Christmas cookies or biscuits are one of the best parts of the holiday season. They’re a sweet treat that’s acceptable to eat at almost any time during December (or before if you’re an early Christmas celebrater). Use all the best warming spices like ginger, cardamom and cinnamon to create your favourite bickies for gifting, or for dunking in your afternoon cup of tea.
Here’s our 12 favourite Christmas cookies, as classic as it get.
Our favourite Christmas cookies for 2025
If you’re just as obsessed as we are about pistachios, then this pistachio Christmas biscuit with white chocolate ganache recipe is going to be your new favourite Christmas bickie.
Whether you’re baking to create gifts from the kitchen, decorating with kids, or making a batch for yourself to enjoy with a cuppa during the busy holiday season, this gingerbread recipe will become your favourite, too.
Introducing: the ultimate festive treat! Deeply flavoured with our favourite festive spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg, it honestly doesn’t get more Christmassy than this.
Christmas Florentines are a great dessert to whip up if you’re short on time and want a little bit of Christmas in your sweet treat.
With dried fruit and cornflakes, you should be able to find all the ingredients in your pantry!
Pfeffernusse are a German biscuit that are typically made around Christmas time. Filled with warming spices and a drizzle of royal icing, these bickies are the perfect accompaniment to your afternoon tea on Christmas day.
The perfect make-ahead dessert that’s sure to be a crowd favourite come Christmas Day. Whether you’re catering for small kids or adults over the holidays, the chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavours combined with a buttery chocolate cookie are both nostalgic and delicious.
Make a sleigh-load of these crispy Italian-inspired goodies, packed with cardamom and pistachios. Keep these Christmas biscotti on hand to dunk into your coffee or tea during the holiday season.
Christmas in Australia doesn’t involve snow or snowflakes. But if you’re dreaming of having a white Christmas, then making these Linzer biscuits may make you feel all winter bright and sparkly.
Buttery, crisp, and as festive as can be. Whether you’re making them for Christmas Day or wrapping them up to gift your friends and family, these butter cookies are guaranteed to impress.
Don’t like using copha in your White Christmas? By using a mix of white chocolate and our secret ingredient, milk powder, you’ll get the same rich, creamy texture in this Aussie classic.
For the Christmas lovers who can’t go a day without a square of chocolate, these crinkle cookies are for you. Made with cocoa powder, dark chocolate, a white chocolate topping and a sprinkle of crushed candy canes, you’ll love the rich, chocolaty goodness of these biscuits.
Kid-friendly chocolate truffle recipes can be hard to find, but these festive ones are perfect for Christmas baking with your little ones. Without any rum or liqueur, these truffles are made from Marie biscuits, lots and lots of chocolate, and a chocolate coating for extra decadence.
Classic Christmas cookies like gingerbread and Linzer biscuits are perfect for gifting during the holiday season. Use twine to wrap them up, or store them in an air-tight container you’re willing to give away for maximum lifetime of your cookies
Most Australians prefer to use biscuits for describing baked goods like gingerbread, pfeffernusse and biscotti. However, some treats, like chocolate chip cookies, are named with ‘cookie’ as they are classically American. We used Christmas cookies in this case, as it just sounds more fun!
Biscuits like biscotti and pfeffernusse have the longest shelf-life, as they are a drier kind of biscuit. If you want your cookies to keep, leave off the icing until just before serving, and store in an air-tight container.
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