Festive cookies are one of the best parts of the Christmas season! Whether they’re for office parties, festive family and friend get-togethers, shared as edible gifts, or left out on Christmas Eve for the big guy in red, these festive biscuits are a joy to bake and eat!
Ideas for Christmas biscuits
These Christmas cookie recipe ideas feature spiced biscuits, Christmas sugar cookies, classic gingerbread and more, meaning you have some major biscuit baking to do this festive season!
These jam wreath cookies will get everyone in a fun festive spirit – keep the wreaths in an air-tight container for up to 2 weeks.
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Coo Kie Christmas Tree Cookie Cutter (Kitchen Warehouse)
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The Cooks Collective Christmas Cookie Cutter Set of 6 (Myer)
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Avanti Snowflake Cookie Cutters, 5 piece set (David Jones)
Now $8.37 (RRP $11.95)
Avanti Gingerbread Family 4-set Cookie Cutters (Kitchen Warehouse)
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Le Creuset Baking Tray (David Jones)
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Spiced gingerbread biscuits
A homemade gift idea for loved ones to enjoy over the holiday season.
Salted lemon shortbread
Known as lemon sable tiles, these delicately textured French-style shortbread biscuits are incredibly moreish.
Lemon myrtle shortbread biscuits
Get creative with your festive baking.
Gingerbread biscuits
Run as fast as you can!
Gingerbread house cookies
The easiest way to make gingerbread houses.
Women’s Weekly Vintage Edition: Gingerbread people
Half the fun of making gingerbread is decorating them. It’s a great afternoon activity for getting the little ones involved in the kitchen.
Traditional shortbread
The use of rice flour gives shortbread a more delicate texture.
Stained glass biscuits
Edible Christmas decorations will win you plenty of fans, and look gorgeous into the bargain.
Festive walnut shortbread
It won’t take long to make these festive treats.
Florentines
You’ll go a little nutty for these festive treats.
Vanilla shortbread
So much to love about shortbread.
Shortbread fingers
Irresistibly crumbly and buttery, shortbread has been a year-round favourite biscuit for centuries.
Gingerbread folk
Adorable festive treats.
Christmas pinwheel sugar cookies
These adorable red and green swirled biscuits make the ultimate edible Christmas treat.
Gluten-free mini gingerbread houses
How to make tiny gluten-free gingerbread houses, the easy way.
Giant Santa Claus Christmas cookies
Our Santa Claus Christmas cookies recipe is an adorable homemade Christmas food gift or delightful treat for your Christmas Day dessert spread.
Decorated christmas cookies
Kids will love getting involved.
Jam shortbread snowflakes
The ideal homemade gift.
Stained glass biscotti
As pretty as they are delicious!
Jam wreaths
These jam wreath cookies get into the fun festive spirit of Christmas. Keep wreaths in an air tight container for up to 2 weeks.
Christmas pudding cookies
These little Christmas pudding cookies are delicious and completely adorable.
Rum and raisin shortbread
You will be on Santa Claus’s ’nice’ list if you leave these shortbread biscuits for him on Christmas Eve.
Jigsaw puzzle Christmas tree
Perfect for gifts.
Christmas tree shortbread
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas..
Melt-in-the-mouth eggnog shortbreads
Get in the festive spirit with these spiced treats.
Sugar-free biscotti with dried fruit
Perfect with a cuppa. Packed with dried fruit and no added sugar, you can have your treat and eat it too!
Macadamia wattleseed shortbreads
Shortbread with an Aussie flair.
Latte shortbread stars
Give the gift of something sweet.
Chocolate and cardamom shortbread
Delicate cardamom and chocolate flavours and the crunch of pistachios creates a delightful shortbread biscuit.
Pfeffernüsse
These German spice cookies are traditionally a festive treat at Christmas, but we like to enjoy them all year round.
Gluten-free shortbread
Butttery, sweet and crumbly, shortbread is the ideal gluten-free biscuit!
Gingerbread gift boxes
These gingerbread gift boxes are an adorable (and edible) way to package up any sweet treat. Go all out this Christmas and whip up a bunch for dessert.
Gingerbread christmas trees
Bake and stack spiced star cookies to create these adorable gingerbread Christmas trees.
Macadamia shortbread
This elegant biscuit is a perfect partner to a cup of tea or as part of a platter of fruit, cheese and chocolate.
Cranberry coconut Christmas trees
These adorable Christmas tree-shaped macaroon biscuits are sure to be a massive hit with the whole family. They taste so good, you’ll want to use this recipe all year round.
Julie Goodwin’s Christmas gingerbread
Delicious treats are arguably the best part of Christmas. Indulge in Julie Goodwin’s decadent Christmas gingerbread! Sweet and delicious, and perfect for the whole family!
Mini gingerbread houses
These mini gingerbread houses are a kid friendly project that will get everyone into the Christmas spirit.
Chocolate dip shortbread
Dip chocolate into homemade shortbread and you have a yummy treat for morning or afternoon tea, a picnic dessert or a welcome addition to a school or work lunchbox.
Christmas snowball cookies recipe
Our Christmas snowball cookies make an adorable homemade Christmas food gift, or a cute addition to your sweets spread come Christmas Day. Just don’t throw them.
Christmas angel biscuits
You could use any Christmas cookie cutter to make these biscuits, but angels and snowflakes work the best.
Hazelnut shortbread trees
Sandwiched with brandy butter cream, these stacked hazelnut and orange spice cookies make a stunning Christmas treat.
Speculaas
Speculaas are a Dutch Christmas biscuit traditionally made in wooden moulds. If you have them, dust with cornflour or flour; press dough mixture into moulds then draw a knife across the surface to scrape off excess. Turn mould over and slap hard to loosen biscuits onto oven trays. Dust mould with flour between each biscuit. […]
Rudolf the reindeer cookies
You need 10 ice-block sticks. If the choc orange balls don’t stick to the cookies, secure them with a little melted chocolate. Note
