12 Days of Christmas Cookies

Turn on a Christmas movie and bake up some cookies! Something about the cold outside and staying cozy inside while baking cookies is one of our favorite things to do this time of year. We love the traditions that come with the holidays, like the 12 Days of Christmas. How about the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies! You can bake some up now, deliver them to family and friends or freeze them for a beautiful Cookie Plate with an assortment of cookies to enjoy on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day with the ones you love most. OR…host a Christmas Cookie Exchange. Here are 12 of our favorite cookie recipes perfect for the season. It’s the most wonderful time of the year…enjoy!

1. Mexican Wedding Cookies: Buttery soft melt in your mouth Mexican Wedding Cookies. These cookies are also known as Russian Tea Cakes or as Snoballs. They go by so many different names, but we love them no matter what you call them!

2. Rosette Cookies: Similar to the texture of a funnel cake you’d order at the State Fair. These crisp cookies are always for the first to go on my Grandma’s Christmas Cookie Tray.

3. No Bake Peanut Butter Balls: How can you deny the deliciousness of chocolate and peanut butter?! These crispy cookies are also no bake too!

4. Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies: Make the cutest little reindeer cookies around. My kids love to make these Peanut Butter Rudolph Cookies

5. Soft Snickerdoodles: are a classic no matter what time of year, but we can always count on them as a fun cookie to bake during the holidays.

6. Soft Gingerbread Cookies: with a delicious cream cheese frosting. Gingerbread cookies that are thick and soft. We love using our Christmas cookie cutters this time of year and this is a fun way to get creative with kids in the kitchen.

7. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies: This recipe is so easy…it uses a cake mix!

8. Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies: Our most loved family favorite cookie recipe.

9. Christmas Cookies for Santa Next time you are at the store, pick up a bag of the mini red and green M&Ms that you can only find this time of year to make these cookies!