Christmas Cookies Galore!

From gingerbread kids to sugar cookie snowmen, find Christmas cookies for any holiday gathering.

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The Elves Snickerdoodles

These sparkly sugar-topped Snickerdoodles are a festive and delicious holiday treat.
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Hat and Mittens Christmas Cookies

Warm up on a December night with an edible hat and mittens and a cup of hot cocoa.
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Chocolate Batons

Use a pastry or plastic bag to squeeze the soft dough into batons. Once baked, the cookies are dipped in melted chocolate and rolled in sprinkles.
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Tasty Place Card Christmas Cookies

Put your kids in charge of setting the holiday table with a sweet place card at every seat.
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Choo-Choo Train Christmas Cookies

After making the cars of the train, hitch them together with a string of licorice.
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Candy Cane Cookies

With peppermint extract and red food coloring, your kids can turn this simple dough into edible ornaments for the tree.
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Santa Hats

These crispy confections are brimming with kid appeal, and they're easy to make by the trayful for holiday parties.
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Cookie Kids Christmas Cookies

Dress your kids in tie-dye T-shirts, blue jeans or striped miniskirts -- all made out of frosting.
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Gingerbread Lantern

You and your family can shed new light on a holiday baking tradition with this elegant gingerbread lantern.
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Hanging Bell Christmas Cookies

With a short length of shoestring licorice, this bell becomes an ornament for your tree; a longer length turns it into an edible necklace. Either way, it won't hang around for too long.
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Sugar Cookies

Use cookie cutters to customize your cookies for the occasion.
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Holiday Garland Cookies

Hang this Christmas greeting on a mantel for everyone to see and sample.
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Walnut Brownie Cookies

You'll be nuts about these moist and fudgy creations, a great holiday treat.
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Holiday Wreaths

An edible holiday wreath, what a great idea!
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Italian Christmas Cookie Tree

Tonya Dirksen's Italian great-grandmother used to make these iced cake cookies for holiday gatherings, piling them high on a plate to form a cookie tree.
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Ice-Cream Treewiches

A Christmas tree ice-cream sandwich that's just too cute to resist.
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Pretty Package Christmas Cookies

These cookies are a present in themselves.
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Meringue Snowflakes

Presented in decorative tins, these sparkly meringues are satisfying both to make and to give.
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Rudolph the Red-nosed Cookie

If you thought he was cute as a reindeer wait until you see him as a cookie. So cute you could just eat him up, and you will!
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Sweet Tortilla Snowflakes

Set your kids to snowflake snipping and make our one-of-a-kind wintry snacks.
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Advent Calendar Christmas Cookies

Count down the days until Christmas one cookie at a time.
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Christmas Cookie Confetti

What to do with those scraps of cookie dough? Turn them into confetti, of course.
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Santas and Heavenly Angels

Sugar cookies may come in all shapes and sizes, but nothing says Christmas more than cookies dressed up like Santa or a heavenly angel.
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Shortbread Cookies

Rich and buttery shortbread makes a tasty gift for teachers, grandparents and others on your Christmas list.
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Snowman Sugar Cookies

The secret to these sweet snowman cookies is in their scarves -- they're cut out of fruit leather.
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Stained-Glass Christmas Cookies

Crushed hard candies fill these cookies with multicolored windows.
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Sweater Cookies

You may not have time to knit a real sweater, but you can easily whip up one of these.
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Chocolate Pretzel Cookies

These cookie pretzels are popular throughout Germany at Christmastime.
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Sweet Macaroon Angels

These little angels, rich with coconut, make a heavenly holiday treat.
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Holiday Hello Cookies

Dress up your holiday table with edible place cards made from cookies in the shape of a holly leaf.
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Thumbprint Cookies

Every Christmas, guest contributor Cynthia Caldwell lets her kids leave their mark on these jam-filled cookies.
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Sugar Cookie Sled

Load this edible sled with chocolate candies and let a candy dog pull it across a plate.
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Tropical Snowballs

Some call these powdery cookies Mexican wedding cakes or Russian tea cakes. We prefer the kid-appealing "snowballs" and gave ours a hint of lemon for a whimsical, tropical twist.
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Caramel Thumbprints

Melted caramel candy adds luscious richness to the cocoa goodness of these cookies.
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Candy Cane Twists

These colorful treats offer a clever twist on the classic sugar cookie.
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Mint Cookie Pops

These cookie pops put a fun spin on traditional holiday baking.
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Sesame Crisps

These crunchy toasted-nut-flavored cookies pack up without crumbling. Send a dozen to a distant relative or bring a batch along on your holiday house visits.
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Tasty Trees

Spruce up a batch of these Christmas tree cookie pops.
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