90 Cookie Recipes You'll Be Baking All Year Long
- Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Thumbprint Cookies
- Monster Cookies
- Pecan Sandies
- No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies
- Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies
- Sugar Cookies
- Classic Linzer Cookies
- Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
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- Ube Crinkle Cookies
- Gingersnap Cookies
- Coconut Macaroons
- Snowball Cookies
- Copycat Crumbl Chilled Sugar Cookie
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- Peanut Butter Cookies
- Creme Brûlée Sugar Cookies
- Sesame Cookies
- Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
- Italian Lemon Cookies
- Amaretti Cookies
- Lemon Shortbread Cookies
- Shortbread Cookies
- 62 Cookie Recipes You’ll Be Baking All Year Long
- Checkerboard Cookies
- Chocolate Shortbread
- Chocolate Covered Digestives
- Pignoli Cookies
- Twix Cookies
- Ma’amoul
- Copycat Carr’s Ginger Lemon Cremes
- Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies
- 62 Cookie Recipes You’ll Be Baking All Year Long
- Copycat Chessmen Cookies
- Brownie Brittle
- Almond Joy Cookies
- Coconut Cookies
- Kolaczki Cream Cheese Cookies
- Polvorones (Mexican Wedding Cookies)
- Brown Sugar Cookies
- Oven Baked Pizzelles
- Stained Glass Cookies
- Lofthouse Cookies
- Butter Cookies
- Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
- Lemon Butter Cookies
- Flourless Fudge Cookies
- Blueberry Cream Cheese Cookies
- Chocolate Cool Whip Cookies
- Icebox Cookies
- Carrot Cake Cookies
- Italian Ricotta Cookies
- Spritz Cookies
- Healthier Oatmeal Cookies
- Italian Rainbow Cookies
- Brownie Cookies
- Heart Cookies
- S ‘mores Stuffed Cookies
- Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies
- Chocolate Kisses Snowball Cookies
- Black & White Cookies
- Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter-Stuffed Cookies
- Inside Out Red Velvet Cookies
- Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Gingerbread Cookies
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Sweet Potato Cookies
- Giant Chocolate Chip Covered Cookies
- Butter Pecan Cookies
- Cornflake Cookies
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- Cinnamon Roll Cookies
- Cookie Dough Stuffed Oreos
- Reese’s Chip Cookies
- Andes Chip Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Santa’s Trash Cookies
- Nutella-Stuffed Cookies
- Sprinkle Cookies
While we truly love all desserts, we’ll always have a soft spot for cookies. There are SO many amazing recipes for them out there, and life’s too short to not try and make them all. Whether you’re a traditionalist or like to mix it up, are a master baker or are a novice in the kitchen, we’ve got recipes for you. From birthdays to bake sales, holiday cookie exchanges, or just something sweet to enjoy at home, get inspired to bake with our 90 easy cookie recipes.
When it comes to cookies, there’s some classic recipes everyone recognizes. We’re talking chocolate chip, sugar, oatmeal, peanut butter, snowballs… you get the idea. We’ve got lots of options for those here. We know which are our favorites (like our amaretti cookies or Lofthouse sugar cookies), but you’ll have to find your own. It’s our favorite part about baking, trying out different recipes and landing on the ones you’ll make again and again.
Maybe you’re into the spins on the classics, like our pumpkin chocolate chip cookies or crème brûlée sugar cookies. Or do you like stuffing candy into your cookies, like chocolate kisses into your snowballs or Reeses cups or Andes mints instead of chocolate chips? Are you into sneaking dried or fresh fruit into your cookies, like in our cherry chocolate chip cookies or our oatmeal cranberry white chocolate cookies? Perhaps you’re all about tradition and like making cookies specific to your (or someone you love’s) heritage, like our hamantaschen, ma ‘amoul, bizcochitos, or alfajores. There’s no better way to impress someone by making them treats they remember from childhood. For a lot of us, that means simple no-bake cookies, so we’ve included a few of those too.
For more sweet treats perfect for any celebration, check out our layer cakes, truffles, and dessert bars.
Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Look no further! We’ve got you covered for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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Thumbprint Cookies
It’s true—this dough is firm, almost like a shortbread, so to make sure it doesn’t crack, roll it into balls until smooth and firm, and then gently press your thumb in the center to make sure it doesn’t crack. Gently.
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Monster Cookies
The origin of the name “monster” cookies isn’t clear, but it may refer to the fact that they’re like Frankenstein’s monster—made up of a combination of the parts of many other cookies. We love’em because you can really throw anything into the dough.
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Pecan Sandies
Pecan sandies are a store-bought cookie classic, and while we’d never turn up our noses at our old nostalgic favorites, our homemade version is pretty tasty (and possibly even better!). Featuring thick, buttery shortbread studded with toasted pecans and rimmed with decorative sparkling sugar for a little extra crunch, it takes that grocery story favorite to the next level.
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No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies
These no-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies are nostalgia at its finest—half of our staff has a story about these from childhood. If you don’t, whip up a batch asap and you’ll see why they’re so memorable.
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Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies
This recipe yields cookies that are soft and citrusy sweet with a perfect chewy center. They take very minimal effort and the hardest part will be letting them chill in the fridge. Be patient! That rest time will be worth it for the crinkly texture it provides.
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Sugar Cookies
Whether frosted, sprinkled or eaten plain right out of the oven we can’t get enough of these cookies. Not only do they taste fantastically buttery with just the right amount of sweetness, they also holds their shape and are perfect for decorating with buttercream or royal icing for any time of year!
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Classic Linzer Cookies
We love the combination of the flavorful, rich cookie and the sweet fruity jam. Linzers are a classic sandwich cookie, which means they’re not the fastest to throw together—patience is key, but we can guarantee these are well worth the wait.
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Peanut Butter Blossoms
As the story goes, a woman by the name of Mrs. Freda F. Smith from Ohio developed the original recipe for these for The Grand National Pillsbury Bake-Off competition in 1957. She lost, but her cookies still became legendary, particularly after Pillsbury instated the Bake-Off Hall of Fame and ranked her recipe 7th on the list. The more you know!
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Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
Looking for a super-satisfying new favorite cookie? We found it: this amazing cookie has the kick of tangy cranberry balanced with creamy, sweet white chocolate, all rounded out with satisfying, good-for-you oats.
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Biscotti are Italian cookies that are initially baked in a large flat log, then cut and baked once more into toasted and crunchy treats. We love them simple with sliced almonds, but pistachios, pine nuts, raisins or dried cranberries, or chocolate chips are all great mix-ins. They’re the perfect anytime treat (particularly dipped in coffee or hot tea).
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Ube Crinkle Cookies
With its striking color and a unique nutty vanilla flavor profile, ube has taken over the world. Upgrade your average crinkle cookie this Christmas with ube extract and ube halaya, a popular Filipino pudding made with ube and condensed milk. Your guests won’t know what hit’em!
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Gingersnap Cookies
These pretty gingersnaps are BIG, gingery, and extra extra chewy, like a warm warm winter hug in a cookie!
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Coconut Macaroons
When you just can’t have any more matzo (even if it is this amazing matzo icebox cake), make these gluten-free coconut macaroons. Dipping them in chocolate is “optional” but really, why wouldn’t you?
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Snowball Cookies
The first thing we will say about these cookies is that you shouldn’t eat them while wearing your Sunday best. The powdery confectioner’s sugar that makes these snowballs “snowy” and delicious can end up dousing you in sugar with every bite, so make sure you have napkins ready and eat them over a plate to catch the winter wonderland from landing on your floor. The mess is SO worth it for these cookies.
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Copycat Crumbl Chilled Sugar Cookie
Crumbl’s chilled sugar cookies may no longer be on their permanent menu, but now you can make them at home and have them any time you want. Their signature giant cookie is an almond sugar cookie with a pretty pink frosting, but feel free to get creative and try out different colors or even sprinkles if you like.
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With a history so intricate, it’s no surprise that the recipe for this cookie is also quite involved. It may not require any special ingredients, but it does require meticulous planning, timeliness, and a bit of trial and error. Enjoy the process (and figuring out what fortunes to gift to your friends and family!).
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Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies are one of those desserts we’re always in the mood for. They’re salty, sweet, and more rich than a chocolate chip cookie ever could be. We’re suckers for the classic fork crosshatch look, but you can totally skip it. (Ready for the next level? Make peanut butter STUFFED cookies.)
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Creme Brûlée Sugar Cookies
Caramelized sugar is our new favorite frosting sub. Don’t have a kitchen torch? Try sticking these under the broiler!
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Sesame Cookies
Sesame’s nutty flavors can pack a bitter undertone, which is why these sesame cookies use licorice-like anise and bright citrus zest to neutralize the earthiness for a more balanced flavor. These not-too-sweet treats are great for adding variety to your holiday cookie boxes.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
Move over peanut butter blossoms, there’s a new flavor in town. You’ll fall in love with hazelnut flour once you realize how nutty it makes these gianduja-inspired cookies. Melted chocolate adds extra cocoa punch to the dough, while rich and creamy Nutella tops them off.
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Italian Lemon Cookies
Originally served at weddings (to symbolize tying the knot), these Italian cookies now commonly found at holiday gatherings too. A soft but sturdy dough is flavored with lemon juice and zest, then rolled into a knot. After baking, it gets dipped in a lemon-y glaze and finished with even more zest.
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Amaretti Cookies
If you like the flavor of French macarons, you’ll love this take on Italian amaretti cookies. Soft, pillowy, moist, sweet, and lightly scented with amaretto liqueur as well as citrus zests, these cookies get made multiple times a season, year after year.
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Lemon Shortbread Cookies
It doesn’t get more classic and understated than shortbread, and here they have a hint of lemon to brighten up the classic melt-in-your-mouth buttery cookie. Though it might not seem like much, just a tablespoon of lemon zest infuses these cookies with lemon punch since all the fragrant oils of a lemon live in the peel.
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Shortbread Cookies
Our classic recipe is great as is, but one of the best parts about shortbread is that you can infinitely adapt it. Feel free to use our basic formula as a base and take if from there, adding citrus, herbs, chocolate, or even Parmesan.
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62 Cookie Recipes You’ll Be Baking All Year Long
Brown butter is a magical thing. It can turn an already perfect chocolate chip cookie into a phenomenal one. We also added milk powder to these cookies to make their caramel-y butter flavor even stronger. You and anyone you share them with this holiday season will love them.
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Sequilhos
Delicate, buttery, and oh-so-easy-to-make, sequilhos are a household staple across Brazil. Made with a handful of ingredients like butter, cornstarch, and condensed milk, these meltaway cookies also come together in just one bowl.
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Checkerboard Cookies
Checkerboard cookies are a classic vanilla and chocolate sugar cookie that look far more complicated to make than they actually are. The two colors are made from the same dough, with half just getting some cocoa powder added to it. Feel free to add in a little food coloring to the doughs instead and make the checkerboard pattern any color you desire.
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Chocolate Shortbread
If you’re looking for an easy and classic addition to your holiday cookie repertoire, chocolate shortbread should be your next bake. Slightly crisp with a meltingly tender texture, they’re perfect served with a cup of milky tea or—for intense chocoholics out there—a steaming mug of hot cocoa.
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Chocolate Covered Digestives
The easiest and cleanest way to melt chocolate onto your digestive cookies is to let a few chocolate chips (or pieces of chopped chocolate) melt on top of the cookies while they’re fresh out of the oven. The residual heat will liquefy the chocolate in a matter of minutes, after which you can use an offset spatula to smooth it over into an even layer.
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Pignoli Cookies
The treat is studded with pignoli, Italian for pine nuts, and gets even more nutty flavor from a hefty amount of almond paste (one of our favorite secret weapons in baked goods for its rich, slightly sweet flavor). Egg whites help give the cookies an superbly chewy and airy texture, and also help make this cookie totally gluten-free—no flour required!
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Twix Cookies
These easy Twix cookies are the simplest way to make a copycat of our favorite candy bar. Crunchy shortbread is topped with caramel and milk chocolate and mimics a Twix perfectly. If you like salty sweet, a little flaky sea salt on the chocolate before it sets would be divine too.
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Ma’amoul
Ma’amoul cookies are a type of Middle Eastern butter cookie that is usually filled with a variety of dried fruits or nuts. Made with semolina flour, the shortbread-like exterior has a slight crunch to it, giving way to a softer filling. Once baked, they’re dusted with a sprinkling of powdered sugar, adding an extra layer of sweetness to every mildly spiced bite.
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Copycat Carr’s Ginger Lemon Cremes
Snappy spice cookies sandwich a tangy lemon creme filling, perfect for dunking in a mug of milky Earl Grey. These ginger cookies soften ever so slightly in the fridge too—this way they’re still crisp, but soft enough that the filling won’t burst out when you take a bite.
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Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies
Snickerdoodles are only made better by nutty, brown butter. These are chewy with pillowy soft centers and that classic snickerdoodle tang. As they cool, they settle into cracked and wrinkly cookies, which, in our opinion, are the very best kind.
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62 Cookie Recipes You’ll Be Baking All Year Long
These delicate little lace cookies—also known as Italian Florentine cookies—are so easy to make and a fun addition to your holiday cookie spread. They are shatteringly crispy and caramel-y with just enough flour and almonds to barely hold the cookies together.
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Copycat Chessmen Cookies
This copycat version of the classic Pepperidge Farm cookie is likely a descendant of the German springerle cookie with its traditional intricately stamped patterns. Though chessmen are traditionally stamped like chess pieces, feel free to utilize whatever rolling pin you can find.
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Brownie Brittle
If you love candy brittle and are as obsessed with brownies as we are, then this brownie brittle will be your new favorite snack. Crisp and crunchy with deep cocoa flavor, this sweet snack bark is both insanely easy to make and incredibly tasty. Beware—you won’t be able to stop at just one piece!
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Almond Joy Cookies
What if your favorite coconut-almond-chocolate candy bar morphed into a crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth cookie? We’ve done it! Joy is in the name for a reason.
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Cuccidati
If Fig Newtons had a grown-up, glamorous sister, she would be cuccidati. Packed with a sticky-sweet, spiced fig filling and showered in rainbow sprinkles, these bite-sized Italian cookies are more than ready for a Christmas party.
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Coconut Cookies
Soft, chewy, slightly golden crispy edges with crispy toasted coconut strewn throughout, these coconut cookies are not shy to highlight their star ingredient. Top generously with coconut flakes before baking to ensure you have beautifully golden coconut embedded into each cookie.
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Kolaczki Cream Cheese Cookies
Kolaczki cookies are Polish in origin, often made and eaten during the holidays. Some recipes use canned pie filling, though we opted for jam in this version. Use your favorite flavor; just make sure to dilute it with cornstarch and water so it doesn’t turn into hard candy during the bake.
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Polvorones (Mexican Wedding Cookies)
Similar to a snowball cookie, polvorones are often called Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cakes; however, these cookies’ origins aren’t very clear—they don’t seem to have much connection to weddings in Mexico. What is crystal clear is that they’re melt-in-your-mouth delicious and worthy of any holiday cookie spread.
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Brown Sugar Cookies
These brown sugar cookies are chewy, sweet, buttery, and caramel-y. They’re also big, which we firmly believe a cookie should be. They get baked until the edges are just set, and as they cool, they start to wrinkle and the centers will be chewy and soft with slightly crunchy edges. 😍
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Oven Baked Pizzelles
Most people who are familiar with pizzelles won’t associate them with the oven. But because not everyone is going to get their hands on a specialty pizzelle waffle iron—unless it was passed down from generations of grandparents—then how do you make them? Answer: cookie stamps!
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Stained Glass Cookies
Love sugar cookies but hate decorating them? These are for you! The centers will stay soft and chewy after cooling and add the brightest pop of color to any celebration.
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Lofthouse Cookies
You know those thick, soft sugar cookies from the grocery store that have an even thicker layer of frosting on top? This homemade version is just as good! The cream cheese and cornstarch really help give it that soft texture that sticks to the roof of your mouth. Dye the frosting any color you like depending on the season!
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Butter Cookies
These little guys might look simple, but they’re dangerously good. There’s a healthy dose of salt in the dough, making it easy to down 4 or 5 without overdosing on sugar. Serve them up with a cup of coffee or chai latte for dipping!
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Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
It took many, many rounds of testing to get these cookies just right. Our biggest piece of advice is to not be afraid of mess. Covering the cream cheese with cookie dough is a messy task (especially with the fresh strawberries!), but we promise you it’s worth it a million times over.
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Lemon Butter Cookies
These lemon cookies have the perfect balance of sweet and tart. Roll your dough in regular sugar before the powdered sugar to guarantee perfect crinkles every time.
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Flourless Fudge Cookies
These gluten-free cookies are perfect — fudgy in the middle, and crispy on the outside.
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Blueberry Cream Cheese Cookies
These cookies taste like a cheesecake in cookie form. The lemon juice adds the acid necessary to balance out the sweetness of the blueberries, and the zest imparts extra lemon flavor. Yum!
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Chocolate Cool Whip Cookies
This crazy boxed-cake-mix hack makes super-fudgy crinkle cookies—with a third of the typical ingredients. All you need is cake mix, whipped topping (aka Cool Whip), an egg, and powdered sugar. If you’re not a chocolate person (😱!!!), you can use any type of boxed cake mix—vanilla, Funfetti, even red velvet.
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Icebox Cookies
Keeping a log of cookie dough in your fridge or freezer is the true genius move. It lets you have dessert ready in just a moment’s notice for those last minute guests, and the ability to bake off only a cookie or two for yourself anytime. This recipe is the perfect base for mix-ins—we’ve included some of our tried and true favorites, but get creative!
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Carrot Cake Cookies
When you’re craving carrot cake, but don’t have the time, make these easy cookies instead! The Easter Bunny would approve.
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Italian Ricotta Cookies
These melt-in-your-mouth cookies are an Italian classic, and a breeze to make. What’s more fun than frosting? Sprinkles! You can adorn these cookies with any combination of sprinkles, whether for a celebration or just another Tuesday.
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Hamantaschen
Hamantaschen are shortbread-like cookies filled with jam that are traditionally served around the Jewish holiday of Purim. Shaped like Haman’s hat, the cookies represent the defeat of their enemy. Reminiscent of thumbprint cookies, we love the buttery cookie and sweet jam combo.
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Spritz Cookies
Very similar to sugar cookies, spritz cookies are soft and buttery. They come from the German word “spritzen”, which means to squirt—a nod to the process of making these where you load the dough into a cookie press. Get creative with the colors: You can dye the dough itself or just have fun with sprinkles and sanding sugar.
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Healthier Oatmeal Cookies
We’re proud to say that this is a really good COOKIE – not a granola bar that’s just shaped like one. We decreased the usual amounts of butter and sugar with some help from applesauce, but a cookie isn’t a cookie unless it’s a little naughty – so we added some quality dark chocolate chunks and tart dried cherries for the perfect bite. Everything in moderation!
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Italian Rainbow Cookies
In this Italian classic, almond-flavored cakes are sandwiched between chocolate with layers of raspberry and apricot jam. It’s true these do take some patience, but we promise, it’s VERY worth the effort.
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Brownie Cookies
Is it a cookie? Is it a brownie? It’s… well… both! These fudgy, SUPER chocolatey cookies are truly the best of both worlds.
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Alfajores
Alfajores are a soft and tender shortbread cookie with dulce de leche sandwiched between. Though the cookie originated in the Middle East, the Spanish took the cookies to South America, and now they are especially popular in Argentina. The cookies can be dusted in powdered sugar, or our favorite, rolled in coconut flakes.
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Heart Cookies
Show your love any time of with these heart-shaped delights similar to Lofthouse cookies. We chose a cream cheese frosting in red, pink and white, but feel free to dye the frosting any colors you wish or use any sprinkles your heart desires.
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Brookies
Half fudgy brownie, half chocolate chip cookie? Yes please!
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S ‘mores Stuffed Cookies
Are you ready for a sticky, gooey, unabashedly messy challenge? If you’re up for it, here’s the deal: you’re about to stuff an entire s ‘more into a chocolate chip cookie. Some say it can’t be done, but with enough focus, patience, and perseverance, you can succeed in making this extremely indulgent dessert. Give us s ‘more, please!
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Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies
Loaded with sweet-salty smooth peanut butter and chewy old-fashioned oats, these cookies are perfect for when you’re craving peanut butter cookies but don’t have the time or patience to wait for your oven to preheat. The texture is a bit more fudgy than your average cookie, and WE’RE OBSESSED.
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Chocolate Kisses Snowball Cookies
Snowball cookies are one of our favorites, so we love switching things up and taking them next level. Hidden inside these snowball cookies are chocolate kisses for the sweetest surprise.
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Black & White Cookies
The cookies are sold at nearly every bakery or deli in New York City where they originated. The giant cookies started popping up in bakery cases as a way to use up leftover cake batter, which is why they have such a cakey texture. Whether you love chocolate or vanilla this is the cookie for you!
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Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
We’re saying it: these might be our FAVORITE version of the classic chocolate chip cookie. The cherries add a bit more sweetness with a pop of tartness that makes them unforgettable!
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Peanut Butter-Stuffed Cookies
This genius hack is similar to the one we use in our Nutella-Stuffed Cookies. Mix peanut butter with powdered sugar, roll mixture into balls, then freeze them. (This prevents a pb explosion while baking.)
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Inside Out Red Velvet Cookies
Red velvet stuffed with a cream cheese filling that tastes like cheesecake? We’re obsessed.
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Snickerdoodle Cookies
At first glance, a sugar cookie and a snickerdoodle don’t seem all that different: they’re basic cookies with flour, butter, and sugar. But snickerdoodles are rolled in cinnamon sugar, which makes them totally irresistible, and have a chewier texture and more crackly top than sugar cookies, thanks to one ingredient: cream of tartar.
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These extra fudgy chocolate cookies are just as beautiful as they are delicious. A double roll in powdered sugar and chilling the dough helps make the dramatic crinkle appearance stand out more, so don’t skip it!
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Rugelach
Rugelach is a soft pillowy, flaky filled pastry filled with jam or a sweet walnut and brown sugar mixture. We can’t get enough!
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Gingerbread Cookies
We tested this recipe over and over to get it just right. Master this classic recipe and you too can make gingerbread men worthy of Santa himself.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adding pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice to chocolate chip cookie dough results in a heavenly pillow-like cookie with major autumn vibes. Yum!
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Sweet Potato Cookies
Forget sweet potato casserole. Forget pumpkin spice lattes. Sweet Potato Cookies are our new fall staple. Once you taste the maple glaze, you’ll understand why.
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Giant Chocolate Chip Covered Cookies
We’ve written tons of chocolate chip cookie recipes—chewy, crispy, fudgy, super-size, brown butter, you name it. It’s safe to say, these are THE chippiest.
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Butter Pecan Cookies
These buttery, brown sugary cookies have a delicious salty-sweet pecan batter, but it’s not even the cookies that are the best part; it’s the maple buttercream. It’s just butter, powdered sugar, maple syrup, and heavy cream, but OMG.
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Cornflake Cookies
These no-bake cookies always remind us of being a kid around the holidays, when we’d make massive batches to give as gifts. The sweet and salty combo is beloved by kids and adults alike!
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It isn’t Christmas without cookies, and this year, we’re starting with these trees decorated with a super-simple marbling technique that’s totally Tik Tok-worthy. It’s perfect for getting kids involved or for using on other holiday cookie shapes, like candy canes done with a red and white marble or snowflake shapes done in blue and white. The possibilities are endless!
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Bizcochitos
These anise and cinnamon scented cookies are the official state cookie of New Mexico! Though these cookies vary a bit in style depending where you are in the state, typically they are made with lard or butter, and cut into flower, star, or moon shapes. The anise seeds are crucial for that delicate floral licorice-y flavor, as is a dusting of cinnamon-sugar for added sweetness.
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Cinnamon Roll Cookies
These are cinnamon rolls you can eat all day long. Score!
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Cookie Dough Stuffed Oreos
Cookie dough is great. Oreos are great. So why not combine the two? Oh, and then dip the whole thing in chocolate and top it with sprinkles. Crazy? Maybe. Delicious? Definitely.
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Reese’s Chip Cookies
These cookies have three different types of chips: semisweet, peanut butter, and Reese’s Minis. Please don’t skip any of them!
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Andes Chip Cookies
If you’re a fan of mint + chocolate desserts, these cookies will blow your mind. The espresso powder is technically optional, but honestly, it’s what makes them so special.
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bye bye raisins! This recipe will sway even those who think they don’t like oatmeal cookies.
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Santa’s Trash Cookies
Even Santa has a naughty side. These cookies are loaded with chocolate chips, sprinkles, pretzels, and potato chips for the salty-sweet dessert of your dreams.
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Nutella-Stuffed Cookies
This genius hack is similar to the one we use in our Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookies— freezing the balls of Nutella before rolling cookie dough around them helps prevent an explosion while baking.
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Sprinkle Cookies
This brilliant hack turns a box of cake mix into perfectly chewy birthday cookies. They’re way easier and faster than baking and decorating a cake. Have your cake and Funfetti cookies, too!
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