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posted by Liz Berg

on January 9, 2015 (updated 9/15/22)

Enjoy these hand-selected Favorite Cookie Recipes today! These cookies come in all different flavors and textures for any occasion.

These are some of the Best Cookie Recipes from the blog. They’re ideal for afterschool snacks, lunchbox treats, desserts, and even holiday baking!

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Favorite Cookie Recipes

The best cookie recipes for snacking, lunch boxes and dessert! Tried and true and fan favorites!

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Simple Meringue Cookies

Sweet, ethereal, easy meringue recipe made with just 4 simple ingredients.

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Chewy Brownie Cookies

Rich chocolate cookies loaded with dark and white chocolate chips!

Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies

A delicious cookie with the classic chocolate-peanut butter combo adapted from Martha Stewart Living, February 2000

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Jacques Torres' Secret Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Jacques Torres Secret Chocolate Chip Cookies made famous via the NYT.

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Classic Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies Recipe

A super easy cookie recipe with that fabulous pairing of chocolate and peanut butter.

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Butterscotch Cookies Recipe

These Butterscotch Cookies grace the goodie boxes I divvy out to my friends and neighbors for Christmas. Soft and caramelly, they're a family favorite.

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Flourless Chocolate Cookies Recipe

A delectable flourless chocolate cookie AKA chocolate meringue cookies, adapted from my friend, Chris, from The Sucre Cafe Farine

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Dark Chocolate Pudding Cookies

These splendidDark Chocolate Pudding Cookiesarethe perfect snack for my chocoholic family!

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Brown Butter Toffee Cookies Recipe

Nutty brown butter cookies filled with buttery toffee chunks

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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies Recipe

The best recipe for these classic White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies. Adapted from Diethood

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The Best Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

Easy, old-fashioned peanut butter cookies!

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Chewy Gingersnaps

These chewy gingersnaps are a childhood favorite and my most requested recipe!

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  1. Chef and Steward Reply

    Thanks for this roundup Liz. It’s been too long since we came for a visit and looks like we have LOTS of catching up and bookmarking to do! Been looking for nice cookie recipes for our son and will definitely start here.

  2. Laura Dembowski Reply

    So many great cookie recipes! I need to make some.

  3. Sandra Reply

    I especially love the ones with the gigantic chocolate chips!

  4. Choc Chip Uru Reply

    I just went and ate two cookies after reading your post… still not satisfied 😛

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

  5. Winnie Reply

    Am I suppose to choose which cookies to eat??
    You’re joking, right? I want alllllllllllll of them!!
    I wish you the best year ever Liz – with lots of sweet baking 🙂

  6. Michal Reply

    Wow! what a collection. thanks!

  7. Ramona Reply

    I am totally bookmarking this post…. I will have to try all of these fabulous cookies. 🙂

  8. Ash-foodfashionparty Reply

    Hope you had a fantastic Holiday.
    I enjoyed your vacation pictures on insta, it sure looked like you had a lot of fun. These are some great looking cookies.

  9. Jennifer Eloff Reply

    Wow, gorgeous cookies!!!

  10. The Ninja Baker Reply

    Welcome back, Liz! It is always a bit of a challenge getting back into a routine at home after a fantastic vacation. Happy to see the next Dorie Greenspan recipe and photos from your vacation =) Speaking of Ms. Greenspan, thank you for the classic PB cookies recipe which I saved for priority baking =)

  11. Erlene Reply

    Oh my all of these look delicious. The brownie cookies look like something I would enjoy eating a lot!

  12. lisaiscooking Reply

    I’d like to taste each one, please! The triple ginger snaps would be especially dangerous to have in the house today. Can’t wait to hear about your trip.

  13. marcela Reply

    omg. I love each cookie you presented! So hard to pick the first recipe…l;)

    PS. I’m organizing a chocolate contest on my blog. Maybe you’d like to join us? 🙂

  14. My Inner Chick Reply

    I will order the Brownie Drop, Please. xx

  15. Karen (Back Road Journal) Reply

    If all your cookies were arranged on a platter, I would have a hard time choosing which one to try first. Welcome home.

  16. Bam's Kitchen Reply

    Welcome back! It has been fun following you along on your trip on social media. Great round up of cookies. I would like one of each please.

  17. Suzanne Perazzini Reply

    Your cookies are perfection. You should open a cookie shop. I hope the furnace is fixed!

  18. anne Reply

    Lizzy , I love them all with all my heart but I’m partial to your white chocolate and macadamia cookies 😀 Will have to steal your recipe sometime !

  19. Angie@Angie's Recipes Reply

    They look fantastic and I love all of them!
    Have a beautiful weekend!
    Angie

  20. Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction Reply

    Lizzy,
    I hope you had a wonderful trip. It’s so hard to come back home sometimes but then I’m a home body. Your favorite cookies look wonderful.
    Annamaria

  21. Maureen | org*smic Chef Reply

    As I scrolled down this post I said, “That’s my favorite” to every cookie until I got to the last one. That’s my second favorite.

  22. Cakelaw Reply

    Welcome home! I’ll have all of them please! I am particularly taken by the white choc macadamia and the ginger snaps.

  23. Mary Frances Reply

    I love ginger cookies. There’s so much flavor in just one that you don’t need to over-indulge.

  24. Amy @ Elephant Eats Reply

    I hope you had a wonderful vacation!!! Love this line-up…my hubby is always asking me to make him cookies and I never know where to look for a good recipe. I’ll be sure to try these when I have time to get back in the kitchen 😉

  25. Kathy Reply

    Wonderful selection Liz! Hope your trip was amazing! Too bad you had to come back to such cold weather! Stay warm! Happy Weekend!

  26. Evelyne@cheapethniceatz Reply

    Cannot wait to hear about the trip. Relax for now! And I want all these cookies now.

  27. Judit + Corina | Glamorous Bite Reply

    Happy New Year! We gladly join the “one of each” group, but let’s have 2 from the peanut butter cookies. Stay warm 🙂

  28. Emily @ Life on Food Reply

    These cookies all look great. I wish I could have at least one of each. I hope your heat situation is better now. Stay warm!!

  29. Lynn@Happier Than A Pig In Mud Reply

    I’d better try one of each… you know, to find my favorite:@) Welcome home!

  30. Laura (Tutti Dolci) Reply

    I think we might call you the cookie queen, I’d love a sample of each one!

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Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co.

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Cornstarch helps product soft and thick cookies. Using more brown sugar than white sugar results in a moister, softer cookie. An extra egg yolk increases chewiness. Rolling the cookie dough balls to be tall and lumpy instead of wide and smooth gives the cookies a bakery-style textured thickness.

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OREO, the world's bestselling cookie with $4 billion in annual revenue, is actually a knockoff. It's 1897 and brothers Jacob and Joseph are at odds: After 7 years of building a multi-million-dollar bakery in the Midwest, the brothers disagreed about where to take the company next.

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Nearly 93% of all American households serve and enjoy cookies as treats or after meals. However, it's the chocolate chip cookie that's the most popular in the U.S. and around the world. How much do youknow about chocolate chip cookies?

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The best-selling cookie in the world is none other than the Oreo. This iconic sandwich cookie has been delighting consumers since its introduction in 1912. With its classic combination of two chocolate wafers and a sweet, creamy filling, the Oreo has become a beloved treat for people of all ages.

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Is it better to bake cookies at high or low temp? ›

Baking at 325° also results in an evenly baked cookie, but the slower cooking will help yield a chewier cookie. The outsides will be a little softer, too. If you love slightly underdone cookies, 375° is for you. You'll get the crisp edges while maintaining a doughy, fudgy inside.

When I bake cookies they get hard? ›

Cookies become hard when the moisture in them evaporates. This can be caused by leaving them out in the air for too long, baking them for too long, or storing them improperly.

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Softened butter and melted butter are not the same. Using melted butter will change the texture of whatever you're baking. If you only want the butter to soften for spreading, microwave it on the Defrost setting (30%) in 5-second increments until it's softened as desired.

Does adding more butter make cookies softer? ›

Also, underbaking them by a minute or 2 will help them retain a dense, chewy bite, explains Jenny McCoy, pastry baking arts chef-instructor at the Institute for Culinary Education in New York. Adding more moisture to your dough in the form of extra butter, egg yolks, or brown sugar will make your cookies even softer.

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What is the 2nd most popular cookie? ›

Nabisco Oreo was the second ranked cookie brand of the United States with about 674.2 million U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2017. Cookies are part of the snack food category and defined as small, thin, baked treats in the United States.

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1. Chocolate Chip Cookies: A Timeless Classic. It's no surprise that chocolate chip cookies consistently rank as one of the most beloved treats in the United States.

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