145 walnut cookie recipes

Chunky bittersweet chocolate cookies with hand-chopped chocolate bars and walnuts. Golden edges, soft centers, and pools of melted chocolate in every bite. Serve warm for maximum gooeyness.

Maple nut rugelach roll cream cheese pastry around a maple-walnut-cinnamon filling for buttery, crescent-shaped Jewish cookies. Sweetened with pure maple syrup instead of jam.

Spiced applesauce bars studded with raisins and walnuts, topped with decorative walnut halves before baking into soft squares.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Chocolate chip pecan cookies made with golden shortening and brown sugar for a chewy center and crispy edge. Big, bakery-style drop cookies that spread wide and stay soft inside.

Four-ingredient chocolate coconut candy drops made with unsweetened chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, flaked coconut, and walnuts. Placed in a hot oven that's turned off, they develop a gorgeous glossy glaze as they cool.

Buttery cinnamon crinkle cookies with a cinnamon-sugar crust and a pecan half pressed into each center. Cream of tartar gives them that signature chewy-crisp edge.

Nut crescents: buttery shortbread cookies shaped into crescents, dipped in egg white and a nut-sugar coating, baked golden, then dusted with powdered sugar. A holiday cookie classic.

No-bake-style cherry squares layered with cornflake crumbs, coconut, marshmallows, maraschino cherries, and walnuts, bound with sweetened condensed milk for a festive holiday treat.

Old-fashioned icebox cookies with cardamom, cinnamon, lemon juice, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake dough that refrigerates overnight or freezes for weeks. Paper-thin and crispy.

No-butter orange oatmeal cookies sweetened with banana, honey, and orange juice concentrate. Soft, fruity, and loaded with walnuts and golden raisins.

Whole wheat biscotti with toasted walnuts and hazelnuts twice-bake into crisp, lemon-zest-scented cookies for dunking. Lower-sugar Italian cookie shaped into ropes, sliced, then re-baked.

Magic cookie bars layered with graham cracker crumbs, walnuts, chocolate chips, flaked coconut, and sweetened condensed milk. Six ingredients, no mixing, and no special skills for a gooey, chewy bar cookie.

Loaded oatmeal cookies packed with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, raisins, and walnuts in a brown sugar and cinnamon dough. Chewy, chunky, and stuffed with mix-ins.

Twice-baked almond biscotti packed with walnuts and optional chocolate swirl. Crisp, crunchy Jewish cookies perfect for dunking in coffee or tea.

The traditional cookie for Purim, hamantashen is Yiddish for "Haman's pockets". They are meant to recall the story of Haman, a wicked Persian prince who wished to destroy the Jews but was foiled by Mordecai and Esther."