The holidays are coming, so it's time to bake cookies - are you ready? Here are 80+ of the BEST cookie recipes for your holiday cookie trays!
Some are fantastic as anytime treats, a bunch would be great to sell at bake sales - or trade at any holiday cookie exchange.
I’ve got recipes for everything from the perfect chocolate chip cookies, to fancier holiday cookies... and everything in between. There are even sets of gluten free cookies, and sugar free cookies / keto cookies, further down!
Overall, these are some of the best cookies to satisfy any cookie cravings, with something for EVERY sweet tooth.
So get your cookie scoop, parchment paper, and cookie sheets ready, preheat that oven... and let’s bake cookies!
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80+ Festive Cookie Recipes
The holidays are coming, so it's time to bake cookies - are you ready?
Here are more than of the BEST cookie recipes for your holiday cookie trays - including some gluten free and keto options!
Classic Cookie Recipes
A wide variety of my favorite cookie recipes, guaranteed to be loved by almost everyone... as long as they can handle gluten and carbs!
To decorate iced sugar cookies, you need to start with a good recipe for rolled, cut out sugar cookies.
This one is tasty and doesn't spread!
These Pumpkin Spice Cookies are my seasonal take on a traditional rolled sugar cookie.
Delicious cookies as is, and fantastic to use for decorating!
Decorated Sugar Cookies are fun to make, eat, AND give!
Here is everything you need to know to get started with sugar cookie decorating.
This easy royal icing recipe uses meringue powder.
Not only is it quick and easy to make, it comes without the risks of using raw egg whites.
This is my recipe for making traditional royal icing, used for cookie decorating and cake decorating.
It uses raw egg whites and dries hard!
One batch of sugar cookies, 2 different Nightmare Before Christmas Cookies!
These Jack Skellington Cookies & Sally Cookies are a fun project!
Using just two colours of icing, you can quickly and easily make these fun Spider Web Cookies, for your Halloween Treats spread - Here's how!
This Chewy Chocolate Mint Cookies recipe may be an old one, but it’s a classic!
Tons of chocolate flavor in a rich mint chip cookie with a nice, chewy texture.
These Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are easy to make, with amazing flavour and texture.
There’s a reason they were one of the most popular options when I was doing custom cookie trays and baking mixes!
These Campfire Haystack Cookies start with an easy homemade cookie mix, and are made over a fire.
The perfect camping dessert recipe!
Pecan Pie Cookies - these unique cookies are full of great pecan flavour, have a great texture, and are so pretty to look at.
What more could you want in a cookie?
Malted Milk Meringue Cookies: Super easy to make, airy meringues that taste like the inside of malted milk chocolates.
What else can I say? Awesome!
These Fruitcake Cookies are laced with Jack Daniel's, and were wildly popular back in my custom baking days.
They are a festive addition to any holiday dessert tray or cookie platter!
These Campfire Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies are a fantastic dessert option for camping trips.
Make a mix ahead for easier cooking!
Chewy Chocolate White Chip Cookies are a classic! Tons of fudgy chocolate flavour in a rich, chewy cookie.
The white chocolate chips are a fun contrast.
This Eggless Banana Oatmeal Cookies Recipe makes hearty, chewy cookies with fantastic taste and texture.
They're relatively healthy, too... you know, for a cookie!
My No Bake Cornflake Cookies are a fun campfire treat.
A bit of prep work before a camping trip makes them SUPER easy to cook on a campsite!
These apple pie cookies are the best fall cookie - a tender cookie with a quick homemade apple pie topping.
Fun, great flavour and texture!
These Tropical Fruit and Rum cookies start out by soaking dried tropical fruit in flavourful rum, and just get even better from there!
Have you tried my ULTIMATE Cowboy Cookies? These have a LOT going on, but all those ingredients work together to make a fantastic cookie!
This Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies recipe works up in just minutes, whether at home or over a camp fire.
Chewy, delicious, and satisfying, while using simple ingredients ... and some of the prep can be done before your camping trip!
This Chewy Black Forest Cookies recipe is a perennial favourite. These chocolate cherry cookies are pretty, tasty, easy to make, and great for holiday entertaining & gifting!
When I was growing up, one of my favourite holiday treats was my aunt's Noelles Cookies. This is my version of that holiday cookies recipe!
This Chai Shortbread is easy to make, full of flavour, and produces buttery cookies that melt in your mouth.
A great addition to any holiday cookie tray or gift box!
Biscotti Recipes
Several fun variations on a traditional Italian cookie.
Great for serving with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate... or just enjoying on their own!
This Birthday Cake biscotti isn't just super cute, it's ridiculously easy to make!
Also? This celebratory cookie tastes like Funfetti cake!
This Cranberry Orange Pistachio Biscotti recipe combines some of the best flavours of the holidays ... and is SUPER easy to make, too!
This Gingerbread Biscotti is a fun, festive addition to the holidays.
Decorated or not, they are fabulous with coffee or hot chocolate!
This Red Velvet Biscotti is incredibly easy to make, & produces a rich tasting, gorgeous biscotti.
A unique accompaniment for your beverage!
Making this Spumoni Biscotti takes a bit of work - and some degree of mess - but your efforts will be rewarded with a STELLAR biscotti!
Delicious, unique, and beautiful!
This Tiger Tail Biscotti is a fun variation, themed around the classic Canadian ice cream flavour: Orange base, marbled with black licorice!
This Lemon Poppy Seed Biscotti recipe takes the classic flavour of the muffin, and re-imagines it in a classic Italian cookie! Fantastic with tea.
This mint chocolate chip biscotti recipe is super easy to make, and tastes like the ice cream flavor.
Mini chocolate chips are the perfect size for this biscotti, and are even kind of cute!
This Fruitcake Biscotti is designed around my fabulous fruitcake... and starts out with soaking dried fruit in whisky. Really decadent!
This marbled peppermint Candy Cane Biscotti recipe is fun to make, pretty to look at, and festive!
Try it with your favourite hot chocolate!
Gluten Free Cookies
Gluten free doesn’t need to mean missing out! These are some fantastic gluten free cookie recipes, each tasting as good or even BETTER than the real thing.
Great cookies to serve a mixed crowd, too - no one would know they’re gluten-free cookies!
These Gluten-Free Do-Si-Dos - Oatmeal Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies - started as an accurate replica of Canada's "Pirate" cookies.
These Gluten-Free Banana Oatmeal cookies are soft, flavorful, and have a great chewy texture.
You'd never know they're gluten-free!
These Gluten Free Snickerdoodles are the same soft, chewy cinnamon sugar cookies as the classic, just without the gluten (Which no one will miss!)
These giant cookies are inspired by the Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe.
All the fuss & deliciousness of the famous cookie recipe, but none of the gluten!
These Hoppy Citrus French Macarons may look traditional, but the bright burst of flavour from the hops is anything BUT traditional!
These Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies may not be the most traditional in terms of ingredients, but they REALLY pass for the real thing!
This recipe for gluten free sandwich cookies is easy to make, and SUPER customizable.
See the post for variations on cookie & filling flavours - you can even mix and match, to suit your tastes!
This Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cookies recipe makes cookies that are rich, chewy, and loaded with chocolate chips.
Great texture - no one will know they're gluten-free!
Meringues are a fun, naturally gluten-free cookie option. These Peppermint Swirl Meringue Cookies make use of 3 colours for a pretty effect!
These gluten-free pecan pie cookies are rich, delicious, and look fantastic on a holiday cookie tray.
They're surprisingly easy to make, too!
These Gluten-Free Fig Newtons are actually better than the full-gluten source material. Great texture, and great flavour - inside AND out.
Sometimes, you just need to make rainbow Gluten-Free Unicorn Poop cookies. These ones are also coconut free... and GLITTERED!
Commercial Gluten-Free Graham Crackers tend to be awful, but this recipe uses 1 “weird” ingredient to accurately replicate a traditional Graham cracker!
These gluten free peanut butter cookies are the best you'll ever have - soft, chewy, and they taste even better than wheat-based cookies!
My “Easy Way to Make Macarons” post, with my Pistachio Macarons Recipe. It’s a bit of a read, but may help those intimidated by the process!
Gluten-Free Oatmeal Butterscotch Cardamom Cookies - Or "Annies", as I'm calling them - are chewy, comforting, a warmly spiced ..and SO tasty!
These soft, chewy gluten free ginger molasses cookies are one of my favourite gluten-free cookies. They definitely do justice to my gramma's original recipe - which they were inspired by!
These Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies can be baked soft or crispy, and taste even better than the wheat version. Fun for decorating, too!
These Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies are tasty on their own, but are fantastic for decorating! Easy to make, rolls nicely, minimal spread.
My Gluten-Free Cowboy Cookies are an incredibly accurate, gluten free version of my favorite cookie ever. LONG ingredient list, but worth it!
The ingredients in this recipe result in the BEST chewy gluten free chocolate chip cookies ever - even better than the OG wheat version!
These Gluten-Free Chewy Chocolate Salted Caramel Cookies are everything you could ever want in a cookie - fudgy, great texture - a delicious recipe!
These Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Cookies are tasty, easy to make, have a great texture and are loved by all who try them - gluten free or not!
These tender gluten free apple pie cookies are everything you could want in a fall cookie - fresh apples, tasty spices, and great texture!
These gluten free witch finger cookies are fun, easy to make, and tasty! Colour them green - or not - for creepy Halloween cookies. They’re a fun addition to any Halloween party!
I’m not a fan of fruitcake, but these Gluten-Free Fruitcake Cookies are fabulous. The secret? Soaking dried fruit in Southern Comfort!
These Gluten-Free Imperial Cookies - from my book, "More Than Poutine" - have the texture & flavour of the original Winnipeg favourite!
These festive Candy Cane Cookies are fun, tasty, easy to make ... and you'd never know they're GF. They have great flavour and texture!
Low Carb AND Gluten Free Cookies!
These keto cookie recipes are a great way to include those following a low carb or sugar free lifestyle, in your holiday events.
Not one of them tastes or feels like diet food!
My keto snickerdoodles have the tang and spice you expect from a snickerdoodle cookie, but at a fraction of the carbs, & with some protein!
These Keto Sugar Cookies have it all!
They're gluten free, have great flavour and texture, and don't spread - perfect for cookie decorating!
These Keto Gingerbread Cookies are fantastic - spicy, easy to work with, & no spread.
Great for decorating with my sugar free royal icing!
Looking for a keto way to decorate sugar cookies or gingerbread?
This sugar free royal icing is a lot like the real thing - it even hardens!
These Keto Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are soft, chocolatey, and pass for the real thing.
Super cute to make for Valentine's Day - with other variations possible!
My Keto Red Velvet Cookies are rich, chocolatey, and satisfying.
Loaded with chocolate chips, they're perfect for Valentine's Day, Christmas, and - really - any other time of year!
These Keto Pumpkin Spice cookies are a fun, fall take on soft sugar cookies - but without sugar, & a fraction of the carbs! Gluten-free, too
These keto pecan pie cookies are super addictive, festive, and LEGIT. Fantastic fall flavour, in a cookie that does NOT feel like diet food!
These Keto Triple Chocolate Cookies are AMAZING. Fudgy brownie taste and texture, but low carb, gluten free, and with a hit of protein!
These keto peanut butter chocolate chip cookies do NOT taste or feel like diet food in any way!
Rich, soft, and chewy, they're fantastic. Gluten-free, too!
These keto lemon cookies are super tasty, easy to make, gluten free, have a nice chewy texture AND have a good hit of protein!
These keto ladyfingers - or savoiardi - are a fantastic low carb version of the traditional cookie.
Enjoy them as they are, or use them to make my Keto Tiramisu!
Keto Chewy Peanut Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies - it may be a mouthful, but it's a SUPER tasty mouthful!
Easy to forget it's diet food!
These keto chocolate cookies are rich, thick, satisfying, packed with protein... and that's not all!
They look, feel, and taste like a COOKIE!
Spooky cookies don't need to be off the menu when low carbbing - these creepy keto witch finger cookies are delicious and easy to make!
My Keto Cowboy Cookies recipe is the ULTIMATE when it comes to low carb cookies.
Loaded with tasty ingredients, are gluten free, have a bit of protein... but don't TASTE diet friendly in any way!
This Keto Biscotti recipe comes together with only a few minutes of work, is highly customizable, sugar free, low carb, and hits the spot!
These keto chocolate chip cookies pass for the real thing - great texture, and taste LEGIT.
Bonus? They're nut free protein cookies!
When you're wanting a holiday treat - without messing up your diet - these keto candy cane cookies are perfect!
Low carb, high protein!
These keto peanut butter cookies are just like the real thing - only low carb, gluten free, and with a hit of protein.
Super satisfying, too!
My Keto Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are everything!
A tasty, chewy, gluten free, low carb peanut butter cookie, upgraded with chocolate!
These keto apple pie cookies are cute, tasty, and in NO way feel like diet food!
Enjoy the taste of fall with everyone else, these are LEGIT!
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