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Cookie boxes are one of the best ways to spread Christmas cheer! Who doesn’t love a box full of cookies?!
We thoughtfully dreamed up the best cookie box for the holidays! Our Ultimate Cookie Box is filled with 6 yummy holiday treats. There’s a little bit of everything in this box and we think anyone could find something they like in this box — peanut butter, peppermint, citrusy sweet and more! All the cookies are super simple to make ahead of time if your holiday schedule is stacking up.
Keep scrolling to read about each delicious cookie recipe — along with everything you need to recreate this cookie box at home. We hope you have as much fun making these recipes as we did!
What’s in Our Ultimate Christmas Cookie Box…
Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
Shortbread cookies are a classic and honestly a bit underrated. Each bite of these buttery shortbread cookies is sprinkled with crushed pistachios.
No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars
Calling all peanut butter and chocolate lovers, this one is for YOU! The classic and irresistible pairing of chocolate and peanut butter combine to create a melt-in-your-mouth candy that you’ll absolutely love.
Red Velvet Marshmallow Cookies
Chewy, slightly doughy red velvet cookies with marshmallow cream bursting from the inside.
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
A doughy chocolate delight!! Soft chocolate cookie lightly dipped in white melting chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy cane.
Lemon Snowball Cookies
Sugar dusted lemon cookies that melt in your mouth! These snowball cookies are super easy to make with just a handful of ingredients that you likely already have on hand.
Cranberry Crumble Bars
Homemade spiced shortbread crust and crumble with a layer of bright red homemade cranberry jam. A festive treat for the holiday season!
How do you make a cookie box?
First step is to decide what kinds of cookies you want to share. Our rule of thumb is typically to aim for different textures, flavors, colors and shapes. Making each cookie it’s own special experience. When you’re making your cookie box, keep these 5 things in mind:
1. Add different textures:
- Dip cookies in chocolate
- Add something crunchy like pretzel, potato chips, candy cane, ect.
- Add fillings – like caramel, jam, hazelnut spread
2. Cookie Flavor Ideas:
- Peanut butter and chocolate
- Fruit Jam
- Citrus
- Salty – Add pretzels, potato chips, flakey sea salt
- Peppermint
- Chocolate
- Caramel
3. Add a variety of colors.
Keep things interesting by adding some color to your box. It’s more fun to open a box with some color than a box full of brown cookies. It’s the holidays, find recipes that have pops of red or green. You can also have fun with color by adding festive m&m’s, sprinkles, different colored jams.
4. Mix and match cookie shapes.
Add an assortment of shapes with cookie cutters or slice bars different ways. This will make your box unique to you!
5. Plan Ahead.
Once you know what cookies you’re going to make, plan out your baking schedule.
We recommend making all the dough ahead of time and freezing or chilling until you are ready to bake. This will make the cookie boxes much easier to assemble the day-of.
Cookie Containers
Cookie Box Dividers and Wrapping
We recommend filling different sized cupcake liners with cookies to use as dividers for each treat.
