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High Altitude Christmas Cookie Box 2024

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A collection of high altitude tested Christmas cookie box recipes for your holiday baking list. This post has over a dozen delicious Christmas cookies that are perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange or for making Christmas cookie boxes to give to family, friends, neighbors, coworkers and your kids’ teachers. Grab all the recipe links at the end of today’s post!

For other Christmas cookie box ideas, don’t miss these posts:

Assorted Christmas cookies arranged in a cookie box

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What’s in my Cookie Box?

Drop Cookies

Easy to make drop cookies that are soft, chewy and don’t even require a mixer to make are a must-bake for the holidays. Everyone will love this assortment that includes red velvet chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip cookies with peppermint, iced walnut poppy seed cookies (the cookies I could not stop eating), soft almond paste cookies and appledoodles (apple cider cookies).

Almond paste cookies in a Christmas cookie box.
Red velvet chocolate chip cookies tied with twine.

Shortbread and Cutout Cookies

For the more ambitious baker, I have so many recipes for shortbread, cutout cookies and decorated sugar cookies. In today’s post you’ll find chocolate orange shortbread cookie sticks, iced chocolate gingerbread cookies, cinnamon sugar Christmas cookies, raspberry almond linzer cookies, brown sugar cutout cookies and striped sugar cookies.

Squares of chocolate fudge surrounded by Christmas cookies.
Appledoodle cookies tied with red twine.

Other Recipes

And last, but not least, the best ever almond biscotti, which I always make for the holidays. And a recipe for real, old fashioned chocolate fudge with the perfect creamy texture.

Christmas cookies, with a child's hand reaching to take a cookie.
High Altitude Old Fashioned Fudge
A high altitude tested recipe for real, old-fashioned fudge, made without sweetened condensed milk, marshmallow fluff or corn syrup. This chocolate fudge is rich, smooth and creamy, and easy to make if you follow my high altitude tips!
Check out this recipe
Fudge with a bite taken.
High Altitude Chocolate and Vanilla Striped Sugar Cookies
Learn how to make these striking and elegant striped sugar cookies, using both chocolate and vanilla cookie dough. With the same dough and two different methods, you can make striped cutout cookies and striped slice and bake cookies.
Check out this recipe
Square shaped striped chocolate and vanilla sugar cookies on a plate.
Best High Altitude Almond Biscotti
An easy recipe for almond biscotti that's perfect for dunking in tea or coffee.
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Almond biscotti on a plate with a green mug.
High Altitude Appledoodles (Apple Cider Cookies)
A perfect cookie for fall, these soft and chewy appledoodles are made with boiled cider for a concentrated apple flavor.
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Appledoodles on a cooling rack.
High Altitude Almond Paste Cookies
Soft and chewy almond paste cookies, made with almond flour in the cookie dough, almond paste filling, and sliced almonds sprinkled on top.
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Almond paste cookies sprinkled with sliced almonds and sugar on a baking sheet.
Iced Brown Sugar Cutout Cookies
A no spread recipe for soft brown sugar cutout cookies, iced with brown butter vanilla icing.
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Iced brown sugar Christmas cookies on a baking sheet.
Raspberry Almond Linzer Cookies
Buttery almond sugar cookies, sandwiched with raspberry jam and vanilla almond buttercream.
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Raspberry almond linzer cookies on a serving plate.
High Altitude Iced Walnut Poppy Seed Cookies
Soft and chewy walnut poppy seed cookies, dipped in brown butter icing. These easy walnut cookies come together quickly with no mixer needed.
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Iced walnut cookies with poppyseeds, one with a bite taken.
High Altitude Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best ever, soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies, with crushed candy canes added for the holidays.
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Peppermint chocolate chip cookies.
High Altitude Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft and fudgy red velvet chocolate chip cookies, loaded with both dark and white chocolate chips. This is a quick and easy, high altitude cookie recipe, with no chill time and no mixer required!
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Red velvet chocolate chip cookies with white and dark chocolate chips.
Sparkling Sugar Almond Cutout Christmas Cookies
Soft and buttery almond sugar cookies, cut in pretty Christmas shapes, with a crunchy, sparkling sugar crust on top.
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Christmas cookies with cinnamon sugar and vanilla icing.
Iced Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
These soft chocolate gingerbread cookies are perfectly spiced for the holidays and not too sweet. They're the perfect cutout sugar cookie for decorating with royal icing or buttercream.
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Chocolate gingerbread cookie with vanilla icing.
Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookie Sticks
Soft and buttery orange ginger shortbread cookie sticks, drizzled with chocolate and sprinkled with crystallized ginger.
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Orange shortbread cookie sticks with chocolate drizzle and candied ginger.

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