30+ Best Cookie Recipes

Great cookie recipes are like gold. Here's a list of 30+ fantastic ones to try!

30+ Best Cookie Recipes

Dozens of cookie recipes in one place with year-round ideas for cookies throughout the seasons. Included here are classic cookie recipes like chocolate chip cookies, shortbread cookiesskillet cookies, and snickerdoodles. Along with crowd-pleasing wildcards like Nikki’s Healthy Cookies (really!), No Bake Energy Bites, rosewater shortbread, and Limoncello Macaroons.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes

  1. Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies

    From The Miller's Daughter cookbook, these chocolate-flecked cookies are made with chickpea flour, tahini, and brown sugar for a brilliant twist on chocolate chip studded peanut butter cookies. The texture is crisp at the edges and soft-centered with oozy puddles of chocolate throughout. Next time you go to bake classic chocolate chip cookies take these for a spin instead!Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies

  2. Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

    Made using 100% whole wheat flour and hand-chopped chocolate chips, this is a skillet-baked twist on chocolate chip cookies. Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

  3. Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies

    If you’re looking for a unique and special chocolate chip cookie, this is the recipe. I developed a version of these for my book Super Natural Cooking circa 2007 and they’ve had a special place in my heart (and kitchen!) in the years since. Mesquite flour adds a wonderful accent to these oat and walnut studded chocolate chip cookies. If you've never baked with it, this is your encouragement!
    Mesquite Chocolate Chip Cookies

  4. Healthful Double Chocolate Cookies

    A nut-free (school-friendly), double chocolate version of one of the most popular cookies on my site. Made with a banana-batter, shredded coconut, dark chocolate chunks, and oats.
    Healthful Double Chocolate Cookies

  5. 4 o’clock No-bake Energy Bites

    My favorite alternative to energy bars - these are a favorite late afternoon snack. 4 o’clock No-bake Energy Bites

  6. Great Chocolate Chip Cookies

    If you like a serious chocolate chip cookie with classic vibes, this David Lebovitz recipe is what you should bake. A high chip to dough ratio guarantees lots of chocolate in every bite. Toasted walnuts add crunch, density and a delicious flavor to the overall mix. So good!
    Great Chocolate Chip Cookies

  7. Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    The perfect bite-sized chocolate chip cookie. Tiny, thin, golden, crisp, a bit nutty with plenty of shaved chocolate. Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

  8. Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    These are the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are fantastic. They also make great ice cream sandwich cookies.
    Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Holiday Cookie Recipes

  1. Simple Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies

    This is the recipe I use anytime I want perfect sugar cookies. Great flavor, and the dough is a dream to work with.
    Simple Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies

  2. Rosewater Shortbread Cookies

    Classic, buttery, whole wheat shortbread cookies fragrant with rosewater, flecked with toasted nuts, and dried rose petals. Or, try this one if you're after my absolute favorite classic shortbread cookies recipe.
    Rosewater Shortbread Cookies - One of my Favorite Cookie Recipes

  3. Triple Ginger Cookies

    A special triple ginger cookie made with three kinds of ginger and a hint of lemon zest. Cracked and sugar-crusted on the outside, chewy, dense and moist within. Triple Ginger Cookies - One of My Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipes

  4. Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

    This is the shortbread from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet, and it's incredible. Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

  5. Swedish Rye Cookies

    Powder-kissed and pretty, these Swedish Rye cookies are perfect for holiday cookie enthusiasts who are after a not-too-sweet, shortbread-style butter cookie. Swedish Rye Cookies

  6. Gingerbread Cookies

    Everything you want in a gingerbread cookie. These are classic, spice-flecked, and delicious. Of course, these are contenders for favorite Christmas cookies. Gingerbread Cookies

Twists on Classic Cookie Recipes

  1. Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

    Classic peanut butter cookies flecked with oatmeal and baked until golden. Double down on the peanut front with hand-chopped peanuts and chunky peanut butter.

    Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
  2. Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles

    Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles with a slight buckle in the middle, kiss of saffron, and thin golden crust with a fudge-textured center, from Blue Bottle Coffee. Saffron Vanilla Snickerdoodles

  3. Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

    Toasty, nutty sable cookies made with whole wheat flour, sliced almonds, currents and salted butter.
    Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

  4. Best Chocolate Cookies

    The best chocolate cookie I know. It's a crackle-edged puddle of chocolate with a texture that makes me think of the collision between a soft meringue and a fudgy brownie. If you're looking for a gluten-free cookie, this is it.
    Best Chocolate Cookies

  5. Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

    Sesame studded and heavily scented with crushed fennel seeds and chamomile. Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

  6. Anzac Cookies

    Anzacs are made from oats, coconut, and flour coming together in a butter-kissed dough. Anzac Cookies

  7. Limoncello Macaroons

    A limoncello macaroon recipe that are golden-crusted, powder-coated, almond-citrus gems spiked with limoncello liqueur. Limoncello Macaroons

  8. Thinnest Oatmeal Cookies

    One of the easiest cookies I know how to make - made from rolled oats, they're razor thin and lacy, golden, freckled with poppy seeds, with and anise accent from crushed fennel seeds. The taste and fragrance is amazing.
    Thinnest Oatmeal Cookies

  9. Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies

    Snappy, small, fragrant, vanilla wafer cookies made with a whole vanilla pod. Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies

  10. Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

    A quick way to get quinoa, hemp seeds, chia, and coconut into one naturally sweetened, no-bake snack.
    Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

  11. Sicilian Pistachio Cookies

    Charming little bite-sized, powder-coated pistachio biscotti cookies. Biscotti al Pistacchio

  12. Quinoa Cloud Cookies

    Cookies made from toasted quinoa and wheat flours, flecked with chocolate shavings, rolled and stamped into cloud shapes.
    Quinoa Cloud Cookies

  13. Marathon Cookies

    The batter is made with pureed white beans, lots of oats, and whole wheat flour. The resulting cookies are sesame coated and flavored with aniseed, lemon zest, olive oil and chopped dates.
    Marathon Cookies

  14. Sparkling Ginger Chip Cookies

    Tiny, bite-sized holiday cookies made with two kinds of ginger and lots of shaved chocolate. Sparkling Ginger Chip Cookies

  15. Nikki’s Healthy Cookies

    A remarkable healthy cookie recipe. And SO popular! Banana-batter, shredded coconut, dark chocolate chunks, and oats. Nikki’s Healthy Cookies

  16. Nut & Seed Biscotti

    Thin, biscotti-style crackers densely pebbled with all manner of nuts and seeds - green pistachios, rust-toned hazelnuts, and off-black poppy seeds. Nut and Seed Biscotti

  17. Madeleines

    Perfect, golden, scalloped madeleines. From a favorite recipe shared with me by a friend and long-time Madeleine baker. You can finish them with a dusting of powdered sugar or any favorite glaze. Madeleines

  18. Super Swiss Meringues

    Beautiful, billowy Swiss meringue, punctuate with a range of nuts, seeds, and spices.Super Swiss Meringues

  19. Blueberry Rye Cookies

    I'm going to include the recipe for these below. This is one of my absolute favorite cookie recipes right now. I included a raspberry version of it in my last book, Super Natural Simple. Made with 100% rye flour and lots of freeze-dried blueberries.
    Favorite Rye Blueberry Cookies

    Having a go-to list of favorite cookie recipes is something to work on over the decades! A batch of cookies are often a favorite punctuation to everyday moments and the best kind of homemade gift for a friend or your favorite kids. Everyone can (and should) bake delicious cookies on occasion! Hope you find a favorite or two on this list, and happy baking!

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Blueberry Rye Cookie Recipe

5 from 3 votes

The flour here is 100% rye, and my wildcard ingredient is an entire bag of crushed, freeze-dried blueberries. The cookies are extra-large. Slice into quarters to serve on a cookie plate. If baking from frozen, increase baking time by 4-6 minutes.

Ingredients
  • 14 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, sliced
  • 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 cup rye flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
  • 1.2 oz bag (1 cup) freeze-dried blueberries, crushed
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350F, with a rack in the middle. Line two baking pans with parchment paper.
  2. Cream the butter, by hand or mixer, in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the sugars, then beat until uniform. Stir in the egg and vanilla extract until well combined. Add the rye flour, and then sprinkle with baking soda, salt, and raspberries. Stir just until the dough is combined.

  3. Form the dough into twelve 70g balls, approximately 1/4 cup each. Place 6 on each cookie sheet. Put in the freezer for 15 minutes prior to baking, or chill, refrigerated, overnight. Bake cookies, one sheet at a time, until the edges are deeply golden, 15-18 minutes or so. Transfer to a baking rack to cool completely.

Notes

Makes 12 cookies.

Serves
12
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 
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How would you feel about switching out the freeze-dried for just dried blueberries? Would that compromise the texture?

Saurs

    Hi Saurs! There’s something magic about the freeze-dried fruit here. I tested the cookies with frozen and dried berries, and people always chose the option with FD as their favorite cookies. I think it’s the strength of the flavor, and that they don’t bring additional moisture to the cookie dough. That said, they’re still super delicious with whatever option you choose. Enjoy! -h

    Heidi Swanson

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