Nothing makes a cold, gray day better faster than the smell of cookies baking in your kitchen. These recipes are packed with the flavors that make winter baking so good: They're ideal for lazy afternoons when you want your house to smell amazing and need something sweet to snack on all day. With these cookie recipes, being stuck inside doesn't seem so bad.
Butterscotch Cookies
Made with brown butter, these butterscotch cookies have a deeper, richer taste that brings out the caramel notes in every bite. The edges bake up beautifully crisp and chewy, the centers stay soft, and the butterscotch chips melt into little pockets of sweetness. If you love warm, comforting flavors with a hint of nostalgia, this is the cookie recipe you’ll want to bake on repeat.
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Brownie Cookies
These fudgy chocolate brownie cookies are the ultimate sweet treat for brownie and chocolate lovers! With a perfectly crinkled top, an ooey-gooey center, and a sprinkle of salt, these cookies are impossible to resist and come together in just 10 minutes! The sprinkle of salt on top enhances the overall flavor and perfectly balances the richness of the chocolate.
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White Chocolate Matcha Cookies
White chocolate matcha cookies made with matcha powder (Japanese green tea) and white chocolate chips are the ultimate chewy, gooey, and buttery cookies for matcha tea fans; in fact, they can easily turn matcha haters into matcha lovers!
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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are hands down the best brown butter chocolate chip cookies that everyone needs in their baking repertoire! Crispy and chewy, gooey and buttery, sweet but very well balanced with some sea salt on top. Brown butter (beurre noisette) is a classic French gold that will take your chocolate chip cookies to the next level! It has a deep, nutty, complex flavor and really elevates butter to the next level.
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Apple Pie Cookies
These irresistible apple pie cookies will be the talk of the table this holiday season! Made with fresh apples and a sweet, delicious apple pie filling, you will feel like you are eating mini apple pies (without all the hassle)! Its warm, comforting flavor makes the perfect dessert for your November and December gatherings, especially alongside a bowl of ice cream!
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Biscoff Butter Cookies
These Biscoff butter cookies are the most delicious chocolate chip cookies loaded with Lotus Biscoff spread, cinnamon, and brown sugar, making these cookies an indulging treat for everyone in the family! These cookies are chewy on the outside and gooey on the inside with that special Biscoff flavor everyone loves!
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Oatmeal Craisin Cookies
This oatmeal craisin cookies recipe is the ultimate soft and chewy cookie treat to make over the holidays and beyond! Making these healthy oatmeal cranberry cookies is easy yet provides a luxurious cookie experience. The cookies are loaded with craisin, cinnamon, and brown sugar, making them wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness.
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Pie Crust Cookies
Baked to golden brown perfection, these delicious buttery pie crust cookies are the best thing that can happen to leftover pie dough! In this easy four-ingredient recipe, I am sharing two different options to use leftover pie dough. It's the perfect recipe to make super tasty flaky cookies out of something that we normally just toss out!
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Peanut Butter Cookies
These delicious almond flour peanut butter cookies aren't just gluten-free and packed with flavor; they are also incredibly straightforward to make! These cookies are made with almond flour, creamy peanut butter, two types of sugar, and a hint of vanilla to create delicious, gooey cookies that the whole family will love.
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Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making pecan chocolate chip cookies is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to celebrate the fall flavors we love! Luxurious chocolate chip cookies loaded with pecans, cinnamon, brown butter, and brown sugar make the cookies wonderfully rich yet very well-balanced in sweetness with added sea salt.
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
These easy chocolate chip walnut cookies are a delicious way to give the nut lovers in your family a sweet treat. Semi-sweet dark chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, and a sprinkle of bright sea salt to balance the flavors make this an indulgent cookie to enjoy during those darker evenings as we move into fall and winter. Everyone will love the chewy texture and the gooey inside that is the hallmark of the best chocolate chip walnut cookies!
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S´Mores Cookies
These s'mores cookies put a fun, tasty twist on your regular chocolate chip cookies! Made with decadent dark chocolate, gooey marshmallows, and sweet graham cracker crumbs, they are a family favorite that you will want to make over and over again!
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Tiramisu Cookies
These delicious, coffee-flavored tiramisu cookies are the perfect after-dinner treat, dessert table addition, or compliment to your morning cup of coffee. A delightful twist on the classic Italian dessert, this easy tiramisu cookie recipe combines espresso powder and sweet mascarpone frosting topped with cocoa powder.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in heaven, and these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies prove it! Unlike other recipes, my ingredient ratios and technique are carefully tested to give you chewy, bakery-style cookies, not the dry, disappointing ones often found with other methods.
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Raspberry Pistachio Cookies
Raspberry pistachio cookies have the perfect balance of fresh raspberries and crunchy pistachios in a delicious, chewy cookie. It's a super-easy recipe with no special equipment, and it all comes together in 15 minutes. The recipe is packed with helpful information and expert tips to achieve the most fresh, flavorful, and chewy raspberry pistachio cookies.
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Crème Brûlée Cookies
This easy creme brulee cookies recipe combines two dessert favorites to create an irresistible handheld treat! Gooey, soft sugar cookies are topped with a creamy pastry cream and then finished with a crispy caramelized sugar topping. It is a cookie lover's dream come true!
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Turtle Cookies
Turtle cookies bring all your favorite flavors together in one perfect bite. Nutty, sweet pecans, butterscotch, and dark chocolate chips come together in a cookie that’s crunchy at the edges, soft in the middle, and perfectly sweet, making every bite feel like a small celebration.
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Amaretti Cookies
Try this fool-proof Amaretti cookie recipe and experience a taste of Italian perfection in every bite. These soft, chewy, aromatic cookies are the best treat when you crave something sweet. These delectable treats have won my heart with their irresistible sweet, nutty flavor and delightfully soft, chewy texture.
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Pignoli Cookies
Pignoli cookies are a traditional Italian treat known for their rich almond flavor. The dough is rolled in pine nuts before baking, giving these cookies a perfectly chewy interior with a hint of crunch. They are effortless to make with simple, quality ingredients! They are perfectly soft and chewy inside, with a crunchy exterior.
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Pecan Pie Thumbprint Cookies
These buttery, soft-drop cookies are filled with pecan pie. They flatten as they bake, and you have a little buttery cookie with the filling in the middle. Making these pecan pie thumbprint cookies has become a part of our traditional fall desserts. There is no gooey mess, and all of the pecan pie filling you love – is baked with a crunch.
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Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
These cream cheese spritz cookies are the best spritz cookie recipe ever! They’re tender, full of flavor, and so pretty when dipped in chocolate and sprinkles. A must-have for any holiday celebration!
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Apple Butter Thumbprint Cookies
These apple butter thumbprint cookies are easy to make and so delicious. They are filled with apple butter before baking and also rolled in cinnamon sugar, which adds a beautiful crunch. The apple butter and cinnamon sugar give them a wonderful apple pie spice flavor. You might even want to call them an apple butter snickerdoodle cookie!
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