Cookie Recipes

Austrian butter cookies: simple four-ingredient nut shortbread rounds. Roll plain for tea time or sandwich with jam and chocolate frosting for traditional Austrian dessert.

Lemon pignoli biscotti with toasted pine nuts, fresh lemon juice, and lemon zest. Twice-baked into crisp, citrusy Italian cookies perfect for dipping.

Chewy date and nut cookie balls rolled in powdered sugar. Baked in a sheet pan, cut into squares while hot, then shaped by hand into bite-sized treats with almond extract and corn syrup.

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

Chewy ginger cookies made with prune butter instead of fat, loaded with warm spices and molasses. Low-fat but big on flavor with crispy edges and soft centers.

Crisp, buttery slice-and-bake cookies with brown sugar, a hint of nutmeg, and bold black walnut flavoring. Shape the dough into logs, chill overnight, and slice thin for a quick batch of 48.

Irish soda bread flavored cookies, enjoy irish soda bread in these tiny cookies!

This is the best oatmeal cookie recipe i've found so far. the cookies were chewy and had a great flavor.

Applesauce oatmeal cookies are soft, cakey, and warmly spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, studded with raisins and oats. Applesauce keeps them moist and tender with only a little shortening.

Low-fat oatmeal raisin cookies built on applesauce instead of butter, with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and three warm spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom. The chewy holiday-leaning take on the classic. Four dozen per batch.

Chunky chocolate chip oatmeal cookies sweetened with honey instead of sugar and bulked out with puffed wheat cereal for extra crunch. Drops about 56 cookies with a craggy, chewy-crisp texture.

The original Toll House chocolate chip cookies, the recipe that started it all: creamed butter and two sugars, vanilla, and chocolate morsels baked into a classic chewy-edged cookie. Add nuts if you like.

Dark molasses gingerbread cookies spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Dough chills overnight to develop flavor, then rolls out easily for classic cutout shapes. Makes 80 cookies.

Soft spiced pumpkin cookies with surprise caramel centers. Stuffed inside each one is a sticky Kraft caramel that melts to form the filling. They have a subtle pumpkin flavor highlighted by cinnamon inside and out.

Chocolate, butter and peanut butter make these cookies super delicious!