Easy Old Fashioned Christmas Cookies Recipe

Cranberry Cornmeal Linzer Cookies

Looking to sweeten your holiday season? These timeless Christmas cookies will take your tastebuds back to a simpler fourth dimension. Whether you're looking for grandma-canonical family recipes, retro desserts that will please everyone at your table, or traditional treats that are certain to print, you'll observe a tried-and-true new become-to in this collection of our best vintage Christmas cookie recipes.

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Pizzelles

Pizzelles stacked on a white plate

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Elegant pizzelles, fragile Italian waffle cookies, will be the show-stopping centerpiece of any holiday dessert table.

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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Peanut Butter Osculation Cookies

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Butter Rich Spritz Butter Cookies

a white plate belongings alternating ruby-red star-shaped and dark-green Christmas tree-shaped spritz cookies

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Use a festive cookie press and food coloring to make these rich, buttery treats. "The kids love to decorate them every bit much as they dear to eat them," according to recipe creator Sheri Lipp.

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Eileen's Spicy Gingerbread Men

closeup of decorated gingerbread people with red bloom buttons and white icing trim

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Cipher screams "Christmas" quite similar gingerbread people. This top-rated recipe has a bold flavor cheers to an ample dose of molasses and warming spices like ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.

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Grandma's Gingersnap Cookies

gingersnap cookies in a white dish

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"This melt-in-your-mouth ginger cookie recipe that I received from my grandmother has been enjoyed in my family unit since 1899," says recipe creator Marie Ayers.

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Festive Shortbread

Festive Shortbread

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Italian Cookies I

Italian cookies with sprinkles

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This former-fashioned Italian recipe has been passed down through the generations, according to recipe creator C. Davis. You can make these cookies with bones ingredients yous probably already accept on hand.

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Crackle Top Molasses Cookies

A small white basin filled with molasses cookies

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This molasses cookie dough (which is made with vegetable oil instead of butter) is rolled into balls, coated with sugar, and baked until perfectly crinkly.

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Aunt Bert's Fruitcake Cookies

Aunt Bert's Fruitcake Cookies

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If you like traditional fruitcake, you'll love these fruitcake-inspired cookies. According to recipe creator the4taals, the flavour develops the longer the cookies sit down.

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Cranberry Cornmeal Linzer Cookies

Cranberry Cornmeal Linzer Cookies

These gorgeous linzer sandwich cookies characteristic a sweet-notwithstanding-tangy cranberry filling. They're as well succulent with raspberry jam, says reviewer KARENVG.

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Granny's Shortbread Cookies

shortbread cookies with snowflake and snowman shapes and sprinkles

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Grandma Amico's Buttermilk Carbohydrate Cookie Cutouts

decorated Christmas cookies in Santa, tree, and reindeer shapes

Credit: Lindsey Vedder

Buttermilk adds richness and tangy season to these old-fashioned sugar cookies. "These are like heaven," says reviewer Michelle. "And then soft and sugary!"

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Christmas Wreaths

Vi Christmas wreath cookies on a cerise tray.

These festive cookies come together speedily with cornflakes, butter, marshmallows, food coloring, vanilla extract, and cinnamon candies.

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Perfect Thumbprint Cookies

Perfect Thumbprint Cookies

"I was looking for a quick thumbprint cookie that didn't crave refrigeration and here was Chef John's recipe to save the day," says reviewer and Allrecipes Allstar Kim. "Perfect shortbread tastes fantastic and looks beautiful!"

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Pignoli Cookies

pignoli cookies on a rack

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These five-ingredient Italian cookies are gluten-costless thank you to ingredients like almond paste and pino nuts. "I've been searching then long for a practiced recipe for pignoli cookies and I finally found it," says reviewer LUV2BAKE64.

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Gingerbread Biscotti

gingerbread biscotti with white glaze

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Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

pinwheel cookie

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It'southward way easier give thanks you think to brand these ruby-red and green pinwheel cookies at dwelling house. You'll never buy the slice-and-bake stuff from the grocery shop over again.

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Candy Cane Cookies

Regular and dyed cookie dough twisted together to emulate a candy pikestaff

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Peppermint oil adds holiday-perfect flavor to these candy cane-shaped cookies. "My mom has made these cookies every Christmas since I can remember and they've always been my favorite," says recipe creator AOLGUIN05.

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