5,347 cookies cookie recipes

Peanut crispies with oats, corn flakes, brown sugar, and salted peanuts rolled into balls and baked until golden. Crunchy, nutty cookies with satisfying texture.

Frosted lemon bars made in the microwave with fresh lemon zest and a tangy lemon frosting. Soft, cakey cookie bars ready in under 30 minutes.

Tangy banana bars with apricot preserves, brown sugar, chopped nuts, and sliced bananas, dusted with powdered sugar. A soft, fruity bar cookie that makes 36 pieces.

Classic Florentine cookies with chopped almonds, brown sugar, and cream, finished with a smooth chocolate coating on the bottom. Thin, lacy, and elegantly crisp.

Classic British teatime shortbread cookies with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Buttery, crumbly, and pale golden with the traditional fork-pricked tops.

Buttery almond snowball cookies made with biscuit mix and chopped nuts, rolled in powdered sugar while warm. Just 6 ingredients and no chilling needed.

Light, crisp peppermint meringue cookies made with egg whites, sugar, and crushed candy canes. Slow-baked until dry and melt-in-your-mouth airy.

Florentine cups: miniature honey-almond cereal cups with coconut, raisins, and orange zest, finished with a citrus icing drizzle. Italian florentine cookie meets mini muffin.

Jumbo gingersnaps spiced with molasses, maple syrup, ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom, rolled in sugar before baking. Hand-sized, crackle-topped, soft-chewy cookies.

Whoopie pies sandwich two soft chocolate cake-cookies around a fluffy vanilla cream filling. Maine and Pennsylvania Dutch dessert with a cult following.

French gaufrette wafer cookies with whipped cream, vanilla, and powdered sugar, baked on a pizzelle iron. Crispy, delicate French wafers for ice cream cones or tea.

Joe Froggers, the giant New England molasses cookies. Spiked with rum, dark with molasses, warmed with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. Roll, cut big, bake.

Finnish fingers (sokerikakkusormet) are short, buttery shortbread sticks brushed with egg white and rolled in pearl sugar for a crunchy, sparkling exterior. Classic Scandinavian Christmas cookie.

Bachelor buttons: traditional English shortbread-style cookies made with butter, flour, sugar, and a hint of nutmeg. Tender, pale, walnut-sized teatime classics.

Classic prune and raisin hamentachen filling with chopped nuts and whole orange (rind included) for citrus brightness. Traditional Purim cookie filling pulsed in the food processor.

Gingerbread dough made the old-fashioned way with boiled molasses, shortening, allspice, and cinnamon. Perfect for rolled cookies, houses, or cut-out shapes.