The best Christmas cookie recipes with dimples that everyone will praise. Get inspired!

The holiday season brings to mind many delightful traditions, and one of the most cherished is baking Christmas cookies.

This year, why not impress your friends and family with cookies that taste amazing and look adorable, thanks to their charming dimples?

Here’s a collection of the best Christmas cookie recipes featuring that delightful indentation that everyone will love.

Let’s get inspired!

Peanut Butter Blossoms

These classic cookies are a must for any holiday cookie platter. The dimples created by pressing a chocolate kiss into a soft peanut butter cookie add both shape and flavor!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• Chocolate kisses

Instructions:

• Preheat your oven to 350°F
• In a bowl, mix peanut butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and baking soda until smooth.
• Roll the dough into balls and place them on a baking sheet.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie immediately.
• Allow to cool.

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

Do you like oatmeal cookies? Then you will definitely be pleased. If you feel like sinning during Christmas, why not try this treat?

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of peanut butter
• 2 tablespoons of maple syrup
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons of mixed oatmeal
• 2 tablespoons of mixed flax seeds

For the filling:

• High-Quality Dark Chocolate

Method:

• Melt the chocolate over a water bath and let it cool.
• Place all the ingredients (except the chocolate) in a large bowl and whisk everything thoroughly.
• Then, place pieces from the dough and form balls on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Press each ball and make holes in the middle of the cookies.
• Pour melted chocolate into each well.
• Bake at 365°F for about 8-10 minutes.

Did you notice that this recipe does not contain sugar or flour? If you don’t have maple syrup at home, that’s fine. Try replacing it with, for example, chicory, agave, rice, or barley.

If you can’t blend flaxseed in a food processor, try using a coffee grinder, a pepper grinder, or a mortar and pestle.

Lard dimple Christmas cookies with jam

Lard cookies may not be that well known nowadays, but our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used lard to bake Christmas cookies. You don’t have to worry about the taste; there is no smell of pork. On the contrary, it creates an irresistible delicacy and fragility.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup buttermilk
• ½ cup semi-coarse flour
• ½ cup plain flour
• 1 cup melted lard (cooled)
• 1 heaping teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/3 cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1 spoon of cocoa

Method:

• Mix all the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk and melted lard.
• Mix the dough properly.
• Form small balls from the finished dough.
• Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Press each ball onto the pancake and make a well in the middle.
• Fill the holes with jam.
• Bake at 365°F for about 10 minutes.

Almond Christmas cookies with honey cream

Another amazing option that unleashes the taste pleasure. Bake this cookie along with the video guide.

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup slivered almonds
• 1 cup softened butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• ¼ cup honey
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon of almond extract
• ½ cup almond flour
• 3 cups semi-coarse flour
• 1 and ½ teaspoons of baking soda
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• For the cream
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 tablespoons of softened butter

Method:

• Roast the almond slices in a small baking dish in the oven at 365°F. They are ready when they begin to turn golden and fragrant, which takes about 8-10 minutes.
• Cut them into small pieces.
• Beat the butter with the sugar until fluffy (it takes 3-5 minutes).
• Add honey and eggs and beat.
• Add almond extract, almond flour, flour, baking soda and mix well.
• Separate pieces from the finished dough and make balls.
• Place on a tray lined with baking paper.
• Press the balls slightly into a pancake shape and make a hole in the middle with your finger.
• Bake at 365°F for about 8-10 minutes.
• While the cookies are baking, prepare the cream.
• Mix honey with butter.
• Pour the cream into the wells of the cooled cookies and sprinkle with roasted almonds.

Video recipe here:

Honey Almond Cookies

Traditional Cookies with walnuts

Irresistible chocolate taste and a consistency that melts on the tongue – try this Christmas-dimpled cookie and see for yourself.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup melted butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 2 tablespoons of coconut, agave, rice, maple syrup or honey
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 and ½ cups semi-coarse flour (or a little more)
• ¼ teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/3 teaspoon of salt

For the filling:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 spoons of cocoa
• 1/2 cup butter (softened)
• 1 tablespoon of milk
• walnuts (or other nuts)

Instructions:

• Beat the butter together with the sugars until fluffy.
• Add all liquid ingredients and whisk.
• Add the pre-mixed dry ingredients and shape the dough.
• Tear off pieces from the dough and shape them into balls.
• Place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Press each ball and make a well in the middle.
• Prepare the chocolate filling.
• Beat all ingredients (except nuts) until fluffy (about 2 minutes).
• Fill the holes and decorate with walnut pieces.
• Bake at 350°F for about 10-11 minutes.
• Then, let it cool on the baking sheet for another half hour.

Cocoa-dimpled cookies with marshmallows and mint

Are you a fan of mint chocolate and marshmallows? Well, you will definitely like this. Try this experiment; maybe baking this cookie will become your Christmas tradition.

Ingredients:

• ⅓ cup of grated chocolate
• 6 tablespoons of softened butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract
• ¼ cup and 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• ¾ cup semi-coarse flour
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

For the filling:

• 6 large marshmallow candies
• crushed lollipops or peppermint candies for decoration

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F and prepare two trays lined with baking paper.
• Melt the chocolate over a water bath.
• In a medium bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until smooth and fluffy (2-3 min.)
• Add the cooled chocolate, eggs, mint extract and beat until smooth.
• Combine the remaining dry ingredients in another bowl, then add them to the whipped mixture.
• Mix everything thoroughly.
• Shape the dough into balls, place them on a baking sheet, then press them with your hand and make a well in the middle with your finger.
• Bake for 8 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cut the marshmallows into smaller pieces.
• After 8 minutes, remove the cookies from the oven, pour marshmallows into the wells, and put them back in the oven for another 3-4 minutes.
• You can sprinkle pieces of lollipops or candies on the baked goods.

This Christmas season, embrace the spirit of giving, creativity, and togetherness through the simple act of baking dimpled cookies. Whether it’s your family recipe passed down through generations or a new variation you’ve discovered, these cookies are sure to bring joy and comfort to your celebrations.

Happy baking, and may your holidays be filled with sweetness!