Vegetarian Recipes

30+ Best Cookie Recipes

Included here are classic cookie recipes like chocolate chip cookies, shortbread, skillet cookies, and snickerdoodles. Also, check out the crowd-pleasing wildcards here, like Nikki’s Healthy Cookies (really!), No Bake Energy Bites, and Limoncello Macaroons.

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.
Rosewater Shortbread Cookies

Classic, buttery, whole wheat shortbread cookies fragrant with rosewater, flecked with toasted nuts, and dried rose petals.
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, dense and moist within.
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.
Toasted Almond Sable Cookies

Toasty, nutty sable cookies made with whole wheat flour, sliced almonds, currents and salted butter.
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.
Itsy Bitsy Chocolate Chip Cookies

The perfect bite-sized chocolate chip cookie. Tiny, thin, golden, crisp, a bit nutty with plenty of shaved chocolate.
Chocolate Puddle Cookies

A crackle-edged puddle of chocolate with a texture that made me think of the collision between a soft meringue and a fudgy brownie.
Middle Eastern Millionaire’s Shortbread

This is the shortbread from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s Sweet, and it’s incredible.
Chocolate Dipped Biscotti

Sesame studded and heavily scented with crushed fennel seeds and chamomile.
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.
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.
4 o’clock No-bake Energy Bites

My favorite alternative to energy bars – these are a favorite late afternoon snack.
Anzac Cookies

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

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

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

Everything you want in a gingerbread cookie. These are classic, spice-flecked, and delicious.
Quinoa Hemp Snack Balls

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

Charming little bite-sized, powder-coated pistachio biscotti cookies.
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies ever of all time.
Quinoa Cloud Cookies

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

Tiny, bite-sized holiday cookies made with two kinds of ginger and lots of shaved chocolate.
Nikki’s Healthy Cookies

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

Perfect, golden, scalloped madeleines. From a favorite recipe shared with me by a friend and long-time Madeleine baker.
Great Chocolate Chip Cookies from David Lebovitz

If you like a serious chocolate chip cookie, this is the recipe. A high chip to dough ratio guarantees lots of chocolate in every bite, and the walnuts add crunch, density, and a delicious flavor to the overall mix.
Super Swiss Meringues

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

I’m going to include the recipe for these below. It is hands-down my absolute favorite cookie recipe 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.

Cookies are often a favorite punctuation to everyday moments, or the best kind of homemade gift for a friend. Everyone can (and should) bake delicious cookies on occasion! Have fun!

Blueberry Rye Cookie Recipe

The flour here is 100% rye, and my wildcard ingredient is an entire bag of crushed, freeze-dried blueberries. The cookies are extra-large, perfect for cutting into quarters to serve on a cookie plate. If baking from frozen, increase baking time by 4-6 minutes.

INGREDIENTS

14 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, sliced
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/4 cup rye flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1.2 oz bag (1 cup) freeze-dried blueberries, crushed

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350F, with a rack in the middle. Line two baking pans with parchment paper.
Beat the butter, by hand or mixer, in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the sugars, then beat until uniform. Stir in the egg and vanilla extract until well combined. Add the rye flour, and then sprinkle with baking soda, salt, and raspberries. Stir just until the dough is combined.
Form the dough into twelve 70g balls, approximately 1/4 cup each. Place 6 on each baking sheet. Put in the freezer for 15 minutes prior to baking, or chill, refrigerated, overnight. Bake, one sheet at a time, until the cookie edges are deeply golden, 15-18 minutes or so. Transfer to a baking rack to cool completely.

NOTES

Makes 12 cookies.

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Vegetarian Recipes

Gimlet Cocktail

The gimlet is a classic cocktail that deserves more attention! Made with gin, lime juice and sweetened with simple syrup, it comes from the sour family of cocktails (my specialty). Save the elaborate cocktails with unrecognizable ingredients for ordering at fancy bars—a simple, citrusy, not-too-sweet cocktail at home is one of life’s simple pleasures.

The gimlet is light and bright, like a more casual version of a martini that you can sip slowly on a porch. I love a gimlet in the spring or summer—they’re fresh and just right. If you enjoy ordering a good gin cocktail or a margarita made with real lime juice, you will love a homemade gimlet.

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