Cookie recipe collection

Ultimate chocolate chip cookies with shortening, light brown sugar, pecans, and semi-sweet chips baked until just set and still moist. A chewy, thick cookie that stays soft for days.

Chocolate chunk cookies with semi-sweet chocolate, brown sugar, and a full cup of butter. Thick, chewy, and loaded with big chocolate pieces in every bite.

No-bake caramel oatmeal cookies made on the stovetop with butterscotch pudding mix, evaporated milk, butter, and quick oats. Drop, cool, eat. No oven required.

Traditional Scotch shortbread with just butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Baked low and slow until pale and sandy with a pure butter crumble in every bite.

No-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies with coconut, cocoa, and margarine boiled for 2 minutes then dropped onto wax paper. A classic fridge cookie ready in under an hour.

Van's Faves are crisp lace-thin oat cookies scented with orange zest and finished with a chocolate drizzle. Eight ingredients, big crunch, and an old-fashioned tin-cookie feel.

Slice-and-bake vanilla wafer cookies with powdered sugar, butter, and cream of tartar. Make the dough ahead, chill, slice thin, and bake crispy in 10 minutes.

Crispy vanilla rosettes fried on a decorative iron, then dipped in vanilla icing. Scandinavian holiday cookies that look like edible snowflakes. Yields 12 cookies.

Vanilla pecan slice-and-bake cookies from a make-ahead dough that chills into logs and freezes for up to 3 months. Crisp, buttery icebox cookies baked from frozen in 12 minutes.

Classic vanilla spritz cookies with rich buttery flavor from whole eggs. Press into festive shapes for Christmas cookie exchanges or year-round celebrations.

Hand-shaped vanilla almond cookies baked low and slow for a tender, shortbread-like crumb. Simple butter cookie dough with finely chopped almonds throughout.

Vegan pumpkin cookies are dairy-free, egg-free, and packed with raisins and nuts. Soft, cake-like, warmly spiced with cinnamon, and held together by mashed pumpkin instead of butter or eggs.

Vegetarian ginger snaps are rolled, cut-out spice cookies deep with molasses, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Egg-free and dairy-free, rolled thin and baked low for a proper crisp snap.

Vermont maple cinnamon swirl cookies: a flaky butter-and-maple pastry rolled around brown sugar cinnamon filling, then sliced and baked. Crisp edges, tender centers, and a real maple glaze on top.

Chocolate mint cookies loaded with cocoa, mint extract, and mint chocolate chips for double-mint impact. A low-and-slow bake gives soft, fudgy centers with crackled tops.

Bakery-style chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks and ground toasted almonds in the dough. Low-temperature bake for thick, chewy centers with crisp golden edges.