23 easy cookie recipes

Kiss cookies tuck a whole chocolate kiss inside a buttery walnut shortbread, baked until just set and rolled in powdered sugar. Crack one open and the melty chocolate middle is the payoff. An easy holiday cookie that keeps for days.

Buttery brown sugar cookie bars with crunchy walnuts and a hidden layer of golden apricot jam. Rich, chewy, and dangerously easy to eat by the handful.

Chocolate chip pecan squares with a chewy brown sugar base, double layer of melted milk chocolate, and crunchy toasted pecans. Easy bar cookies baked in one pan.

Rich and creamy squares with a buttery yellow cake mix base topped with sweetened cream cheese and pecans. An easy two-layer bar cookie that feeds a crowd.

No-bake peanut butter rice cereal drops made with just 4 ingredients in 15 minutes. Crunchy, chewy, and dangerously easy to make. Kids and cookie swaps love these.

Moravian sand tarts are thin, buttery Pennsylvania Dutch cookies rolled paper-thin and topped with a pecan half. The dough chills overnight for easy rolling and crisp results.

Buttery thumbprint cookies with a gross-out Halloween twist: pale, tender shortbread rounds dimpled and filled with dark blackberry jam that looks like a 'blackhead.' Easy, funny, and good enough to disappear fast.