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Oatmeal Spice Cookies

Author: Marian Burros

Salted Caramel Cookies

These soft and buttery cookies get dressed up with a thin layer of salted caramel and a dusting of flaky sea salt for good measure. Using store-bought...

Author: Erin Jeanne McDowell

Red Velvet Cookies With White Chocolate Chunks

As easy to make as your favorite chocolate chip recipe, these cookies pack the fun and flavor of red velvet cake into a simple, and much faster, cookie....

Author: Erin Jeanne McDowell

Sugared Shortbread

In 2012, The Times invited readers to submit their favorite cookie recipes. Amy Casey of Sparta, N.J., submitted this unusual recipe for shortbread that...

Author: Melissa Clark

Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Bars

Like turtle bars with a twist, these squares are gooey, crunchy and salty in all the right places. If you can, use chopped bar chocolate as called for...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Toasted Almond Snowballs

Browning almond flour for these cookies adds a deep layer of toasty flavor, intensifying their overall nuttiness. Feel free to substitute other nuts: Pistachios,...

Author: Melissa Clark

Peanut Butter Blossoms

For as long as anyone can remember, wedding receptions in Pittsburgh have featured cookie tables, laden with dozens of homemade old-fashioned offerings...

Author: The New York Times

Blondies

Blondies are made for those of us that love chocolate chip cookies, but don't have the time or energy to bake tray after tray of scooped sweets. They have...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

No Bake Melon Cheesecake Bars

Reminiscent of creamy, honeydew-scented Korean ice cream bars, this no-bake cheesecake leans into a fruit flavor that hasn't had enough time in the sun:...

Author: Eric Kim

Brookies

Why just eat a chocolate chip cookie when you could marry it with a dense, fudgy brownie? You do have to make two different batters, but each is whipped...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Peanut Butter No Bake Bars

These bars are perfect for when you're craving a peanut butter cup, but can't quite get to them. Inspired by buckeyes, they have that same fudgy-salty-sweet...

Author: Melissa Clark

Sugar Cookies

Everyone needs a good sugar cookie recipe. If you can master the very simple technique behind this one dough, you have several variations at your disposal,...

Author: Alison Roman

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

This delightful recipe, a veganized version of the legendary Times's chocolate chip cookie, is the result of hours of research and more than 50 batches...

Author: Erin Jeanne McDowell

Alfajores

Popular all over Latin America, dulce de leche confections called alfajores come in many varieties. In this popular version, delicate, crumbly butter cookies...

Author: Melissa Clark

Black and White Brownies

Baking big chunks of white chocolate into gooey, bittersweet brownies adds contrast of both color and texture. Even better, the edges of any exposed white...

Author: Melissa Clark

Chocolate Extremes (Double Chocolate Cookies)

These provocatively named cookies came to The Times in a 1999 Sunday Magazine article about Mrs. London's Bake Shop, a husband and wife owned bakery in...

Author: Molly O'Neill

Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread

In this vibrant holiday dessert, cocoa shortbread is pressed into an even layer, baked, then topped with swoops of peppermint meringue (optionally swirled...

Author: Sohla El-Waylly

Crisp Toffee Bars

The original recipe for these buttery, basic toffee bars belongs to Maida Heatter, the great American dessert maven of the 20th century. It was adapted...

Author: Julia Moskin

Key Lime Pie Bars With Vanilla Wafer Crust

Some say that a Key lime's juice is slightly more floral than that of its more well-known cousin, the Persian lime, the kind you can find in every supermarket...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Brown Butter Toffee Sandwich Cookies

These crisp butter cookies incorporate blitzed toffee in place of some of the sugar and butter for a rich caramel flavor. To really amplify that almond-toffee...

Author: Sohla El-Waylly

Pecan Tassies

Pecan tassies are bite-size pecan pies disguised as cookies. With a simple crust that's both tangy and rich, thanks to cream cheese and butter, and a not-too-sweet...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Chocolate Italian Wedding Cookies

No one knows how or why the cookie table became a wedding tradition in Pittsburgh. Some believe the Italians started it, others the Europeans and many...

Author: Ron Lieber

Crisp Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Inspired by two recipes in Maida Heatter's "Book of Great Cookies," these crisp treats are the best peanut butter cookies I've ever tasted.

Author: Martha Rose Shulman

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

You like chocolate chip cookies. You like pizza. What could be better than a giant chocolate chip pizza cookie? If your answer is, "pretty much nothing,"...

Author: Margaux Laskey

Cocoa Cornmeal Biscotti

Everything about these biscotti tends toward crunch - their signature double bake, of course, but also the addition of almonds and some cornmeal, which...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Soft Sugar Cookies With Raspberry Frosting

In 1994, Lofthouse Cookies hit American grocery store shelves like a frosted meteorite. If you grew up in the suburbs, then you may have had one: soft,...

Author: Eric Kim

Bouchon Bakery's 'Nutter Butters'

This peanut butter sandwich cookie is a smaller version of the gargantuan homemade Nutter Butters served at Bouchon Bakery, Thomas Keller's restaurant...

Author: Frank Bruni

Chocolate Shortbread Hearts

Fragile and supremely buttery, these cocoa-flavored shortbread cookies are dunked partway in melted chocolate and sprinkled with an optional topping of...

Author: Melissa Clark

Magic Cookie Bars

Coconut dream bars. Magic cookie bars. Hello Dolly bars. You've seen these classic treats at bake sales, holiday parties and potlucks over the years. But...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Pumpkin Drop Cookies

These tender, spiced pumpkin cookies with browned butter icing were adapted from Pat Young, the winner of the best pumpkin recipe at the 83rd Pumpkin Show...

Author: The New York Times

Double Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Deeply chocolaty like devil's food cake, speckled with sugar on the outsides and filled with soft chocolate or jam in the centers, these cookies are a...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Powdered Sugar Pecan Cookies

Author: Molly O'Neill

Eggnog Snickerdoodles

These pillowy, festive cookies are great to have in your back pocket when you're in the mood for a quick holiday treat. Rum extract, widely available during...

Author: Vaughn Vreeland

Royal Icing

This is a recipe for the classic icing used to decorate cut-out sugar cookies and gingerbread houses. It hardens quickly, so be sure to cover any you're...

Author: Melissa Clark

Peanut Butter Miso Cookies

These cookies were the result of a happy accident. (The best things always are, aren't they?) When the peanut butter ran out, similarly creamy white miso...

Author: Krysten Chambrot

Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies

Semolina flour gives these rather plain-looking but delicious cookies, adapted from "Dorie's Cookies" by Dorie Greenspan, a delightfully sandy texture....

Author: Melissa Clark

Pecan Shortbread

This pecan shortbread - crumbly, salty and buttery, with a touch of cardamom - is delicate in flavor but sturdy enough in structure for a dessert on the...

Author: David Tanis

Ginger Molasses Cookies

Think of these cookies as a cross between a gingerbread man and a chewy molasses cookie. Adding molasses gives them a softer texture with a decidedly adult,...

Author: Alison Roman

Salted Pretzel Brownies

Sprinkling flaky sea salt on brownies makes their bittersweet nature pop; it's the kind of flavor contrast that keeps you coming back for more (as if the...

Author: Melissa Clark

A Spice Cookie to Share

The only thing better than a plate of cookies is one big cookie meant to be shared by everyone around the table. It's the kind of dessert that will encourage...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Black and White Cookies

There is no reason to settle for a stale shrink-wrapped cookie from the produce market. This classic New York cookie is easy to make.

Author: William Grimes

Mokonuts' Rye Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies

These are the cookies that stopped me in my tracks. I was wandering along a side street in Paris's 11th Arrondissement, saw these cookies on a counter...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Crispy Orange Coconut Balls

In the world of Sandra Lee, a cookbook author and self-proclaimed "lifestylist," life is hectic and people are busy, so she cooks semi-homemade food. "The...

Author: Amanda Hesser

Pierre Hermé's Ispahan Sablés

Pierre Hermé, France's most celebrated pastry chef, has created a family of desserts called Ispahan, named for the ancient city in Persia that was famous...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Ma'amoul

Ma'amoul are popular Middle Eastern shortbread cookies flavored with mahlab - a powdered spice made of cherry pits - and orange blossom water. They're...

Author: The New York Times

Double Chocolate Cookies

With plenty of cocoa powder and big wells of dark chocolate, these double chocolate cookies are so fudgy that a tall glass of cold milk is not only delicious,...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Salted Caramel Peanut Brownie Bars

With a chewy chocolate chunk-studded base and heaps of gooey peanut-laden caramel, these bars are part candy bar and part brownie with cookielike edges....

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Cardamom Butter Crescents

The egg whites in the batter keep these buttery shortbread-like cookies crumbly and light (and provide a place for all those spare egg whites you accumulate...

Author: Melissa Clark

Tahini Thumbprints Cookies With Dulce de Leche

Pleasantly bitter tahini and rich, sweet dulce de leche make a perfect pair in these charming little cookies. The tahini gives the baked dough a fudgy,...

Author: Yossy Arefi

Cinnamon Squares

You could think of these cinnamon squares as the wintry brother of tangy, summery lemon bars, but what they really are is shortbread topped with a cinnamon-infused...

Author: Nigella Lawson