30+ Best Cookie Recipes

Included here are classic cookie recipes like chocolate chip cookies, rosewater shortbread, skillet cookies, and snickerdoodles. Also, check out the crowd-pleasing wildcards here, like Nikki’s Healthy Cookies (really!), No Bake Energy Bites, my favorite classic shortbread cookies and Limoncello Macaroons.

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.

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.

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, dense and moist within.

4. 4 o’clock No-bake Energy Bites

   My favorite alternative to energy bars - these are a favorite late afternoon snack. You can watch a quick video of how to make these below as well.

5. 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.

6. Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

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

7. 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.

8. Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

9. Chocolate Puddle Cookies

   A crackle-edged puddle of chocolate with a texture that made me think of the collision between a soft meringue and a fudgy brownie.

10. Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

    This is the shortbread from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet, and it's incredible.

11. Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

    Sesame studded and heavily scented with crushed fennel seeds and chamomile.

12. 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.

13. 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. You can also watch a video of how to make this skillet below.

14. Anzac Cookies

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

15. Limoncello Macaroons

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

16. 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.

17. Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies

    Snappy, small, fragrant, vanilla wafer cookies made with a whole vanilla pod.

18. Gingerbread Cookies

    Everything you want in a gingerbread cookie. These are classic, spice-flecked, and delicious.

19. Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

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

20. Biscotti al Pistacchio

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

21. Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    These are the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies ever of all time.

22. Quinoa Cloud Cookies

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

23. 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.

24. Sparkling Ginger Chip Cookies

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

25. Nikki’s Healthy Cookies

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

26. Nut and 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.

27. Madeleines

    Perfect, golden, scalloped madeleines. From a favorite recipe shared with me by a friend and long-time Madeleine baker.

28. Great Chocolate Chip Cookies from David Lebovitz

    If you like a serious chocolate chip cookie, this is the recipe. A high chip to dough ratio guarantees lots of chocolate in every bite, and the walnuts add crunch, density, and a delicious flavor to the overall mix.

29. Super Swiss Meringues

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

30. Blueberry Rye Cookies

    I'm going to include the recipe for these below. It is hands-down my absolute favorite cookie recipe 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.

    Having a go-to list of favorite cookie recipes is something to work on over the decades! Cookies are often a favorite punctuation to everyday moments, or the best kind of homemade gift for a friend. 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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