25 christmas sugar cookie recipes

No sugar, flavour is still so nice, and much healthier too!

Classic Viennese Christmas cookie. Soft and buttery with a dusting of snowy sugar.

Buttery crescent cookies with ground nuts, chilled overnight, then shaped into half moons and rolled hot in powdered sugar. A traditional Christmas cookie with crumbly shortbread texture.

Moravian Christmas cookies rolled paper-thin with molasses, brown sugar, and warm spices like clove, cinnamon, and ginger. A heritage Pennsylvania Dutch holiday cookie that snaps with every bite.

Just in time for Christmas, these delicious cookies made with molasses and brown sugar are full of the holiday spirit.

German springerle Christmas cookies: anise-scented egg-and-sugar dough pressed with carved wooden molds, dried overnight, and baked low to set the embossed pattern.

Classic six-ingredient rolled sugar cookies built for cutting Christmas shapes and decorating with royal icing. Crisp edges, soft centers, holds intricate details beautifully.

Vanilla wafer walnut rum balls combine crushed cookies, ground walnuts, honey, and golden rum into bite-sized no-bake holiday treats rolled in powdered sugar. Five-ingredient Christmas classic.

Classic Christmas cut-out sugar cookies with clean edges that hold their shape. A simple butter-and-shortening dough that rolls thin, bakes crisp, and takes royal icing like a dream.

Christmas Linzer cookies, tender ground-hazelnut shortbread sandwiched with raspberry jam and dusted with powdered sugar, jam peeking through a cut-out window. A nutty, festive take on the Austrian classic.

Sugarplum cookies with dried or candied fruit hidden inside each ball of vanilla sugar cookie dough. Topped with creamy frosting and colored sugar for Christmas cookie trays.

Cream cheese snowflake cookies with lemon zest, topped with powdered sugar icing and edible glitter. Delicate, buttery Christmas cutout cookies that sparkle.

No-bake rum balls made with crushed vanilla wafers, pecans, cocoa, powdered sugar, and real rum. A classic Christmas cookie tin staple rolled in powdered sugar.

Christmas chocolate cookies with unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and chopped nuts. A flourless-light, brownie-textured holiday drop cookie spiced for the season.

Tiny green sugar cookie balls arranged in rings with candied cherry "berries" to make festive Christmas wreath cookies. A fun, easy holiday baking project for kids.

Christmas hazelnut balls rolled in powdered sugar, a buttery shortbread-style cookie with ground hazelnuts and vanilla. No eggs needed, melt-in-your-mouth tender.