15 Best Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes

 

These Thanksgiving cookie recipes are quick, simple, and a perfect addition to any Thanksgiving feast!

Thanksgiving cookies with fall spices are my favorite food to have when visiting with family.

For me, drinking milk with a cookie after a meal is incredibly delicious! Also, making cookies is a wonderful and fun hobby to involve the kids in.

So, if you’re searching for the best Thanksgiving/Friendsgiving cookies, then check out our recommended list!

Here you’ll find some traditional shortbread cookies, sugar cookies, and even quirky turkeys to cheer up the youngsters!

Alright, let’s get started!

 

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Best Thanksgiving Cookie Ideas + Easy Recipes

 

1. Easy Turkey Sugar Cookies

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Let’s begin our Thanksgiving cookie ideas with these Turkey Sugar Cookies which are the ultimate November treat!

They are quick and enjoyable to create for parties, lunch boxes, and playdates and are guaranteed to please kids of all ages.

Similar cookies may have appeared online or you may remember them from your childhood.

This recipe uses my preferred sour cream sugar cookie dough, candied eyes, and homemade vanilla frosting.

 

2. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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I’m sure you’ll enjoy these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!

By leaving out the egg, using melted butter, and blotting the pumpkin, you get a chewier texture.

 

3. Pecan Shortbread Cookies

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The center of these classic shortbreads showcases the season’s best nut.

Pecans make a sweet and nutty addition to classic shortbread cookies.

 

4. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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These chocolatey cookies are dusted with powdered sugar, making them a little messy to eat, but it’s so worth it! Grab a napkin and get started.

 

5. Sugar Cookie Bars

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This sugar cookie bar recipe has the same great taste and chewy-soft texture as store-bought sugar cookie bars.

I adore how these sugar cookie bars can be made to fit any party, occasion, or holiday.

 

6. Coconut Cranberry Yummies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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My favorite outcome is these cranberry coconut cookies, which are bursting with sweet and tangy tastes.

 

7. The Ultimate Fall Cookies: Colorful Leaf Cookies

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With these Fall Cookies, I’m honoring the magnificent fall foliage! Don’t be afraid; these leaf sugar cookies are much easier to create than they appear!

These cookies are another fun activity for kids.

You’ll begin with a basic cookie recipe that will be split and colored.

Chill this before cutting and baking to make it easier to work with.

To create the mosaic appearance, cut out pieces of each color and randomly place them on the counter.

Squish it down and roll it out even before cutting out your leaves.

 

8. Caramel-Apple Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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The enticing combination of caramel and apple is one of the most popular flavor combinations among bakers during the fall months.

Holiday and party buffets are bound to include at least one sweet and juicy apple dessert.

 

9. Glazed Doughnut Cookies

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What could be more delicious than a doughnut and a cookie? A doughnut-shaped cookie.

It has all of the cinnamon-sugar flavors and sprinkle-topped icing without frying in a vat of oil.

 

10. Classic Snickerdoodle Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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Because of a good roll in cinnamon sugar, these childhood favorites taste like fall.

Allow your guests to snack on them throughout the day while you prepare your Thanksgiving feast.

 

11. Cherry Almond Whipped Shortbread Cookies

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These irresistible Cherry Almond Whipped Shortbread Cookies are super soft and buttery with a bright red cherry in the center.

Bonus: The cookies come together quickly with a dough that doesn’t need to rest.

 

12. Thanksgiving Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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The quickest Thanksgiving edible craft treat. These small cornucopia cookies just take 3 ingredients and a few minutes to create!

Simply connect a bugle to half of a biscuit and top it with M&Ms to produce this simple dessert.

So only three ingredients are needed to make these!

I suppose you could add a fourth ingredient if you want these cookies to be very stable — a tub of frosting (or homemade frosting, which would involve a few more ingredients) to pipe on some of the M&M’s to keep them exactly where you want them.

 

13. Soft White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies

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A delicacy that fulfills both salty and sweet needs flawlessly pairs cranberry and white chocolate.

 

14. Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies (Thanksgiving cookie recipes)

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Thin, crispy pumpkin cheesecake cookies with a delightful cream cheese swirl on top!

If you enjoy pumpkin cheesecake, they are ideal for you because they’re both lovely and delicious.

They’re excellent for Friendsgiving or Thanksgiving if you want to make something tasty that isn’t a pie.

 

15. Apple Pie Cookie

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Apple pie cookies are bite-sized, gooey, caramel apple pies.

The traditional apple pie recipe can sometimes be too much dessert for one person to stomach.

You get the fruity caramel flavor of classic pie with all the ease of a straightforward cookie recipe with these gooey bits!

 

 

I love all of these Thanksgiving cookie ideas! Which ones will you try first? Please write your comments below!

 

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