Vintage cookie recipes for Christmas! The last time I brought your Vintage Pie recipes for the holidays (or anytime) but it just wouldn’t be Christmas without some of these amazing vintage cookie recipes! If your family is like mine you have a few standards that have graced holiday dinners for as long as you can remember. Maybe they’re secret recipes that you can’t share or maybe everyone on the block is now making your great-great-grandmother’s favorite vintage bake. Either way vintage cookie recipes should be kept and made for generations to come. You know how important I think cooking from scratch is, and baking is at the top of that list during the Christmas season.
The best part of making these yummy cookies is it can be a family event. My daughters and I can spend a day baking and the youngest loves to bring a plate to the neighbors.
I hope you find a vintage cookie recipes that you can incorporate into your holiday celebrations this year!
The Most Delicious Vintage Cookie Recipes for Christmas
Pfeffernüsse Cookies (spiced German Christmas cookie)
Old Fashioned Gingerbread Men Cookies
Apricot Kolaches (Hungarian Christmas Cookie)
Traditional Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Grandma’s Snickerdoodles Recipe
Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe (perfect for decorating) 
Christmas Pinwheel Cookies (so festive)
Cranberry Icebox Cookies (grab a mug of tea with these)
Coconut Macaroons (a personal favorite of mine)
Vintage Cherry Winks Cookie (with maraschino cherries)
Moravian Christmas Cookies (paper-thin, crispy, spiced molasses cookies)
Grandma’s Christmas Divinity (ok kind of a candy but still oh so vintage)
Italian Christmas Cookies (family recipe)
Mom’s Best Peanut Brittle (again more of a candy but its tradition!)
Old Fashioned Spritz Christmas Cookies
Grandma’s Ranger Cookies (a chewy cookie with old-fashioned oats, flaked coconut, and Rice Krispies)
Butter Tarts (Canadian classic with sweet, slightly runny filling and flaky melt in your mouth pastry) 
Old Fashioned Oat Lace Cookies (a crispy and delicate oat cookie with hints of caramel)
Sour Cream Cookies (a recipe from Betty Crocker circa 1963)
Classic Kentucky Bourbon Balls (no bake delight for the adults)
Old-School Haystack Cookies (another awesome no-bake cookie)
French Macaroon with Vanilla Buttercream Filling
Gadettes Christmas Cookies (or are they waffles?)
Christmas Whoopie Pies (chocolate & peppermint goodness) 
Grandpa’s Oatmeal Gumdrop Cookies
I hope these amazing vintage cookie recipes give you some inspiration for new family favorites this year. Tell me in the comments what your classic Christmas cookie recipe is!
My husbands grandma use to make a cookie that was kind of a sandwich cookie. The top had a small circle cut out of the top. It was filled with I believe mincemeat. Do you have any idea what that would be?
Chris, would you be talking about mincemeat tarts? I have seen many recipes for these.
The recipe I have is filled with raisins. My grandma made them every Christmas.
Banbury Tarts.
My mom’s were filled with dates that were cooked until a wonderful, thick, sticky filling was made. Delicious! Think I’ll make some. 😁🍪🍭🍰🌰
JUST SEEING THOSE CARDS IS LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME; Many of our recipes show how they coped with very little. [ think if you look at everyones cookie recipes – show effects of depression and wartime. so i make ours in celebration of those brave woman and think of them as i do it
Thank you for printing the vintage cookie recipes. My Mother used to make the Date Pinwheel cookies for me every Christmas. I couldn’t find the recipe when she passed away. I am so glad to have it again. Thank you so much.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I am glad you can make some cookies in her honor! <3
I Love my dad’s favorite cookie was the icebox cookie with walnuts can,T the recipe anyweredo you know were I can find it.gene