Christmas Cookie Exchange

Do you love Christmas Cookies? Me too! So, I’ve gathered up some amazing treats for your Christmas Cookie Exchange.

It’s cookie exchange time! Holiday parties, including a cookie exchange or two, are the perfect way to get together with friends and family this season. And you want to bring something yummy. So, I’m sharing my cookie exchange recipes today!

Don’t forget, they’re also great for potlucks, hostess and holiday gifts! Especially if you package them up with a pretty ribbon or cloth napkin!

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Dessert treats and nibbles

This cookie exchange collection includes anything you might wan to put on a holiday dessert tray. Cookies, candy, fudge, anything fun and festive. Please enjoy!

And if you’re looking for something specific, please let me know. I’m happy to take requests. I also have lots of blogging friends who may have what you’re looking for.

Happy holidays

Delicious holiday cookies and candies for a Christmas Cookie Exchange. Treats you can bring to a neighbor, to a teacher, to your family and friends. You’ll enjoy this collection of Christmas goodies to make and share for the holiday season.

The holiday cookie season

When the holiday season rolls around, it seems like everything in life speeds up. There’s shopping, parties, get-togethers, and it is a whirl of activity. However, there is one constant – cookies! And looking for great cookie and candy recipes can take so much time. So I thought I’d gather them up in one place for you.

This list of cookies and candies has all of the best covered: we’ve got easy to make cookies, delicious cookies, pretty decorated cookies, candy, and cute cookies.

Christmas Cookie Exchange

An Exchange is a great way to get into the Holiday spirit. Gather with friends, share some recipes and eat some delicious cookies. Make sure you direct your friends to the blog to share the recipes.

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Cookie Recipes

Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies

Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies are amazingly rich and delicious. These buttery cookies have the perfect nutty flavor with just the right amount of sea salt on top. They’re just utterly delicious!

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Peanut Butter Cup Christmas Trees

An adorable holiday project you can make with your kids. Then use these festive Peanut Butter Cup Christmas Trees as decorations. My recipe card has the basic tree instructions, but feel free to grow your forest in any size and shape you want.

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Oatmeal Cookies

Crispy edges, chewy in the middle, and wholesome perfectly balanced Famous Oatmeal Cookies. These are my favorite cookies, and they are the classic original recipe!

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Kolache Cookies

Traditional Homemade Polish Kolache Cookies are lightly sweet and delicate cream cheese cookies filled with your choice of jam.

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Blackberry Muffin Cookies

Blackberry Muffin Cookies have a delightful soft buttery texture, that’s bursting with fresh blackberries and marbled with blackberry jam.

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Chewy Almond Cloud Cookies

These Chewy Almond Cloud Cookies are the perfect treat. They have a light and chewy texture with a nutty almond flavor, are made in one-bowl, and are naturally gluten-free.

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Almond Meltaways Cookies

Light and buttery, these Almond Meltaways Cookies are a melt in your mouth shortbread type cookie with a sweet delicious almond glaze on top. These are soft almond flavored sugar cookies that will be a welcome addition to any holiday cookie exchange or cookie tray this year.

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Candy Cane Cookies

Candy Cane Cookies are made from a simple buttery twisted sugar cookie dough, flavored with peppermint extract, and topped with crushed candy canes.

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Cannoli Cookies

For our Cannoli Cookies, we took a light and crispy cookie shell and filled it with sweet ricotta filling. It’s all the flavors you love in a cannolo, but without having to make and deep fry a shell.

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Soft Pumpkin Cookies

These simple and easy to make Soft Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Cookies are like little pumpkin bread cakes with a soft texture, and a puffy little friendly demeanor.

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Brown Sugar Fudge

This buttery melt-in-your-mouth delicious old-fashioned Brown Sugar Fudge has the warm flavor of caramel and reminds me of a fabulous New Orleans praline. It’s perfect on a Christmas dessert tray or included in a cookie exchange. You’ll want to keep this recipe handy, as gift giving season approaches.

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No Bake Butter Mint Candy

Easy to make No Bake Butter Mint Candy is a perfect festive addition to your Christmas dessert trays and always a huge hit during the holidays.

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Polar Bear Paw Print Cookies

Super adorable and easy to make Polar Bear Paw Cookies will be a hit at any cookie party, cookie exchange, or winter holiday gathering.

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Peppermint Mocha Candy Cookies

Peppermint Mocha Candy Cookies! Minty, chocolaty, fresh, filled with yummy oatmeal, all in a praline-like candy!

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Grandma’s Old-fashioned Cream Caramels

Classic, chewy, creamy, delicious buttery caramels. Grandma’s Old-fashioned Cream Caramels are the sticky yummy quintessential caramel.

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Lemon Bars

Lemon bars with a crumbly crust topped with a sweet-tangy lemony topping. Not too sweet, and not too tart. These are just right.

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Peppermint Magic Bars

With layers of chocolate cookie crust, chocolate chips, peppermint bark, coconut, and almonds, your taste buds are in for a yummy holiday treat.

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Chocolate Cookies with Mocha Frosting

Soft delicious dark chocolate cookies topped with luscious creamy dreamy coffee chocolate frosting. Oh my gosh these cookies are the things that dreams are made of.

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Snickerdoodle Cookies

Snickerdoodle Cookies are a simple sugar cookie that’s wrapped in warm cinnamon sugar spice. They’re a nice sweet lightly tangy traditional drop cookie with a hit of cinnamon that makes it classic. This is my grandma’s recipe that’s been handed down through the generations.

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Mocha Fudge

Rich smooth and creamy Mocha Fudge with the intense flavor of espresso and chocolate. This is a fudge that deserves a special place in your holiday baking and gift giving.

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Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies

Sweet creamy peanut butter surrounded by a soft chocolate cookie. There’s a little surprise to them that’s really fun!

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No Bake Chocolate Candy Cookies

These No Bake Chocolate Candy Cookies are like a chocolate praline. More candy than cookie, I’d say. And, super easy to make. Want to make more, use the servings slider to adjust the amounts.

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Pecan Bourbon Balls

No bake Pecan Bourbon Balls are an easy and fun no bake treat. Sweet buttery pecans mingle packed together in a sweet no bake filling, and drenched in melted chocolate. Then topped with a toasted pecan. These easy to make old-fashioned southern-style candy treats will please the pecan lover in you.

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Cut Out Cookies

Perfect soft and light white cut out cookies that don’t spread or melt when you’re cooked.

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Peppermint Brownie Sandwich Cookies

Soft delicious chocolate brownie cookies with delicious sweet marshmallow crème inside, all wrapped in crushed candy canes (or peppermint candies).

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2 Ingredient Coconut Macaroons

These coconut macaroons are so easy to make, and the macaroons are quite delicious. These would be the perfect cookies to make for your kid’s surprise potluck at school.

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Two Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge

This Two Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge is super easy to make, and so delicious. Creamy, peanut buttery, chocolaty, and perfect for making an easy snack at home anytime.

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Lime Meltaway Cookies

Lime Meltaway Cookies are an easy to make, delicious little shortbread cookie flavored with tart lime that's simply divine. Take that little cookie, and coat it in powdered sugar, and these cookies just melt in your mouth!

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Sea Salt Caramel Pretzel Bark

It only takes minutes and 5 ingredients to make this fantastically delicious dessert candy bark, and it’s a great and inexpensive gift to give to family and friends.

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Chocolate Chip Treasure Cookies

These easy to make, fun chewy cookies are loaded with goodies like graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, almonds, and of course, chocolate chips!

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Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies

Homey comforting oatmeal cookies wrapped around sweet creamy white filling.

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Tropical Pacific Cookies (Samoas)

Make your own Samoas cookies, and simply donate the money to the girl scouts!

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Chinese Almond Cookies

These delicious cookies are dense, sandy, and crunchy.

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Berliner Kranz Cookies

Berliner Kranz Cookies are Norweigan Christmas Cookies which translate into “Berlin Wreaths”. They are traditionally made into wreath shapes and decorated with some little bit of red and green sugars.

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No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Truffles

So easy to make & super delicious, these little no bake peanut better truffles will be a hit any time of year!

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Peppermint Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies

Soft delicious oatmeal cookies with delicious old-fashioned vanilla peppermint frosting inside, all wrapped in crushed candy canes (or peppermint candies).

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Lemon Fudge

Lemon Fudge – like a sunny little addition to your snacking needs! It's a little sweet and a little tart. Perfect for those of you (like me!) who LOVE lemon desserts!

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Lemon Sugar Cookies

These light little Lemon Sugar Cookies are the perfect sweet treat. I admit that it was really easy to eat a whole lot of them in one sitting. Light lemon flavor, nice sugar cookie. A great little cookie.

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Coconut Macaroons

These are definitely one of my favorite cookies — the best, fresh tasting sweet treat around! These get a nice crunchy toasted exterior with a chewy soft inside. Oh they are simply heaven!

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Almond Biscotti

Filled with almond flavor, these biscotti are perfect for dunking in morning coffee.

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No Bake Peanut Butter Bars

5-ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter Bars are super easy to make and super yummy! They take less than 20 minutes to make, and are a no bake snack!

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Chocolate Marshmallow Moonpies

Lightly sweet soft chocolate cookies surround marshmallow fluff, and are all topped off with a drizzle of delicious mocha glaze.

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Some things you may need for making cookies

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Cookie baking sheets
Air filled cookie baking sheets (these without sides are great for convection ovens too as they allow the air to move freely)
Mixing bowls
Cookie dough scoops
Parchment paper
Silicon cookie baking sheet
Silicon baking sheets (not printed)
Cooling racks
Measuring cups and spoons