28 Treats for Your Cookie Exchange
Looking for that extra-special something to make for your upcoming cookie exchange treats? I've got 28 ideas for you! that are absolutely certain to not disappoint your cookie exchange pals.
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1. Insanely Delicious Turtle Cookies The classic flavors of turtle candy ... chocolate, pecans, and caramel ... in soft and insanely delicious cookies. These are the most popular cookies on the blog for a reason ... because they're sooooo good!
2. Cherry Almond Cookies With their white chocolate-drizzled maraschino cherries perched prettily on top, these adorable little cookies are one tasty treat! Perfect for Christmas cookie trays, cookie exchanges, Valentine's Day treats ... or, for everyday enjoying.
3. Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars These rich and fudgy bars are adorned with festive red and green for the holidays! Whip up a batch for your cookie tray, and watch them disappear.
4. Gingerbread Cookies The best classic rolled Gingerbread Cookies recipe! It just wouldn't be Christmas without these. (And if you're looking for other rolled cut-out cookies to decorate, check out our other rolled favorites: basic rolled butter cookies, basic rolled shortbread cookies, and chocolate sugar cookies.)
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5. Gingerbread Cookie Bites These mini cookie bites are one perfectly-poppable Christmas cookie treat! Great for gifting, topping cupcakes, garnishing Christmas cocktails, or for just popping in your mouth as a smaller Christmas cookie treat.
6. Cinnamon Roll Cookies Don't want to make cinnamon rolls but still want great cinnamon taste? Give Cinnamon Roll Cookies a try!
7. 7-Layer Cookies Seven ingredients layered together make amazingly delicious 7-Layer Cookies. How can you go wrong with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans?
8. Gingerbread Magic Cookies Love magic cookies? Then you'll go crazy for this Christmas version of the classic! ... complete with a gingerbread crust, cinnamon chips, and white chocolate. It's just as good as the original ... hmmmm, perhaps even better!
9. Classic Snowball Cookies With their slightly-sweetened shortbread-type dough rolled in a coating of confectioners' sugar, who doesn't just adore classic Snowball Cookies? Also known as Russian Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cookies, these tasty little bites are typically enjoyed around the holidays. But they're so delicious, they deserve to be enjoyed all year long!
10. Red Velvet Snowball Cookies Such a fun and festive twist on the classic! With their chocolate flavor and deep red interior, these are a fabulous addition to any Christmas cookie tray -- and are perfect or Christmas gifting-from-the-kitchen, too.
11. Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies Bake up a batch of these beauties and enjoy that tasty red velvet flavor in a fun cookie form!
12. Candy Cane Cookies Two colors of almond sugar cookie dough twisted together, sprinkled with crushed candy canes and sugar. They're a treasured fun-&-festive family Christmas tradition, for sure!
13. Pound Cake Cookies Love pound cake? Enjoy the tender texture & flavor of cream cheese pound cake in bite-sized form with these tasty little Pound Cake Cookies.
15. Toffee Bars A brown sugar cookie crust topped with chocolate, toffee bits, and pecans makes for rich-and-delicious Toffee Bars. They're my Mom's absolute favorite, so they've got to be good!
16. Lemon-Glazed Butter Cookies Rich, tender, and amazingly-delicious butter cookie dough gets even better with a zesty lemon glaze.
17. Peppermint Saltine Cracker Toffee {aka Peppermint Christmas Crack} Cracker toffee and peppermint lovers, add this one to your Christmas baking list! This may just become your family's new holiday favorite.
18. Christmas Homemade Thin Mints Who says you can't have Thin Mints for the holiday season? You sure can with these copycat Christmas Homemade Thin Mints! Crushed candy canes and sprinkles make this holiday version of the Girl Scout classic extra fun and festive.
19. Christmas Chocolate Kiss Cookies Spread some holiday cheer with these adorable little Kiss cookies. They're a great cookie project for grown-ups and kids alike because they're just plain fun to make ... and to eat!
20. Molasses Crinkles Who needs those ginger snaps from a box when you can whip up your very own ginger & molasses beauties at home? Oh, and these Molasses Crinkles are just perfect for that Christmas cookie exchange or cookie tray.
21. Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies If you can cover a cherry in chocolate and turn out a totally-tasty-treat, then why not put that flavor combination in a cookie? With these tasty cookies, we can enjoy the fabulous flavors of chocolate covered cherries ... in a fun cookie form.
22. Grandma's Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies Loaded with peanut butter, soft & chewy, rolled in sugar, and fork-pattern adorned Grandma's old-fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies are the stuff childhood cookie memories are made of.
23. Mocha Swirl Cookies Coffee and chocolate shortbread doughs make for a beautiful (and tasty!) swirled cookie treat.
24. Chai Sugar Cookies Chai lovers -- these cookies are for you! Because all that wonderfully rich, warm, aromatic spice of a chai tea latte is absolutely fabulous in sugar cookie form, too.
25. Rum Balls {with Spiced Rum} These chocolate Rum Balls with spiced rum are a Christmas classic in our home. I like them with an extra splash of rum to make them extra strong! (Or if you prefer, make Kentucky Bourbon Balls instead. They're such a delicious Southern classic!)
26. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Like eating cookie dough better than the actual baked cookies? Then these Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles are for you!
28. Graham Cracker Pralines Loaded with pecans and chocolate chips, then slathered with cracker candy's signature boiled butter-sugar mixture, Graham Cracker Pralines are a quick and easy totally delicious, totally addictive cracker candy treat.
Enjoy!
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