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Home » Dessert » Top 12 Best Gluten-Free Holiday Cookie Recipes

Top 12 Best Gluten-Free Holiday Cookie Recipes

Last Updated December 7, 2022. Published November 25, 2018 Good For You Gluten Free

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Top 12 Best Gluten-Free Holiday Cookie Recipes

It’s time to bake gluten-free holiday cookies, and I’ve got you covered with 12 of my favorite gluten-free holiday cookie recipes below. These cookies will bring plenty of tasty holiday cheer at Christmas and year-round. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosures.

Are you on the hunt for delicious gluten-free holiday cookies to bake this year for Christmas? If so, look no further than this list that features 12 of my most favorite and delicious holiday cookie recipes.

When you bake any of these delicious gluten-free holiday cookies, from gingerbread cookies to gluten-free frosted sugar cookies, you’ll show your loved ones that gluten-free cookies can look and taste just as good – and even better – than their gluten-full rivals.

Whether you’re looking for festive holiday cookies to decorate with your kids or traditional holiday cookies to impress your friends at cookie exchange parties, I’ve got you covered with this list of the best 12 gluten-free holiday cookie recipes around!

(1) Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies

These no-spread cut-out gluten-free sugar cookies are perfect for cutting out your favorite holiday shapes and decorating them with frosting and royal icing. Follow the instructions carefully to ensure these cookies hold their shape and don’t spread.

Decorated sugar cookies

(2) Gluten-Free Frosted Sugar Cookies

These chewy and soft gluten-free frosted sugar cookies are a classic treat that your kids – and Santa – will love.

I suggest making buttercream frosting (the recipe included along with the sugar cookie recipe) or using store-bought frosting and calling it a day. The kids will love spreading the buttercream on top and topping it all with holiday sprinkles.

(Read: Gluten-Free Sprinkles? I Tested 4 Brands of Sprinkles for Hidden Gluten.)

Stack of gluten-free sugar cookies

(3) Gluten-Free Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

These gluten-free chocolate crinkle cookies are rich and fudgy on the inside and flaky on the outside. These holiday cookies are a real crowd-pleaser!

crinkle cookies on a surface

(4) Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Blossoms

These stunning gluten-free peanut butter blossoms offer sweet peanut butter flavor. They’re rolled in sparkling sugar and topped with a festive Hershey Kiss.

Gluten-free peanut butter blossoms recipe header

(5) Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies

You’ll be in the holiday spirit in no time with these adorable gluten-free gingerbread cookies. These cookies are soft and chewy and surprisingly simple to make too. They hold their shape well without even having to chill the dough!

decorated gingerbread cookies

(6) Gluten-Free Molasses Cookies

These gluten-free molasses cookies are soft and chewy, bursting with deep molasses notes and hints of holiday spice.

Coat half the cookie in white chocolate and top with festive holiday sprinkles.

And yes, molasses is gluten free and safe to consume by people with celiac disease.

molasses cookie with white chocolate and sprinkles

(7) Gluten-Free Maple White Chocolate Cookies

If you love white chocolate, these gluten-free maple white chocolate cookies are for you! These cookies are soft on the inside and slightly crunchy on the outside. The maple syrup extract gives this recipe that extra delicious flavor and holiday scent.

maple white chocolate cookies

(8) Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft-baked classic chocolate chip cookies taste like the cookies you remember eating in your childhood because they’re based on the original Nestle Tollhouse recipe. Everyone loves a classic chocolate chip cookie. You can’t go wrong with these!

Tray of classic gluten-free chocolate chip cookies

(9) Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

These gluten-free raspberry thumbprint cookies add a little color to your holiday festivities. They’re soft-baked, buttery, and sweet, and who doesn’t love raspberry jam?!

tray of raspberry thumbprint cookies

(10) Gluten-Free Monster Cookies

These gluten-free monster cookies are stuffed with peanut butter, chocolate chips, gluten-free oats, and peanut M&Ms. Use red and green M&Ms for a festive holiday look.

monster cookies

(11) Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies

These soft-baked gluten-free chocolate chip pumpkin cookies are chewy and gooey, and oh-so-delicious. They’re loaded with pumpkin spice flavor and are a real crowd-pleaser too!

pumpkin cookies

(12) Gluten-Free S’mores Cookies

Get that campfire taste without the campfire when you make these tasty gluten-free s’mores cookies – baked in your oven with ease! You’ll need gluten-free graham crackers and marshmallows to make these tasty little cookies.

gluten-free s'mores cookies

There you have it, a list of 12 of my favorite gluten-free holiday cookie recipes. Shhh, no one has to know they’re gluten free. It’ll be our little secret!

More Holiday Treats

Enjoy these holiday non-cookie treats too:

  • No-Bake Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Bars
  • 4-Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter S’mores Bark
  • Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread (Dairy Free)
  • Gluten-Free Pumpkin Scones
  • Gluten-Free Cosmic Brownies
  • Gluten-Free Jelly Donuts – New and Improved Recipe

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