1,362 butters cookie recipes

Mom's chocolate chunk cookies with chunky semi-sweet chocolate, toasted pecans, and a butter-margarine blend that gives crisp edges and chewy centers. Bakery-sized scoops.

Homemade vanilla wafer cookies with butter, shortening and a generous double dose of vanilla. Crisp around the edges, soft in the middle. Better than store-bought.

Classic Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies with butter, brown sugar, semi-sweet morsels, and chopped nuts. The original back-of-the-bag recipe that started it all.

Christmas cream wafers sandwich tinted buttercream between sugar-coated, fork-pricked butter wafers. A retro holiday cookie that comes together with just five ingredients in the dough.

Classic anise pizzelles made with a full ounce of anise extract, butter, and a touch of lemon. Thin, crisp Italian wafer cookies pressed in a pizzelle iron in 30 seconds each.

Savory cheese cookies with sharp cheddar, butter, and crisp rice cereal. Rolled into balls and fork-pressed flat. A crunchy, cheesy appetizer or snack that bakes in 10 minutes.

Slice-and-bake vanilla wafer cookies with powdered sugar, butter, and cream of tartar. Make the dough ahead, chill, slice thin, and bake crispy in 10 minutes.

Low-fat cocoa brownie bars made with egg whites, nonfat yogurt, and cocoa powder instead of butter and chocolate. Fudgy brownie cookie bars dusted with powdered sugar.

Traditional Chinese almond cookies with butter and shortening get an egg wash for glossy shine. Dough chills 2 hours, then slices into rounds topped with whole almonds.

Elegant crescent-shaped chocolate cookies made with cocoa, walnuts, and butter, blended in a food processor and baked low and slow. Six ingredients, twelve moons, zero stress.

Delicate French curled cookies (tuiles) made with butter, powdered sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Paper-thin ovals baked until golden, then rolled around a wooden spoon handle.

Swedish pepparkakor with molasses boiled and mixed into a spiced butter dough, chilled overnight, rolled thin, and baked crisp. A classic Scandinavian holiday cookie making 10 dozen.

Zebra bars layer chocolate and vanilla batter in a 13x9 pan, topped with chocolate chips and walnuts. Two-toned cookie bars from one butter-brown sugar dough.

Low-fat cherry-almond biscotti with dried cherries, chopped almonds, and almond extract. No butter or oil needed in this crispy, twice-baked Italian cookie for dipping.

Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with brown sugar, butter, and rolled oats. Just 9 ingredients and ready in about 20 minutes from bowl to cooling rack.

Tender butter cookies studded with chopped fresh strawberries and scented with nutmeg and brandy, dusted in powdered sugar. Little jewel-like bites that melt on the tongue.