These cookies are guaranteed to deliver in all the ways.
Need an awesome cookie for the office holiday party that won’t crumble on the way to work?
Thinking about shipping some cookies to a faraway friend or family member?
Want to wrap up a few cookies for an easy hostess gift?
That’s where this round-up of recipes comes in!
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies are the BEST!
Emma Christensen
One special ingredient helps deepen the flavor and gives the chocolate chip cookies a chewier texture.
Save this chocolate chip cookie recipe.
It’s that good.
Cindy Rahe
Brookies (Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies)
Brownies and chocolate chip cookies together as one!
Brookies are the best of both worlds, so you don’t have to choose.
Peanut Butter Cookies
These are the best peanut butter cookies ever!
Michelle Becker
Use your favorite store-brand peanut butter and a combination of white and brown sugar.
For the best cookie shape, let the dough chill for at least three hours before baking.
Chocolate Crinkles
Chocolate crinkle cookies!
Elise Bauer
Chocolate dough rolled in powdered sugar and baked into a festive black and white cookie.
They’re the perfect Christmas cookies!
Browning the butter is an extra step, but so worth it for these decadent chocolate chunk cookies!
Elise Bauer
Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint Cookies!
These buttery little cookies are filled with jam and rolled with nuts.
Make this classic cookie for your next cookie exchange or holiday party.
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
Nostalgia alert!
When was the last time you made these favorite childhood cookies?
Let’s remedy that.
Aaron Hutcherson
Chocolate and peanut butter belong together, and these easy cookies prove it.
This recipe does not use cream of tartar but adds cornstarch for extra tenderness.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oatmeal and chocolate chips are great together.
These brown sugar snickerdoodle cookies are crackled with cinnamon sugar on the outside and chewy-soft on the inside. This recipe does not use cream of tartar but adds cornstarch for extra tenderness.
Add in some pecans and coconut and we’re pretty excited.
But it’s the brown butter that takes these cookies over the top!
Holiday Pinwheel Cookies
Holiday Pinwheel Cookies are so fun on a cookie tray!
Elise Bauer
Made by rolling with two colors of dough together.
Freeze the log of dough for up to a month for slice-and-bake cookies.
Great for Christmas or for a Passover or Easter treat!
Irvin Lin
Start them the night before and let them cool slowly in the oven until morning.
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Crumbly, buttery, and nutty - Mexican Wedding Cookies are irresistible.
Also called Russian Tea Cakes.
Elise Bauer (leads) and Sally Vargas (method shots)
Make with pecans, walnuts, almonds, or any other nut.
English Toffee
Homemade English toffee!
Top this crunchy, caramel toffee with dark chocolate and toasted nuts.
Irvin Lin
It’s so easy to make and keeps for weeks.
Ships well, too!
Easy Fantasy Fudge
This fudge recipe is adapted from the original Kraft back-of-the-can recipebut with extra chocolate.
Cindy Rahe
It’s easy to make with marshmallow fluff, chocolate, evaporated milk, and walnuts.
It makes a huge batch so it’s possible for you to share with friends!
Christmas Cracker Candy
Who wants Christmas Cracker Candy?!
Irvin Lin
Saltine crackers coated with caramel and chocolate make a salty, crunchy holiday treat.
What’s not to love?
An essential for any cookie tray!
Alison Bickel
They’re a rich, crunchy, candy-coated indulgence!
Make them for a holiday cookie tray or to ship to a friend.
Peppermint Bark
Peppermint Bark is so festive and so EASY!
Irvin Lin and Emma Christensen
This recipe uses both peppermint extract and crushed candy canes to make it an extra-special holiday treat.
It makes a great holiday gift for teachers, neighbors, and friends!
They keep for several days and freeze like a dream.
Irvin Lin
7-Layer Magic Bars
Classic 7-layer magic bars with chocolate, nuts, butterscotch, and coconut!
They’re the perfect make-ahead dessert for your next party.
Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
Chocolate and peanut butter are made for each other.
Steve-Anna Stephens
This recipe tugs at the nostalgia of those boxed brownie mixes from childhoodbut ours is made entirely from scratch.
Best Chocolate Brownies
The Perfect Chocolate Brownie!
EASY to make and so much better than a box mix!
Elise Bauer
Elise Bauer
Irvin Lin
Aaron Hutcherson
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