Looking for easy Christmas cookies, desserts, and treats for a cookie exchange or swap, to give as Christmas gifts to neighbors, friends or coworkers, or for your next holiday gathering?
Then "yule" love these simple Christmas cookie recipes and recipes for other holiday sweets!
All recipes are cake mix or from scratch, no bake, 3 or 4 ingredients or quick under 30 minutes. Simple gifts, for kids to make, toddlers, families, for crowds, coworkers, neighbors, classmates, parties. Healthy ideas vegan, paleo, dairy free. Chocolate, coconut, fruit, sprinkles, M & Ms, bars. brownies, cake, etc.">
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Learn how to make recipes for easy Christmas cookies, desserts, and treats with cute decorations and designs from scratch or cake mixes. All recipes are quick under 30 minutes, 5 or fewer ingredients, or no bake sweets.
Easy Christmas Cookie Supplies
Chocolate Christmas Cookies
Santa’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 11 minutes make, 21 minutes total
These soft and chewy vanilla pudding cookies with M&Ms and milk and white chocolate chips are perfect to leave out with milk on Christmas Eve. (via Klein Worth Co)
Hot Cocoa
Time to make: 15 minutes prep, 12 minutes bake, 27 minutes total
Decadent with rich chocolate and melted marshmallow. (via Glorious Treats)
Rolo Chocolate Chip
Time to make: 20 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 30 minutes total
Dark chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with a piece of Rolo candy and decorated with holly sprinkles. (via Living Locurto)
Double Chocolate M&M
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 12 minutes bake, 22 minutes total
Twice the chocolate fun. (via Sarah Joy Blog)
Black Forest
Time to make: 20 minutes total
Chocolate cherry cookies with bits of cherry and chocolate chips for texture. (via The First Year Blog)
Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake
Stovetop cookies with oats and holiday sprinkles. (via Buns in My Oven)
Chocolate Mint Crinkle
Time to make: 15 minutes prep, 12 minutes make, 27 minutes total
Add refreshing peppermint flavor to a classic crunchy chocolate crinkle cookie. (via Tabs and Tidbits)
Truffles and Cookie Balls
Buckeye Balls
Peanut butter cookie balls dipped in white or regular chocolate with sprinkles. (via Dinner at the Zoo)
Peppermint Crunch Oreo Truffles
Time to make: 45 minutes
A no-bake treat with pink and white outside, and chocolate with sprinkles inside. (via Inside Bru Crew Life)
Eggnog Latte Truffles
Time to make: 20 minutes total
This eggnog espresso flavor wrapped in white chocolate is a delicious combo of sophisticated flavors. (via Morgan Manages Mommyhood)
Lemon Snowball Cookies
This 5-ingredient recipe doesn’t require any dough chilling for more convenience. (via Live Well Bake Often)
Holiday Nutella Bites
Time to make: 30 minutes
The only 3 ingredients you need to make these bites are Oreos, Nutella, semi-sweet chocolate chips. (via Klein Worth Co)
Christmas Cookies with Cheese
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Sandwich
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 20 minutes total
Easy to make from red velvet cake mix and cream cheese. (via Your Cup of Cake)
Raspberry Cheesecake
Time to make: 5 minutes prep, 14 minutes make, 19 minutes total
This soft, chewy cookie is made from muffin mix. (via Dessert Now Dinner Later)
Spritz
Time to make: 20 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 30 minutes total
Another cream cheese cookie, in wonderfully colorful decorations. (via Dinner at the Zoo)
Ricotta Cheese
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 20 minutes total
Interestingly, this one’s an eggless recipe. (via Christmas Cookies)
Other Holiday Cookies
Christmas Thumbprint
These cookies are fun for kids and adults to make and we couldn’t just stick to featuring one type of thumbprint Christmas cookies so we’ve rounded up a whole bunch of the tastiest and most creative recipes including:
- Double chocolate nutella peppermint
- Cherry almond oatmeal
- Cute designs like snowman, Rudolph, Christmas trees, and Santa hats
- And many more
Hershey Kiss
We also created a roundup of all kinds of festive Hershey Kiss cookies, many of which fit the Christmas theme such as:
- Chocolate mint snowball truffles
- White chocolate gingerbread blossoms
- Cookies with the Hershey Kiss decorated as a Christmas tree
- And lots more
Gingerbread
Time to make: 15 minutes prep, 15 minutes make, 30 minutes total
Can’t forget this classic Christmas flavor. (via Bigger Bolder Baking)
Eggnog Snickerdoodles
Time to make: 15 minutes prep, 10 minutes bake, 25 minutes total
A soft and chewy cookie infused with traditional holiday drink flavor. (via Love from the Oven)
Cranberry Pistachio
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 20 minutes make, 30 minutes total
Perfect Christmas colors and sweet and salty taste. (via The Girl Who Ate Everything)
Pumpkin Caramel Crinkle
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 20 minutes total
This recipes uses spice cake mix with caramel and applesauce. (via Melanie Makes)
Festive Christmas Decorations
Melting Snowman
Time to make: 20 minutes
This fun design just makes you wan to laugh. (via Cook Craft Love)
Christmas Holly Cookie Cups
Time to make: 20 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 15 minutes assemble, 45 minutes total
Use muffin tins to make these cute peanut butter and white almond cookie cups. (via Design Eat Repeat)
Rudolph Reindeer
These brownie cookies with cake mix use chocolate frosting, Nilla wafers, pretzels, M&Ms to create these funny reindeer faces. (via Your Cup of Cake)
Santa Hat Cookie Cups
Time to make: 10 minutes prep, 8 minutes make
Another muffin tin cookie, with clever 3D buttercream frosting. (via Two Sisters Crafting)
Grinch
Use food coloring to achieve the perfect color to this cookie without using any icing. (via Simply Whisked)
Stained Glass
The "glass" is made from colorful hard candies like Jolly Ranchers or Lifesavers. (via Dinner at the Zoo)
Christmas Desserts and Treats
No Bake Christmas Cookies, Desserts, Treats
We’ve got a whole array of holiday sweets that don’t require an oven at all in round-up of no bake Christmas desserts, including:
- White chocolate thin mints
- Raspberry Oreo dessert shot
- Milk and cookies bark
- And loads more
Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats
Time to make: 20 minutes prep, 10 minutes make, 30 minutes total
A design that’s just as fun to decorate as it is to eat. (via OMG Chocolate Desserts)
Santa Munch Popcorn
Time to make: 10 minutes
A sweet and savory Christmas dessert snack of funfetti popcorn with pretzels, M&Ms, andn sprinkles. (via Cooking Classy)
Hot Cocoa Brownie Cups
Time to make: 15 minutes make, 25 minutes make, 40 minutes total
How absolutely adorable are these 5-ingredient cookies? (via Delish)
Christmas Crack
Time to make: 30 minutes
Saltine cracker toffee that’s sweet, salty, and crispy. (via Culinary Hill)
Conclusion
These fun and easy Christmas cookies, desserts, and treats are sure to bring as big a smile to the faces of those who eat them as to yours for how simple they are to make these festive holiday sweets.
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Rachel says
WOW, these look Soo good. What a great list! The biggest problem is which one to make?!?! Thank you for putting this together!
Sylvia | All the Party Ideas says
I know, right?! Let's see, if you make one a day starting today and double up on weekends, you can make the whole list 🙂