1,839 sugar cookie recipes

Mocha nut butter balls: tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies flavored with cocoa and instant coffee, packed with toasted walnuts or pecans, rolled in sugar.

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

Hungarian poppy seed wafers with fresh orange zest, allspice, and a smooth powdered sugar glaze. Piped butter cookies with warm spice and citrus flavor.

Thin, crispy lacy almond cookies with just five ingredients: blanched almonds, sugar, butter, flour, and milk. Delicate, caramelized, and ready in under 30 minutes.

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

Date pecan snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar with a buttery, crumbly shortbread base. No eggs, no leavening, just butter, flour, dates, and pecans.

Espresso tuiles with whole coffee beans, pecans, brown sugar, and corn syrup. Crispy, lace-like French cookies shaped into elegant curves while still warm.

French meringue strips with a buttery shortbread base topped with vanilla meringue, cinnamon sugar, and chopped almonds. Elegant bar cookies that yield 8 dozen.

Mocha pecan balls rolled in powdered sugar, made with espresso, cocoa powder, butter, and chopped pecans. A coffee-chocolate twist on classic snowball cookies.

Pillowy angel cookies rolled in powdered sugar before baking, with cream of tartar for that signature snickerdoodle-like tang. Soft, fluffy, white as snow.

Slice-and-bake oatmeal icebox cookies with brown sugar, chopped nuts, and vanilla. Crisp when stored airtight, soft and chewy when left loosely covered.

Adorable oatmeal roll-out cookies shaped and decorated like cherry trees with red cinnamon candies, green sugar crystals, and chocolate sprinkle trunks. Makes 36.

Soft sour cream cookies with a sugar-pressed top, made from simple pantry staples. The sour cream keeps them pillowy and tender for days.

Peanut crispies with oats, corn flakes, brown sugar, and salted peanuts rolled into balls and baked until golden. Crunchy, nutty cookies with satisfying texture.

Garlic chocolate chip cookies with blanched garlic cloves soaked in maple syrup, mixed into a buttery dough with brown sugar, nuts, and chocolate chips.

Sugar drops: classic buttery drop cookies with chopped nuts (or chocolate chips), crisp edges, and soft centers. Basic pantry dough ready in 30 minutes.