1,891 sugar cooky recipes

Chocolate chip pecan squares with a chewy brown sugar base, double layer of melted milk chocolate, and crunchy toasted pecans. Easy bar cookies baked in one pan.

Hungarian pastry cookies made with a flaky sour cream dough, filled with prune lekvar or apricot preserves, folded into pockets, and dusted with powdered sugar.

Classic Italian aniseed cookies (anisbroetli or anise drops) made with whipped eggs, powdered sugar, and ground anise, dried overnight before baking for the signature crisp shell and soft middle.

Tender cream cheese cookies wrapped around walnut halves and dusted in powdered sugar. Just 5 ingredients, melt-in-your-mouth rich. Makes 2 dozen elegant bon bons.

Cucidati, the traditional Sicilian Christmas fig cookies, with a rich filling of figs, raisins, nuts, chocolate and rum wrapped in tender pastry, shaped into slashed horseshoes and dusted with sugar.

Chocolate pixie cookies rolled in powdered sugar with a fudgy center, crackled crust, and chopped walnuts. Made with melted unsweetened chocolate for intense cocoa flavor.

No-bake chocolate oat cookies rolled in powdered sugar. Just 6 ingredients mixed together and chilled overnight for fudgy, truffle-like bites with zero oven time.

Chocolate chip walnut pie with a chewy brown sugar custard, pockets of melted chocolate, and toasted walnuts in a flaky shell. Half cookie, half pie. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Chewy honey date cookies with chopped nuts, baked in a sheet pan, cut into strips, and rolled in powdered sugar. No butter needed, just honey, eggs, and dates.

Kolachkes are Polish-American cream cheese cookies: a tender butter-and-cream-cheese dough wrapped around fruit jam, walnut, or sweet cheese filling. Rolled in powdered sugar instead of flour.

Black and white chunk cookies loaded with semi-sweet and white chocolate chunks plus walnuts or pecans in a brown sugar butter dough. Makes 3 dozen.

Traditional Scottish shortbread with all-purpose and rice flours, butter, and a mix of white and brown sugars. Buttery, sandy-textured cookie scored into wedges and baked golden.

Crispy, chewy, loaded cookies packed with oats, crushed cornflakes, shredded coconut, and chopped pecans. Flatten with a sugar-dipped glass for crackly edges. Makes 4 dozen in just 30 minutes.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with bittersweet chocolate chunks, raisins, and pecans. Chewy centers with crisp golden edges from a brown sugar butter dough.

Traditional German sand tarts rolled paper-thin, cut into diamonds, brushed with egg white, and topped with cinnamon sugar and a pecan half. Crispy, buttery holiday cookies.

Whole wheat snickerdoodles swap half the white flour for whole wheat, giving these classic cinnamon-sugar cookies a nuttier, heartier crumb. Cream of tartar gives them their signature tang and chewy texture. Three dozen from one batch.