Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes (with Few Ingredients)

These rich, chocolate sugar cookies hold their shape during baking and look beautiful frosted with royal icing in festive Christmas designs or cut into heart shapes for Valentine’s Day. 

Lemon Curd Cookies are buttery, rich cookies with tangy lemon filling -- the perfect Christmas cookie for lemon lovers! 

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are rich and chocolatey cookies with a sweet Hershey's Kiss in the center. Easy cake mix Christmas cookies with just 5 ingredients! 

Chewy Coconut Macaroons are golden brown and crispy on the outside, with chewy, soft centers -- and the easiest cookie ever to make with just one bowl and 5 basic ingredients.

3-ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms are soft, chewy cookies with crackly, sugary edges and a yummy Hershey's Kiss. Easy one-bowl cookie recipe

Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies are fun, festive treats that will surely put you in the holiday spirit. Easy Christmas cookies you can make in minutes with just 4 ingredients -- and a great one to make with kids! 

Butterball Cookies, aka Mexican Wedding Cookies or Snowball Cookies, are rich, buttery melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies with finely chopped pecans and a powdered sugar coating. Classic cookies for your holiday cookie plate. 

Christmas Shortbread Cookies are buttery and chewy with rich brown sugar and powdered sugar icing. The simple dough is perfect for cut-out cookies or slice-and-bake cookies.  

These soft cut-out Christmas Sugar Cookies take just 20 minutes, 7 ingredients, one bowl, and no chilling time. This easy sugar cookie recipe is a must for your holiday baking. 

Amaretti Cookies are a unique holiday cookie with a soft texture and bold almond flavor. Coated in powdered sugar, they're as beautiful as they are delicious. 

Homemade Christmas Butter Cookies are a holiday classic. These soft, tender cookies have slightly crisp edges and rich buttery flavor and look extra festive with Christmas sprinkles. 

Easy Toffee Cookies (Heath Bar Cookies) are simple, delicious semi-homemade cookies made with sugar cookie mix and crunchy Heath bar bits. 

Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie: rich and buttery with chocolate in every bite. 

Oreo Cookie Christmas Ornaments are a fun no-bake holiday cookie made with just 4 ingredients! Perfect treat for your  Christmas goodie tray and gift giving. 

Nutmeg Cookies are perfectly spiced cookies with a chewy texture and made with just six ingredients. Make them with cookie stamps or without, and add your favorite icing. 

Slow Cooker Avalance Cookies are an easy no-bake sweet treat with crispy rice cereal and gooey marshmallows enrobed in a peanut butter white chocolate coating. 

German Almond Christmas Cookies are slightly crispy on the outside and filled with lovely almond flavor inside. This easy recipe is perfect for your holiday cookie platter and gift-giving.  

Easy Cranberry Shortbread cookies are crunchy, butter, and studded with ruby red dried cranberries. Super easy holiday cookie recipe with just 5 ingredients. 

4-ingredient Pecan Sandies are delicious melt-in-your-mouth Christmas cookies loaded with roasted pecans and rich buttery flavor. 

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are soft and chewy cake mix cookies with crispy, crackly edges and come together quickly and easily with just 5 ingredients. 

Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies are light and airy meringues piped into Christmas tree shapes and decorated with colorful sprinkles and edible accents. Super cute, super easy cookies! 

Soft Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are soft, buttery drop sugar cookies with festive sprinkles inside and out. 

No Bake White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies with oats, pecans, and cranberries coated in white chocolate are quick and easy to make and taste like a million bucks.  

Red Velvet Peppermint Cookies are beautiful deep-red cookies with festive peppermint flavor dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy canes. 

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies with just 3 simple ingredients and tons of rich peanut butter flavor are an old fashioned favorite. Naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and flourless. 

Christmas Wreath Cookies are quick and easy and a classic for your Christmas cookie tray. 

3-ingredient Brown sugar cookies are a fun twist on classic sugar cookies with rich brown sugar. Sweet, buttery, simple cookies that are ready in just 30 minutes. 

Whipped Shortbread Cookies are soft, buttery cookies that aren't too sweet and melt in your mouth. Classic Christmas cookie that's super easy to make. 

Lemon Cream Cheese Icing is soft and fluffy with fresh lemon flavor. Delicious spread or piped onto these lemon cut-out cookies or any shortbread cookies! 

Almond Buttercream Frosting with a touch of cinnamon and light almond flavor is lightly sweetened and incredibly easy to make. We love them on these cute little Thumbprint Cookies with Frosting.

Buttercream Frosting for Cookies comes together with just a few simple ingredients and hardens firm enough to stack! Perfect frosting for cut-out sugar cookies. 

This easy Cookie Icing dries to a firm, glossy finish so you can easily stack and transport your Christmas cookies.