Cookie Recipes

Freeze-ahead oatmeal cookie dough made with vegetable shortening, ready to slice and bake whenever cravings strike for chewy raisin nut cookies.

Whoopie pies sandwich two soft chocolate cake-cookies around a fluffy vanilla cream filling. Maine and Pennsylvania Dutch dessert with a cult following.

Grandma Rosenbrook's old-fashioned gingersnaps with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger, rolled in sugar before baking. A crispy-edged, chewy-centered heirloom cookie recipe.

Peanut butter cookies use crunchy peanut butter, both white and brown sugars, and the classic fork-pressed crisscross top for soft centers and crisp golden edges. A big-batch family-favorite cookie.

Buttery crescent cookies with ground nuts, chilled overnight, then shaped into half moons and rolled hot in powdered sugar. A traditional Christmas cookie with crumbly shortbread texture.

These cookies are great for holiday parties, as well as just having around the house. The cookies look like stained glass, and you can switch up the colors and flavors depending on your theme!

By using mostly whole wheat flour, apple sauce and vegetable oil make these cookies much healthier but still taste delicious.

These moist and delicious cookies are sure to put a smile on anyone's face.

Loaded oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, plump raisins and oat bran for extra fiber in every chewy, golden bite

Mocha nut butter balls with instant coffee, cocoa powder, pecans, and butter, rolled in powdered sugar. A melt-in-your-mouth Christmas cookie perfect for holiday tins.

Glazed butternut balls shape buttery nut shortbread into eggs, then half-dip in glaze or chocolate with coconut or sprinkles on top. Pretty holiday cookies that store for weeks.

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.

Polvorones: traditional Mexican pecan cookies made with butter and lard, spiced with cinnamon and anise seed. Sandy, crumbly, and sugar-coated.

Chocolate cookies with a secret ingredient: fresh chopped mushrooms that keep them incredibly moist for days. Brown sugar, sour cream, unsweetened chocolate, and macaroon crumbs in every bite.

Cereal killer cookies: chewy oatmeal cookies loaded with almond brickle chips for buttery toffee crunch in every bite. The big-batch cookie that vanishes off the cooling rack.

Date sandwich bars with a sticky orange-spiked date filling pressed between buttery oat crumb layers. A nostalgic bake with warm, caramel-sweet flavor in every bite.