Dessert, Cookie Recipes

Buttery almond shortbread thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry jam and finished with an almond-scented glaze drizzle. Classic Christmas cookie that freezes for three months.

Orange butter cakes are petite tartlet-tin cakes perfumed with Grand Marnier and candied orange peel, then dipped in orange liqueur glaze. Elegant 36-cake batch for gifts or a holiday tray.

Fortune is very important in Chinese New Year, so people cook a lot of fortune dishes, this fortune cookies is one of them!

Benne wafers with a savory twist: toasted sesame seeds, cayenne, chili, and celery salt baked into crisp little rounds. A Southern-inspired cocktail cracker with real kick.

Eye-catching pinwheel cookies made from cocoa-rich chocolate dough, shaped with corner-cut slits and filled with a sweet cream cheese and coconut center topped with chopped nuts. A stunning cookie tray showpiece.

Orange shortbread hearts dipped in bittersweet chocolate. Buttery, citrus-scented cut-out cookies with a glossy chocolate half-dip for Valentine's Day or any occasion.

Brandy snaps are a popular delightful British Christmas cookie. Crispy golden tubes filled with a brandied whipped cream. What's not to love.

Chocolate domino cookies made with cocoa powder, cut into rectangles, and decorated with vanilla buttercream dots and lines. A fun baking project for kids.

Giant apple cookie bakes a 12-inch pizza-style cookie loaded with reduced dried apples, walnuts, golden raisins, and cinnamon, drizzled with a tangy lemon icing. Sliceable shareable dessert.

Soft maple raisin cookies with applesauce, pumpkin pie spice, walnuts, and a fluffy maple buttercream frosting. A spiced drop cookie that tastes like autumn in every bite.

Kolachky cream cheese dough, the rich, flaky pastry base for these Eastern European cookies. Just flour, butter, cream cheese and egg, chilled overnight, rolled on sugar and filled with prune, apricot, walnut or poppy seed.

Diabetic-friendly cookies sweetened with raisins, dates, and apples instead of sugar. Drop cookies built around boiled fruit base with sugar substitute. Makes 3 dozen lower-glycemic cookies.

Soft spiced raisin drop cookies made with cookie mix, molasses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, topped with a smooth vanilla butter frosting. A semi-homemade shortcut for holiday cookie trays.

Oatmeal orange cookies with rolled oats, cinnamon, and chopped orange pamelas (pomelo) mixed into brown sugar cookie dough. Chewy citrus-spiced drop cookies.

Filled cookies sandwich a sweet raisin filling between two rounds of tender vanilla shortbread, sealed with fork tines and baked golden. Old-fashioned American lunchbox classic, like a homemade fig newton.

Toasted pecan chocolate chip cookies with dark brown sugar baked at low temp for chewy centers. 2-3 dozen buttery cookies ready in 50 minutes with crispy edges.