42 Cookies for Santa (The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange Round-Up!)
The holiday season is upon us. Celebrate by baking cookies for Santa, family members, friends, neighbors, teachers and more! This list of 42 cookies has a bit of something for everyone.
I’m so thrilled to report that this year’s Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange was a smashing success! Our exchange boasted 42 new recipes from more than 30 international bloggers.
I meaaaaaaaan… as if any holiday celebration involving butter, flour, sugar and cheer could be anything else. 😉
Last week, more than 30 blogger friends and I baked some of our old and new favorite cookies of the season. And I think they all make fabulous cookies for Santa.
Today, Susannah and I are both sharing the links to the cookies shared so y’all can have plenty of baking inspiration this month!
We’ve got brownies and bar cookies. There are cutout and drop cookies. We’ve got hand formed cookies, too, and some bonus cookies!
Basically: You’re going to find a cookie on this list to bake. Whether you’re baking the cookies for Santa, your family, friends, neighbors, teachers or anyone else.
Other cookie recipe round-ups for holiday inspiration: 28 Holiday Cookies to Bake This Year | 39 Cookies for Santa | 41 Holiday Cookie Recipes You’ve Gotta Bake This December | Christmas Cookie Week 2014: Final Cookie Round-Up! | TSP Christmas Cookie Week 2013 Roundup! | Christmas Cookie Week 2012 Roundup! | Winston’s Favorite Holiday Cookies | 43 Cookies to Bake This December (The Sweetest Season 2021 Great Cookie Round-Up)
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42 Cookies for Santa (The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange Round-Up!)
The holiday season is upon us! Celebrate with these 42 cookie recipes that are perfect for Santa Claus, family members, friends, neighbors, teachers and more! The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange 2016, a yearly celebration of baked goods, was a success in its fifth year, boasting 42 new recipes from more than 30 international bloggers.
Brownies & Bar Cookies
If it's baked in a bar form (or a brownie), you'll find holiday cookie inspiration in this section!
Cutout/Shaped Cookies
Any cookie that requires a cookie cutter to form it, you'll find in the section below. Think: festive sugar cookies, snowflake cookies and everything in between!
Gluten Free Vanilla Sugar Cookies
Mint Christmas Tree Cookies
Anise Pierniki (Polish Christmas Cookies)
Paleo Peppermint Oreos
Salted Caramel Coconut Biscotti
Keto Sugar-Free Low Carb Gingerbread Cookies
Drop Cookies
These drop cookies are a little easier to make than the cutout cookies (and generally take less time!) Instead of forming them with a cookie cutter and chilling for a portion of time, you drop these cookies onto the baking sheet, and let 'em bake!
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Bakery Style Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
Dark Chocolate Gingerbread Thumbprints
Easy White Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Cookies
Maple Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
Hand-Formed Cookies
Any cookie that needs your hands to form them are listed below! Generally speaking, you'll roll these cookies with your hands to form them before you bake them.
Six Ingredient Peppermint Crinkle Cookies
Caramel Surprise Cookies
Chocolate Cheesecake Cookies
Easy Chocolate Chip Macaroons
Chocolate Cookie “Pies” with Peppermint Buttercream
Chocolate Italian Meatball Cookies
Old-Fashioned Ginger Snap Cookies
Gluten-Free Snickerdoodles
Grandma’s Oatmeal Triblys
Maraschino Cherry Cookies
Peppermint Cheesecake Cookie Cups
Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies
Poppy Seed Kiss Cookies
Other Cookies
If it doesn't fit into one of the categories above, it'll be down here. Think: skillet cookies and pressed cookies.
Butterscotch Snickerdoodle Skillet Cookie
Pumpkin Spice Pizzelles
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Wow, so many amazing ideas! Is there time to try them all? This was such a fun collaboration. I’m loving this round up and all the delicious ideas.
I bet between us, we could make ’em all. Or at least most of ’em. 😉 So happy you participated and brought those cookie pops, Jenna! So delicious!
Thanks for sharing all of these cookie recipes! I can’t wait to try a few of them out.
You’re welcome, Anne! I hope you got some great ideas from this list!
Wow, that is a lot of cookie deliciousness!
SO much cookie deliciousness! 😀
What a great collection! Santa would be obsessed!
Thanks, Des! I think he totally would be!
Love this list!! I am always looking for new and exciting cookie exchange recipes!
Thank you, Dorothy! I’m always looking for new and exciting cookies, too. I hope you found some here for your exchanges. 🙂
I’m in love with everyone’s cookies!! Thanks so much for including me, Erin! Happy Holidays 🙂
I’m so happy you participated this year, Megan! Your Shortbread Cookies looked AMAZING. 🙂 Happy holidays to you and yours!
How cute are those mittens! Loving this festive round-up and cant’ wait to try something new!
I’m totally swooning over those mittens, too, Jenn! I hope you find a few good recipes to try this season!
I think Santa would be one happy man if he found one of each of these on his plate Christmas Eve night! 😉
Oh man. Can you imagine how happy he’d be?!? Amazing!
That’s such a terrific roundup! Leaving cookies out for Santa is something our kids always get super excited about 🙂
Thank you! My sister and I always loved leaving cookies for Santa, and I look forward to sharing that tradition with our daughter this year or next. 🙂
Oh GOODNESS!!! I seriously hope Santa shares!
Wouldn’t that be AMAZING?!?