895 kookie recipes

Soft chocolate drop cookies packed with maraschino cherries and topped with a glossy chocolate frosting. Buttermilk keeps them tender. Makes 4 to 5 dozen in about 30 minutes, so they're built for holiday cookie trays and bake sales.

Make-ahead chocolate chip cookie dough that keeps in the fridge for up to 4 weeks. Sour cream keeps them soft and chewy, pecans add crunch, and you can bake a fresh batch whenever the craving hits.

Toasty pecan drop cookies with German sweet chocolate, cinnamon, and toasted pecans. Brownie-like centers with crisp edges, two dozen in 30 minutes.

Chocolate-filled ravioli cookies are sweet pasta-shaped pillows with a crushed chocolate-walnut filling, sealed with fork tines and brushed warm with honey. The Italian-American holiday cookie that doubles as edible art.

Whole-wheat oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts, brown sugar, and quick oats. Chewy fiber-rich version of the classic, baked from a quick one-bowl batter.

Cranberry drop cookies studded with chopped fresh cranberries and nuts, drizzled with a buttery orange glaze. A tart, festive holiday cookie with citrus frosting.

Pistachio and white chocolate cookies with brown sugar, butter-flavored shortening, and toasted pistachios. Chewy or crisp by choice, the classic holiday cookie tin upgrade.

Slice-and-bake molasses cookies with ginger, brown sugar, and a crisp, thin snap. Shape the dough into a log, chill, slice thin, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Peanut butter cookie pops made with a buttery peanut butter dough, rolled thin and cut into shapes, then sandwiched with candy melts on lollipop sticks. Great for kids' parties and bake sales.

Old-fashioned sour cream drop cookies that bake up soft and pillowy. Versatile enough for chocolate chips, raisins, nuts, or rolled and cut into shapes.

Deluxe chocolate chunk walnut cookies with semi-sweet chunks and milk chocolate morsels in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bakery-style thick cookies with two kinds of chocolate.

Chocolate spritz cookies made with melted semi-sweet chocolate chips in the dough, pressed through a cookie press and topped with red cinnamon candies. Makes about 7 1/2 dozen.

Four-ingredient peanut butter cookies using yellow cake mix as a shortcut. Just blend, roll, fork-press, and bake for golden cookies in 30 minutes flat.

Double chocolate mint chip cookies with melted mint chips in the dough plus whole chips folded in. Rich, fudgy, and intensely minty with chopped nuts.

Hidden treasure chocolate chip cookies made with graham cracker crumbs, coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and semi-sweet chips. Tastes like a magic bar in cookie form.

Soft molasses cookies spiced with ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. A classic LA Times recipe that bakes up thick, cakey, and deeply spiced.