Do you love to bake? Are you looking for new cookie recipes? Do you want to host a party with your friends this Christmas? Enter a Christmas Cookie Exchange party!
A cookie exchange is a chance to get all of your friends and neighbors together to celebrate the holidays…while sharing cookies and new recipes! Have everyone bring one kind of their favorite holiday cookie to share!
At the party, everyone trades and ends up with a whole lot of different delicious holiday cookies. The best part is you also end up with new recipes to try!
All the favorites are in this list from a classic shortbread to delicious drop cookies. I’ve scoured the best blogs for the most delicious cookies out there.
You are sure to find all of the Christmas cookie recipes you are looking for your Christmas Cookie Exchange Party.
Let’s Get Baking!
Crackle Brownie Cookies
Found from Cincy Shopper
If you love chocolate brownies, these cookies are just for you! You will find these cookies have a slight crunch on the outside and just like a brownie on the inside. It’s perfect! All you need is a glass of milk!
Perfect Snickerdoodle Cookies
Found from Life’s Little Sweets
I love cinnamon especially in the colder months. Snickerdoodles, a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar is a crowd pleaser!
Gluten Free Stained Glass Christmas Cookies
Found from Noshtastic
Stained glass cookies are so cute and bonus these are also gluten free! Making these Christmas cookies are super easy that kids can even help!
Grandma’s Perfect Jam Thumbprint Cookies
Found from Wicked Good Kitchen
This is a classic cookie that is always so good. It’s a delicious combination of seedless raspberry and strawberry jam inside a buttery cookie.
Christmas Cranberry Macarons
Found from HoliCoffee
How cute are these cookies?! Decorating the macaron cookies to look like Santa is brilliant. But this cookie is not just pretty to look at; it also tastes so good with a homemade cranberry filling.
Hot Chocolate Cookies
Found from Big Bear’s Wife
It’s not Christmas without a hot cup of coco. Now you can enjoy it in a delicious cookie form, especially with mini marshmallows baked in.
Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies
Found from Cooking on the Front Burners
There’s really nothing better than a soft and chewy peanut butter cookie. I even go one step further and make these Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich cookies. Take two PB cookies and add your favorite jam to the middle and sandwich cookie has been born!
Apple Pie Cookies
Found from OMG Chocolate Desserts
My favorite pie is apple pie so it totally makes sense that apple pie cookies are amazing! They look so beautiful and are actually so much easier than you might think. Use pre-made pie dough and apple filling and bake, you have perfect bite size apple pie cookies!
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Italian Fig Cookies (Cucidati)
Found from Saving Dessert
These cookies have a few different names but any name you call it these fig filled cookies are so delicious! They are better than fig newtons. You can just picture an Italian grandmother making these fig cookies!
Peppermint Snowball Cookies
Found from Mom on Time Out
You can’t celebrate Christmas without some peppermint. Peppermint cookies covered in powdered sugar. The key is to roll these cookies in powdered sugar about 5 minutes after coming out of the oven so the sugar sticks!
Ginger Molasses Sandwich Cookies with Eggnog Frosting
Found from Just So Tasty
These chewy cookies are packed with ginger. It’s a perfect balance with a creamy eggnog frosting in between two cookies!
Oreo Cookie Ball Tree
Found from Sugar Dish Me
If you are looking for a show stopping cookie centerpiece, here it is! I love this idea of making an edible cookie ball tree is genius! This oreo cookie balls are no bake so you can easily make these ahead of time or in a time crunch!
Sugar Cookie Bars
Found from Love Bakes Good Cakes
Cookie bars are a great way to bake cookie but with a lot less work. Roll, chill and bake the cookies in the same pan. Once fully cooled then you can add frosting and cut into bars for easy serving!
My Grandmother’s Bourbon Balls
Found from The Seasoned Mom
These balls are definitely knock your socks off bourbon balls! These bourbon balls are more for the adults to celebrate the holidays.
Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
Found from Mom on Time Out
These are not your ordinary shortbread cookies. Cranberries and oranges are a perfect combination. The fresh orange zest really sends this cookie over the top!
Cinnamon Bun Cookies
Found from Wanna Come With
If you are a fan of cinnamon rolls than this cookie is for you! Just like a cinnamon bun these cookies are made in a log and then cut into perfectly sized cookies. My favorite part is that each cookie is dipped into a tasty glaze to finish.
Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
Found from Hot Beauty Health
Just looking at these cookies you feel more merry and festive. These candy cane kiss cookies really bring the holidays into your home!
Honey Nut Rugelach Holiday Cookies
Found from Wicked Good Kitchen
Whenever I think of these cookies I think of my cousin. She always has them at her home and I can’t get enough! This cookie is buttery flaky pastry dough with a nutty sweet filling! It’s an easy log roll the cut cookie that you can add to your holiday!
Melt-In-Your-Mouth Eggnog Cookies
Found from Cooking Classy
This cookie truly does melt in your mouth; using eggnog in the cookie is just genius! I also like that this recipe calls for rum extract in the frosting on top of the decadent cookie.
Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Found from Life Currents
These soft and chewy toasted coconut pillows are so delicious. Dipping them into chocolate just complete the perfect cookie! It’s salty and sweet!
Traditional Spritz Cookies
Found from Cincy Shopper
Here is a classic Christmas cookie. These spritz cookies are full of flavor. You can easily decorate them with sprinkles, colored sugars and candied cherries!
Grinch Inspired Mint Chip Cookies
Found from A Magical Mess
I love these “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” inspired cookies! These mint chocolate chip cookies not only taste good but are easy to decorate! Using red candy melts and a white sugar heart you can easily create your own Grinch!
Peppermint Mocha Cookies
Found from Baking Beauty
These soft and chewy chocolate cookies are bursting with rich chocolate chips and cool peppermint crunchies. It’s your favorite coffee house beverage in cookie form!
Toffee Cookies
Found from The Bewitchin Kitchen
Toffee is a perfect holiday treat and turning it into a cookie is brilliant! Using only 5 ingredients and baking for 10 minutes, these are super easy cookies!
Gingerbread Men Cookies with Candy Canes
Found from Evermine
I think these gingerbread men cookies are amazing! It is actually so much easier to make these than you think. All you have to do is place a wooden dowel in the folded arms of the cookie dough and then bake and cool once its ready switch out the dowel for a candy cane! It’s simple and so creative!
If you love to bake share the joy with others. This holiday season have your own Christmas cookie exchange! It’s simple, bake your favorite cookie recipes and share them with your close friends! It will be a very SWEET Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
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