1,891 sugar cooky recipes

French sables are buttery slice-and-bake cookies with a crumbly, sandy texture and sparkling sugar crust. Six ingredients, no leavener, all about the butter.

Russian tea cakes with a buttery shortbread base, a thumbprint of jam or chopped walnuts, and a snowfall of powdered sugar. Holiday cookie tin classic.

Brown sugar drop cookies made with buttermilk, shortening, and just seven ingredients. Soft, chewy, and caramelly with a one-hour chill and 10-minute bake.

Homemade rugelach filled with ground walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, and sugar, rolled into crescent shapes from a buttery honey-enriched dough. A classic Jewish bakery cookie.

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.

Lacy, golden spiderweb cookies made from a thin batter squeezed through a bottle into a hot skillet. A fun Halloween treat dusted with powdered sugar.

Mini pumpkin pie cookie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell, spiced pumpkin filling with rum and vanilla, and a crunchy pecan-brown sugar topping.

Peanut cluster cookies with salted cocktail peanuts in a brown sugar dough, baked golden then dipped in melted semi-sweet chocolate. Crunchy, salty, and sweet.

Traditional Italian egg cookies made with just three ingredients: eggs, sugar, and flour. Light, airy, and gently sweet with golden edges. A nonna-approved classic.

Whole-grain oatmeal raisin cookies sweetened with honey and a whole ground orange. No butter, no refined sugar, naturally vegan-friendly with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Finnish sticks are buttery almond shortbread cookies rolled into finger-thin ropes, brushed with egg, and topped with chopped almonds and sugar before baking crisp.

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.

Chocolate snickerdoodles rolled in a cocoa-cinnamon-sugar coating. Chewy oat cookies with a crackly crust and deep chocolate flavor that beats the classic version.

Classic British teatime shortbread cookies with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Buttery, crumbly, and pale golden with the traditional fork-pricked tops.

Old-fashioned gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon, rolled in sugar and baked until crinkly. Oil-based for a chewy center with crisp edges.