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Easy Cookie Recipes

These easy cookie recipes have guided me through the baking of many irresistible treats.

KidsButter/Spritz CookiesParties
BrowniesNo Bake CookiesOld-World
Bar CookiesSugar CookiesDrop Cookies
Fried CookiesShortbreadLow Fat Cookies
Saltines/CrackersBiscottiRolled/Cutout Cookies
Gluten Free CookiesPiesChocolate Chip Cookies


Rest assured that the cookies you make at home will always be delicious no matter how they turn out in appearance. You know the saying, "appearance can be very deceiving."

Entertaining guests at your next cookie exchange party is a labor of joy. Let these recipes add a touch of fun to the task.

Click on one of the following images, and it will take you directly to its baking portfolio.

Chocolate Cranberry Biscuits
Biscuits
An easy cookie recipe for crinkle cookies
Crinkle Cookies

Fruitcake Cookies
Fruitcake Cookies
Holiday Cookies
Holiday Cookies
Christmas Cookies
Snow Caps

Sesame Cookies
Sesame Cookies
An easy cookie recipe for mamoul
Mamoul
Pecan Tassies
Pecan Tassies

Feeling ambitious? Create your own cookie recipe!

I follow this basic formula: 1 part sweet, 2 parts fat, 3 parts flour. Feel free to add or subtract from this formula as the case may be. The following easy recipe for thumbprint cookies illustrates my point.


granulated sugar2/3 cup
Unsalted butter, softened½ cup
Creamy peanut butter1 cup
Eggs2 large
Vanilla extract1 tsp
All purpose flour2 cups
Baking soda1 tsp
salt½ tsp
Raisins, nuts, jam, Jell-O gelatin
Peanut butter thumbprint cookies

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

  • Cream sugar, butter, and peanut butter on low speed.

  • beat in eggs and vanilla extract.

  • Add flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix well.

  • Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place on prepared baking sheets. Press a thumb into center of each cookie to make an indentation.

  • Bake 12 – 15 minutes or until light golden. Cool on baking sheets for about 5 minutes, then remove to racks to cool completely.

  • Fill your thumbprint cookies with raisins, nuts, jam, jello, etc., and ENJOY! This super easy cookie recipe yields between 2 – 3 dozens cookies.

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