Soft-baked and fudgy, with a gooey caramel surprise center, these salted caramel dark chocolate cookies are sure to satisfy more than one craving in a single cookie! They won a Nestlé Toll House award back when I first published the recipe several years ago, and have been a popular favorite since!
Homemade Oreos taste just like the classic packaged cookies, but with a homemade touch. Dark cocoa cookies are sandwiched with sweet cream filling for a nostalgic taste of Americana. With only 10 minutes of dough-chilling time and no rolling pin required, making a batch of these iconic sandwich cookies from scratch is quicker and easier than you think!
Made from pecans, Biscoff cookies, confectioners’ sugar, and—yes, rum!—rum balls are a grownup-favorite festive treat that are easy to make and fun to gift. They taste even better after a day or two in the refrigerator, so I recommend making them in advance. Perfect little holiday treat for the cookie tray!
These iced cherry almond linzer cookies are as lovely to look at as they are to eat, and there’s no special cookie decorating skills required. You can use any small cookie cutters you have to cut the almond cookie dough into your choice of shapes, and the filling is simply store-bought cherry preserves. These beautiful sandwich cookies actually taste best on day 2, so they’re a wonderful make-ahead holiday cookie option.
These chocolate butter cookies are the cocoa-kissed version of my classic homemade butter cookies. They’re every bit as soft and buttery, and absolutely melt in your mouth. Use a large piping tip to pipe the dough into swirly designs. They’re delicious and beautiful plain, but feel free to jazz them up with sprinkles, a dip in melted chocolate, or a cherry in the center for a festive touch!
These lemon thumbprint cookies are a lemon lovers’ dream cookie! Enjoy sweet, soft lemon sugar cookies filled with lemon curd and drizzled with lemon icing. I like to make the lemon curd from scratch because the flavor is superior (honestly, it’s just so good!), but feel free to use store-bought. Instead of lemon curd, you can substitute raspberry, strawberry, or apricot preserves/jam.
These soft and chewy gingerbread cookie bars are so easy to make—no dough chilling, no dough rolling, no cookie cutters required! They’re delicious plain, or topped with spiced cream cheese frosting. Skip the fuss and make gingerbread bars instead!
We’re taking the beloved classic chocolate crinkle cookie and going a little nuts—in the best possible way!—with these Nutella crinkle cookies. Chocolatey and packed with crunchy hazelnuts, they’re thick and soft-baked, and stuffed with a little extra Nutella in the middle for good measure!
A twist on the traditional pecan version, these maple walnut tassies are little bites of texture paradise. Soft cream cheese cookie dough cradles a sweet maple-brown sugar walnut filling, and a snowy dusting of confectioners’ sugar is all the decoration they need to be ready for their holiday cookie tray debut. You won’t be able to stop at just one, so it’s a good thing the recipe makes 4 dozen!
Packed with peanut butter, chewy oats, and oodles of chocolate chips and M&M’s, these flourless monster cookies are simply unbelievable. I tried and tested this recipe multiple times over the past year, with various groups of taste testers, and, truly—no one believed there isn’t any flour.
These soft and chewy apple cinnamon oatmeal cookies are exploding with sweet apple flavor. Filled with cinnamon and apple spices, loaded with applesauce and apple chunks, and topped with a creamy maple frosting, they’re absolutely perfect for the fall season.
These marshmallow-surprise hot cocoa cookies start with a soft and chewy chocolate cookie made even richer from a helping of hot cocoa mix. Topped with a gooey marshmallow smothered in melted chocolate, they’re like a marshmallow-filled hot chocolate bomb, in cookie form!
