1,788 cookies cookie recipes

Holiday Unbeatables are chewy, no-butter cookies made with egg whites, powdered sugar, walnuts, and candied cherries. Naturally gluten-light with a crisp edge and soft, meringue-like center.

Snow cap meringue cookies fold semi-sweet chocolate chips into low-and-slow baked egg-white meringues, then dip the tops in melted white chocolate. Crisp, airy holiday cookies. Makes 6 dozen.

Bourbon Balls with Pecans and Vanilla Wafers recipe

Chocolate hippenmasse: thin, crisp German pastry wafers made with almond paste, cocoa, and cinnamon. Spread paper-thin, baked until glossy, and cut or shaped while still warm.

A cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a biscuit.

Halvah shortbread made with tahini and butter creamed together with brown sugar and cake flour, studded with toasted pecans and cut into wedges.

Lemon glaze made with egg white, powdered sugar, fresh lemon zest, and lemon juice. A smooth, glossy icing for cookies, cakes, and German-style baked goods.

Pina colada squares with a buttery shortbread base, thick pineapple-rum filling, and a golden coconut meringue top. A tropical three-layer bar cookie.

Orange pecan gems: shortcut cake-mix cookies with orange flavor, yogurt, and a pecan half pressed on top. Three dozen tender cookies from one bowl in 30 minutes.

Crisp Danish sugar cookies shaped into elegant cones while still warm, then dipped in melted bittersweet chocolate. A Scandinavian treat with just six ingredients and showstopping presentation.

Pfefferkuchen, a German honey spice cake with whole wheat flour, coffee, cinnamon, cloves, and rum, glazed while hot. A traditional Christmas cookie bar that stays soft for weeks.

Santa's Thumbprint cookies with oats, brown sugar, and chopped nuts rolled on the outside, filled with jelly. A festive holiday cookie recipe that makes 3 dozen.

Chocolate marshmallow stuffed cookies with cocoa-laced dough wrapped around mini marshmallows that melt into gooey clouds inside. A surprise-center treat that kids and adults adore.

Chocolate lace cornucopias: delicate chocolate-nut cookies rolled warm into crisp cones and filled with whipped cream. A stunning, bakery-style dessert cookie.

Very distinctive, thse macroons are not too sweet, but are crunchy and chewy and rich with the exotic flavor of toasted pine nuts.

Hamantaschen, the triangular Purim cookies, here filled with a rich honey-nut mixture brightened with lemon. A rum-scented dough folded into the traditional three-cornered shape and baked to a golden glaze.