Cookie Recipes

Mocha nut butter balls: tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies flavored with cocoa and instant coffee, packed with toasted walnuts or pecans, rolled in sugar.

Mocha pecan balls rolled in powdered sugar, made with espresso, cocoa powder, butter, and chopped pecans. A coffee-chocolate twist on classic snowball cookies.

Mock shortbread cookies made without butter or sugar, using oil and a sugar substitute for a lighter, diet-friendly take on a tender, golden-edged classic. Simple roll-and-cut rounds in under an hour.

Soft cranberry apple cookies with brown sugar, cinnamon, and orange zest. Loaded with chopped fresh fruit for a chewy, tart-sweet drop cookie that's a fall baking favorite.

Molasses ginger snaps with the classic crackled tops that form as the dough balls melt and spread. Warmly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, these crisp-edged cookies are a holiday baking staple.

Classic thumbprint cookies with brown sugar dough rolled in egg white and chopped nuts, indented mid-bake, then filled with icing, cherries, or chocolate kisses.

Monster chunk cookies with hand-cut chocolate chunks, rolled oats, dark brown sugar, and butter baked low and slow for thick, chewy centers and golden edges.

Mrs. Criswell's ginger cookies are old-fashioned molasses and ground ginger rolled cookies glazed with beaten egg and baked in a hot oven. A rustic heirloom farmhouse recipe.

No-bake chocolate peanut butter oat cookies, also called Buffalo Chips or No-Bakes. Stovetop fudgy cookies that set up on wax paper in an hour. No oven required.

No bake oatmeal peanut butter cookies with cocoa, made on the stovetop in minutes. Just boil, mix, drop, and let them set. No oven required.

Sugar-free orange cookies for diabetic-friendly baking. Fresh orange juice and zest carry the citrus brightness, sugar substitute keeps them sweet, and buttermilk gives them a tender, soft-cake crumb.

Chocolate chip cookies with finely ground rolled oats blended into the flour for hidden chew and structure. Loaded with milk chocolate chips and toasty walnuts. No-fail dough.

Norwegian cookies (biscotti-style) with chocolate chips and a cinnamon sugar topping. Dough baked in long rolls, then sliced diagonally into crisp strips. One batch makes four dozen.

Norwegian sandbakkels are delicate almond shortbread tarts pressed into fluted tins. Traditional Scandinavian Christmas cookies with buttery, sand-textured crumbs.

Knockoff Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies built on the famous internet legend recipe: blender-pulverized oatmeal for tender chew, two kinds of chocolate, and a generous load of toasted walnuts or pecans.

Nut butter cookie dough folds toasted, finely ground pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, or almonds into a master holiday butter cookie base. Shape it into Linzer cookies, Viennese crescents, cut-outs, or thumbprints.