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These 16 Chocolate Christmas Cookies will please the casual chocolate lover and the most dedicated chocoholic. An excellent variety of rich and flavorful cookies that make the perfect addition to a cookie platter.
These chocolate Christmas cookies are decadent, fun and festive. Some cookies highlight the flavor of chocolate and others have balanced pairings with peppermint, nuts, citrus, or spices. You’ll find a variety of types of cookies like chocolate pecan tassies alongside more familiar favorites like chocolate crinkle cookies.
The 16 cookies are grouped in categories to make it easier to find the perfect cookie or cookies for your holiday gathering! Start with easy chocolate cookies and then move through a variety of chocolate peppermint cookies and more. Add a few cookies from The Best Christmas Cookies or these traditional Christmas cookies to your list this year!
Why You Will Love these Chocolate Christmas Cookies
- Varied in flavor, texture and type. We have collected a list of chewy chocolate cookies, crunchy cookies and bar cookies. Each cookie flavor and texture is unique. Some have combinations of flavors while other are purely, unapologetically chocolate!
- Divided into categories for easy selection. We’ve done (almost) all the work for you by subdividing all the cookies into categories. You can easily select a few from each, and a few of traditional Christmas cookie recipes, for a perfectly varied cookie tray!
- Professional quality recipes. These recipes are all created or perfected by a professional pastry chef for the best texture and flavor.
Frequently Asked Questions
The general guidelines for storing Christmas cookies are a week at room temperature or up to 3 months frozen. Crunchy cookies should not be stored in the refrigerator or they will absorb moisture and soften. For the freshest cookies, store the dough in the freezer and bake them fresh.
Typically a week at room temperature and 3 months frozen. Some Christmas cookies are better for longer storage like linzer cookies or Mexican wedding cookies. These crunchy or crumbly cookies will last up to 12 days at room temperature but chewy cookies are best consumed or frozen by 4 days at room temperature. I prefer to freeze the cookie dough and bake the cookies fresh.
16 Chocolate Christmas Cookies
Find the best chocolate Christmas cookies sorted by variety below. There are simple drop cookies made with cake mix {like Christmas crinkle cookies} alongside made from scratch chocolate biscotti. Each recipe is by a professional pastry chef and they are sure to delight!
Easy Chocolate Christmas Cookies
These are those cookies that are mixed, dropped and baked. They are ready in 30 minutes or less with no fuss! Some aren’t even baked for the easiest cookies ever. See our easy Christmas cookie recipes for additional easy cookies!
Chewy, soft chocolate crinkle cookies are made with devil’s food cake mix for the easiest cookie you’ll make this year. It is always a favorite and they are made in just 17 minutes without the need to chill the batter! Just mix the dough in a large bowl, scoop them onto a prepared cookie sheet and they’re practically done!
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These easy no bake chocolate brandy balls are similar to snowball cookies, and are flavored with chocolate cookies, cherries and brandy! They are as simple as combining all the ingredients, shaping and refrigerating. Their flavor even improves over time making them the perfect make-ahead cookie!
No Bake Chocolate Cherry Brandy Balls
These delicious fudgy brownie cookies have the flavor and texture of your favorite fudgy brownies! Chewy, fudgy chocolate cookies with that crackle on top! Pro tip: gradually add your dry ingredients (aka the flour mixture with all purpose flour and unsweetened cocoa powder) to your wet ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer on a low speed so the cookies stay chewy.
Brownie Cookies
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Tis the season for all the chocolate peppermint treats! There are lovers and haters out there, but these are my favorites. Chewy, crunchy, bar cookies, we have it all! Time to preheat your oven, get out your parchment paper, baking sheet, and wire rack for cooling!
These chocolate peppermint swirl cookies are stunning and delicious. This recipe makes a tender chocolate dough swirled with a peppermint dough. The cookies are buttery and light with a balanced peppermint flavor.
Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies
These peppermint chocolate brownies have vanilla extract, cocoa powder, melted chocolate and chocolate chips in chewy brownies plus a creamy (and easy) peppermint buttercream on top. They are perfect for a crowd or a holiday bake sale!
Peppermint Triple Chocolate Brownies
Soft dark chocolate cookies topped with a white chocolate buttercream with crunchy peppermint pieces. These double chocolate peppermint cookies are sure to be a new favorite.
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These candy cane kiss cookies are a double chocolate cookie with a peppermint kiss pressed into the center. The combination of white chocolate, dark chocolate and peppermint is fabulous. Almost like peppermint bark as cookie dough balls.
Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
Classic Chocolate Cookies & Brownies
You can’t go wrong with these classic recipes. They are your chewy, decadent cookies and bars that are always a hit. You can always peruse all our bar cookie recipes for further fan favorites.
Thick, chewy and packed with flavor. You’ve never tried brownies like these! Browned butter adds a subtle hazelnut flavor to the chewy, soft brown butter brownies. Top them with an easy chocolate buttercream or a cream cheese buttercream for a Christmas treat.
Brown Butter Brownies
These cream cheese chocolate chip cookies are soft, thick and chewy. They have the perfect balance of chocolate chips and brown sugar cookie. I store these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature or I freeze them, so they’re always on standby around the holidays! If you don’t have cream cheese, try these thick chewy chocolate chip cookies instead. Or just break open a block of cream cheese and make kolacky cookies too!
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
These double chocolate chip cookies are for the chocolate lovers out there. No matter the season, you are the person who is reaching for or ordering the most chocolaty item on the menu. I stand with you! The hardest part is making sure your chocolate isn’t so hot after melting that it cooks your eggs, but that’s not a huge risk. These chewy chocolate cookies have cocoa powder, melted chocolate AND chocolate chips. They will blow you and Santa away. Plus, you can store them in the freezer to thaw for later.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Fun and Festive Chocolate Cookies
These are chocolate Christmas cookies that are a bit unexpected! Mix up your cookie tray with some of these treats to really wow your guests! Some have unexpected shapes and others unexpected ingredients. All bring that wonderful Holiday cheer and flavor!
This is my great-grandmother’s recipe for pecan tassies, but transformed with a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips, and they are phenomenal! An easy cream cheese press-in dough filled with chocolate chips and pecan pie filling. These chocolate pecan tassies will be a win for any holiday dessert table or passed dessert.
Chocolate Pecan Tassies
Chocolate Nutella linzer cookies take traditional linzer cookies into the realm of chocolate. Nutella and chocolate lovers will both swoon over these delicious and decadent cookies.
Chocolate Nutella Linzer Cookies
Not only are these chocolate shortbread cookies dressed up for the holidays with sparkle, but they are tender and flavorful too! The chocolate dough has a hint of orange zest and vanilla. You will love these shortbread cookies.
Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookies
I love a gentle sprinkling of cardamom in baked goods like these hazelnut crescent cookies and cardamom snowballs. Chocolate and cardamom shine in these easy chocolate cardamom cookies. They are chewy and perfect.
chocolate cardamom cookies
Once upon a time a pastry chef (me) went to Italy and tasted the best biscotti of her life. She came home and vowed to replicated it. It took some time and some butter but I did it. These double chocolate biscotti are one Italian inspired recipe. They have an impactful chocolate flavor and are perfectly crunchy without being hard. My professional advice is make extra.
Double Chocolate Biscotti
Before You Go
I hope you enjoyed this chocolate Christmas cookies. You might also enjoy these traditional Christmas cookies, the 24 easy Christmas cookies or peruse all our 100+ Christmas cookie recipes!
wow I missed so many delicious recipes, these all look incredible! Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas Lindsey!
Thank you, Manali! Happy New Year!!!
Great summary! Thank you for the tips on how easy, hard, time required etc. Very helpful and nice to have all the choices in one place!
Thanks, Mom! xoxoxo