My BEST Christmas cookies are perfect for the holidays, great as gifts, and delicious to enjoy with family. And as Grandma always says, it’s nice to involve even the little ones in preparing simple Christmas treats for a family tradition that lasts over time.
Recipes that are vegan, fit, original, and WITHOUT gluten, lactose (butter and milk), eggs, and yeast, suitable for intolerants and celiacs.
SEASON – ideal for the entire Christmas period, from the Immaculate Conception to Epiphany.
Below my Christmas Cakes

- Difficulty: Easy
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
- Energy 370.00 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 42.82 (g) of which sugars 3.88 (g)
- Proteins 7.08 (g)
- Fat 18.92 (g) of which saturated 11.80 (g)of which unsaturated 4.69 (g)
- Fibers 2.50 (g)
- Sodium 979.00 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
- 3.5 oz cookies (Christmas)
Tools
- Cookie Cutters for Christmas cookies
Simple Christmas Cookies
How long do Christmas cookies last?
Dry cookies have a long shelf life, they can be safely stored for over a month in a tin box.
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Recipe without lactose, eggs, and yeast.
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Rustic and spicy flavor, enriched with red jam.
Chestnut and cocoa flour cookies are simple and quick to prepare, a gluten-free shortcrust that will surprise you with its intense and delicate flavor.
Crumbly cookies from the Venetian tradition. Typically enriched with raisins, but also great with chocolate.
Gluten-free cookies with rice flour and oil, with or without yeast.
Soft and very easy treats to prepare at home with coconut flour, without yeast.
Gluten and Lactose-Free Cookies
With rice flour, corn flour, nut flour, and chocolate.
3-Ingredient Cookies with Walnuts
Made with only three ingredients and all of the same weight, without yeast.
An American recipe, in my lactose-free version.
The Vanillekipferl are a classic Tyrolean dessert, perhaps the most famous Austrian Christmas cookie, without yeast.
Ricotta and Jam Cookies without Eggs
Soft treats, the dough is sugar-free and the jam is the only sweet note.
Delicious treats of Piedmontese origin.
The pinwheel cookies are scenic, for a double taste.
Soft treats, prepared with the same dough as the classic Trentino Zelten, a classic of the winter holidays.
Crumbly and fragrant.
Very pretty cookies, completely edible.
Delicious cookies, an easy recipe of American origin for cracked chocolate cookies.
The recipe for red cookies is American-inspired.
Nutella cookies are super quick to make with few ingredients, with or without yeast.