Host a Christmas Cookie Exchange: Free Party Printables & 35 Cookie Exchange Recipe Ideas You Can’t Miss!

Santa’s Whiskers Cookies are always a hit with the kids and are the perfect cookie for Holiday Cookie Exchanges! They are a soft, slice and bake cookie made with almonds, cherries, and coconut.

Peppermint Twist Cookies are easy to make and are a perfect Christmas Cookie Recipe for your next holiday gathering or cookie exchange.  The yummy combination of sugar cookie, peppermint, and a Hershey's hug is impossible to resist!

For these pinwheel cookies, all you need is butter, cinnamon, sugar, and leftover pie crust. They taste just like a little cinnamon bun wrapped up in a flaky pie crust. Yout cookie exchange guests will love this sweet treat.

Make your own Lofthouse Sugar Cookies at home! These fluffy, cakelike, soft sugar cookies are easy to make and topped with delicious buttercream icing with colorful sprinkles, just in time for all your holiday parties.

Crunchy, chewy, and decadently sweet! Made using a rich mix of graham crackers, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut, and nuts, these easy-to-make bars are delightfully gooey and delicious!

Fun and festive, these Grinch Cookies are a perfect holiday cookie recipe. With a festive green color and adorable red heart, the cookies couldn’t be any cuter!

These brightly colored cookies are made with a delicious sugar cookie base and baked with hard candies in the center, making them look like stained glass. Kids love these, and the cheerful designs will brighten up any holiday table.

These Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are so easy to make (made with a boxed cake mix) and are a great way to use up those candy canes! Plus they just look so pretty on the holiday cookie plate.

With just a few ingredients, these White Chocolate Cranberry Pecan Cookies may be the easiest and most delicious cookies you make this year.  Everyone loves them and they are a perfect cookie for cookie exchanges and neighbor gifting.

Try these melt-in-your-mouth almond spritz cookies this Christmas. Made with a little almond extract, these butter cookies are hard to resist! Use different cookie press discs to create various festive shapes and decorate with holiday sprinkles. This will be the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie box!

Crinkle cookies are a staple at any Christmas Cookie exchange. This recipe could not be any easier since it starts with a boxed cake mix and food coloring for the pretty green color.

These Red Velvet Oreo Cookies are the perfect combination of red velvet and white chocolate chip cookies with the added bonus of Oreo cookie chunks. What could be better? Super soft and chewy, these cookies will make a great addition to your cookie tray!

These Pistachio Clusters just take a moment to put together, but look and taste amazing!  Pack them up in a pretty gift box or mini cupcake liners for a professional-looking holiday treat or gift!

Eggnog Frosting adds a fun twist to these easy sugar cookies.

These shortbread cookies are a starting point for all kinds of sweet adventures: top them with nuts, chocolate, jam or flavor them with lemon, hazelnut, coconut. You can also leave this shortbread alone; it can stand on its own in delicious simplicity.

These Flourless Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies are a fun take on Jam Thumbprint cookies. They are low sugar and full of protein, so kind of a healthy cookie choice!

White and semi-sweet chocolate chips, topped with crunchy peppermint pieces, come together to make a minty and chocolaty holiday treat that will bring holiday cheer to everyone you share with!

This easy White Chocolate Holiday Bark Recipe is made with a white candy coating (white chocolate bark) and a festive fruit and nut blend. It’s a quick and easy option for your cookie exchange that does not require turning on the oven!

Espresso Bean and Almond Chocolate Bark is another fun take on chocolate bark. The addition of espresso makes it a more adult treat and the dark color makes it stand out on any cookie tray.

You can never go wrong with fudge at a cookie change. this decadent from scratch fudge recipe includes marshmallow and gives the fudge a heavenly texture and flavor.

This rocky road fudge is a fun twist on your everyday chocolate fudge. It is made in the microwave and contains enough goodies to please the pickiest rocky road lover.

This Easy Peanut Butter Fudge is made with only 4 ingredients and can be whipped up in just about 10 minutes. It's made in the microwave and is sweet, creamy, and oh-so peanut buttery. You’ll impress anyone lucky enough to be given a piece (or two.) Peanut Butter Fudge is perfect for holiday cookie exchanges, trays, and gift-giving.

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Fudge is a perfect sweet treat for those who crave a rich, chocolatey, and peanut-buttery indulgence. With simple ingredients and an easy process, it will become a family favorite!

Everybody loves a Rice Krispy treat, but have you ever had one made with Rice Krispies and Golden Grahams?  Talk about a delicious combination; this one is hard to resist- almost like a S’more wrapped up in a yummy treat.

Avalanche Cookies are made with crispy rice cereal, creamy peanut butter, and decadent white chocolate chips. They're a delicious no-bake cookie that’s hard to resist!

Made with melted chocolate, Nilla wafers, and powdered sugar, these Rum Balls are a sweet, boozy, and chocolatey holiday favorite. Quick & easy to make, with no baking or cooking required!

This recipe for classic cut-out Christmas sugar cookies promises flavorful cookies with soft and thick centers, slightly crisp edges, and flat tops for decorating. The dough comes with 7–8 simple ingredients, and the cookies hold their cookie-cutter shape in the oven. Decorate them with the included easy glaze cookie icing, which is a wonderful alternative to royal icing

A snickerdoodle cookie's subtle, traditional flavor is a lovely addition to festive cookie plates. But the brilliant thing about this classic treat is that it’s so simple to make that they’re perfect for any occasion: lazy weekends, dinner parties, coffee dates, and care packages.

These Gingerbread cookies have a traditional molasses and spice flavor, a tender texture, and the dough is a dream to work with. No spreading in the oven!

Jam Thumbprint Cookies are a shortbread cookie filled with your favorite jams, then drizzled with a simple vanilla glaze. So pretty and make a great addition to any holiday cookie plate and are just perfect for a cookie exchange party!

Mexican Wedding Cookies are a salty-sweet, and buttery cookie, speckled with finely chopped nuts coated in a layer of powdered sugar. They look just like a little snowball on your Holiday cookie tray.

No holiday cookie tray is complete without a chocolate chip cookie! These chocolate chip cookies are soft, thick, chewy, and sprinkled with a touch of sea salt to make for the yummiest cookie ever.

Soft and sugary, Peanut Butter Blossoms cookies are perfect for any holiday. This classic cookie is loved by all and is always a hit at holiday cookie exchanges.

Fluffy buttercream frosting sandwiched between two soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies loaded with holiday M&M’s! Absolutely perfect for your cookie exchange.

You can never go wrong with the classic buckeye cookie recipe! These classic peanut butter cookies come together in minutes and are dipped in chocolate for a yummy shell around a creamy peanut butter center. If you have any peanut butter lovers at your cookie exchange, these will surely be a hit.