Our All-Time Best Christmas Cookie Recipes (2024)

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What is the most popular Christmas cookie in the world? ›

The Iced Sugar Cookie takes the top spot, stealing the show as the most favorite Christmas cookie with classic sweetness and festive decorations. Simple, delicious, and a canvas for creativity- it's the “go-to” for holiday bakers.

1) Gingerbread

During medieval times, gingerbread cookies shaped like different subjects were a staple at fairs in Germany, England, France, and Holland. In the late 17th century, gingerbread became associated with Christmas.

Chocolate Chip cookies

You can never go wrong with these classic, delicious cookies. Santa himself lists these as his favorites, and he prefers them soft and gooey with lots of chocolate chips. If you decide to leave these out for him, make sure there's a glass of cold milk nearby!

Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co. But did you know Oreos are a copycat product?

Retailing for $1,000. The world's most expensive cookie is the creation of cookie shop owner Sofia Demetriou, who launched “Duchess Cookies” last year. The red velvet cookie has ruby chocolate and is coated with 23,000 gold leafs. What makes it so pricey is not just the cookie but the surrounding touches.

Another option for fans of homemade goods with a long shelf life are twice-baked cookies, such as the biscotti. Because they go through the process of baking twice, they are likely to last up to two weeks. Similar to bar cookies, you can't freeze the dough, but this time up to six months.

We nominate Mystic Flour Cookie as the rarest cookies in CRK at the moment, together with Special cookies (Sonic, Tails and the BTS Cookies, which have only been available for a short period) that are also very rare, and it's virtually impossible to obtain them at the moment since they could only be obtained via the ...

Chocolate chip cookies are claimed to have originated in the United States in 1938, when Ruth Graves Wakefield chopped up a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar and added the chopped chocolate to a cookie recipe; however, historical recipes for grated or chopped chocolate cookies exist prior to 1938 by various other authors ...

On this day in 1912, Oreo cookies were first developed and produced by Nabisco in New York City. It's time to celebrate the iconic crunchy chocolate sandwich cookie with the sweet vanilla cream filling that Americans have enjoyed for over one hundred years. March 6th is National Oreo Cookie Day!

What was the first American cookie? ›

In the Southern colonies, every housewife knew how to bake tea cakes that had no extra flavoring except butter and sometimes a couple drops of rose water. The first American cookies that showed up in cook books had creative names like Jumbles, Plunkets and Cry Babies which gave no clue to what was inside the cookie.

Peanut Butter Blossoms are America's favorite Christmas cookie, based both on total number of pageviews from the U.S. population as a whole, and number of states that ranked it as their top cookie (which is six, by the way).

Peanut butter blossoms reigned supreme in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

Ohio: Peanut butter blossoms. Oklahoma: Ricotta Christmas cookies.

The most searched holiday cookie in Texas was the classic Italian Christmas Cookie. It was also a top search for 14 other states. Neighboring states had a craving for a different kind of cookie.

Later, Freda's recipe was published in a series of cookbooks. This ultimately launched the peanut butter blossom's popularity, and soon, Americans everywhere began to make the treat. While this cookie is a favorite in all of America, the recipe is the most popular in Pennsylvania.

Cookies like shortbread and spritz are great candidates if you want cookies that'll last a while. In the freezer: You can keep shortbread and spritz in the freezer for up to six months.