Our All-Time Best Christmas Cookie Recipes (2024)

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Among those who can make a single choice, frosted sugar cookies lead the list (32%), with gingerbread (12%) and chocolate chip (11%) rounding out the top three.

Andrea Goossens designed a cookie honoring Belize, her home country, and won the Food Network's 2020 Christmas Cookie Challenge.

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).

On the naughty list of cookies, Americans gave the lowest win records to anise cookies, which only won 29% of its matchups.

Chocolate chip cookies

What is the most popular type of cookie? It might just be this one.

History. Modern Christmas cookies can trace their history to recipes from Medieval Europe biscuits, when many modern ingredients such as cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, almonds and dried fruit were introduced into the west.

OREO^® is America's favorite cookie, available in more than 100 countries around the globe. Over 60 billion OREO^® cookies are sold each year with more than 20 billion of those cookies sold in the U.S. annually. An estimated 500 billion OREO^® cookies have been sold since the first OREO^® biscuit was developed in 1912.

The First Christmas Cookies

Those who would like to take credit for the invention of the Christmas cookie will have to arm wrestle the Germans for it. They believe that Weihnachtsplätzchen, a term that refers specifically to cookies and broadly to holiday treats, encompasses the origin of Christmas baking.

Spokane chef Ricky Webster wins $25K on Hallmark Drama's 'Christmas Cookie Matchup' Webster told KREM that he and another competitor are tasked with making a completely edible cookie chandelier on the finale episode.

Watch Christmas Cookie Challenge Online | Season 7 (2023) | TV Guide.

Who won Season 5 Episode 8 of Christmas Cookie Challenge? ›

Marietta resident and winner of the “Christmas Cookie Challenge” Season 5, Episode 8 Reindeer Auditions on the Food Network, Sam Opdenbosch, owner of Sam's Cookie Company, donated half of her winnings to a staff support fund at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital.

Christmas Cookie Challenge hosts Ree Drummond and Eddie Jackson | Pressroom.

Asheville Baker Wins Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship with Gorgeous Gingerbread Scene. Courtesy of Food Network Linda Carney (left) and her baking assistant Cheryl Filion (right). Asheville baker Linda Carney is used to accomplishing amazing feats with gingerbread.

2. Holiday Candy Cookie Bites – Number two on the list of Santa's favorite cookies is Holiday Candy Cookie Bites, which is a holiday version of the year-round favorite, Chocolate Chip Cookies. Instead of traditional chocolate chips, these cookies are studded with red and green candies and white baking chips.

Classic Christmas Cookies

They're the ones you might remember from the platters of your childhood, like snickerdoodles, molasses cookies, macaroons, sugar cookies and more. Every single one of these recipes is a tried and true favorite and is perfect for carrying on your cookie traditions year after year.

Nabisco Oreo was the second ranked cookie brand of the United States with about 674.2 million U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2017. Cookies are part of the snack food category and defined as small, thin, baked treats in the United States.