Salty pistachios with sweet white chocolate chips and a touch of orange zest are a divine flavour combination.

These soft and chewy cookies are easy to make and perfect for any Christmas cookie box!

I love to make a variety of cookies during the holiday season including these Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing! But, these Orange White Chocolate Pistachio Cookies are packed with holiday flavours you’ll love too.

They’re the perfect accompaniment to a cup of coffee or hot cocoa on a Wintery afternoon. Or, make a batch as a light dessert for a holiday gathering.  If you’re a fan of white chocolate, these are the cookies for you!

Why you’ll love these orange pistachio white chocolate chip cookies

• Easy: You don’t need an electric mixer / stand mixer to make these – just a couple of mixing bowls to make these soft cookies!
• Flavourful: You get white chocolate, pistachios and a hint of orange in every bite.
• Ingredients: All of the main cookie ingredients are easy to find in the baking aisle at the grocery store.

Ingredients

Flour: all purpose flour is a must along with baking soda and baking powder

Orange: orange zest brings a nice touch of citrus flavour to these pistachio cookies

Pistachios: roasted, salted pistachios add the best pistachio flavour

White chocolate: I like to use white chocolate chips in this holiday cookie recipe but you can swap for chopped white chocolate or white baking chips

Sugar: you will need a combination of white sugar and brown sugar to make these cookies 

Butter: use unsalted butter for the base of this cookie recipe

Egg: one egg is needed to bring the cookie batter together

How to make these holiday cookies

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F & line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Mix dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt) & set aside.
3. In another bowl, add orange zest, sugar and brown sugar and use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugars until moist and fragrant. Add the melted butter to the sugar mixture and mix until well combined. 
4. Next, add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
5. Pour the flour mixture into the wet mixture and mix until combined. Stir in the white chocolate chips and chopped pistachios until just incorporated.
6. Scoop 2 tablespoonfuls of cookie batter per cookie into balls, placing them about 3 inches apart on a baking sheet (make sure to leave space between cookies as they will spread). 
7. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges, the center of the cookie will still be slightly soft. Remove from the oven & let sit on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to the cooling rack.

Tips & tricks

• While I like to use white chocolate chips for ease in this recipe, you could chop up a white chocolate bar into white chocolate chunks instead. I like to use Ghirardelli or Lindt white chocolate bars.
• Salted pistachios give these cookies a lot of flavour compared to unsalted pistachios.
• Get perfectly round cookies by using this baking tip: Place a large round cookie cutter around each freshly baked cookie while still on the baking sheet. Gently swirl the cookie cutter around the edge of the cookie to get a perfectly round shape.

Common questions

How to store these pistachio cookies

Once cooled, you can store these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Alternatively, you can freeze the cookies in a ziptop bag or in an airtight container for up to 2 months. Make sure to separate the cookies between parchment paper to ensure easier removal once frozen. Defrost cookies at room temperature for 3-4 hours before enjoying.

More holiday dessert recipes to make from the blog

• Chewy Chocolate Pretzel Bars
• Easy Cranberry Oat Crumble Bars (for the holidays)
• Lemon Squares

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Orange White Chocolate Pistachio Holiday Cookies

These Orange White Chocolate Pistachio Cookies are made for the holidays! White chocolate, pistachios and a hint of orange in every bite.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword christmas cookie, pistachio

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 16 -18 cookies

Author Jess

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups (180 g) all purpose flour, spooned and leveled
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp fresh orange zest
• 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• ¾ cup (135g) white baking chips or white chocolate chips
• ¾ cup roasted salted pistachio nuts, roughly chopped (112g – measured full then chopped)

Instructions

• Pre-heat oven to 350F & line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Mix dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt) & set aside.
• In another bowl, add orange zest, sugar and brown sugar and use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugars until moist and fragrant. Add the melted butter to the sugar mixture and mix until well combined.
• Next, add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until smooth.
• Pour the flour mixture into the wet mixture and mix until combined. Stir in the white chocolate chips and chopped pistachios until just incorporated.
• Scoop 2 tablespoonfuls of cookie batter per cookie into balls, placing them about 3 inches apart on a baking sheet (make sure to leave space between cookies as they will spread).
• Bake for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges, the center of the cookie will still be slightly soft. Remove from the oven & let sit on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to the cooling rack.

Notes

• While I like to use white chocolate chips for ease in this recipe, you could chop up a white chocolate bar into white chocolate chunks instead. I like to use Ghirardelli or Lindt white chocolate bars.
• If white chocolate isn’t your favourite, feel free to swap for dark chocolate chips (or a chopped dark chocolate bar instead).
• Once cooled, you can store these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Alternatively, you can freeze the cookies in a ziptop bag or in an airtight container for up to 2 months. Make sure to separate the cookies between parchment paper to ensure easier removal once frozen. Defrost cookies at room temperature for 3-4 hours before enjoying.

Photography by: Kaeleigh Pugliese

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You’ll find easy cookie recipes with simple ingredients to get you into the holiday spirit.

Whether you’re baking for a Christmas party; cookie exchange; or just for yourself, these recipes are meant for the festive season.

One of my favorite holiday memories from my childhood is decorating shortbread Christmas cookies.  It was the perfect way to enjoy time together as a family and have fun too! It’s a great family tradition and a new favorite easy holiday cookie recipe is the best place to start.

Why you’ll love this collection of easy Christmas cookie recipes using few ingredients

• Recipes have minimal ingredients to make the baking process easier.
• There are easy recipes for everyone’s tastes! Chocolate cookies, sugar cookies and other festive cookies to name a few.
• A variety of dietary needs are met in these holiday cookie recipes including gluten-free and vegan options.

Basic baking supplies and ingredients needed to make easy holiday cookies

• Baking sheet
• Parchment paper
• Favorite cookie cutters
• Basic ingredients such as: butter, white sugar, brown sugar, all-purpose flour, vanilla extract, peppermint extract, chocolate chips and cocoa powder
• Airtight container for storage

Easy Sugar Cookies for Christmas

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The BEST Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Sprinkle Sugar Cookies

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Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies

Peppered with real bits of candy cane and melted dark chocolate, these super soft, dark chocolate peppermint sugar cookies are the perfect canvas for all your holiday cookie decorating needs.

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Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies

The ultimate soft and gooey chocolate chip sugar cookies recipe. They are sweet, chewy, and easy to make with 8 basic ingredients. Seriously, the best cookies ever!

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Cinnamon Brown Sugar Cookies

These easy, chewy cinnamon brown sugar cookies are perfect for the holidays! Made with melted butter (no waiting for butter to soften!) and easy to mix by hand – no stand mixer required. Ready in half an hour!

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Gingerbread Cookies

Easy gingerbread cookies are a must for a cookie exchange or holiday cookie platter!

Easy Gingerbread Cookies

Bake up a holiday memory with these super easy Gingerbread Cookies then simply decorate with royal icing, or add your favourite candy decorations.

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Festive Cookie Recipes for the Holidays

A variety of delicious cookies for your Christmas celebrations including festive treats like red velvet cookies and eggnog cookies and peppermint snowball cookies with candy canes.

Red Velvet Cookies

These easy red velvet cookies start with a cake mix and are loaded with white chocolate chips. A simple yet impressive cookie!

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Eggnog Cookie Recipe For The Holidays

This recipe for easy, soft, melt in your mouth eggnog cookies will knock your friends socks off! Let’s get baking!!

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Peppermint Snowball Cookies

These Peppermint Snowball Cookies take everything you love about the classic butter ball cookie, but it swaps out the nuts for peppermint, making them an even more festive and adorable Christmas cookie that will be welcome on any cookie tray!

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Easy Authentic Italian Pignoli Cookies

Pignoli Cookies, or pine nut cookies, are a classic Italian confection. They’re chewy, sweet and only require 5 ingredients!

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Soft Pecan Cookies with Maple Glaze

Are you looking for a new, favourite fall dessert recipe? Try these amazing soft pecan cookies with maple glaze – a great seasonal treat.

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Easy Christmas Shortbread Cookies

Shortbread cookies are an easy way to dive into holiday baking since they generally use just a handful of ingredients. Classic and whipped shortbread plus a unique earl grey cookie, they’re a classic and easy Christmas cookie for the Christmas season.

Easy Shortbread Cookies (Classic Recipe + Tips!)

Buttery, crumbly and light classic shortbread cookies that are easy to make with the minimal amount of ingredients you ALWAYS have in your kitchen! Make the classic version or scottish shortbread.

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Best Earl Grey Shortbread Cookies

These tender, buttery earl grey shortbread cookies are the best! Flavored with earl greay and vanilla for a “london fog” inspired shortbread. Easy to make!

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Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing

Easy shortbread cookies for the holidays with a delicious lemon icing. The perfect cookie to decorate, gift and enjoy.

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Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies

These Candy Cane Shortbread Cookies are comprised of a buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookie base with real crushed candy cane.

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Best Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe

Whipped Shortbread Cookies are delightful holiday cookies will melt in your mouth. They are light, buttery and SO easy to make.

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Chocolate Cookie Recipes to make for Christmas

You cannot go wrong with a chocolate cookie for the holidays! Chocolate brownie cookies along with chocolate and peppermint, there are many delicious treats to make with chocolate for your cookie plate at Christmas.

Andes Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

These double chocolate mint cookies are the perfect holiday cookie. Made with rich chocolate cookie dough, chopped Andes mints and peppermint extract.

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Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

These peppermint chocolate chip cookies are a holiday twist on a classic chocolate chip cookie! Loaded with candy cane pieces and lots of chocolate chips, they are the best Christmas cookie!

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Brownie Crinkle Cookies with Peppermint White Chooclate

Chewy dark chocolate brownie batter cookies with peppermint white chocolate chunks folded in. The perfect winter holiday dessert!

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Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies With Orange

These chocolate chip pecan cookies are wonderfully rich and filled with pecans and orange zest. Ready in 30 minutes and perfect for Christmas.

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Salted Mocha Brownie Crinkle Cookies

Part brownie, part cookie, these salted mocha brownie cookies are super fudgy and ready to eat in 20 minutes with no chilling time!

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Chocolate Peppermint Kiss Cookies

These chewy chocolate peppermint kiss cookies are the ultimate Christmas cookie! Perfect for your next holiday gathering, cuddled in for a Christmas movie marathon, or for a cookie exchange with friends!

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Fudgy Chocolate Brownie Cookies

These easy Fudgy Chocolate Brownie Cookies are everything you love about brownies BUT in cookie form! Chewy & decadent & hard to resist!

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Cake Mix Christmas Cookies

If you’ve never used cake mix to make cookies, now is the time to try it! You can make an easy cookie dough using a boxed cake mix and a few simple baking ingredients. Then you have a perfect holiday cookie in no time!

Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Cake Mix

Full of chocolate chips and rolled in sweet powdered sugar, these Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Cake Mix are a must make!

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Cake Mix Cookies

These cake mix cookies are a 5 ingredient dessert that can be made in tons of different flavors and decorated for any occasion.

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Easy Classic Christmas Cookie Recipes

From peanut butter blossoms to snickerdoodle cookies, these are some of the most classic and easy Christmas cookies for the season.

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Blossoms (Quick & Easy!)

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Snowball Cookies

These snowball cookies are light and tender cookies studded with pecans and chocolate chips, then rolled in powdered sugar.

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Snickerdoodles Without Cream of Tartar

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Pecan Sandies (Vintage Recipe)

Pecan Sandies have a shortbread-like cookie base studded with pecans and dusted with powdered sugar. Nostalgic and SO good!

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Chewy Coconut Macaroons

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Gluten-Free and Vegan Christmas Cookie Recipes

For family and friends with special dietary needs, these gluten-free cookies and vegan Christmas cookie recipes are for you! There are homemade cookies for both types of dietary needs including easy peanut butter cookies, gluten-free gingerbread cookies and vegan ‘shortbread’ cookies too since everyone should be able to enjoy delicious Christmas cookies. 

Vegan Christmas Cookies

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Gluten-Free Gingerbread Men Cookies

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Paleo Cinnamon Snowflake Christmas Cookies Using Coconut Sugar | Grain, Gluten, Dairy, & Egg Free

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Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies

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No Flour Peanut Butter Cookies With 4 Ingredients

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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossoms

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Chewy Amaretti Cookies (Gluten Free)

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Vegan Cinnamon Cookies

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German Marzipan Balls (vegan & gluten-free)

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Baking is bringing me serious comfort these days.

So, I’m sharing my Mom’s recipe for these simple & irresistible one-bowl cookies.

What makes these cookies so special?

They’re soft, chewy & chocolatey! These cookies were the MOST requested cookie recipe growing up; I swear my Mom brought them to every family event.

Still to this day this is my go-to cookie recipe when I want a dessert that doesn’t take a lot of time. These cookies are made from basic baking ingredients that come together in just one bowl.

Ingredients for the perfect one-bowl oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Unsalted butter: Gives you full control over the salt-level in this recipe (that’s why we add a bit of salt separately into the cookie dough).

Sugar: Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies should always be made with a mixture of white and brown sugar.

Eggs: Helps bind the cookie dough together and adds to the chewy texture.

Old-fashioned rolled oats: Use old-fashioned rolled oats to ensure you get the BEST soft & chewy cookie. Quick oats are thinner and more powdery so you won’t get the desired texture.

Chocolate chips: Packing these cookies full of chocolate chips to give you more chocolate per bite!

Flour: All purpose flour is the best for baking cookies.

Vanilla Extract: A key ingredient in bringing all the flavours together.

Salt: All baked goods need salt to balance their sweetness.

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One Bowl Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Made in just one bowl, look no further for the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. This chewy, chocolately cookie is what dreams are made of! Packed with tons of chocolate chips and oats, pair with a glass of milk or cup of coffee for the most delicious treat.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, one bowl cookies

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 25 minutes minutes

Servings 16 cookies

Author Jess

Equipment

• large baking sheet, parchment paper

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

• Pre-heat oven to 350F & line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• To a bowl add melted butter, sugar & brown sugar and stir until well combined.
• Stir in egg and vanilla until well combined.
• Add flour, baking soda, baking powder & salt. Mix until combined.
• Stir in oats and then chocolate chips.
• Scoop 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoonfuls of cookie batter per cookie into balls, placing them about 2 inches a part on a baking sheet (make sure to leave space between cookies as they will spread). Makes about 16-18 cookies so you may need to bake in batches. 
• Bake 8-10 minutes, until cookie edges are just golden. Leave on the baking sheet a few minutes, then put on a rack to fully cool.

Notes

1. Every oven is different so take out cookies when they are just turning golden brown around the edges; cookies will still be very soft in the middle.
2. Want to freeze these cookies? Baked cookies freeze well for up to 2 months.
3. Chocolate chips: I like to use semi-sweet chocolate chips but milk or dark chocolate work great too!

This is my go-to cookie base recipe so you can make some variations within the recipe fairly easily. Some great recipe variations to substitute for the chocolate chips are:

• White chocolate chips or festive mini-eggs for Easter
• Try chopped pecans or walnuts
• Use raisins to make this an oatmeal raisin cookie

However you choose to make and enjoy these, I promise these oatmeal chocolate chip cookies will satisfy your cookie cravings!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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I absolutely LOVE to bake during the holiday season. I really enjoy all of the flavours used in holiday desserts, from sweet and salty combinations to tart and bright.

My holiday baking list definitely includes something for everyone’s taste!

I can remember going to my Oma & Opa’s house on Christmas Eve when I was a kid; there would always be a large tray of assorted holiday cookies and squares out. Same for Christmas Day!

I love the assortment of flavours and could always find something (or many) delicious bites to eat.

So, I’m sharing my Holiday Baking List for 2018 full of all of my favourite baking recipes that I love to enjoy and gift to my family and friends.

Nanaimo Bars – A classic in our family, this is my Mom’s recipe and most requested recipe each year

Lemon Squares – I have always loved this tart and sweet treat, perfect to breakup all the chocolate!

Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing – I remember decorating these cookies as a kid and just covering them with sprinkles! So I do the same these days 🙂

Chocolate Pretzel Bars – This is a recipe I created a few years ago that definitely gives the sweet and salty vibes I love

Snickerdoodles – My favourite recipe is Ambitious Kitchen’s Grain Free Snickerdoodles; they are the softest and chewiest recipe I’ve found. It’s hard not to eat a couple at once!

Freezer Fudge – I love an easy freezer fudge, especially Minimalist Baker’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge which I like to top with coconut & cinnamon too

Mixed Nuts – These are always perfect for sharing, I especially love these Coconut Cashews and these Cinnamon Toasted Almonds

Party Chocolate Bark – Part of my Sparkling New Year’s Eve Party Menu, this bark is easy to make and always a crowd-pleaser

I’d love to hear what you are baking this holiday season; let me know in the comments below!

Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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