1,328 butter cookie recipes

Lacy, golden spiderweb cookies made from a thin batter squeezed through a bottle into a hot skillet. A fun Halloween treat dusted with powdered sugar.

Old-fashioned chocolate sticks: a thin pan of dense fudgy chocolate-nut batter cut into slim rectangles after baking. Half-cookie, half-brownie bar made for coffee or after-dinner trays.

Chocolate chip cookie pie with the chips layered right on top: a gooey, buttery cookie-dough filling baked in a flaky crust, crowned with melty chocolate chips. Dense, fudgy, and made for serving warm with ice cream.

Every year before my grandkids come over to my place, I usually bake a large batch of these cookies, and everyone loves them. I do however add some chocolate chips to the batter, and they are some great addition.

Double chocolate oat cookies with melted chocolate in the batter and chocolate chips stirred in. Chewy, fudgy, and ready in 30 minutes from start to cooling rack.

Swedish rosettes are crisp, lacy fried cookies shaped by a decorative iron dipped in batter and flash-fried until golden. A Scandinavian holiday tradition dusted in powdered sugar.

Fruit cocktail bars with coconut, maraschino cherries, and a soft cake-like crumb. A vintage pantry-friendly bar cookie made with canned fruit cocktail syrup in the batter.

Chocolate chip cookie pie bakes a gooey, buttery cookie dough filling loaded with chocolate chips right inside a flaky pie crust. Dense, fudgy, and warm from the oven, it tastes like eating chocolate chip cookie dough by the slice.

Lattice cherry cheesecake: a creamy almond-scented cheesecake on a slice-and-bake cookie crust, topped with cherry pie filling and a piped lattice of batter. A showstopping shortcut dessert.

Apricot drop cookies fold chopped dried apricots into a quick brown-sugar batter brightened with orange juice and zest. Soft, chewy drops with bursts of fruit in every bite.

Paper-thin, crispy lace cookies loaded with chocolate chips and chopped pecans. Just half a cup of flour lets the batter spread into delicate, golden wafers with lacey edges. Soft out of the oven, shatteringly crisp once cooled.

Triple chocolate cookies with melted semi-sweet and unsweetened chocolate in the batter, chocolate chips folded in, then dipped in more melted chocolate. Fudgy, crackle-topped, and loaded with nuts.

Fudgy brownie-style cookies packed with mint chocolate chips: melted into the batter for intensity and folded in whole for gooey pockets. Soft centers, set edges, total mint chocolate bliss.

Italian-style almond drop cookies decorated with pine nuts and dusted with confectioners' sugar. A double-boiler whipped batter creates a delicate, marzipan-rich crumb that bakes up crisp on the outside.

Traditional fortune cookies made from scratch with 9 ingredients including instant tea for authentic color and flavor. Chill the batter, work with cotton gloves, and fold while hot for bakery-quality results.

Chewy, loaded drop cookies hiding shredded zucchini inside a brown sugar batter packed with oats, coconut, raisins, nuts, and butterscotch chips. The zucchini keeps them soft and moist while the mix-ins bring all the crunch and sweetness.