating party at our house every year and, no matter what, I could not make sugar cookies that didn’t spread out when I baked them (and then everyone had to try and guess the shape while decorating).
Until I got this traditional Christmas cookie recipe.
This is a cutout cookie recipe my friend’s mom shared with me after I asked her why her sugar cookies NEVER spread out and remain firm and crisp (and buttery!).
This is a tried and true recipe. If you’re making holiday cookies to decorate or looking for the classic Christmas cut-out cookies, this is the recipe you need.
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Ritz Cracker Cookies
We call these “white cookies” and they are a Christmas tradition recipe that my mom makes each year for the holidays (and gifts as homemade food gifts!).
If you’ve never had them, peanut butter crackers dipped in chocolate might sound weird. But, you have to trust me on this one! This is one of THE BEST cookie recipes EVER.
We fight over who gets to eat the last one at our house!
PRINT THE RITZ WHITE CHOCOLATE COOKIE RECIPE
Chocolate Covered Oreos Christmas Cookies
I love to give these chocolate dipped Oreos as with homemade food gifts for Christmas (like paired up with this DIY hot cocoa jar gift).
They’re such a festive Christmas cookie that everyone seems to love and you can make them with just a few ingredients.
Fast and easy!
LEARN HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE OREOS
Peanut Blossom Cookies
These are traditional peanut butter cookies at our house. There’s just something yummy about that bite of peanut butter and chocolate from the Hershey’s Kisses.
This is an easy cookie recipe that kids and adults love.
GET THE RECIPE FOR KISS PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Cake Mix Cookies
This is one of my new favorite recipes for cookies.
If you’ve never tried cookies using cake mix (yes! boxed cake mixes!), you’ll be surprised at this easy recipe and how good these cookies are. They make soft chewy cookies!
Plus, you can make them any cake mix flavor you want. (We just happened to make them as chocolate cookies.)
PRINT THE CAKE MIX COOKIE RECIPE
Peanut Butter Cookies
You will never make old fashioned peanut butter cookies the same way after this cookie recipe!
These are 3-ingredient cookies and are such a quick and easy recipe that makes a crispy peanut butter cookie.
If you want to add another simple ingredient, you can make them into Hershey’s Kiss Peanut Butter Blossom cookies.
PRINT THE EASY PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE
Fried Oreos
These easy air fryer Oreos dusted with powdered sugar will take straight to strolling the fair midway on a warm summer night!
These sweet treats maintain that deep-fried Oreo taste without all the extras that come along with deep frying foods.
Easy snacks that are ready in just minutes!
Dusted with white powdered sugar, they make really pretty Christmas cookies on the Christmas desserts table.
GET THE RECIPE FOR FRIED OREOS
No Bake Cookies And Cream Bars
This is another holiday recipe that we’ve had good luck with at holiday bakes sales or are popular for cookie swap parties at Christmas.
These Christmas cookie bars are a no bake cookie recipe and are so simple that you can make them as a last minute Christmas recipe
GET THE RECIPE FOR OREO COOKIE BARS
Brownie Cookie Bites
These brownie bites are kind of a cross between Christmas candy and a holiday dessert cookie.
No matter when we make these, there are never any left.
To decorate them for the holidays, you can roll them in crushed peppermints / crushed candy canes and even add a little peppermint flavoring to the chocolate using this.
PRINT THE BROWNIE BITES RECIPE
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I hope you enjoy these easy Christmas cookie recipes!
