Dessert, Cookie Recipes

Shortbread pecan rum balls are a no-bake holiday cookie made with crushed shortbread, toasted pecans, dark rum, and dark corn syrup. Five ingredients, twenty minutes, no oven required.

Bonnie Graber of Oak Creek sent this recipe for an old-fashioned kitchen sink cookie that would be good any time of the year.

These gooey cream cheese bars start with a yellow cake mix crust and get topped with a rich layer of powdered sugar, coconut, and nuts. They vanish from the pan faster than you can say "save me one."

Japanese cookies made with whipped egg whites, rice flour, and melted shortening, spread thin and baked until crisp. A delicate, naturally gluten-free wafer-style cookie.

Mincemeat bars with a buttery oat-walnut crust sandwiching a thickened mincemeat filling. Old-fashioned holiday dessert squares that store beautifully in a tin.

Chocolate chip pumpkin cookies turn out cakey-soft with bittersweet chips melting into a spiced pumpkin batter. The whole batch comes together in one bowl with no chilling required.

Famous Amos-style chocolate chip cookies with pecans, cocoa, and instant coffee for rich, complex flavor. Crispy bite-sized cookies made with biscuit mix for a tender crumb.

Super moist and crumbly. They are ideal for breakfast or a delicious and nutritious snack at any time of the day.

They are buttery, flakey and soft in the inside, but still crispy on the outside. Chocolate chips give the extra yumminess in every bite.

Vintage 5-ingredient mayonnaise cookies with no eggs, milk, or butter. Real mayo does all the heavy work for soft, tender sugar cookies with a classic fork-pressed top.

Kahlua balls with crushed Oreo cookies, chopped nuts, powdered sugar, and Kahlua coffee liqueur rolled into bite-sized truffles. A no-bake, boozy cookie ball that chills overnight.

Apricot filled cookies are buttery thumbprint cookies with a glistening pool of apricot preserves in the center. A classic teatime cookie with a tender shortbread base, makes about four dozen.

The best chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe ever. Nothing out of place, just a simple exceptionally delicious cookie that turns out utterly perfect every time.

Persimmon chocolate chip cookies: ripe Hachiya persimmon pulp folded into a spiced cookie dough with chocolate chips, walnuts, and dates. Soft, cake-like cookies with autumn-spice warmth in every bite.

Butterscotch oat squares need just 4 ingredients: oats, brown sugar, butter, and vanilla. A no-fuss chewy bar with deep caramel notes and ready in 30 minutes.

Lemon snowflake cookies with a tender lemon-zest dough rolled thin, cut with fluted cutters, and decorated with lemon royal icing piped into snowflake patterns. A beautiful holiday cookie.