577 soft cookie recipes

Apple cookies with butterscotch chips, walnuts, and brown sugar topped with a cinnamon butter glaze and a walnut half. A soft, fruit-studded fall cookie.

Sugar and spice molasses cookies for Christmas. Soft, chewy, rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Cinnamon, cloves, and ginger for warm holiday flavor.

Frosted ginger cookies with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and a brown sugar buttercream frosting. Soft, chewy spice cookies with a caramel-like finish on top.

Old-fashioned white drop cookies with nutmeg and vanilla. A big-batch recipe using shortening for soft, cakey cookies that stay tender for days.

Shape-holding cutout cookies with almond and vanilla extract that keep every detail from imprinted cookie cutters. Soft, flavorful, and ideal for royal icing.

Peanut butter and jelly cookies that taste exactly like the sandwich. Make sandwich-style or thumbprint cookies with jam centers. Soft, peanutty, kid-approved.

Old-fashioned sour cream cookies with nutmeg, rolled and cut into rounds with a sugar-sprinkled top. Soft, tender, and lightly spiced with a big-batch yield of 60 cookies.

Homemade fig newtons sandwich a soft fig filling between tender vanilla cookie dough layers. The classic boxed-cookie remade from scratch with just nine pantry ingredients.

Classic oatmeal cookies with plumped raisins, chopped walnuts, and warm cinnamon. An old-fashioned drop cookie with chewy centers, soft edges, and pantry-staple ingredients.

Pumpkin raisin cookies with canned pumpkin, cinnamon, and raisins, topped with a simple butter-vanilla frosting. Soft, cakey fall cookies that stay moist for days.

Orange chocolate chip cookies made with cream cheese in the dough, fresh orange zest, and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Soft, tangy, and citrusy drop cookies.

Apple raisin drop cookies from a cake mix with sour cream, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Soft, cakey cookies loaded with shredded apple, dusted with powdered sugar.

White chocolate macadamia nut cookies with buttery, golden edges and a soft center. Chunky white chocolate and halved macadamias in a brown sugar cookie dough.

Soft apricot cream cheese cookies with flaked coconut. Butter and cream cheese creamed with apricot preserves for a tender, fruity drop cookie in 30 minutes.

Raisin peanut butter cookies with evaporated milk for a soft, cakey crumb and plump raisins throughout. A nostalgic drop cookie recipe that makes 3 dozen.

Drop molasses cookies with buttermilk, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon rest overnight for deep flavor. Soft, cakey cookies with that old-fashioned dark molasses chew.