Dessert, Cookie Recipes

Layered dessert bars with shortbread crust, amaretto-condensed milk filling, topped with chocolate chips, coconut, and almonds. Rich, gooey, and indulgent.

Kolaches (kolacky) made with a tender cottage cheese and butter dough, filled with pineapple or apricot filling, and dusted with powdered sugar. A Czech pastry classic.

Enjoy this delicious dessert pizza. Buttery, creamy and chocolaty! The walnuts add extra nuttiness and crunchiness. Everyone will ask for the second slice. Make sure you make it enough!

Mincemeat bars with a chewy oat-molasses crust and condensed mincemeat filling. Old-fashioned holiday baking with a crumble topping, dusted with powdered sugar.

A massive batch cookie recipe loaded with oats, raisins, pecans, butterscotch chips, and maple syrup. Makes dozens and dozens of chewy, buttery cookies for bake sales, holidays, and gifting.

Festive slice-and-bake Christmas tree cookies kissed with almond extract, rolled in sparkly green sugar crystals. Shape, chill, slice, and bake for a show-stopping holiday cookie tray.

Classic M&M cookies with a buttery brown sugar dough, optional chopped nuts, and a generous 18 ounces of candy-coated chocolates. Soft, chewy, and colorful right out of the oven.

Norwegian almond bars with an almond paste filling spiced with cardamom and cinnamon between buttery crumb layers. A Scandinavian cookie bar with a unique potato flake filling.

Chewy apricot-coconut centers dipped in white chocolate create bite-sized treats that taste like vacation in a bonbon.

Sparkle cookies rolled in red and green sugar for a festive Christmas look. Made with cookie mix, almond extract, and cream of tartar for a soft, tender bite. Makes 4 dozen.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

These scrumptious cookies are a great treat for dessert after a hearty meal.

Pearls and chocolate cookies are chewy dark chocolate drop cookies loaded with white chocolate chips (the pearls). A reverse-palette chocolate chip cookie, ready in 20 minutes.

Six-ingredient butterscotch blondies with a chewy, caramelized center and crackly top. Brown sugar and melted butter boiled together give these bars their rich toffee-like flavor.

Layered dessert bars with a buttery oat base, chopped apples, melted butterscotch drizzle, shredded coconut, and crunchy walnuts. Chewy, gooey, and dangerously snackable.

Cognac cookies, no-bake bourbon-ball cousins made with melted semisweet chocolate, crushed vanilla wafers, finely chopped pecans, and a generous splash of cognac. Roll in sugar and let them mellow.