21 Homemade Cookie Recipes

These Chocolate Chunk Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate chunks and mini peanut butter cups. The dough comes together quickly and is an easy dessert that is sure to impress every chocolate and peanut butter lover!

White chocolate macadamia nut cookies are such an easy recipe to make, and they turn out chewy, buttery, and delicious every time. The recipe turns out gourmet cookies that are the perfect treat for any party or gathering. 

A wonderfully nutty and buttery Swedish cookie recipe that is fun to make and absolutely delicious! Butter, almonds and sugar, what could be more delightful? Perfect for a cookie exchange.

RAINBOW Sprinkled Butter Cookies!  They taste like Funfetti Butter Cookies! These delicious cookies are easy to make and uses evaporated milk to make the cookies extra soft! They melt in your mouth!  Roll them around in colored sprinkles to make them more fun! Recipe makes 2 dozen cookies.

Gluten-free mudslide cookies are a flourless chocolate cookie that’s rich, sweet, and will cure your chocolate cravings! These gluten-free chocolate cookies are free of dairy and nuts too! Thanks to Enjoy Life for sponsoring this recipe as part of our ongoing partnership.

These peanut butter cookies knocked my socks off at the first bite. At first, I tried to follow a recipe that wasn’t great. So I tweaked it a few times, and it finally became perfection.

Whether you have to be gluten free, or you simply don’t want flour in your diet, give these a try. Southern food should please the palate and make you feel good all over.

Small batch chocolate chip cookies for your next cookie craving! Make just a half batch of chocolate chip cookies the next time you need a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie!

Nothing welcomes Fall like baking up a batch of Grandma Dorothy’s Soft Pumpkin Cookies for dessert! These amazing cookies are so easy to make and are topped with an incredible orange cream cheese frosting.

These cookies are made with the simplest ingredients and yet they pack an elegant and flavorful punch. The frosting with bits of yellow lemon zest look fancy and yet only take a few minutes to put together. 

Dried Cranberries in a traditional oatmeal cookie are delicious Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies. Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies are very similar to a traditional oatmeal raisin cookie. I just substituted the dried cranberries for the raisins.  

So much depth of flavor packed into one tiny dark brown sugar cookie. Browned Butter Dark Brown Sugar Cookies are the best cookies in the whole, wide world. You’re going to want to make this cookie, year after year! 

Looking for delicious cookies to make this holiday season? These Hidden Fudge Mint Cookies are soft sugar cookies with a surprise inside.

This Confetti Cookie Cake tastes like something you would have to order from a professional bakery. But lucky you, you now have an awesome recipe to impress your guests and when they ask “where did you get this from” you can say proudly “I made it!” And I’ll leave it up to you if you want to tell them how simple it was to make.

Red velvet crinkle cookies can be described in many words – deliciously soft, thick, cakey, buttery, and best for any celebration. Slightly crispy on the outside like a cookie should be, soft chewy inside making it taste just like a cake.

When I was growing up, it was tradition for my family to make my grandmother’s Christmas Greek butter cookies. Every single year. As children, It was something we looked forward to each year.

It became a right of passage to learn how to make this family holiday tradition.

The first time I had these amazing danishes was at a church function we were having. My friend Debbie made them and from the first bite, I have dreamed of making these ever since. She recently gave me her recipe, so I have been super excited to share these Peach Drop Danish cookies with you for #SummerDessertWeek.

Once you see how easy it is to make homemade Oreos, you may never buy store-bought ones again. These copycat Oreo cookies taste the same, if not a little better, than the real thing – and their creamy vanilla filling blows away what comes in the box.

Toffee Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are hands down the best oatmeal cookie variation there is!  Perfectly balanced flavors with caramelized toffee bits and milk chocolate, and always soft & chewy on the inside while barely crisp around the edges.  These cookies are impossible to resist!

These Chewy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are rich and fudgy, perfect for when you’re craving chocolate! Made with cocoa powder, chocolate chips and oats, these soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies have a double dose of chocolate.

If you expect this post to be about gingerbread cookies for Christmas, then you’d be right. But you’d be forgetting that this recipe is one that results in soft centres, crisp edges, and yes…delicious everythings.  

Fall has come to some areas of the country, I hear. We’ve had a few mornings that the temperature has just barely dipped into the 60’s and you should hear all the clamoring for hot chocolate for breakfast. We have a couple of favorite ways to make hot chocolate but we also have a favorite hot chocolate cookie that can be enjoyed any time of the day and in any season.