This festive Christmas cookie box is filled with your favorite cookies, ranging from chocolate brownie cookies, shortbread cookies, white chocolate and cranberry cookies, and more. It makes a wonderful homemade gift for the holiday season, and it’s also great for other occasions.
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I just created my dream Christmas cookie box, and I believe it’s about to become your new favorite cookie box too. I filled it with traditional chocolate chip cookies rather than the classic sugar cookies and gingerbreads you usually find in a cookie box. This makes this cookie box unique, and great not only for Christmas but many other festive occasions. Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, a homemade birthday gift… you name it!
Because this box is filled with soft and chewy cookies mainly, I recommend to gift it to your dear ones who live close by, rather than shipping it over the country. It’s also perfect to serve to your guests directly. What a delight to see their happy faces when they try one or another homemade cookie for this box. Believe me, this is a premium cookie box you’ll want to have in your house on a daily basis, or almost.
What makes this Christmas cookie box unique?
- It’s filled with traditional cookies (no sugar cookies or gingerbread)
- Perfect for the holidays, and many other occasions too!
- No dry and plain cookies, there’s chocolate in every single cookie!
- The cookies taste better freshly baked
- Tailored for gift-giving hand to hand (rather than shipping over the country)
Recipes featured in this Christmas cookie box
The cookie recipes I choose for this Christmas cookie box are some of the most popular cookies from the site. Except for the shortbread cookies, which you can keep longer, they’re all soft and chewy and taste better when freshly baked.
- The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Fudgy Chocolate Brownie Cookies
- Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
How to plan this Christmas cookie box?
If you’ve never made a cookie box before, it can feel a little bit overwhelming at first. There are so many different cookies to prepare, so many dishes, and the fear of baking a storm in the kitchen is real. Let me take the hassle out of the prep for you and guide you throughout the process:
- First, pick a baking day. By planning an entire day dedicated to baking, it keeps you organized with everything. Except for the shortbread cookies (that you want to bake fresh closer to the event), the prep day can be up to 3 months prior to the event. You will then freeze the cookies. If you don’t have an entire day ahead of you, make a plan and prepare a batch of cookies every day for 5 days (after dinner is my preferred time, when everyone is asleep), and freeze.
- Now, find the cookie box and create the separators. It can be a cardboard box or a wooden box like the one featured on the photos. For the separators, simply measure your box and add some custom pieces of cardboard or craft paper.
- Up to 2-3 days before, prepare the shortbread cookies, and bake. Store in an airtight container at room temperature, until you are ready to assemble the box.
- Choose your baking day. Ideally, this should be the day before gift-giving the cookie box, or serving the cookie box to your guests. If you want to make one cookie box only, you can choose just the right amount of cookies you want to bake, instead of baking the entire batch of each cookie recipe. Note that you don’t need to thaw! Also, please check the oven temperature and baking time for each recipe. This will ensure a perfectly baked cookie!
Assembling your cookie box
Now the fun begins! If you’ve been organized all the way until now, this is really no hard work at all. All you need to do is use your creativity to make your cookie box pretty!
Fill your box with some wax or parchment paper, and optionally add separators. Now arrange the cookies inside the box and create a lovely pattern, alternating some cookies on their sides, and others stacked. You can also tie a lovely ribbon around some cookie stacks, add some candy canes for decoration or a few other small ornaments you’d like. Again, it’s all about making your box pretty!
Pro tips for a pretty box
- Bake the cookies in different sizes. Bake cookies in different sizes to create a lovely visual effect in your cookie box. You can for instance create large chocolate chip cookies, small brownie cookies and chocolate chunk hazelnut cookies, medium white chocolate cranberry cookies, and tiny shortbread cookies. If doing so, you may want to monitor the baking time closely, since small cookies bake quicker than large ones.
- Arrange the cookies in a pretty pattern. You can stack a few cookies here and there, arrange the other ones side by side, and alternate different recipes at different places in the box. If desired, attach some cookies with a lovely ribbon all around.
- Add a personalized note if gifting the box. I like to add a small handwritten note, mentioning the following: “Happy Holidays! For Best results, warm up the cookies in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Enjoy! Xoxo.”
A few more recipes that work well in this Christmas cookie box
The more the merrier! If you have some time ahead of you or better if you plan an entire baking day with friends and family, try to prepare as many cookies as possible. Other cookies I really love in a cookie box include:
- Easy Sugar Cookies (this recipe is always a winner!)
- Chocolate-Dipped Almond Florentines
- French Almond Tuiles
- Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
- Chocolate-Dipped Cookie Sticks
Please note that the Florentines and cookie sticks are chocolate-covered. For this reason, I recommend to place them wisely inside the cookie box, ideally against their own separator.
How to store this cookie box?
Again, because this cookie box features some traditional cookies rather than sugar cookies and other dry/hard biscuits, I recommend to serve it fresh rather than shipping it. This will guarantee the best soft, chewy texture to the cookies, with some crispiness. Store at room temperature and eat within the next 3 days after baking (assuming the cookie box survives past day 1).
More edible gifts for the holidays:
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix in a Jar
- Homemade Raffaello Coconut Balls
- Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles
- Gingerbread Cookies
- Easy Sugar Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
Christmas Cookie Box
- Prep Time: 10 mins (for assembling)
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 10+
- Category: Cookies
This festive Christmas cookie box is filled with your favorite cookies, ranging from chocolate brownie cookies, shortbread cookies, white chocolate and cranberry cookies, and more. It makes a wonderful homemade gift for the holidays, and it’s also great for other occasions.
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Ingredients
Cookie recipes used for this Christmas box:
Instructions
Make ahead steps:
- Up to 3 months in advance. Prepare each cookie recipe (except the shortbread cookies) separately, up to the step you shape into balls of cookie dough. Place on a sheet of parchment paper and chill in refrigerator for one hour or until set. Then, transfer to a freezer bag, and store in the freezer.
- The day before. Prepare and bake the chocolate chip shortbread cookies, according to the recipe instructions, and let cool at room temperature. Bake each batch of the 4 other cookie recipes separately, directly from frozen, making sure to check the oven temperature for each batch (they don’t bake all at the same temperature)**. Transfer on a cooling rack and let cool completely.
Assembling the Christmas cookie box:
- Fill each cookie box* with a selection of cookies from each batch, playing with a range of textures and shapes to create some perspective. Make the cookies overlap, stack them, place them upright and side by side, using separators. Another great option for a nice visual effect consists in baking cookies in different sizes.
- Wrap with brown paper bag, tie with a nice ribbon, and gift the Christmas cookie box to your friends and family.
Notes
* Because you use frozen balls of cookies, you may need to adjust the baking time a little, baking about 1 to 2 more minutes than recommended in the recipe instructions.
** I used a 9.5×9.5 inch (2×24 cm) box, lined it with parchment paper, and created some carton separators.
Note that this Christmas cookie box is better served fresh, rather than shipped. This is because the selection of cookies used always taste better when eaten the days following baking. For best results, I recommend adding a personalized card inside each Christmas cookie box with a handwritten note saying “For best results, warm up the cookies in the microwave for about 30 seconds before serving. Happy Holidays!”.
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