We have cookie recipes that use everything from green tea to guava paste, but sometimes you just want to keep it simple. For those occasions we've rounded up our favorite holiday and classic cookie recipes, from chewy chocolate chip cookies to nutty gingerbread cookies.
You can't get much more classic than chocolate chip cookies. In our version of the old-school Nestle Toll House cookie—our Platonic ideal of the chocolate chip cookie—sheets of dough are layered with chopped bittersweet chocolate to make a cookie with crisp edges, a moist center, and a perfect distribution of chocolate. Or try one with a crunchier bite to it. Our chocolate chocolate cookie has layers upon layers of chocolate for the ultimate chocolate chip cookie experience.
If you aren't looking for chocolate, we've got you covered. Dusted with cinnamon-sugar, snickerdoodles are always a crowd-pleaser. Many of our favorite cookies are sweet, soft, and chewy—our rich peanut butter cookies certainly fit the bill. Spicy linzer tea cookies are great for adding a bit of sweetness and a rush of spiciness from yuzu after having warming holiday drinks.
It just isn't Christmas without festively decorated sugar cookies. Cut into shapes like trees and stars and decorated with icing, sprinkles, dragées, and more, they’re almost as fun to make as they are to eat. Classic sugar cookies use a buttery flour, egg, and sugar dough. Replacing wheat flour with rice flour lets you make your cookies gluten-free. Danish tin-style cookies are great for preparing for the holidays ahead of time.
For more, check out our Essential Cookie Recipes Guide.
The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Meyer Lemon Sandwich Cookies
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Graham Cookies
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Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate Chunker Cookies
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Chocolate Cornflake Haystacks
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Mexican Chocolate Icebox Cookies

Sprinkle Cookies

Black and White Cookies

Cherry Snowball Cookies
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Greek Honey Cookies
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Honey and Spice Cookies
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Umbrian Snowflake Cookies
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Chocolate-Almond Spice Cookies (Basler Brunsli)
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Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
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Citrus Twist Fritters
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Dusty Bliss Cookies
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Spicy Pineapple Linzer Cookies
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Mexican Butter Cookies with Sprinkles (Galletas con Chochitos)
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Afghans
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Coconut "Macaroonies"
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Salted Chocolate Rye Cookies
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New England Hermits
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Almond Sugar Cookies
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Vanilla Wreath Cookies
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Date Balls
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Shortbread Cookies
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Omani Coconut Cookies
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Edouard's Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Homemade Mallomars
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Date-Filled Semolina Cookies (Makroud)
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Sugared Rosewater Marzipan Balls (Kaber Ellouz)
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Jam Thumbprints

Chestnut and Goji Berry Rugelach
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Smoked Almond S'mores with Whiskey Marshmallows
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Peanut Butter Cookies

Molasses Cookies

Glazed Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

Sweet Pretzel Butter Cookies
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Butter Turtles

Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies

Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

No-Bake Chocolate-Oat Cookies

White Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Gingerbread Cookies

Shortbread Cookies (Punitions)

TKOs (Chocolate Sandwich Cookies)

Todd's Snickerdoodles
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