Cookie Recipes & Ideas

These Old-School Gingerbread Cookies Are My Family’s Favorite for Christmas Recipes

I suspect that a great many of us regard the gingerbread contingent of the holiday cookie tray with a healthy amount of suspicion. Will it taste like cardboard? Will that icing crack my teeth? Will the spices make me sneeze? Can I trust this cookie? I’m here today to share a recipe for gingerbread cut-out cookies that you can trust. This is the gingerbread we’re all hoping we get when we reach toward the cookie tray. This is the one that will make you smile.

Emma Christensen

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My Italian Christmas Cookies Are Super-Soft and Impossibly Easy Recipes

They’re soft, pillowy, and perfect.

Christine Gallary

yesterday

5 Beautiful Ways to Package Cookies for Gifting Kitchen

Making cookies and treats for the holidays has always been the easy part for me. I can organize a shopping list, prep, freeze, and bake with great speed and efficiency and generally enjoy the whole process. The packaging of it? Not so much for this creatively-challenged baker. I want all my hard work to shine, and for my cookie gifts to look and feel special, but I just don’t have the patience or talent to do anything complicated. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be.

Christine Gallary

Nov 27, 2024

How to Bake Cookies in an Air Fryer (Easy & Delicious)Skills

It's so speedy.

Isadora Baum

Nov 26, 2024

Butter vs. Shortening in Cookies: Which Is Better?Skills

It's important to know which to use when.

Christine Gallary

Nov 26, 2024

Italian Anise Cookies Are a Classic Holiday Favorite Recipes

Inspired by the cookies I grew up eating.

Kelli Foster

Nov 20, 2024

The Beloved $2 Butter Cookies I’m Bringing to Every Holiday Party I’m Invited To Groceries

Dip them in your hot chocolate.

Su-Jit Lin

Nov 20, 2024

These Linzer Cookies Are Essential for Every Holiday Cookie Swap Recipes

Linzer cookies might look like another pretty sandwich cookie, but these sweet-tart cookies have a rich, tender crumb, thanks to a nearly invisible ingredient. Almonds turned into almond flour make an everyday sugar cookie dough a tender, melt-in-your-mouth treat, fragrant with the warm notes of toasted nuts. Two cookies serve as the bookends to the sweet and sticky jam of your choice to transform into a holiday cookie made for customization. Here’s how to make them.

Meghan Splawn

Nov 20, 2024

The 14 Best Gift Baskets for Everyone on Your List — Starting at Just $22 Kitchen

Whether your giftee loves chili crisp, charcuterie, or chocolate, there is a gift basket for them.

Micki Wagner

Nov 19, 2024

70 Best-Ever Christmas Cookie Recipes to Sweeten the Holidays Recipes

There’s nothing better than freshly baked cookies on Christmas. Who doesn’t love a platter of spiced gingerbread, classic snowball cookies, or peppermint candy cane cookies to share with loved ones?But do you need an occasion to bake cookies? A lazy Saturday, a winter snow day, or a rainy weeknight is absolutely reason enough, too.

Sheela Prakash

Nov 12, 2024

The "Perfect" All-Clad Bakeware Set I'm Buying for Holiday Cookie Season Tools

Grab this three-piece set while it's just $56.

Micki Wagner

Nov 8, 2024

You Only Need 3 Ingredients for These Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies Recipes

I’m an “instant gratification” kind of baker. Any baked good that’s deemed a “project” (with the exception of pumpkin cinnamon rolls, of course!) isn’t really my speed. Give me sweets that I can mix together quickly and easily, pop in the oven, and snack on in half an hour and I’m sold. Enter: 3-ingredient peanut butter cookies. Not only are these the absolute easiest, but they’re my favorite soft and chewy peanut butter cookies too.

Kelli Foster

Nov 7, 2024

This "Chocolate Chip Cookie Delight" Is So Good, I Always Save an Extra Slice Recipes

Five layers of classic chocolate chip cookie flavor.

Kristina Razon

Oct 26, 2024

These Super-Soft Pumpkin Cookies Are So Good, I've Made Them 4 Times Already Recipes

The ultimate pumpkin spice fix.

Molly Allen

Oct 17, 2024

Walker’s Just Dropped a Shortbread Advent Calendar, and It’s a Butter-Lover’s Dream Kitchen

Who doesn’t want to count down to Christmas with cookies?

Mark Marino

Oct 11, 2024

These Super-Soft "Cosmic Cookies" Are Officially My New Favorite Cookie Recipes

They taste like childhood.

Ali Domrongchai

Oct 8, 2024

I Made Taylor Swift’s Favorite Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipes

It was a love story at first bite.

Kris Osborne

Oct 6, 2024

The New Chewy Chips Ahoy Is So Good, Even Crunchy Cookie Lovers Won’t Want to Share Groceries

It’s triple the size!

Ali Domrongchai

Oct 5, 2024

The Very Best Pumpkin Cookies (We Tested 6 Famous Contenders)Recipes

You’ll go back for seconds — and thirds.

Ann Taylor Pittman

Sep 12, 2024

These “Trash Can Cookies” Are the Most-Requested Dessert in My Home Recipes

They’re sweet and salty!

Kris Osborne

Aug 30, 2024

The Ridiculously Good Cookies Everyone Begs Me to Make Recipes

No other recipe compares.

Lauren Miyashiro

Aug 24, 2024

I Keep Finding Excuses to Make These No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies Recipes

This old-school dessert is a classic for a reason.

Jan Valdez

Aug 18, 2024

I Made Simone Biles' Favorite 4-Ingredient Cookies Recipes

These cookies win the gold!

Kiersten Hickman

Aug 13, 2024

The Cookie “Cake” I Make for Every Birthday Recipes

No one will miss the cake.

Lauren Miyashiro

Aug 3, 2024

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Taste Like a Reese's Cup Recipes

No-bake cookies — the kind made with oats, peanut butter, and chocolate — are a classic dessert and an easier option than homemade cookies from scratch. Mothers and grandmothers around the country regularly make this stovetop cookie, to varying results. I remember at least a few times eating failed no-bake cookies with a spoon because they never fully set. Here’s my secret to better no-bake cookies: Think of the process more like candy-making than cookie baking.

Meghan Splawn

Jul 8, 2024

Joanna Gaines’ Chocolate Chip Cookies Are My Family’s Favorite Recipes

My dad has an intense sweet tooth, just like me. One afternoon when I was around 10 years old, Dad got a hankering and he enlisted me to help him make Toll House chocolate chip cookies. That was the first time he and I had ever baked together. Since then, whenever I make chocolate chip cookies, including the ones from this recipe, I think of him and that special afternoon we spent together in the kitchen. I developed this recipe over the years.

Joanna Gaines

May 10, 2024

My Sour Cream "Birthday Bars" Are So Melt-in-Your-Mouth Delicious Recipes

They’re soft, tangy, and oh-so tender.

Perry Santanachote

Apr 30, 2024

My Favorite Soft, Tangy Cream Cheese Cookies Will Melt In Your Mouth (I Can’t Stop Baking Them)Recipes

Sugar cookie, meet cheesecake.

Lindsay Funston

Apr 25, 2024

These 3-Ingredient Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies Break All the Rules Recipes

Feels so wrong, but it’s so right.

Patty Catalano

Apr 13, 2024

I Tried Taylor Swift’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Recipes

There’s a reason why she said eating these cookies were “a turning point” in her life!

Kiersten Hickman

Apr 12, 2024

I Just Learned the Easiest Trick for Baking the Most “Buttery Soft” Chocolate Chip Cookies of Your Life Recipes

I can’t stop baking them.

Patty Catalano

Mar 24, 2024

The Ingenious Nutella Baking Hack for Outrageously Good Cookies Skills

Take your chocolate chip cookies up a notch.

Andrea Rivera Wawrzyn

Mar 21, 2024

My Super-Soft Lemon “Cloud Cookies" Are Dangerously Delicious Recipes

So light, so citrusy.

Patty Catalano

Mar 1, 2024

This Snickerdoodle Cookie Cake Is So Good You'll Make It Every Weekend Recipes

Serve a la mode.

Patty Catalano

Feb 18, 2024

I've Made Dozens of Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes, But THIS Is the Best One Recipes

It's impossible to eat just one.

Kelli Foster

Feb 14, 2024

This Pantry Staple Makes These 3-Ingredient Oatmeal Cookies Unbelievably Good Recipes

Oh, and they're ready in under 30 minutes.

Kelli Foster

Jan 16, 2024

I Tried King Arthur’s 2024 Recipe of the Year Recipes

Just when you thought you didn't need another chocolate chip cookie, you do.

Kiersten Hickman

Dec 29, 2023

It was the year of the dump cake!

Collette Reitz

Dec 26, 2023

I Tried the Most Popular Christmas Cookie in the South Recipes

How did I not know about these?

Molly Allen

Dec 22, 2023

My 4-Ingredient No-Bake Cookies Are Salty-Sweet Perfection Recipes

Think Pocky stick, but peanut butter.

Amelia Rampe

Dec 21, 2023

This Is The Best Way to Freeze Cookie Dough So It Lasts for Months Skills

There are any number of reasons why you might want to stash some cookie dough in the freezer. Maybe you like having treats on hand in case company stops by. Maybe the first day of fall kickstarted your holiday baking gene. But we’re friends here, so let’s be honest: Frozen cookie dough in our freezer means warm, gooey, fresh-baked cookies any time we want one. Here are the best ways to freeze your favorite cookies for later.

Emma Christensen

Dec 18, 2023

I Tried Jennifer Garner's Most Beloved “Cloud Cookies”Recipes

OK, we get why she thinks they're so special.

Kiersten Hickman

Dec 16, 2023

Royal Icing Is the Secret to the Easiest Cookie Decorating Recipes

Every year as the holidays approach, I eagerly anticipate holiday baking and decorating sugar cookies. And every year, they don’t exactly turn out as planned. That’s because decorating cookies is a lot easier said than done — especially if you’re a perfectionist like me who likes straight lines and clean edges. But this year, I’m prepared. I recently got to work developing a simple royal icing recipe that makes cookie decorating as stress-free (and mess-free!

Jesse Szewczyk

Dec 15, 2023

These Candy Cane Cookies Are My Most Beloved Christmas Cookies Recipes

Over my years of writing for The Kitchn, I’ve shared almost all of my favorite holiday cookies, from my mother’s famous peppermint cream-filled butter cookies (followed by the much less finicky peppermint cream squares the following year) to rugelach and gingerbread cookies. I’ve saved one of my most beloved cookies for last. These candy cane cookies are the best.

Emma Christensen

Dec 15, 2023

This Clever Cookie Hack Makes Christmas Baking 100 Times Easier Skills

You don't even have to roll dough!

Emma Taubenfeld

Dec 15, 2023

We Tried 6 Ways of Storing Christmas Cookies, and the Winner Was Clear Skills

It was like they were fresh out of the oven!

Melissa Gaman

Dec 14, 2023

The Easiest Way to Decorate Cookies with Icing Recipes

Get set for your cookie party.

Emma Christensen

Dec 13, 2023

These Impossibly Soft, Fudgy Red Velvet Cookies Are All We Want for Christmas Recipes

No mixer required.

Patty Catalano

Dec 13, 2023

The 6-Ingredient Holiday Cookie I Make Every Year Recipes

They’re a classic for a reason.

Rachel Perlmutter

Dec 11, 2023

105 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes to Leave Out for Santa Recipes

There’s nothing better than freshly baked cookies on Christmas. But do you need an occasion to bake them? Of course you don’t! A lazy Saturday or a rainy weeknight is absolutely reason enough. After all, it doesn’t get any more satisfying than biting into a warm cookie fresh from the oven — and we could all use a little extra cozy right now. Everyone has their own cookie preferences, be it chocolate chip or shortbread.

Sheela Prakash

Dec 8, 2023

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Christmas Cowboy Cookies Recipe Uncategorized

‘Tis the season for all things sweets and decadent treats… and today we thought we’d share one of our favorite recipes. This Christmas cowboy cookie recipe is so basic, but an easy go-to if you’re wanting to try your hand at baking something homemade this season. It comes in two versions, and is sure to rock your face off. Perfect for any gathering and home made to boot! Baking is so therapeutic sometimes, we thought we’d share.

The Handmade Home

Dec 8, 2023

This 2-Ingredient Cookie Dough "Dump" Dessert Is So Brilliant Skills

Like a dump cake, but even easier.

Sarah Beling

Dec 6, 2023

The 4-Ingredient Christmas Cookies I Make Every Single Year Recipes

A buttery classic.

Christine Gallary

Dec 6, 2023

These Cowboy Cookies Are Big, Chewy, and Supremely Satisfying

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