1,635 egg cookie recipes

Instead of being hard, dry spice cookies, these are soft, moist spicy cookies with a medium hot disposition. Their heat is derived from ground Jamaican Scotch Bonnet peppers.

Fruitcake cookies packed with candied pineapple, cherries, golden raisins, and toasted pecans, spiked with brandy and warm spices. All the holiday flavor, none of the doorstop.

Chocolate pepper cookies bring a slow, smoky heat from black pepper, cayenne, and cinnamon layered into deep unsweetened cocoa. Rolled thin and cut into shapes, they bake crisp with a warm spiced finish.

This recipe, though fussy to make, is attractive and tasty. Cheryl Kaufenberg of Darien said it came from a very old Better Homes & Gardens magazine

Spiced pumpkin cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger. Soft drop cookies topped with cinnamon sugar baked in 15 minutes.

Freeze-ahead oatmeal cookie dough made with vegetable shortening, ready to slice and bake whenever cravings strike for chewy raisin nut cookies.

Soft, fruity cookie bars loaded with bananas, crushed pineapple, maraschino cherries, and crunchy walnuts. Topped with a buttery powdered sugar glaze that makes them irresistible at potlucks.

Buttery drop cookies with orange extract and flaked coconut. Crisp golden edges, soft centers. This big-batch recipe makes 5 dozen in about 30 minutes of active time.

Oatmeal rocks are chunky, old-fashioned drop cookies loaded with oats, dates or raisins, and chopped nuts. A stiff-dough cookie with crunchy edges and a hearty, chewy bite.

Ginger molasses cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar with a crackled top. Loaded with ginger, cloves, and cinnamon for bold spice. Underbake for soft centers or bake full for snaps.

Mrs Fields apple cobbler cookies loaded with chopped Granny Smith apples, apple butter, raisins, and pecans, rolled in a cinnamon-oat crumb coating. Fall baking at its finest.

Mom's apple cookies are soft, cake-like drop cookies with grated fresh apple, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and walnuts. Old-fashioned spiced bakery flavor from a lunchbox-friendly batch of three dozen.

Cocoa and coconut truffles spiked with amaretto and honey, baked then rolled into bite-sized balls dusted with powdered sugar. Dangerously easy to make, impossible to stop eating.

Classic German apple kuchen with a tender lemon-scented shortbread crust, apple and golden raisin filling spiced with cinnamon, and a lattice top dusted with powdered sugar. A traditional homestyle dessert bar.

Espresso chocolate chunk cookies with cocoa, coffee liqueur, and dark brown sugar. Rich, fudgy mocha cookies baked low and slow for a dense, chewy center.

Sand tarts, a classic Pennsylvania Dutch butter cookie rolled paper-thin, brushed with egg white, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a pecan half. Crisp, buttery, and delicate.