Cookie Exchange Recipes: 50+ Delicious Ideas

These red velvet thumbprints are so rich and fluffy with the perfect amount of creamy cheesecake filling. They are perfectly festive and delicious!

You’ll love these soft and buttery Linzer cookies filled with jam! This shortbread sandwich cookie is perfect for Christmas gifting. They only have six ingredients.

Discover the joy of holiday baking with peppermint-frosted chocolate cookies. These are rich with extra soft centers and chewy edges.

These irresistible Snickers cookies incorporate the perfect blend of chocolate, caramel, and peanuts in every bite. You'll love them!

This reindeer cookie recipe is sure to become a new family favorite during the holiday season! You'll use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to make the head.

These Santa cookies are perfect for Christmas! Make these sugar cookies – that look like jolly St. Nick – for holiday gifting or parties.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies are a decadent dessert that is easy to make! They're soft and chewy with a rich chocolate ganache center.

A classic holiday cookie for a reason . . . they are awesome! This recipe only has six ingredients and is always a hit cookie exchange recipe.

Learn how to make the best ever chocolate chip sandwich cookies! This recipe features two cookies with a rich buttercream frosting center.

These buckeye cookies are inspired by the traditional Christmas candy! Topped with creamy peanut butter over a soft and chewy chocolate base.

Nutella stuffed cookies are soft, chewy, and filled with delicious hazelnut spread! Learn how to make this recipe for dessert, exchanges, or holiday gifting.

If you love chocolate and toffee then you’ll love this Heath Bar cookie recipe. They’re sweet, soft, and you can't just eat one.

This healthier shortbread cookie recipe has an optional glaze and makes a perfect holiday wreath! They're vegan, too.

These cranberry-walnut cookies with white chocolate chips are the perfect combination of tart, sweet, and crunchy. This is my FAVORITE cookie recipe.

These delicious Christmas pudding cookies are loaded with yummy chocolate and would be perfect for a cookie exchange or bake sale!

Get a delicious chocolate Reese's Pieces cookies recipe! These are great for exchanges or an everyday treat.

Combine sweet fruit with crunchy almonds and rich dark chocolate - you have the perfect, decadent apricot cookies for year-round indulging! Makes 3 dozen.

This recipe for chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies is perfect for the holidays! These are easy to make, and everyone loves them.

What makes regular chocolate chip cookies even more delicious? Oatmeal!! This is the BEST oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe you'll ever have. So easy to make, so tasty!

Rolo cookies are quick, easy, and delicious! Follow this simple Rolo cookie recipe (only requires five ingredients) to make this incredibly tasty, chocolatey, and gooey Christmas dessert! Great for a bake sale or cookie exchange.

Learn how to make the most delicious chocolate chip bacon cookies. This recipe is easy, and you're going to love the combination of sweet and salty!

These soft gingerbread cookies are a must for the holidays. They’re perfectly spiced with soft centers and the perfect gingerbread taste. The best gingerbread men I’ve ever tried!

Peanut butter cookie 'tarts' stuffed with mini peanut butter cups! Amee also provides an alternative time-saver recipe hack you may want to try.

Inside these puffy little gems is a pocket of chocolate almond delight. This pillow cookie recipe is stuffed with almond paste and chocolate in the center!

Zimtsterne is a classic German cinnamon cookie. This recipe takes it up a notch with the addition of chocolate.

These pretty (and delicious!) shortbread style cherry pie cookies are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges or special occasions! Your guests will never guess how easy they are to make.

A classic cookie exchange recipe with a lightened up twist. Less calories means you can eat more, right?

This is an easy crinkle cookie recipe since it uses cake mix as one of the 4 ingredients! Save yourself some time and effort but don't lose the taste.

These chocolate candy cane kiss cookies are rolled in red and white sugar and then topped with a candy kiss. They will be one of the first cookies to disappear off your holiday cookie tray!

If kids want to get in on the Christmas cookie action, these are perfect for them! You'll love the no-bake aspect, and children can easily decorate too.

A flaky crust surrounding a delicious Ferrero Rocher candy and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Only five ingredients needed!

Made with half a brick of cream cheese in addition to butter, these winter-sprinkle infused cookies studded with white chocolate chips are super soft cookies that belong in your yearly Christmas cookie rotation.

Learn how to make this delicious, old-fashioned ginger molasses cookies recipe! These are so soft and tasty - you've never had a cookie like this before.

Chocolate chip cookies get the Christmas upgrade with candy canes and white chocolate! These will definitely be a hit amongst the other cookie exchange recipes.

These buttered popcorn and butterscotch cookies are a unique twist on a tradition favorite! They are sweet, salty, chewy, and delicious - and the recipe is very easy to make.

The easy to follow steps and tips provided make these four-ingredient cookies really simple to achieve! These cookies will melt in your mouth.

Snickerdoodles are a holiday staple! Here's a way you can take the classic recipe to the next level by adding a little white chocolate and toffee.

Cardamom shortbread cookies boast an exotic warm flavor, balanced with a sweet, citrusy orange glaze. The cookies are buttery, tender, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

Buttery soft on the inside and crisp on the outside, these four-ingredient, highly-rated cookies are sure to be a family favorite. Especially if you sandwich some chocolate spread between them!

These chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies without peanut butter are a quick and easy twist on the classic. Six ingredients make this a super easy recipe for a Christmas cookie swap!

This semi-homemade recipe will remind you of sitting by the campfire. With only 5 ingredients, you can make these in no time!

Learn how to make delicious shortbread tea cookies using some basic ingredients you probably already have on hand. These tea biscuits are good with tea (of course), but also hot chocolate during the Christmas season.

These coconut macaroons are an old school Christmas cookie exchange recipe that everyone loves! Quick and easy to make and absolutely delicious, they will take you right back to your childhood. Light, fluffy and seriously yummy, you can make a batch of these in under 20 minutes. They are also freezer friendly.

These delicious dark chocolate chip cookies include white chocolate butterscotch M&M's and yummy pecans. The perfect way to jazz up a plain cookie recipe!

Make these easy sugar cookies using red and green Jell-O for the holidays! Kids will love the bright colors and can help with the baking process.

Looking for a delicious holiday treat you can make in just a few minutes? Try these M&M marshmallow pretzel bars! No baking required.

Six ingredients and no baking required! That means all of the kids can help. Side note: these are amazing topped with ice cream.

This rice krispy treat recipe makes the cutest Christmas trees ever! Perfect for the holidays, tasty, and the whole family can join in to make them.

Marshmallow bars meet fudge in this incredible no-bake holiday treat.  Soft and scrumptious, these are a favorite with everyone! These Christmas bars only have five ingredients.

Your choice of cereal plus four more ingredients! These white chocolate bars are a great combination of sweet and crunchy, and perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange.

Brown butter gives these an almost caramel flavor that is perfect with the chocolate chips. Only seven ingredients needed.

This classic buckeye balls (peanut butter balls) recipe is a family favorite no bake treat to make during Christmas time! It's probably my number one favorite at Christmas cookie exchanges.

Beijinhos are Brazilian coconut truffles that are incredibly easy to make - they only take 4 ingredients, and are amazingly sweet and delicious!

No bake and only three ingredients required? Sign me up! If you are a fan of Biscoff cookies, you will love these truffles.

Learn how to make delicious brigadeiros - they are Brazilian chocolate truffles that will melt in your mouth. And they are so easy!

This healthier truffle uses dates and honey for the sweetness and are topped with just a touch of salt.

This is a bit different from some Oreo Ball recipes you have seen in the past. No cream cheese needed!

If you want an easy fudge recipe for a cookie exchange, try this delicious candy cane version! You can use the same base and customize with other ingredients to make it your own.

Quick and simple tiger butter fudge is made with only three ingredients! Made using the microwave oven this is one of the easiest fudge recipes you will ever make. It looks pretty, tastes delicious and is creamy smooth too.

Use green food coloring and call these 'Grinch Fudge' for the holidays. This 2-layer fudge has a chocolate base and a mint top layer. Best part? This is a no-sugar added recipe!

This delicious and smooth peanut butter fudge recipe uses marshmallow creme and chocolate for some added tastiness!

This saltine cracker toffee is the ultimate Christmas dessert! Everyone loves this recipe and it's very easy to make. It's addicting - that's why they call it "Christmas crack!"

This Christmas puppy chow recipe is a perfect holiday treat that you can make for snacking or gifting! It's easy and delicious.

This is a copycat recipe of an old favorite candy in western Canada. It is the perfect blend of dark chocolate and peanuts.

Rolo pretzels are easy to make! Although these Rolo turtles have a Valentines twist, you could dip them in white chocolate and add red and green sprinkle touches for Christmas.

Cranberry and pistachio white chocolate bark is so festive and it’s perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges! It’s like almond bark but with pistachios rather than almonds. This easy holiday treat recipe is so simple to make and if you are like me, a fan of white chocolate, cranberry and pistachio, you’ll love it.

This is a fast, simple, no-bake recipe that everyone will enjoy! Only six ingredients needed. It's very easy to slice and perfect for handing out during exchanges.