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Festive Holiday Cookie Recipes

Here is where you will find all my festive holiday cookie recipes. All these cookies are easy to share with friends and family. So enjoy the holidays throughout the year from New Years and Valentine's Day to birthdays and Christmas!

From beautiful iced German gingerbread hearts called Lebkuchen Herzen to gluten free fortune cookies with custom messages, you'll find all the best sweet holiday cookies.

  • A pile of brown tree-shaped cookies under a red ribbon.
    Brown Butter Sugar Cookies (Cut Out Cookies)
  • Heart-shaped cookies decorated with white icing next to cookie cutters and icing in a piping bag.
    12 Best Traditional German Christmas Cookie Recipes
  • A hand holding a half-eaten small cookie next to evergreen sprigs.
    German Marzipan Cookies | Bethmännchen
  • Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies with Chocolate Puddles
  • A metal plate with half a dozen cookies topped with jam.
    Jam Thumbprint Cookies | Kulleraugen or Engelsaugen
  • A ribbon in the center of a ring of star shaped cookies.
    Easy Cinnamon Star Cookies | Zimtsterne
  • Spekulatius Cookies | Crispy Spiced German Biscuits
  • Authentic German Springerle Cookies with Anise
  • Spritzgebäck | German Spritz Cookies without a Press
  • Spitzbuben | Swiss Strawberry Jam Cookies
  • Linzer Raspberry Cookies
  • German Vanilla Crescent Cookies | Vanillekipferl
  • German Butter Cookie Biscuits | Butterkekse
  • German Gingerbread Hearts | Lebkuchenherzen
  • A stack of three glazed Pfeffernusse cookies.
    Pfeffernüsse | Spiced German Christmas Cookies
  • German Gingerbread Cookies (Lebkuchen)
  • Chewy Sugar-Coated Molasses Crinkle Cookies
  • Easy Harry Potter Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing
  • Chocolate Strawberry Macarons
  • Chunky Birthday Cake Cookies from Scratch
  • Chunky Red Velvet Oreo Cookies (without chocolate chips)
  • Gluten Free Fortune Cookies
  • A gingerbread house dyed with grey royal icing to look like stone walls.
    Hagrid's Hut Ginger bread House
  • Spring Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing
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