Tested Cookie Recipes & Videos
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Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Shortbread Cookie
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Oatmeal Cookies |
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
are made with butter and a combination of white and brown sugars
which produces a rich and chewy cookie with caramelized edges.
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Scottish in origin, these rich, tender and crumbly straw colored
cookies were once only served during Christmas and New Year's Eve.
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Loaded with oats, this
version produces a crisp and chewy cookie that can be filled with
chocolate chips (white or dark chocolate), dried fruits, and/or
chopped nuts. more |
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Red Velvet
Whoopie Pies |
French Macarons Recipe |
Snickerdoodles |
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies take two round
domed shaped chocolate cookies and sandwich them together with a soft
and tangy cream cheese filling. more |
French Macarons take two
almond flavored meringue cookies and sandwiches them together with a
delicious filling. The outside crust is crisp yet inside they are
wonderfully soft. more |
Snickerdoodles are an
old fashioned cookie that have a sugar cinnamon coating and a sweet
and buttery flavor. more |
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Chocolate Macarons |
Rum Balls |
Biscotti Recipes |
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Chocolate Macarons take two almond
flavored meringue cookies and sandwiches them together with chocolate ganache.
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Rum balls are the
perfect adult indulgence for as their name implies, 'rum' balls
contain rum and since we do not bake these cookies the alcohol taste
and content are not lost during baking. more |
The Italians use the term biscotti to
refer to any type of cookie. In North America, biscotti is used to
describe a long, dry, hard twice-baked cookie with a curved top and
flat bottom designed for dunking into wine or coffee.
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During
the early part of the 18th century North Americans began to use the word
'cookie' to define a small, sweet, flat or slightly raised confection.
The word 'cookie' appears to come from the Dutch word "koekje
or koekie" and refers to a small cake. Alan Davidson in
The Oxford Companion to Food states that "cookies were originally
associated with New Year's Day....references from the early part of the
19th century show that cookies and cherry bounce (a cherry cordial) were
the correct fare with which to greet visitors on that occasion."
Cookies are now eaten any time of the day - coffee breaks, as a snack,
for dessert, and even given as a welcoming gift.
The arrival of immigrants from all over the world has
had an enormous impact on the variety of cookies now made and enjoyed in
the United States. Our most famous cookie, the chocolate chip, is
of our own invention. Around 1930
Ruth Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts, decided
to cut up chunks of Nestle's Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate bar and
add them to a rich butter cookie dough. The Nestle company
discovered her delicious cookie and made a deal for the rights to her
recipe.
By 1939 Nestle had invented
chocolate morsels and packaged them in a Yellow Label bag and, upon
buying the Toll House name, printed Ruth Wakefield's recipe for "The
Famous Toll House Cookie" on the back......
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Homemade Graham Crackers |
Bar & Squares Recipes |
Thumbprint Cookies |
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Homemade Graham Crackers
(Wafers), are a slightly sweet and grainy whole wheat cracker that I
think looks and tastes as good as store bought.
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Unlike cookies where the
batter is dropped in mounds on a baking sheet, or formed into individual
balls, or even rolled out and cut into pretty shapes, a batter for
squares is simply spread into a pan. It is only after baking that they
are cut into individual portions.
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A seasonal favorite,
buttery balls of dough are rolled in toasted nuts and filled with jam.
These little gems get their name from the fact you use your "thumb" to
make an indentation into each ball of dough for the jam.
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Chocolate Cream Cookies |
Butter Cookies |
Streusel Cookie Recipe |
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These Chocolate Cream
Cookies have a buttery crisp texture and are filled with a sweet and
buttery cream. A sandwich cookie at its best.
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Butter Cookies are sweet and
buttery with wonderfully crisp edges. Serve them plain with a bowl of
fruit sorbet or a fruit salad. These cookies can also be covered with a
Confectioners Frosting or dipped in melted chocolate.
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Like a shortbread, this Streusel Cookie
has a crisp and crumbly, yet chewy
texture, with a buttery sweet flavor. And its full of crunchy almonds.
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Melting Moments |
Sugar Cookies |
Fig Oatmeal Cookies |
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Melting Moments are a
delicious shortbread-like cookie covered with confectioners sugar that
literally melt-in-your-mouth. more |
These sweet and buttery
cut-out cookies are always a favorite. You can also dress them simply
with granulated or colored sugars or make them very decorative with royal icing. more |
This a delicious sandwich
cookie that takes two buttery crisp oatmeal cookies and fills them with
lightly sweetened pureed dried figs.
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Coconut Macaroons |
Chocolate Coconut Macaroons |
Chocolate Cookies |
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Coconut Macaroons have a
wonderfully sweet coconut flavor with a crisp exterior and a soft and
chewy texture. more |
Chocolate Coconut Macaroons
are bursting with flakes of sweetened coconut and have a wonderful deep
chocolate flavor. more |
Combining the subtle
flavor of Dutch-processed cocoa powder with dark and white chocolate
chips produces a chocolate filled cookie that is chewy yet has nice
crisp edges. more |
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Peanut Butter Cookies |
Chocolate Fudge
Cookies |
Meringue Cookies |
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Peanut Butter Cookies
are instantly recognizable by their crisscross pattern. They have that
'sweet and salty' flavor combination that make them irresistible.
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This cookie is a
chocolate lover's delight. Not only are they made with a whole pound of
chocolate, but they also contain both white and dark chocolate chips.
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Meringue Cookies are so
airy, sweet and crisp that they seem to almost melt in your mouth.
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Chocolate Meringue Cookies |
Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons |
Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian Tea Cakes |
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Chocolate Meringues have a
powdery crisp outside crust with soft marshmallow centers that are both
sweet and chocolately.
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Chocolate Dipped Coconut
Macaroons have wonderfully crispy edges and soft and chewy centers. They
are lovely when dipped in melted chocolate.
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These melt-in-your mouth,
shortbread-like cookies go by many names; a Russian Tea Cake, a Mexican
Wedding Cake, an Italian Butter Nut, a Southern Pecan Butterball, a
Snowdrop, a Viennese Sugar Ball and a Snowball.
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Cowboy Cookies |
Crispy Oatmeal Cookies |
Financiers |
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Cowboy Cookies are sweet and
buttery and loaded with chocolate chips, rolled oats, raisins, sweetened
coconut, and walnuts. more |
Crispy Oatmeal Cookies have
lots of oats which makes them chewy and they also contain rice cereal
which gives them a delightful crunch.
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Financiers are soft and
springy with a domed top and a lovely golden brown crust. Take a
bite and you can taste the moist flavor of butter and almonds.
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Black and
White Cookies |
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Gingerbread Cookies |
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Black and White Cookies,
also known as Half Moon or Half and Half Cookies, are
large, sweet and buttery, dome shaped cookies, that are iced with both
vanilla and chocolate fondant frostings.
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip
Cookies use cocoa powder, melted dark chocolate and chocolate chips for
a cookie that is rich with chocolate flavor.
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Fall and Winter baking wouldn't
seem complete without a batch of gingerbread cookies. Fragrant with
ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves the amount of which can be
adjusted to suit your own individual taste.
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M&M's®
Cookies |
Gingersnaps |
Spritz Cookies |
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M&M's cookies have
wonderfully crisp edges and soft and chewy centers. Kids absolutely love
these candy topped cookies. more |
Ginger Snaps are a
highly addictive, sugar coated cookie that gets its chewy texture and
spicy flavor from adding brown sugar, molasses, and spices (cinnamon,
ginger and cloves) to the batter. more |
Spritz Cookies, also known
as Swedish Butter Cookies or Pressed Butter Cookies, are a very popular
Christmas cookie. They have a lovely vanilla flavor and a rich buttery
texture that is tender crisp. more |
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Whoopie Pies |
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies |
Peppermint Whoopie Pies |
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Whoopie Pies take two round
domed shaped chocolate cookies and sandwich them together with a soft
and creamy vanilla filling. more |
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies take
two round domed shaped pumpkin cookies and sandwich them together with a
soft and creamy vanilla filling. more |
Peppermint Whoopie Pies
takes two round domed shaped chocolate cookies and sandwiches them with
crushed candy canes in a marshmallow filling.
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies |
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies |
Raisin Cookies |
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Peanut Butter Sandwich
Cookies take two peanut butter cookies and sandwiches them together with
a creamy peanut butter filling.
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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
are delicious. Each cookie has a miniature peanut butter cup pressed
into the center which makes for a wonderful treat.
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Raisin Cookies have a
soft and chewy texture and a buttery sweet flavor. These homey
raisin-packed, old fashioned drop cookies are a busy mother's
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Meringue Hearts |
Meringue Mushrooms |
Molasses Cookies |
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Since meringues pair so well
with fruits and creams, for this dessert I have made individual
heart-shaped meringues and topped them with strawberry cream and fresh
strawberries. more |
This does seem like a very
long and involved recipe but the meringue mushrooms are really not
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This highly addictive, sugar
coated cookie gets its chewy texture and spicy flavor from adding dark
brown sugar, molasses, and spices (cinnamon, ginger and cloves) to the
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Madeleines |
Sables (French Butter Cookies) |
Spice Cookies |
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Whether you enjoy them
plain or dipped in your tea or coffee, these Madeleines make
the perfect afternoon treat. more |
Sables, also known as French
Butter Cookie or Breton Biscuit, is a classic French cookie originating
in Normandy France. more |
Spice cookies are a great
tasting spicy almond cookie that is crisp and crunchy.
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Tuiles A D'Orange |
Hermit Cookies |
Checkerboard Cookies |
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Tuiles are one of my
favorite cookies. The orange crunchy flavor is absolutely delicious.
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Hermit Cookies
have a soft and chewy texture, are nicely spiced with ground cinnamon,
allspice and cloves, and are jammed with raisins, dates,
and nuts. more |
Checkerboard cookies
are appealing not only because they look beautiful but also because they
combine both the flavors of chocolate and vanilla.
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Speculaas |
Pumpkin Cookies |
Chocolate Wafers |
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This recipe is one I have
adapted from 'Windmills in my Oven' as it still gives you that wonderful
spicy flavor of the commercial product only with a softer texture.
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Pumpkin Cookies have a
wonderfully soft and spongy texture and taste of pumpkin and its
complementary spices (ground cinnamon, ginger and cloves). Absolutely
delicious with a cream cheese frosting.
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Although there are many
chocolate cookies to choose from, I love to snack on these Chocolate
Wafers. Their texture is wonderfully crisp and crunchy and their
chocolate flavor is rich. more |
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Icebox Cookies |
Chocolate Crinkles |
Ladyfingers |
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A stack of these sweet and
buttery Icebox Cookies, dotted with flecks of red candied cherries,
makes you think of Christmas. more |
These are known as
Chocolate Crinkles or Black and Whites. Both are perfect names for
this deliciously soft, fudge-like chocolate cookie that is encased
in a coating of confectioners sugar.
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You may know them as
Ladyfingers but these long finger- or oval-shaped cookies are also known
around the world as Boudoir biscuits, sponge biscuits, sponge fingers,
Naples biscuits, Savoy biscuits (Savoiardi) and biscuits la cuiller.
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies |
Bourbon Balls |
Everything Cookies |
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are a big and fat, golden brown cookie with a
bumpy surface all dotted with raisins. Their edges are crisp, their
flavor sweet, and their texture is wonderfully soft and chewy.
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Bourbon Balls
are a sweet and chewy,
no-bake confection made from a combination of crushed vanilla
wafers, confectioners sugar, cocoa powder, chopped pecans or
walnuts, held together with a little corn syrup and bourbon.
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Everything Cookies are sweet
and buttery and loaded with chocolate chips, rolled oats, raisins,
sweetened coconut, and walnuts. more |
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Chocolate Chunk Cookies |
Welsh Cakes |
Linzer Cookies |
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If you are in the mood
for a crispy buttery chocolate chip cookie this recipe fits the bill. more |
If you are not of Welsh
descent you may not be familiar with Welsh Cakes. I think the best way
to describe them would be scone-like, albeit in cookie form.
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Linzer Cookies use the same ingredients
as the Linzertorte but present them in a different way. Two cookies are
sandwiched together with a layer of preserves.
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Ginger Cookies |
Amaretti Cookies (Almond Macaroons) |
Frosted Tea Cakes |
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Ginger Cookies are aptly
named, as they are both ginger colored and ginger flavored. They have a
sugar coated crackly surface and when you bite into one you will find
the texture soft and chewy with a flavor that is buttery and spicy.
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Amaretti is the Italian name
for macaroons, which means little bitter things. Crisp and crunchy on
the outside and soft inside, these small domed shaped cookies originated
in Venice Italy during the Renaissance period.
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Their soft buttery
texture is a cross between a butter cake and a cream scone and when iced
with confectioners frosting, you have a cookie that delights both adults
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Royal Icing |
Brutti ma Buoni |
Gingerbread Men |
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Royal Icing is a pure white
icing that dries to a smooth, hard, matte finish. Besides its lovely
finish it also colors beautifully and it is used as a frosting for cakes
and cookies and also for intricate piping of decorations.
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Brutti ma Buoni is a
delicious Italian cookie that has a wonderfully crisp exterior with a
texture that is soft and chewy. Very similar to a meringue cookie only
with nuts. more |
Christmas baking
wouldn't seem complete without a batch of gingerbread men. Fragrant with
ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves the amount of which can be
adjusted to suit your own individual taste.
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Peanut Blossom Cookies |
Alfajores |
Chocolate Sugar Cookies |
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Peanut Blossom Cookies
consist of a peanut butter cookie that has a chocolate Kiss sitting
happily on top.
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Alfajores take two buttery crisp shortbread cookies and sandwiches
them together with a sticky and gooey caramel-like filling (Dulce de
Leche). more |
Chocolate Sugar Cookies are
a sweet and buttery cut-out cookie with a mild chocolate flavor that are
frosted with royal icing. more |
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Raspberry Butter Cookies |
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A buttery sweet sandwich
cookie with a wonderfully light and crispy texture. Irresistible when
paired with the tangy sweetness of raspberry jam.
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