12 Impressive (and Easy!) Recipes for Your Holiday Cookie Exchange

Dana Sandonato · Dec 1, 2017

It goes without saying that Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year. Between shopping Christmas markets, planning your family's epic Christmas dinner, and attending parties for work, there's barely time for anything else. Yet lo and behold, every year many of us find ourselves signing up for that cookie exchange anyway. If you're kicking yourself for that decision and fretting about how you'll find the time, here are a dozen easy, festive cookie recipes you might want to consider for this year's swap.

Best Ever Sugar Cookies: Everyone loves a classic sugar cookie, and this recipe makes things easy with just six ingredients so you can whip up several batches stress-free. (via Pip and Ebby)

Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies: The only way chocolate cookies can get any better is by sticking sweet maraschino cherries in the center. A drizzle of white chocolate doesn't hurt either. (via The Kitchen Is My Playground)

Spectacular Speculoos Cookies: If you can eat cookie butter by the spoonful, then these speculoos cookies spiced with ginger and cardamom have your name written ALL over them. (via Baking With Anastasia)

Chocolate Pizzelles: This Italian classic is a must around the holidays, and this recipe kicks things up a few notches by bringing chocolate, candies, and nuts into the equation. (via Saving Room for Dessert)

Turtle Thumbprint Cookies: Combine your love of turtles and cookies together with these chocolatey treats rolled in chopped pecans and filled with a gooey caramel sauce that'll blow your tastebuds away. (via Swanky Recipe)

Coconut Flour Cookies: These low-carb, vegan cookies only call for five ingredients, and none of them is sugar! Dipped in Stevia-sweetened chocolate, they're garnished with nuts for extra crunch. (via Sweet As Honey)

Reindeer Cookies: Nutter Butters and sugar cookies fuse together to create adorably festive (and delicious) reindeer. (via Pip and Ebby)

Maple Pecan Tea Cookies: Whether you're eating them accompanied by a cup of tea or coffee or enjoying them solo, these bites will satisfy your sweet tooth with their crumbly and buttery texture. (via Oat and Sesame)

Classic Chewy Gingersnap Cookies: This warming recipe brings you sugar, spice, and everything nice with almost three dozen cookies in just 30 minutes. Magical. (via Yay! For Food)

Strawberry and Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies: Life is too short to just have ONE type of cookie, which is why this recipe gives you tasty options with fruit and chocolate. (via Casablanca Cooks)

Cookie Dough Bites: Sate your raw cookie dough craving with these egg-free hunks of soft chocolate chip bliss. (via Seasoned Sprinkles)

Ginger-Spiced Sugar Cookies: If you can't decide between the classics, mash two faves together to create a bomb confection your friends will *love.* (via The View from Great Island)

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Dana Sandonato

Born in Canada and now living in the beautiful state of North Carolina, Dana is a coffee-reliant food writer with a healthy appetite, a taste for culinary adventure, a thirst for good beers, and an endless hunger for food photography. When not writing for Brit + Co, she can be found pouring herself into her blog-turned-webzine, Killing Thyme, or taste-testing at local breweries with her husband. Dana's ideal down time includes pizza, marathoning on Netflix, or watching her fave flicks from the 80s and 90s - no matter how great or awful they are!

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