Sweet Recipes

Drop sugar cookies with a soft, crumbly bite from a mix of margarine and oil, two kinds of sugar, and a touch of cream of tartar. No chilling, no rolling, just scoop and bake.

Bachelor buttons: traditional English shortbread-style cookies made with butter, flour, sugar, and a hint of nutmeg. Tender, pale, walnut-sized teatime classics.

Berlinerkranzer are buttery Norwegian Christmas wreath cookies scented with orange, brushed with sugared egg white and trimmed with candied cherry holly berries. A delicate Scandinavian holiday tradition.

Mexican wedding cookies, also known as polvorones, are tender pecan-shortbread balls rolled in cinnamon-powdered sugar. Buttery, crumbly, six-ingredient cookies that melt on contact.

Coconut chocolate chip cookies with melted chocolate worked into the dough plus extra chips and shredded coconut. Bakery-style triple-chocolate cookies with chewy coconut texture.

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Chewy brownie cookies stuffed with chocolate chips and an optional handful of nuts. Soft, fudgy, and ready in 30 minutes for a brownie-meets-cookie hybrid that disappears fast.

Chewy peanut butter chip bars with deep cocoa brownie batter and pockets of peanut butter chips. A jelly-roll pan recipe that yields four dozen fudgy chocolate bars.

Chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies with soft cake-like chocolate rounds and a fluffy marshmallow cream filling. Homemade whoopie pies for lunchboxes, bake sales, and after-school snacks.

Chocolate nut Dixies are old-fashioned crinkle cookies rolled in powdered sugar for a crackled snowy top. Fudgy chocolate centers, crisp edges, perfect for cookie tins and bake sales.

Individual fruit crumbles baked in ramekins with a crunchy oat, almond, and brown sugar topping. Use any fresh or frozen fruit you have on hand for a lighter, healthier dessert in under 40 minutes.

These are always a big hit. Sweet and spicy with crunchy edges and soft chewy center. Mmmm...

Cream cheese shortbread cookies crowned with a fresh strawberry half. Buttery, tender rounds with a jammy ruby center that bakes right into the dough. Pretty enough for tea, easy enough for a weeknight.

Slice-and-bake cream cheese cookies sweetened mostly with fructose for a lower-sugar treat. Tender, lightly sweet refrigerator cookies that bake up in 10 minutes.

Chocolate button cookies rolled in powdered sugar, then pressed with chocolate nonpareils fresh from the oven. Crackle-topped, bite-sized, fudgy in the middle.

A decadent cake is made with chocolate chip cookie dough. Give your classic chocolate chip cookies a fun twist.