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Top 10 Christmas Cookies

Carolyn Gratzer Cope

Looking for the perfect Christmas cookie? Here are our top 10 tried and true, absolute favorite Christmas cookie recipes of all time.

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Christmas cookies

01 Easy iced shortbread

02 Christmas bark

03 Ugly sweaters

04 Peppermint meringues

05 Peppermint Oreo truffles

06 Brownie cookies

07 Shortbread sandwiches

08 Neiman Marcus

09 Levain Bakery chocolate chip

10 Chewy snickerdoodles

Easy iced shortbread

01

Tender, buttery cookies and foolproof line and flood icing.

Christmas bark

02

Dark chocolate, pistachios, and freeze dried berries make a perfect and stunning combo.

Ugly sweaters

03

Chocolate cookies in festive icing sweaters make a great family project.

Peppermint meringues

04

Candy cane striped and dipped in dark chocolate. Naturally gluten-free.

Peppermint Oreo truffles

05

So easy and unreasonably delicious.

Brownie cookies

06

From the creator of the famous pan-banging cookie, these are sheer perfection.

Shortbread sandwiches

07

Jam-filled and sugar-dusted, these Linzer lookalikes are made from buttery shortbread.

Neiman Marcus cookies

08

This classic is one of our most popular recipes of all time.

Levain Bakery chocolate chip cookies

09

Indistinguishable from the NYC bakery classic.

Chewy snickerdoodles

10

This understated, best-in-class cookie staple is always a hit.

A few more favorites

Biscuiteers royal icing

Gourmet's Moravian cookies

Carolyn Cope

Heart

Exceptional blondies