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20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

A festive collection of delicious Christmas cookies to exchange with your friends and family!

Published 7 Mar 2024

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies

“The classic combination of chocolate and peppermint make these Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies the perfect treat for the holidays!”

Gingerbread Cookies

“Festive Gingerbread Man Cookies are perfect for the holidays! They are lightly spiced and soft, but hold their shape!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Red Velvet Cream Cheese Thumbprints

“These thumbprints are a cookie and cheesecake in one! Perfect for Christmas cookie plates and dangerously delicious!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Toffee Pecan Christmas Cookies

“These tender, buttery cookies are loaded with chunks of chocolate, toffee, and pecans, then dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with more toffee & pecans!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

“Soft chocolate cookies sandwiching peppermint frosting and rolled in crushed peppermint candies. A festive cookie for the holidays!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Mint Kiss Meringue Cookies

“Get festive with these mint kiss meringue cookies. They taste amazing! They have a mint meringue shell and a chocolate kiss in the center.”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Hot Chocolate Cookies

“These gooey hot chocolate cookies are complete with big gooey marshmallows and chunks of melted chocolate. This is the perfect holiday and winter time cookie recipe!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Peppermint White Chocolate Cookies

“Soft and chewy white chocolate peppermint cookies are as festive as they are delicious. Loaded with white chocolate chips and crushed candy canes, these holiday cookies are always a crowd pleaser!”

Candy Cane Kiss Cookies

“These little candy kiss morsels are so addicting when added inside the sugar cookies!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups

“These cookie cups are made with sugar cookie dough and filled with hot chocolate ganache!”

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20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

3-Ingredient Buttery Shortbread Cookies

“These cookies are the easiest, most flavorful shortbread cookies! They are melt in your mouth tender, with just the right amount of crispy bite!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies

“These cookies are soft and buttery and topped with brown sugar frosting with more pecans. These are perfect for Christmas baking or any day of the year!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Christmas Pinwheel Sugar Cookies

“An easy and festive pinwheel cookie, perfect for the Christmas season! A must make for all sugar cookie fans!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Eggnog Cheesecake Cookie Cups

“These cookie cups are the best treat for the holidays! Chewy gingerbread cookie cups filled with a fluffy eggnog cheesecake!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Christmas Candy Cane Cookies

“This is a family-favorite cookie that creates sweet holiday memories!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Gingerbread Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

“These cookies are ridiculously easy to make and taste incredible!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Softbatch No-Roll Holiday Sprinkle Cookies

” These tender, buttery holiday sugar cookies use a no-roll dough with the sprinkles baked right in so you don’t even have to decorate them!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Soft & Chewy White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

“These soft and chewy white chocolate cranberry cookies are golden brown with crisp edges and thick and chewy inside, loaded with dried cranberries, walnuts, and white chocolate chips!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies

“These chocolate chip snowball cookies are made with no eggs and just 6 ingredients!”

20 Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

“These Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are like eating mint chip ice cream in the form of a warm, buttery, gooey cookie!”

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