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 cookies, skillet 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!

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.

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!
   

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.
   

5. 4 o’clock No-bake Energy Bites

   My favorite alternative to energy bars - these are a favorite late afternoon snack.

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!
   

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.

8. Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

   These are the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are fantastic. They also make great ice cream sandwich 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.
   

2. Rose 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 cookie 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, chewy, dense and moist within.

4. Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

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

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.

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.

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.

   

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.
    

3. The World's Best Cookies

   My mom received the recipe for The World’s Best Cookies fourth-hand. By the time I found the recipe in her three-ring recipe folder, it had notes on it written by in three different women. The crispy, crunchy texture is the magic. Completely unique thanks to a deluxe combination of oats, cornflakes, coconut, and walnuts. The butter browns while baking and these little gems cool into perfect bite-sized bliss.
    

4. Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

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

5. 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.
   

6. Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

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

7. Anzac Cookies

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

8. Limoncello Macaroons

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

9. 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.
   

10. Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies

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

11. Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

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

12. Sicilian Pistachio Cookies

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

13. Quinoa Cloud Cookies

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

14. 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.
    

15. Sparkling Ginger Chip Cookies

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

16. Nikki’s Healthy Cookies

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Super Swiss Meringues

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

20. 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.
    

    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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