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The Most Delicious Vintage Cookie Recipes

December 1, 2017 by Tiffany Davis 19 Comments

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 Most Delicious Vintage Cookie Recipes for Christmas

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

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Pfeffernüsse Cookies (spiced German Christmas cookie)

Old Fashioned Gingerbread Men Cookies

Grandma’s Snowball Cookies

Apricot Kolaches (Hungarian Christmas Cookie)

Swedish Crisps 

Traditional Christmas Shortbread Cookies

Grandma’s Snickerdoodles Recipe

Valencia Delights

Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe (perfect for decorating) 

Classic Linzer Cookie Recipe

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies (so festive)

Cranberry Icebox Cookies (grab a mug of tea with these)

Coconut Macaroons (a personal favorite of mine)

Old Fashioned Chocolate Fudge

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) 

Classic Thumb Print Cookies

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)

Eggnog Sugar Cookies

Old Fashioned Chess Bars 

French Macaroon with Vanilla Buttercream Filling

Gadettes Christmas Cookies (or are they waffles?)

Date Pinwheel Cookies

Christmas Whoopie Pies (chocolate & peppermint goodness)

Vanilla Melt Away Cookies

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!

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  1. Chris says

    December 4, 2017 at 6:09 pm

    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?

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    • Sharon says

      December 5, 2017 at 5:14 pm

      Chris, would you be talking about mincemeat tarts? I have seen many recipes for these.

      Reply
    • Kathy says

      December 6, 2017 at 10:07 am

      The recipe I have is filled with raisins. My grandma made them every Christmas.

      Reply
      • Susan says

        December 13, 2017 at 11:29 am

        Banbury Tarts.

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      • Connie says

        November 22, 2019 at 3:59 pm

        My Grandma made them with raisins also but it was more of a thick raisin sauce.. I would love to have the recipe for them!

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    • Shannon says

      December 11, 2017 at 8:32 am

      My mom’s were filled with dates that were cooked until a wonderful, thick, sticky filling was made. Delicious! Think I’ll make some. ?????

      Reply
  2. jeni says

    December 8, 2017 at 2:31 am

    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

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  3. Jeannie says

    December 19, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    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.

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    • Tiffany Davis says

      December 20, 2017 at 5:19 am

      I’m so sorry for your loss. I am glad you can make some cookies in her honor! <3

      Reply
  4. Gene says

    January 1, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    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

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    • Joan Ryan says

      November 17, 2018 at 3:37 am

      Icebox cookies come in two kinds. The type that spread like chocolate chip & the kind that look sliced & don’t spread, & are crisp. If you Google, or search Pinterest for, “icebox cookies,” Better Homes & Gardens, or Woman’s Day, though, I’ll bet that’s the one. (Same exact recipe, both sources). Chop & add walnuts. Seriously. My mom & grandma’s entire generations made those & the original recipe had a list of things to add (walnuts or pecans, dried fruit, chocolate, etc.) I don’t remember how many walnuts Mom added, so I wing it, lol. I looked at a couple of other cookies recipes with nuts & averaged the amiunt of nuts to flour & it worked fine. It’s to taste with nuts anyway, as long as there aren’t so many the dough won’t hold together. They’re adjustable unlike things like baking powder or butter which need to be exact for the science part of baking to work. But icebox cookies are a classic, the kind you roll in wax paper, fridge awhile, slice, & bake. Better Homes & Gardens and Woman’s Day are very likely to be what you grew up with. BH&G cookbook will most likely be in your local library & I believe all their recipes are online. They may give the Walnut amount. Mine from the 90s did not. I’d send a photo but I learned not to loan cookbooks the hard way… Never got it back. 🙄😂

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  5. Nora Luz. says

    November 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    Cookie cookbooks at home, happy memories of childhood
    Cookies from around the World

    100 cookie recipes
    I would bake with my sister’s
    Wonderful Aroma the kitchen
    Lace cookies made of oatmeal

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    • Tiffany Davis says

      November 15, 2018 at 7:08 pm

      Good memories are often made in the kitchen! <3

      Reply
  6. Trish says

    November 15, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    Here is one that is vintage potato candy my mom made it every Christmas. I’ll post my recipe later

    Reply
  7. Rebecca says

    November 27, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    Does anybody have a recipe it was a frosted bell shaped cookie. My mom made it in the 70s.
    It was kind of like a cream puff dough and with frosting it was delish!! Guess they were called Christmas Bells?? My mom is gone now so it would mean a lot to me to get that recipe

    Reply
  8. Joyce says

    December 14, 2020 at 8:30 am

    My grandma used to make a soft sugar cookie that had nutmeg in it.

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    • Tiffany Davis says

      December 14, 2020 at 11:14 am

      Nutmeg really adds a lovely flavor. <3

      Reply
  9. Susan says

    February 22, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    My mother used to make cookies/ bars called ” mystery bars “. She passed when I was in college, which was many , many years ago. I have been trying to find the recipe since, to no avail! We lived in Rhode Island when growing up, so maybe someone from that area would know it. I would LOVE to have the recipe again, if anyone has it.

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    • Tiffany Davis says

      February 23, 2021 at 6:32 am

      Hi Susan – is this the recipe? https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/27/Mystery-Bars73533.shtml

      Reply

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