10 Holiday Cookie Recipes You Have To Make This Season

When the holidays come around, it's time to make gingerbread cookies, gingerbread houses, and holiday cookies. Sugar cookies, peppermint mocha, and chocolate chip are among the festive holiday recipes that you can make, but the cookie options are endless. You can make a cookie that is very similar to peppermint bark in texture, a sugar cookie with a date filling, or cookies that are shaped like ugly sweaters. We're getting in the holiday spirit with cookie making and so should you. That's why we make it the theme of this week's SWAT (Sharing With A Theme).

Cream cheese can be used for more than just cheesecake. Use cream cheese to make these moist holiday cookies.

For the Cream Cheese Cookies recipe, click here.

This cookie recipe is festive, has loads of candy cane flavor, and is perfect for the holidays. These cookies are a great alternative to peppermint bark.

For the Soft Candy Cane Kiss Cookies with a Chocolate Star recipe, click here.

For the holidays, try making these wonderful date cookies. The base of the cookie is a sugar cookie with walnuts through and it has a chewy and sweet date center.  

For the Date Pinwheel Cookies recipe, click here.

Instead of making gingerbread men for your holiday cookies, make ugly sweater cookies. Make sugar cookies and decorate them as you desire. You can make red, green, or blue sweaters... If you love gingerbread as much as we do, you can even draw a gingerbread on your ugly sweater.

For the Ugly Sweater Sugar Cookies recipe, click here.

This cookie is a shortbread-type cookie with lots of nutty flavor. If you like nuts, especially pecans, you will really like these. It is also less sweet than most offerings so it is a nice addition to a Christmas cookie tray. — 2 Cookin Mamas

For the Pecan Sandies recipe, click here.

Your Christmas cookie should feature dried cranberries, pine nuts, and white chocolate to make a fantastic holiday cookie recipe. Grab a glass of milk and you're ready to go.

For the White Chocolate, Cranberry, and Pine Nut Cookies recipe, click here.

This is the perfect recipe to make during the holidays. Add a hint of red and green food coloring with candied cherries for a festive feel.

For the Christmas Russian Tea Cakes recipe, click here.

These cookies are chocolatey, chewy, and minty, making them everything you desire in a holiday treat.

For the Soft Chocolate Crackles with Mint M and M's recipe, click here.

This holiday season, make shortbread cookies in the shape of Christmas trees and add in peanut butter milk chocolate for an irresistible dessert.

For the Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies recipe, click here.

The best part about making linzer cookies is that you get to add your favorite jam in the center: Raspberry, strawberry, or orange, your options are endless.

For the Linzer Cookie recipe click here.