Dessert, Cookie Recipes

Crunchy chocolate chip cookies loaded with pecans and crisp rice cereal, flavored with almond extract and brown sugar. Makes 5 dozen crispy-edged treats in 30 minutes.

Melted butter mixed with brown and white sugars creates thick, bakery-style chocolate chip cookies that stay soft in the center with crisp edges when baked at precisely 325°F.

Crisp and delightful butter cookies are packed with buttery flavor and melt in your mouth. Old fashioned butter cookies are tough to beat.

Soft, buttery sugar cookies with a hint of lemon zest, made with both butter and oil for a tender crumb. Cream of tartar keeps them pillowy. A holiday cookie jar classic.

Humdingers are no-bake date balls cooked stovetop with eggs, butter, and sugar, then folded with crispy rice cereal and rolled in coconut. A vintage Southern Christmas treat.

Almond Roca bars layer a buttery shortbread base under melted Hershey chocolate and chopped almonds. The classic potluck cookie that mimics the famous toffee candy in cookie-bar form.

Cherry dream squares with an oat-and-cake-mix crust, cherry pie filling center, and a brown sugar crumb topping with nuts. A semi-homemade bar cookie that's part crumble, part pie.

Satisfy your kids sweet tooth with these scrumptious snacks made with coconut.

Traditional German Christmas butter cookies (Weihnachtsplätzchen) with vanilla and almond extract, rolled and cut into festive shapes. Decorated with colored sugar, nuts, and candied cherries.

Crunchy Golden Grahams cereal coated in melted chocolate and peanut butter, tossed with pecans and golden raisins, then dusted in powdered sugar. A no-bake snack mix that vanishes at every holiday party.

Spiced molasses cookies sweetened with maple syrup and warmed by ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom. Rolled in sugar before baking for a crackled, sparkly crust and soft, chewy middle.

Frosty date balls with chopped dates and walnuts in a buttery shortbread dough, baked low and slow, then rolled in powdered sugar while warm. A classic holiday cookie.

Homemade Pecan Sandies copycat recipe with finely chopped pecans in a buttery shortening-based dough baked until golden. A spot-on clone of the classic Keebler cookie.

Cream filbert cookies with a whole hazelnut hidden inside each shortbread ball, glazed in vanilla icing and rolled in sugar. Vintage Pacific Northwest holiday cookie with a sweet crackly finish.

Crunchy twice-baked biscotti loaded with chopped Heath bars, pecans, and butterscotch extract. Makes 36 to 48 cookies that are built for dunking in coffee, tea, or hot cocoa.

Chocolate cookies, rolled in powdered sugar with a Hershey's kiss in the center.