Desserts

Christmas Cookies Box Ideas

Here are our favorite Christmas cookie and candy recipes from 2025. With toffee, bark, cookies, and Christmas desserts, we have lots of ideas to share for your Christmas baking and gifting this year.

These Ginger Crinkle Cookies taste like Christmas. They have a crisp exterior, a powdered sugar shell, and a soft center with cozy gingerbread spices in every bite. The snowy, powdered sugar-cracked tops makes these cookies extra festive. We make these cookies every year, and they are loved by kids and adults alike. Here the cookies are stacked in the center of the image with a bite taken out of the top cookie to see the soft interior of the cookie
We make these Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze every holiday season. Made in a half sheet pan, they make a beautiful dessert for a larger crowd or make an easy Christmas gift. The tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond icing drizzle are a delicious combination, and they are easy to prepare. In this image, a cherry bar is plated in the center of the image with a bite taken, showing the inside tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond drizzle up close. Plated bars are in the background.
he chocolate and toffee need to set for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. You can speed up this process by placing the toffee in the fridge if desired. Place a spatula or bench scraper under the toffee and place it on a cutting board (it’s okay if it breaks a little with this process). Cut with a sharp knife to break into pieces and serve or store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks. In this image, the toffee is placed in a tin in the center of the image, surrounded by Christmas greenery, ribbon and ornaments.
This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, its a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate. In this image, a piece of the Caramel Pretzel Bark is leaning in front of a stack of the bark in the center of the frame with pretzels, peanuts and other bark pieces in the foreground and background.
These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat. This image is an overhead shot of the iced cookies close together on a plate.

What we love about these Christmas Cookie Recipes

Making memories with family and friends is what holidays are all about. For me, baking has always been central to those memories with my family, especially over the holidays. Some of these recipes we have made for years and years. All of these recipes are family favorites of ours and have helped to make our holidays special.

These are classic Christmas flavors here like gingersnaps, peppermint, toffee, and orange cranberry. There are also some fun recipes my kids love like our Kitchen Sink Christmas cookies. We hope these recipes help your family and friends to make some new memories and traditions by baking and enjoying these together.

Cookies and Bars

Ginger Crinkle Cookies

These Ginger Crinkle Cookies taste like Christmas. They have a crisp exterior, a powdered sugar shell, and a soft center with cozy gingerbread spices in every bite. The snowy, powdered sugar-cracked tops make these cookies extra festive. We make these cookies every year, and they are loved by kids and adults alike.

Get the recipe here: Ginger Crinkle Cookies

These Ginger Crinkle Cookies taste like Christmas. They have a crisp exterior, a powdered sugar shell, and a soft center with cozy gingerbread spices in every bite. The snowy, powdered sugar-cracked tops makes these cookies extra festive. We make these cookies every year, and they are loved by kids and adults alike. Here the cookies are stacked in the center of the image with a bite taken out of the top cookie to see the soft interior of the cookie

Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing

These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat.

Get the recipe here: Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing

These Orange Cranberry Cookies with Icing are soft, citrusy, and sweet. Filled with tart dried cranberries, crispy chopped pecans, and bright citrusy orange zest, then rolled in orange sugar and drizzled with orange icing, they are a beautiful and delicious holiday treat. This image is an overhead shot of the iced cookies close together on a plate.

Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

These Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies are the ultimate salty-sweet combination cookie. Packed with red and green M&Ms, crushed pretzels, potato chips, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and red and green sprinkles, they are a festive, delicious cookie and my kids’ absolute favorite.

Get the recipe here: Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

Cranberry and Walnut Cookies

We love everything about these Cranberry and Walnut Cookies cookies! They have the perfect texture and thickness and are filled with an amazing combination of cranberries, walnuts, and white chocolate. These disappear quickly every time we make them!

Get the recipe here: Cranberry and Walnut Cookies

Pecan Tassies with Honey

These Pecan Tassies with Honey have a buttery cream cheese crust and a rich, gooey pecan filling. They are bite-sized treats that taste like mini pecan pies and are a perfect addition to any holiday dessert platter.

Get the recipe here: Pecan Tassies with Honey

These Pecan Tassies with Honey have a buttery cream cheese crust and a rich, gooey pecan filling. They are bite-sized treats that taste like mini pecan pies and are a perfect addition to any holiday dessert platter. In this image, the tassies are arranged on a plate in the center of the image with a plate and platter of tassies in the background and some finely chopped pecans in the foreground and background.

Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze

We make these Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze every holiday season. Made in a half sheet pan, they make a beautiful dessert for a larger crowd or make an easy Christmas gift. The tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond icing drizzle are a delicious combination, and they are easy to prepare.

Get the recipe here: Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze

We make these Cherry Bars with Almond Glaze every holiday season. Made in a half sheet pan, they make a beautiful dessert for a larger crowd or make an easy Christmas gift. The tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond icing drizzle are a delicious combination, and they are easy to prepare. In this image, a cherry bar is plated in the center of the image with a bite taken, showing the inside tender crumb, cherry pie filling, and almond drizzle up close. Plated bars are in the background.

Candy

Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans

If I could only choose one dessert to make at Christmas, it would be this Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans. Also called Buttercrunch Toffee, it is made with just butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt, then covered in chocolate and pecans. The crunchy, buttery toffee with the creamy chocolate and pecan crunch is so addictive. It makes great holiday gifts in bins or in cookie boxes.

Get the recipe here: Chocolate Butter Toffee with Pecans

he chocolate and toffee need to set for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. You can speed up this process by placing the toffee in the fridge if desired. Place a spatula or bench scraper under the toffee and place it on a cutting board (it’s okay if it breaks a little with this process). Cut with a sharp knife to break into pieces and serve or store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two weeks. In this image, the toffee is placed in a tin in the center of the image, surrounded by Christmas greenery, ribbon and ornaments.

Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark

This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, it’s a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate.

Get the recipe here: Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark

This Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bark is the ultimate sweet-and-salty treat. The combination of the creamy chocolate base, crunchy and salty pretzels and peanuts, and a rich buttery caramel topping finished with a sprinkle of salt is an irresistible treat. Easy to make with just a few ingredients, its a fun holiday treat, perfect for packing in tins or sharing on a plate. In this image, a piece of the Caramel Pretzel Bark is leaning in front of a stack of the bark in the center of the frame with pretzels, peanuts and other bark pieces in the foreground and background.

Peppermint Bark Pretzels

These Peppermint Bark Pretzels have the incredible combination of cool peppermint, creamy chocolate, and crunchy, salty pretzels. The pretzels are a perfect gift or snack for the holiday season. They are festive, irresistibly addictive, and delicious.

Get the recipe here: Peppermint Bark Pretzels

Desserts & Treats

Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie

This Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie has a graham cracker crust, a no-bake cream cheese filling, and a sweet cherry pie topping. It is an easy dessert, perfect for the summer and winter, and is a favorite at family gatherings.

Get the recipe here: Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie

This Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie has a graham cracker crust, a no-bake cream cheese filling, and a sweet cherry pie topping. It is an easy dessert, perfect for the summer and winter, and is a favorite at family gatherings. In the image, the pie is cut into with the cut side facing the camera so the viewer sees the inside filling and crust with the cherry topping slightly spilling over the edge.

Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Danishes

Each Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Danish has delicate layers of puff pastry filled with vanilla almond cream cheese, berries, and fruit preserves, and is topped with a drizzle of delicious creamy almond icing. These Danishes melt in your mouth and are soft, flaky, creamy, flavorful treats perfect for a holiday or weekend breakfast.

Get the recipe here: Cream Cheese Puff Pastry Danish

Delicate layers of puff pastry encase a cream cheese, berry, and jam filled danish. Each danish is glazed with a creamy almond kissed icing and contain a blueberry or raspberry filling. Here the pastries are stacked on a plate with a bite taken out of the top pastry.

We hope these Christmas cookie and candy ideas help you plan for your holiday baking, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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