2,909 cookie cake recipes

Magic marshmallow crescent puffs wrap cinnamon-sugar marshmallows in flaky crescent dough, baked until golden and hollow inside. The marshmallow disappears, leaving a sweet glazed surprise.

Powdered sugar cut-out cookies stay tender and soft, perfect for decorating. Almond and vanilla extracts give these holiday classics a complex, bakery-style flavor that beats other sugar cookies.

Mom's Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

Festival sugar cookies: tender cake-flour roll-out cookies that hold any shape, perfect for cutter cookies, icing, and sprinkles. Holiday-tested recipe yielding five dozen.

German pfeffernusse: spiced honey cookies with cinnamon, cloves, allspice, mace, and a touch of black pepper, dipped in vanilla glaze. Traditional Christmas cookie recipe.

Chewy chocolate chip cookies made with applesauce instead of butter deliver all the flavor with a fraction of the fat and guilt.

Sugar cookies with a half-shortening half-butter base for crisp edges and tender centers. Pressed flat with a sugar-dipped glass, baked 8 minutes, ready to ice and decorate.

Betty's old-fashioned sugar cookies with vanilla, almond, and lemon extract plus tangy buttermilk. Tender, soft-centered cut-outs that hold their shape and beg for icing or sugar sprinkles.

Crisp sugar cookies: thin, snappy roll-out cookies with vanilla and a hint of lemon, sprinkled with sugar before baking. Old-fashioned cookie jar staple that holds intricate cutter shapes.

Classic cut-out sugar cookies with lemon zest and vanilla that hold their shape beautifully. Buttery, crisp-edged, and ready for decorating with royal icing.

Poppyseed and nut filling for hamantaschen blends ground poppy seeds with chopped nuts, raisins, citron, and milk into a thick, jewel-toned paste. The traditional mohn filling for Purim cookies.

A hamantash (also spelled hamentasch, homentash, homentasch, (h)umentash, a filled cookie traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Coral chocolate chip cookies with both white and brown sugar, optional pecans, and a chilled-dough trick for thicker, chewier cookies. A classic recipe with bakery-style results.

Lighter chocolate chip cookies use less butter and just one egg for a slightly less rich version of the classic Toll House cookie. Soft, chewy, and ready in 25 minutes.

Roll-and-cut decorative sugar cookies brushed with colored egg-white wash before baking. Almond-scented dough cut into shapes for holidays, birthdays and party platters.

Holiday sugar cookies: a tender, softly leavened cut-out cookie made with sour milk for tang and lift. Great-grandma's recipe that bakes pale and soft, ready for sprinkles and icing.