Every year since as far back as I can remember, my family’s had the tradition of making at least twelve—and usually more—different types of holiday cookies as soon as December comes around.
We enjoy the cookies all month long, then bake even more on Christmas Eve to take to the annual neighborhood holiday party.
Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
If your kitchen transforms into a cookie factory for the holidays like mine does, or if you’re simply looking for a good excuse to turn on your oven and stay out of the cold, here are 15 of my most popular cookie recipes that would be perfect for any Christmas or holiday cookie tray.
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pixie Cookies
Healthy Cookies Recipes (50 Recipes, including these Emoji Sugar Cookies)
The most popular cookie recipe on my blog is technically not even a cookie recipe at all! But it’s so wildly good that you might want to just skip the cookie tray altogether and make one of these epic cookie pies instead 😉
Jess says
YES! I love all of these cookie recipes, I’ve made a few of them before. Definitely a success! So when you bring your healthy cookies to the get-togethers do people notice that it’s healthy? Cause I always bring “unhealthy” cookies to gatherings in fear that if I brought healthy cookies they would notice. ?
Chocolate Covered Katie says
Such a good question, and the answer is both yes and no. I wouldn’t bring something like the breakfast cookies, because they are definitely more for a crowd who likes healthy desserts. Probably not the keto cookies either, because people would be expecting a different texture from a chocolate chip cookie than the texture you’d get with an almond flour base. There are other desserts on my site that I wouldn’t feel comfortable serving to a crowd unless the event was specifically health-focused. But pretty much every other cookie recipe on this page, I’ve made and served at parties and they are all non-healthy-eater approved. I usually just set the plate down, never mentioning it’s a healthier option, and wait to see the reception so people aren’t subconsciously biased against them beforehand 🙂
Jess says
Aw thanks for replying! And ok, I totally gotcha. ?
Brittany Audra @ Audra's Appetite says
I can’t wait to try those mocha macaroons!! 🙂
Mabbly says
Nice post. This blog is also so useful for those who loved to baked new things.