21 Amazing Christmas Cookie for your next Cookie Swap

There’s a reason people love cookies… they’re crispy, delicious, and so easy to share around a great cup of tea or coffee! Scroll down and pick your fave from our assortment of delicious holiday cookies like our cinnamon sugar cookies or festive Christmas tree puffs! These delicious Christmas cookies will suit everyone’s taste buds and make an impression at your next cookie swap!

by Sidney Yang

Sidney Yang

Sidney is part of the Eatwell101 family since 2014. As an editor, she shares her enthusiasm for food, cooking tips, and entertaining across more than a thousand written articles published on Eatwell101.

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Updated Mar 9, 2026

21 Christmas Cookie Recipes for your next Cookie Swap

1. Easy Shortbread Cookies

Buttery, crisp, and melt-in-your-mouth, these easy shortbread cookies come together with just five ingredients!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

2. Best Sugar Cookies

These Cookie treats are sure to sweeten up your Christmas, and impress friends at your next cookie swap!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

3. Cream Cheese Cookies

Our cream cheese cookies are so soft, dense and flavorful. You've never seen cream cheese cookies that literally melt in your mouth like these ones!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

4. Christmas Star Cut-Out Cookies

These rich and crumbly Christmas shortbread cookies are out of this world amazing!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

5. Christmas Sugar Cookies with Easy Icing

These Christmas tree cookies taste so good with their delicate icing - Just like they come from a fine bakeshop!
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

6. Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

These buttery cranberry shortbread cookies literally melt in your mouth.
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

7. Cream Cheese & Peanut Butter Cookies

Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Cookies, who could resist them? Literally melting in your mouth, our Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Cookies are chewy and sweet, and packed full of amazing peanut butter flavor!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

8. Easy Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Quick and easy cinnamon sugar cookies! They are really good, plain with spicy, or candies in them. the perfect sugar cookie recipe for the season!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

9. Valentine Sugar Cookies

They taste divine and literally melt in your mouth.
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

10. No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Coconut Bars

These satisfying chocolate peanut butter coconut bars require no baking and are completely sugar free.
Cooking time: 0 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

11. Fudgy Chocolate Brownie Cookies

The best brownie cookie recipe around! These super indulgent chocolate brownie cookies have a crackly crust, fudgy centers, and intense chocolate flavor!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

12. Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Cookies

These peanut butter cream cheese cookies are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, and they literally melt in your mouth!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

13. 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies {Keto & Low Carb}

These delicious and easy keto & low carb peanut butter cookies are your new go-to guilt-free treat!
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

14. Christmas Tree Puffs with Nut Butter Filling

Fun and easy holiday cookies everyone will love.
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

15. Easy Peppermint Christmas Shortbread Cookies

These Christmas shortbread cookies with peppermint taste so good - just like they come from a fine bakeshop!
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

16. Christmas Tree Cookies

These Christmas tree cookies make the ideal treats for a snack during the holidays, or for gifting to your loved ones!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

17. Chewy Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

These oatmeal cookies are nutritious, tasty and make the perfect grab-and-go breakfast for busy mornings!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

18. Cream Cheese Cookies (low carb, Keto friendly)

These cream cheese cookies are so good; you’ve been warned!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

19. Chocolate Chip Cookies {Low Carb, Keto, Paleo}

Thick and chewy, these chocolate chips cookies are gluten, grain and dairy free!
Cooking time: 5 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

20. Easy Butter Shortbread Cookies

These shortbread cookies taste divine and literally melt in your mouth.
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

21. Fluffy Star Cookies

Deliciously crunchy and so fun to make - These easy star cookies are great for baking at home with kids.
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

22. Citrus Shortbread Cookies

These bright, citrusy shortbread cookies with beautiful crisp edges are just irresistible!
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

23. Buttery Vanilla Shortbread Cookies

So soft and tender, these butter vanilla shortbread cookies literally melt in your mouth.
Cooking time: 25 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

24. Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies

For an afternoon break with a goodcup of hot tea or coffee, nothing can beat these shortbread cookie sandwiched with a layer of dulce de leche.
Cooking time: 0 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

25. Sugar Cookies With Hazelnut & Pistachio

This easy sugar cookies recipe makes the most moist, tender, delicious cookies that you can decorate as you like with dried fruit or nuts. Perfect for your next cookie swap!
Cooking time: 0 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

26. Chewy Almond Cookies Recipe

Chewy and delicious, these flavorful almond meal cookies feature only 4 ingredients and are gluten free and dairy free.
Cooking time: 6 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

27. Peanut Butter Cookies

Easy peanut butter cookies , great for kids that are just learning to bake.
Cooking time: 8 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

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