20 BEST Cut-Out Cookie Recipes

Chocolate Sugar Cookies are a deep, rich, chocolatey twist on traditional cut-out sugar cookies. For beautiful decorated cookies, frost with my royal icing recipe with variations flavored with peppermint, almond, or vanilla extract. 

Soft, buttery Lemon Shortbread Cookies are the best cookies ever. Bursting with fresh lemon flavor, they require no chilling to keep their clean, crisp edges and taste delicious as-is or slathered with sweet lemon cream cheese icing. 

This easy recipe for soft no-spread cutout cookies is the best sugar cookie recipe for any holiday or special occasion. The sweet buttery flavor makes them perfectly delicious plain -- or decorate with my easy sugar cookie icing recipe for an extra festive touch. 

Soft and chewy gingerbread cookies with ginger, cinnamon, and molasses are rich and flavorful and easy to cut out in any shape you like with your favorite cookie cutters. 

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are soft cookies with rich pumpkin and warm pumpkin spices iced with a simple sweet maple powdered sugar glaze. An easy cut-out sugar cookie recipe with simple ingredients you'll make on repeat every fall. 

This homemade Red Velvet Sugar Cookies recipe makes the prettiest red cut-out cookies you'll love to share with friends and family. Drizzle them with chocolate or frost with royal icing for a sweet treat for Valentine's Day, 4th of July or Christmas. 

Cute little Strawberry Jam cookies with lemon shortbread, sweet lemon cream cheese frosting, and strawberry jam taste amazing and come together easily with basic ingredients. 

Buttery, crumbly Almond Shortbread cookies are easy to make with just 6 ingredients and filled with almond flavor from almond meal and a touch of almond extract. Try them dipped in chocolate and decorated with sliced almonds! 

Alfajores are a classic South American sandwich cookie made with light and buttery sugar cookies filled with gooey dulce de leche. They're so delicious and easy to make, once you try them, they'll become a new holiday season favorite. 

These lovely Lavender Lemon Curd Cookies are buttery and sweet with a light floral flavor of lavender and rich lemon curd filling. They're a fresh, unique twist on classic sugar cookies and are always a crowd-pleaser. 

Linzer Cookies are a classic go-to recipe for Christmas cookies. These buttery cookies are sandwiched with jam filling for a delicious melt-in-your-mouth cookie that will look beautiful on your holiday cookie tray.

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are soft and chewy and mix together in one bowl with simple ingredients. Delicious any time of year cut into your favorite seasonal shapes and topped with fluffy cream cheese frosting.  

This easy Gluten-Free Sugar Cookie recipe is buttery, sweet, and ideal for creating delicious cutout sugar cookies for holidays and special occasions. Enjoy them plain, or add festive frosting and sprinkles. Check out the post for dairy-free and drop cookie variations.

Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies have all the warm and spicy spices flavors of ginger and cinnamon baked into a dairy-free, gluten-free Christmas cookie. They're easy to make and look and taste extra festive decorated with 2-minute, 3-ingredient royal icing. 

Green Shamrock Sugar Cookies are soft, chewy St. Patrick's Day cookies made with green-colored sugar cookie dough and cut into fun shamrock shapes. For even more festive deliciousness, frost with buttercream frosting and decorate with green sprinkles. 

Honey Sugar Cookies are chewy, sweet sugar cookies made even more irresistible with the rich, floral flavor of honey. This easy sugar cookie recipe is delicious on its own or with a drizzle of honey-vaniila bean glaze. 

Share the love with these cute Heart Sugar Cookies. Cut into adorable heart shapes and frosted with sweet icing, these crunchy, crispy sugar cookies are decorated with colored candy melts for a sweet "thinking of you" gift or holiday treat.  

Air Fryer Gingerbread Cookies are a quick and easy version of a classic Christmas cookie with a shorter baking time than traditional gingerbread cookies. Filled with the rich warm flavors of brown sugar, molasses, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, these air fryer gingerbread man cookies are sure to become a new family tradition. 

Whether you're new to baking or short on ingredients or time, Cake Mix Cookies are the best way to make a freshly-baked batch of soft sugar cookies quickly and easily. They mix together with just 3 ingredients and are easy to adapt with different flavors of cake mixes, seasonings, and extracts.    

Chocolate Chip Cut Out Cookies are a fun combination of chewy sugar cookies and soft chocolate chip cookies in one easy recipe. This easy cut-out cookie recipe is fun to cut into different shapes and enjoy as-is or decorated with vanilla buttercream and sprinkles.