518 nut cookie recipes

Turn stale bread into chewy, cinnamon-spiced cookies packed with plump raisins and crunchy nuts. Breadcrumb cookies are a clever zero-waste baking trick your grandma probably knew.

Classic shortbread cookies packed with ground nuts and rolled in powdered sugar while warm. This cherished family recipe makes 60 tender cookies perfect for gifting or holiday parties.

Birds in the Nest cookies with brown sugar dough rolled in ground nuts and filled with jelly. A thumbprint cookie recipe passed down through generations of holiday baking.

Crunchy drop cookies loaded with oats, crispy rice cereal, coconut, and nuts. These chewy-crispy TV cookies are the ultimate snack for movie night or after-school munching.

Old-fashioned fruit cookies with brown sugar, raisins, nuts, cinnamon, and sour milk. Kneaded like bread and rolled thin for crisp, spiced cookies. A heritage recipe worth reviving.

Old-fashioned date and nut drop cookies spiced with cinnamon and cloves, made with egg yolks and buttermilk. A chewy, fruit-studded holiday cookie with a nostalgic name.

Hawaiian mood cookies with cream cheese dough, crushed pineapple, maraschino cherries, and chopped nuts. Soft, cake-like drop cookies with tropical fruit flavors baked on accordion-pleated foil.

Pinon cookies bake into light sponge-like rounds topped with toasted pine nuts, made from just eggs, sugar, flour, and pignoli. Italian-style cookie with an elegant payoff.

Taffy apple cookies are buttery bite-sized cookies on toothpicks, dipped in melted caramel and rolled in chopped nuts. Holiday party trick that looks like mini caramel apples.

Chewy date and nut bar cookies with a crisp edge, baked thin on a sheet pan and dusted with powdered sugar. Simple, old-fashioned, and only 6 ingredients.

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.

Popular on the West Coast, these thick, soft, nut and date cookies appear in many local cookbooks.

To Do Tarts: small pecan cookies bound with ground stale bread, orange zest, and stiffly beaten egg white. Five-ingredient nut cookies with no flour and no butter, ready in 30 minutes.

Buttery drop cookies loaded with oats, vanilla milk chips, flaked coconut, and macadamia nuts. Sour cream keeps them soft and chewy. Makes 5 dozen for the holiday cookie swap.

No-bake peanut butter cookies shaped into acorn points, dipped in melted chocolate, and rolled in chopped nuts. 60 cookies from 7 ingredients. A fun holiday or party treat.

Crisp oatmeal treasures are slice-and-bake icebox cookies loaded with rolled oats and chopped nuts. Chill the dough log overnight, slice thin, and bake for shatteringly crisp cookies.