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?

Christmas Crack

Irvin Lin and Emma Christensen

Want to wrap up a few cookies for an easy hostess gift?

That’s where this round-up of recipes come in!

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies are the BEST!

How to make the Best Chocolate Chip cookies from this Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Emma Christensen

One special ingredient helps deepens the flavor and gives the chocolate chip cookies a chewier texture.

Save this chocolate chip cookie recipe.

It’s that good.

Brookie Cookie

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!

A glass of milk with Peanut Butter Cookies on a white background.

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!

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies on Plate

Elise Bauer

Chocolate dough rolled in powdered sugar and baked into a festive black and white cookie.

They’re the perfect Christmas cookies!

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Close-up of one of the marble brownie slices, which is surrounded by more slices of marble brownies, all on a parchment paper lined baking sheet

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

These chocolate chunk cookies are made using brown butter and chunks of milk chocolate.

Browning the butter is an extra step, but so worth it for these decadent chocolate chunk cookies!

Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies!

Browned Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Elise Bauer

These buttery little cookies are filled with jam and rolled with nuts.

Make this classic cookie for your next cookie exchange or holiday party.

Let the cookie dough rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours before baking.

Overhead view of a plate of thumbprint cookies with a striped linen underneath.

Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

This prevents the dough from spreading out into flat, thin, and crispy cookies as they bake."

Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Nostalgia alert!

When was the last time you made these favorite childhood cookies?

Tahini chocolate chip cookies

Simply Recipes / Tara Omidvar

Let’s remedy that.

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.

Peanut butter blossoms in a wide ceramic bowl.

Aaron Hutcherson

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal and chocolate chips are great together.

Add in some pecans and coconut and we’re pretty excited.

But it’s the brown butter that take these cookies over the top!

brown sugar snickerdoodles next to a glass of milk

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies are so fun on a cookie tray!

Made by rolling with two colors of dough together.

Freeze the log of dough for up to a month for slice-and-bake cookies.

Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies in a basket lined with a tea towel

Elise Bauer

Easy slice-and-bake pistachio butter cookies!

Keep the dough in the fridge or freezer for a cookies whenever you want them.

Great for Christmas or for a Passover or Easter treat!

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies

Irvin Lin

Start them the night before and let them cool slowly in the oven until morning.

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut macaroons!

Mexican Wedding Cookies

Crumbly, buttery, and nutty - Mexican Wedding Cookies are irresistible.

Pecan Meringue Cookies

Elise Bauer (leads) and Sally Vargas (method shots)

Also called Russian Tea Cakes.

Make with pecans, walnuts, almonds, or any other nut.

2-Ingredient Pumpkin Quickies

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Pumpkin Biscotti

Elise Bauer

Cocoa Coconut Macaroons

These Cocoa Coconut Macaroons are like a cross between a classic macaroon and a fudgy brownie.

English Toffee

Homemade English toffee!

Top this crunchy, caramel toffee with dark chocolate and toasted nuts.

Completed Coconut Macaroons Recipe on White Plate

Elise Bauer

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.

Mexican Wedding Cookies

Irvin Lin

It’s easy to make with marshmallow fluff, chocolate, evaporated milk, and walnuts.

It makes a huge batch so you could share with friends!

Christmas Cracker Candy

Who wants Christmas Cracker Candy?!

Pumpkin quickies on a cooling rack (some are plain and some were upgraded using demerera sugar and chocolate chips

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Saltine crackers coated with caramel and chocolate make a salty, crunchy holiday treat.

What’s not to love?

Peanut Butter Buckeyes

Chocolate-dipped peanut butter buckeyes are so easy to make at home with this easy Buckeye recipe.

Cocoa Coconut Macaroons

Cindy Rahe

An essential for any cookie tray!

They’re a rich, crunchy, candy-coated indulgence!

Make them for a holiday cookie tray or to ship to a friend.

Easy English Toffee in Bowl

Irvin Lin

Peppermint Bark

Peppermint Bark is so festive and so EASY!

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!

Easy fudge recipe cut into squares and stacked.

Alison Bickel

They keep for several days and freeze like a dream.

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 balls or Buckeye balls

Irvin Lin

Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies

Chocolate and peanut butter are made for each other.

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!

Pralines

Steve-Anna Stephens

EASY to make and so much better than a box mix!

Soft and Easy Peppermint Bark

Elise Bauer

Homemade blondie bars on a plate

Elise Bauer

Overhead shot of magic cookie bars ready to eat

Irvin Lin

Peanut Butter Brownie Recipe

Aaron Hutcherson

Best Chocolate Brownies

Elise Bauer

Pumpkin spice snickerdoodle on a cooling rack

Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm