20 Tried and True Cookie Recipes

When you feel like you’ve lived through five lifetimes already and it’s only March, a gooey, warm cookie is exactly what you need.

Whether you’re craving something traditional like a gooey chocolate chip cookie – or something unique – like a copycat Girl Scout cookie, one of these cookie recipes has your name on it.

Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

Soft cut-out sugar cookies are light and buttery with a gentle vanilla flavor. There is no need to chill the dough. Roll out the room-temperature dough, cut it into shapes, freeze for a few minutes, and then bake. The cookies will not spread out and are great for decorating.
Get the Recipe: Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies

Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies are seriously the ultimate cookie. Loaded with peanut butter, M&Ms, and chocolate chips – they are so delicious.
Get the Recipe: Ultimate Peanut Butter Cookies

Salted Caramel Brownie Cookies (Girl Scouts Adventureful Copycat)

You don’t have to wait for Girl Scout Cookie Season to enjoy the best new cookie! This Adventureful Cookie copycat is so good! Your favorite crinkle-top chewy brownie is combined with soft caramels and turned into a cookie!
Get the Recipe: Adventureful Cookie Copycat

Crispy and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

With over 4 million page views and 1,200+ positive reviews, this is THE crispy and chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe. I tested this recipe 20+ times and fine-tuned every variable to ensure that these chocolate chip cookies have crisp golden edges and soft, chewy centers.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies give you the best of both worlds: peanut butter cookies combined with chocolate chip cookies! They’re soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate chunks. Everyone loves them.
Get the Recipe: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Kitchen Sink Cookies

Kitchen Sink Cookies are soft and chewy cookies packed with chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chips, and toffee (“everything but the…”). Make them as written, or swap in your favorite mix-ins. 
With over 300 positive reviews and 1 million+ page views, these are THE cookie you’ll want to bring to every occasion.
Get the Recipe: Kitchen Sink Cookies

Puff Pastry Hearts

These delicious Puff Pastry Hearts are the perfect dessert to make for someone special. They are rich in flavor and so soft they melt in your mouth!
Get the Recipe: Puff Pastry Hearts

Brown Butter Toffeedoodle Cookie Recipe (Starbucks Copycat)

This Brown Butter Toffeedoodle Cookie takes our family’s favorite Snickerdoodle cookie to a whole new level! Rich browned butter, a sprinkling of toffee bits, then dipped in cinnamon sugar. It is a soft, buttery, and delicious cookie!
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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

We love cookies in our house…particularly chocolate chip cookies. This recipe makes the best bakery-style chocolate chip cookies I have ever had! They are soft, chewy, and so delicious!
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Our Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe ever! They are soft and chewy, classic chocolate chip cookies that are SO easy to make with a secret ingredient!
Get the Recipe: The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie

S’mores Cookies

These S’mores Cookies are just what you are looking for when you are craving a delicious s’more. They are jumbo in size and flavor with melty chocolate and marshmallows, which makes them even more irresistible!
Get the Recipe: S’mores Cookies

The Very Best Snickerdoodle Cookies

These Snickerdoodle Cookies are made without cream of tartar, but they are still the best you’ll ever have! They are soft and thick, with just the right cinnamon flavor!
Get the Recipe: Snickerdoodle Cookies

Chocolate Dipped Sugar Cookies

These Chocolate Dipped Sugar Cookies are ones that will become your go-to sugar cookie recipe. They are delicious on their own, but even sweeter dipped in chocolate!
Get the Recipe: Chocolate Dipped Sugar Cookies

Cinnamon Puff Pastry Hearts

Cinnamon Puff Pastry Hearts are a treat from Buffalo, NY. They are rich in flavor and so soft and sweet that they melt in your mouth!
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Buttermilk Cookies with Honey Buttercream Frosting

Buttermilk Cookies with Honey Buttercream Frosting are like the top of a cupcake – soft, fluffy, and loaded with frosting. They are light, perfectly sweet, and so delicious.
Get the Recipe: Buttermilk Cookies with Honey Buttercream Frosting

Chewy Trail Mix Cookies

These Trail Mix Cookies are a great little treat for you and your family. Filled with ingredients that you normally put in trail mix like sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, pecans, and of course, some chocolate!
Get the Recipe: Chewy Trail Mix Cookies

Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These bite-sized Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are high on my list of cookies to make often for my family. They are a delicious, soft cookie that you can gobble up in two bites. We all love them!
Get the Recipe: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

These Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies are a delicious classic cookie. With the addition of drizzled melted chocolate, they are even tastier!
Get the Recipe: Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Frosted Sugar Cookies

These Heart Sugar Cookies are the perfect treat for Valentine’s Day, an anniversary, or any day when you want to show someone that you love them. They are beautiful, fun to make, and taste so delicious.
Get the Recipe: Heart Sugar Cookies

Haystack Cookies

Haystack Cookies are an easy dessert for the holidays, but who says you can’t make them any time of the year? They are delicious no-bake cookies that are made from a combination of melted chocolate, creamy butterscotch, salty peanuts, and crunchy chow mein noodles.
Get the Recipe: Haystack Cookies

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