🎄 The Top 5 Christmas Cookie Trends for 2025 (Designs, Flavors, + Inspo)
The holiday season is here, and that means one thing: it’s time for festive cookies! Whether you’re a cookie lover or a holiday host, this year's Christmas cookie trends are more creative, nostalgic, and artistic than ever.
At Crumbprints, we track emerging design aesthetics, flavor shifts, and customer interests to bring you cookies that feel magical, modern, and memorable. Here are the Top 5 Christmas Cookie Trends for 2025 — and how these can inspire your next custom order or holiday gift box.
⭐ 1. Nutcracker Core & Classic Ballet Nostalgia
Nutcracker Core is one of the biggest holiday aesthetics of 2025. Think deep jewel tones, gold accents, sugar-plum colors, and motifs like nutcrackers, crowns, and ballet slippers.
Why it’s trending: Elegant nostalgia + glam color palettes = instant holiday magic.
Cookie ideas: Nutcracker faces, ballerina slippers, gilded ornaments, toy soldiers.
Image suggestion: A flat lay of jewel-toned, gold-accented cookies.
⭐ 2. Metallics, Pearlized Finishes & Luxe Gold
Gold, champagne, pearl, and jewel-tone metallics are dominating this year’s Christmas designs.
Why it’s trending: Luxe finishes feel expensive and photograph beautifully.
Cookie ideas: Gold-lined snowflakes, pearlized ornaments, emerald trees with metallic accents.
⭐ 3. Personalized Holiday Cookies
Custom names, monograms, personalized holiday sayings — personalization is booming.
Why it’s trending: Personalized cookies make unforgettable gifts.
Cookie ideas: Name ornaments, custom message cookies, family-name sets.
⭐ 4. Vintage Retro Cookie Shapes
Old-fashioned silhouettes like bells, angels, snow globes, and gingerbread men are making a comeback.
Why it’s trending: Nostalgia sells — especially at Christmas.
Cookie ideas: Retro ornaments, vintage pastel palettes, classic piping.
⭐ 5. Marbled, Geometric & Abstract Art Cookies
Modern visuals are trending: marbled icing, geometric trees, and abstract snowflakes.
Why it’s trending: These cookies feel artistic and perfectly “Instagrammable.”
Cookie ideas: Swirled red-white peppermint marbling, triangular modern trees, line-art snowflakes.
Christmas cookies in 2025 are a blend of nostalgia, artistry, bold flavors, and intentional design. Whether you love Nutcrackercore elegance, woodland neutrals, or show-stopping metallics, this year is full of creative inspiration.
At Crumbprints, we bring these trends to life through thoughtful design, small-batch baking, and custom holiday offerings that make your celebrations unforgettable.