35 Holiday Cookie Recipes for Everyone on Your List

An easy and delicious chocolate sugar cookie recipe perfect for gift giving and having with tea as an afternoon snack. These are perfect plain but also serve as a great canvas for decorating with frosting, sprinkles, and more.

Gluten free friends and family can have some cut out cookies too with this quick and easy recipe.

Peanut butter lovers can have the best of both worlds with this recipe that is sure to surprise and delight on your holiday cookie tray.

Make those cut-out cookies extra rich and creamy with the addition of cream cheese.

Make cut out cookies in a hurry with this recipe that doesn't require any chill time before rolling and cutting.

Give the hot chocolate fan their favorite drink cookie form, it even comes topped with marshmallows.

Use gluten-free whole grains for a chocolate cookie sure to please the folks with sensitivities on your list.

Because it's the holidays and it might as well be indulgent and triple the chocolate.

Crunchy, sweet, and full of chocolate coffee goodness Biscotti makes a great care package filler as well as midday snack.

Chocolate and cheesecake flavors combine into soft portable form in these treats.

These cookies have 3 ingredients. Three. You can pull together a small batch in no-time or make a big batch for cookie exchanges, pot lucks, and care package fillers.

Is there ever a bad time for peanut butter and chocolate? These cookies have candies tucked right into the dough.

The classic simple flavors that everyone loves in a quick to make crunchy package.

Always a classic combination these cookies give you a great way to share homemade jam beyond just giving a jar.

These are always a holiday favorite for exchanges and buffets.

These soft pumpkin cookies are lightly spiced and moist making them great keepers and perfect for any fall buffet.

Give the chai fanatic their favorite flavors in a soft, tangy cookie

These pretty and delightful cookies are spiced with fresh ginger for a surprising change.

An old-fashioned cookie that tickles everyone who comes across them.

Thick cookies loaded with spice for the person who can never have enough.

Because sometimes cookies can be for breakfast too. These would be great for easy holiday brunches too.

Make the oat cookies wafer thin and covered in chocolate with this unique twist on the classic.

Gluten free and filled with sunflower seed butter instead of nut butter these can be used for folks with food sensitivities.

These oatmeal cookies are made healthier with the addition of grated carrots for lovely flavor and color.

Sometimes you need cookies in a hurry for yourself, for guests, for a meeting, and that's where these super easy no bake bites come in.

These dark crunchy cookies are sandwiched around a creamy caramel filling for an indulgent treat.

Fill cookies with chocolate covered espresso beans for a crunchy creamy cookie any fancy coffee drinker will love.

These are simple but elegant cookie perfect for simple and formal gatherings.

Rich and buttery as well as dark and bitter these would be perfect alongside coffee for dessert any time of year.

The chocolate coffee cookies are even shaped like a coffee bean for the true coffee fanatic in your life.

Lightly sweet and buttery with a smooth bright frosting these are sure to please the lemon lover on your list.

A simple and soft old-fashioned cookie for orange flavor and sweet frosting.

Soft and tart these only use a bit of grapefruit juice and zest so just save a bit from breakfast and make the cookies for an afternoon snack.

Get all the flavors of the tropics even if you're stuck in a blizzard with these cookies.

Lemon lime is always a lovely flavor combination and getting them in a thumbprint cookie feels especially festive.