113 spiced cookie recipes

Basler Brunsli are flourless Swiss chocolate almond cookies spiced with cinnamon and cloves, cut into festive shapes. A traditional Basel Christmas cookie, chewy inside with a crackly crust.

Deep chocolate cookies spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, made lighter with yogurt instead of butter. Crisp edges with chewy centers at just 41 calories per cookie.

Persimmon orange cookies made with persimmon pulp, orange juice, orange zest, warm spices, nuts, and raisins. Bake as drop cookies or cut into brownie-style bar squares.

Harvest cookies made with mashed winter squash, chopped dates, nutmeg, and cinnamon. A no-sugar-added drop cookie thats soft, spiced, and naturally sweet from the fruit.

Old-fashioned drop cookies with dark molasses, chopped tart apples, and warm spices like cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Soft, chewy, and they make 60 cookies from one batch.

Raisin and bran cookies bake up chewy with unprocessed bran, brown sugar, and warm cinnamon-nutmeg spice. Egg whites keep them lighter than the typical butter-yolk cookie.

Twice-baked Italian biscotti with fresh ginger, Dutch cocoa, and toasted almonds. Crisp, dunkable cookies with warm spice and a deep chocolate undertone.

Pfefferkuchen, a German honey spice cake with whole wheat flour, coffee, cinnamon, cloves, and rum, glazed while hot. A traditional Christmas cookie bar that stays soft for weeks.

Frosted applesauce cookies with molasses, bran flakes, raisins, and a boiled caramel frosting. Soft, spiced drop cookies with warm allspice and clove flavors topped with buttery brown sugar icing.

Pinwheel pumpkin cookies are jelly-roll style spirals with a spiced pumpkin and nut filling rolled into cinnamon cookie dough, sliced thin, baked golden, and finished with vanilla icing.

Traditional Tuscan cavallucci spice cookies built from a hot sugar syrup kneaded with walnuts, candied orange peel, and warm spices like clove, anise, and cinnamon. Chewy, perfumed, and unmistakably medieval.

Ginger snaps roll molasses-spiked dough into balls and bake into crackly-topped, snappy spice cookies. Brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon give the classic chewy-crisp texture in 36 cookies.

Buttery shortbread cookies studded with spiced mincemeat and finished with sweet vanilla glaze. Festive holiday treats that taste like Christmas in every crumbly bite.

Soft molasses drop cookies spiced with warming ginger and cloves that stay moist and chewy when you don't overbake them. Classic old-fashioned cookies made without eggs for a simple, reliable recipe.

Old-fashioned rock cookies packed with raisins, chopped dates, and nuts in a spiced brown sugar dough with cinnamon and cloves. Dense, chewy, and fruit-studded, these hold up for days in a cookie tin.

Crispy cinnamon butter cookies topped with walnut halves, made from a simple slice-and-bake dough. Egg yolk-enriched for extra tenderness with warm spice in every bite.