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These easy cookie recipes are good enough for company and easy enough for every day. From simple drop cookies to rollout cookies to shaped and formed cookies, these recipes will take you through the seasons and the holidays.
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Best Classic Cookie Recipes

Searching for the best classic cookie recipes? These top 10 Classic Cookie Recipes feature time tested favorites, including Frosted Ginger Cookies and My Mom's Oatmeal Cookies.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches are a delicious and easy sandwich cookie recipe. Make these delicious oatmeal cookies with peanut butter and make them into sandwiches with the creamy chocolate filling.

Malted Milk Cookies

Malted Milk Cookies are an easy and delicious cookie recipe with a smooth flavor. Make Malted Milk Cookies with chopped malted milk balls and malted milk powder.

Applesauce Cookies

Applesauce Cookies are an easy and delicious recipe. Make cookies with applesauce, maple syrup, browned butter, and spices.

Oatmeal Butter Cookies

Oatmeal Butter Cookies are a quick and easy heirloom cookie recipe. Oatmeal Butter Cookies are delicious, crisp, and very buttery.

Sugar Crusted Tea Cakes

Sugar Crusted Melting Cookies are an easy and delicious shortbread cookie. These melting and simple cookies are coated with an orange-juice and sugar crust.

Rosettes

Rosettes are made from a thin batter that is fried on specially shaped irons. Scandinavian Rosettes are a deep fried holiday cookie.

Applesauce Granola Cookies

Applesauce Granola Cookies are a quick and easy recipe. These easy cookies contain applesauce for moistness and granola for crunch and flavor in a simple drop cookie recipe.

Gingerbread Cookies

Spicy gingerbread dough is rolled out and cut into fanciful shapes, then baked and decorated for a classic Christmas treat.

BisQwick Chocolate Chip Cookies

BisQwick Chocolate Chip Cookies are a quick and easy homemade cookie recipe that starts with a homemade baking mix.

Spritz Cookies

Spritz cookies are tender little butter cookies pressed through a cookie press to make Christmas designs. Spritz cookie recipe.

Date Oatmeal Cookies

Date Oatmeal Cookies are a wonderful old fashioned recipe full of oats, dates, nuts, and cinnamon. Heirloom cookie full of dates and oatmeal.

Norwegian Heirloom Cookies

Norwegian Heirloom Cookies are tender butter cookies filled with ground almonds, baked, then rolled in powdered sugar to coat. Family recipe for butter cookies.

Grandma's Sugar Cookies

These light and crisp sugar cookies melt in your mouth. Old fashioned and delicate sugar cookie recipe perfect for roll out cookies for Christmas.

Cake Mix Cookies

Make these easy cookies from any flavor of purchased cake mix.

Butternut Balls

Butternut Balls are a simple butter cookie formed around a pecan half or a chocolate kiss, baked, then rolled in powdered sugar. Simple butter cookies recipe.

Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies

Crisp cereal, raisins, and oat bran add nutrition and crunch to an easy peanut butter cookies recipe.

Oatmeal Cookies

This old fashioned, chewy oatmeal cookie recipe is delicious.

Snickerdoodles

These classic sweet cookies are a real kid favorite in a super simple recipe.

Go Fish Cookies

Tiny fish shaped pretzels are added to a brown sugar cookie dough recipe to make fun cookies with a 'Go Fish' theme.

Orange Almond Macaroons

Macaroon recipe with orange and almonds is a special treat for Passover or any time.

Cashew Cookies

This very easy recipe uses refrigerated cookie dough with coconut and nuts added.

Norwegian Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies are a little fussy to make, but are a delightful twist on traditional oatmeal cookies.

Pirouette Lace Cookies

Pirouette cookies are lace cookies, made by baking a thin batter until bubbly, then rolling around the handle of a wooden spoon to shape before cooling.

Thumbprint Cookies

These tender little cookies are shaped with your thumb, then filled with colored frosting and decorated with egg shaped candies.

Golden Ring Cookies

As part of the Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies, this roll out cookie is frosted with yellow frosting and sprinkled with edible glitter.

Caramel Cut Out Cookies

These delicious crisp roll out cookies have brown sugar and almond paste in the dough, giving them extra flavor.

Tuiles Cookies

These delicate and crisp cookies are a traditional French cooky.

Nutmeg Cookies

These delicious and tender shortbread cookies are formed into logs and baked, then frosted with a rich buttercream frosting.

Anise Biscotti

This easy recipe for classic Italian twice baked cookies start with cake mix. Biscotti is a twice-baked cookie perfect for dunking into hot coffee.

Caramel Cream Sandwich Cookies

Tender brown sugar cookies are sandwiched together with a rich browned butter frosting.

Cherry Winks Cookies

Cherry winks are a classic drop cookie recipe from the 2nd Pillsbury Bake Off contest.

Frosted Roll Out Butter Cookies

This classic recipe for roll out butter cookies has a bit of orange juice for tender texture and delicious flavor.

Mexican Tea Cookies

These very easy and simple, tender shortbread cookies are perennial favorites; the recipe is found in almost every culture.

Peanut Butter Candy Cookies

This easy peanut butter cookie recipe, stuffed with candy pieces, start with a cake mix.

Pecan Praline Cookies

These slice and bake refrigerator cookies look and taste just like pecan pralines in an easy make ahead recipe.

M & M Cookies

M & M Cookies are delicious and easy to make, using plain chocolate candies and a rich brown sugar dough. Make cookies with M&Ms candies instead of chocolate chips!

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies are an easy and delicious four ingredient recipe to make anytime. Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies are a greatg way to use up leftover Halloween candy.

Caramel Pumpkin Cookies

Caramel Pumpkin Cookies are delicious and easy to make. This delicious cooky recipe with pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, and a caramel frosting are fun to decorate for Halloween.

Frosted Ginger Cookies

Frosted Ginger Cookies are big, soft, and delicious, frosted with a fabulous vanilla buttercream. This easy cookie recipe makes big spicy cookies frosted with vanilla frosting.

Peanut Sitting-Pretties Thumbprint Cookies

A special cookie recipe filled with frosting and candy coated chocolate peanut candies that is perfect for Easter or Christmas. Peanut Sitting-Pretties are a thumbprint Christmas cookie.

White Chocolate Cashew Cookies

Searching for the best white chocolate chip cookie? This fabulous and easy recipe combines white chocolate chips and cashews in a brown sugar batter.

Krumkakke

Searching for the best Krumkakke recipe? This recipe from my paternal grandmother is easy, delicate, and flavorful.

Sandbakkel

Searching for the best Sandbakkel recipe? This fabulous recipe for these little shortbread tarts from my grandmother is light, tender, and crisp.

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