83 Christmas Cookies for the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
’Tis the season for Christmas cookies: snowflake-shaped sugar cookies, jolly gingerbread men, melt-in-your-mouth snowballs (a.k.a. Mexican wedding cakes), buttery spritz, crunchy biscotti stirred into your coffee. Every holiday season brings a chance to dust off our favorite heirloom recipes or try our hand at new ones that catch our eye. Will we make elegant pecan meringues this year? Grinch-green pistachio cookies? Below, we’ve gathered our absolute favorite Christmas cookies, including lots of buttery shortbread, jammy thumbprints, decorative sugar cookies, Austrian-inspired linzer cookies, and so many more.
Peanut butter blossoms reign supreme as the Christmas cookie of choice in the United States, so you’ll find those here, too. Plus, plenty of new-school spins like coconut sugar sandwich cookies, earthy rye and hazelnut slice-and-bakes, and espresso-spiked chocolatey wonders. So whether you’re organizing a cookie exchange, making treats for family, filling cookie tins to give as gifts, or setting out a cookie platter for Santa, the magic of the season starts now.