1,891 sugar cookie recipes

Cute Easter egg cookies are tender cut-out cookies shaped with an egg cutter and decorated with smooth pastel icing. A fun Easter baking project for kids, made lighter with a sugar substitute in the dough.

Holiday chocolate chip cookies follow the classic Toll House blueprint: butter, brown sugar, semisweet chips, and a fistful of chopped nuts. Crisp at the edges, soft in the middle, ready in 30 minutes. The cookie tin standard.

Low fat pumpkin cookies. Pumpkin, cranberry and pecans make these soft flavorful cookies that are perfect for Thanksgiving. I've lowered the amount of saturated fat, lowered the amount of sugar and switched the whole wheat flour to boost fiber.

Just in time for Christmas, these delicious cookies made with molasses and brown sugar are full of the holiday spirit.

Grandma Rosenbrook's old-fashioned gingersnaps with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger, rolled in sugar before baking. A crispy-edged, chewy-centered heirloom cookie recipe.

German springerle Christmas cookies: anise-scented egg-and-sugar dough pressed with carved wooden molds, dried overnight, and baked low to set the embossed pattern.

Oatmeal raisin cookies with rolled oats, plump raisins, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Chewy in the middle, lightly crisp at the edges, gone in minutes.

Diabetic-friendly oatmeal peanut butter cookies use sugar substitute and Egg Beaters for a lower-glycemic treat. Soft, chewy, and packed with classic flavor without the spike.

Russian tea cakes (Mexican wedding cookies) with butter, almonds, and vanilla, baked low and slow then packed in powdered sugar. Tender, crumbly, and snow-white.

Enjoy wholesome Whole Wheat Orange Cookies with zesty orange flavor and a cinnamon-sugar finish. Easy recipe, ready in under 30 minutes!

No-bake rice cereal snowball cookies bound with marshmallow and butter, rolled in powdered sugar for sweet treats kids can help make.

Wholesome oat cookies sweetened with honey and studded with fresh apples. Soft, cake-like texture with optional raisins. Naturally lower in refined sugar.

No-bake peanut butter drops with puffed wheat cereal, walnuts, and coconut bound in a quick stovetop sugar syrup. 60 cookies from one pan, no oven required.

Soft peanut butter cookies rolled in sugar and topped with a Hershey's Kiss straight from the oven. These classic blossoms come together in 20 minutes flat.

Whole wheat peanut butter cookies with brown sugar and a single egg, fork-pressed in classic crosshatch style. A nuttier, heartier version of the lunchbox classic.

These rich cookies are delightfully crisp, buttery and nutty, with just the right amount of sweetness from the filling and the sugar dusting.