535 sugar cookie recipes

Brown sugar chocolate chip cookies made with butter-flavored shortening for extra chewy centers and crisp edges. Choose your bake time for chewy or crunchy results. Makes 3 dozen with optional pecans.

Kolatchkies, cream cheese pastry cookies filled with your choice of fruit filling, pinched shut, and dusted with powdered sugar. A classic Eastern European treat.

Cream cheese rugelach filled with cinnamon sugar, walnuts, and raisins rolled into flaky crescent pastries. A classic Jewish bakery cookie with a tender, buttery dough.

Buttery shortbread cookies shaped like tiny strawberries, rolled in red and green sugar crystals with almond "stems." A whimsical baking project kids will love.

Classic Florentine cookies with chopped almonds, brown sugar, and cream, finished with a smooth chocolate coating on the bottom. Thin, lacy, and elegantly crisp.

Light, crisp peppermint meringue cookies made with egg whites, sugar, and crushed candy canes. Slow-baked until dry and melt-in-your-mouth airy.

Lemon glaze made with egg white, powdered sugar, fresh lemon zest, and lemon juice. A smooth, glossy icing for cookies, cakes, and German-style baked goods.

Grizzlenuckles are no-fuss cookie bars made with sweetened condensed milk, graham cracker crumbs, coconut, and chocolate chips. Mix, bake, dust with powdered sugar, done.

No-bake Special K cookies with peanut butter, corn syrup, and sugar. Just five ingredients, ready in 20 minutes, and they freeze beautifully for make-ahead treats.

Irish cream balls combine crushed vanilla wafers, toasted pecans, cocoa, and Irish cream liqueur into no-bake boozy bites rolled in powdered sugar. The grown-up holiday cookie tray staple.

Five-ingredient Southern pecan dainties with brown sugar, egg whites, and vanilla. Crispy, chewy, flourless pecan cookies baked low and slow. Makes six dozen from one batch.

Italian macaroons made from almond paste kneaded with egg whites and sugar, baked into chewy, fragrant amaretti-style cookies. A short rest before baking gives them their crackly top and tender center.

Greek almond cookies shaped like little pears, scented with lemon and rolled in powdered sugar. A delicate confection perfect for special occasions and gift-giving.

Thumbprint buttercream cookies made with brown sugar, egg yolks, and shortening, coated in stiff egg whites and nuts, then filled with buttercream icing after baking.

Melting moments cookies made with just 4 ingredients: flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar, and margarine. Baked low and slow, they crumble and dissolve on your tongue.

Mexican wedding cookies shaped into crescents with butter, crushed pecans, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Tender, crumbly, and melt-in-your-mouth with just six ingredients.