1,328 butter cookie recipes

Thin, crispy lacy almond cookies with just five ingredients: blanched almonds, sugar, butter, flour, and milk. Delicate, caramelized, and ready in under 30 minutes.

Date pecan snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar with a buttery, crumbly shortbread base. No eggs, no leavening, just butter, flour, dates, and pecans.

Mocha pecan balls rolled in powdered sugar, made with espresso, cocoa powder, butter, and chopped pecans. A coffee-chocolate twist on classic snowball cookies.

Fat-free cinnamon-raisin biscotti made with egg whites. Twice-baked Italian cookies that crunch hard, dunk well, and skip butter and yolks entirely.

Fat-free chewy chocolate cookies made with cocoa powder, corn syrup, and egg whites instead of butter. Soft, fudgy, and intensely chocolatey with zero added fat.

Monster chunk cookies with hand-cut chocolate chunks, rolled oats, dark brown sugar, and butter baked low and slow for thick, chewy centers and golden edges.

Classic British teatime shortbread cookies with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Buttery, crumbly, and pale golden with the traditional fork-pricked tops.

Walnut crescent cookies rolled in powdered sugar, made with ground walnuts, butter, and egg yolks. Delicate, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread that improves with age.

No-bake caramel oatmeal cookies made on the stovetop with butterscotch pudding mix, evaporated milk, butter, and quick oats. Drop, cool, eat. No oven required.

Classic four-ingredient shortbread cookies with just flour, butter, sugar, and salt. Pressed into a sheet pan, pricked with a fork, and baked until set.

French sables are buttery slice-and-bake cookies with a crumbly, sandy texture and sparkling sugar crust. Six ingredients, no leavener, all about the butter.

Elegant tea cookies made from a slice-and-bake butter dough with cream and vanilla. Chill overnight, slice thin, and bake until crisp and golden.

Authentic Neapolitan biscotti with whole and ground almonds, honey, and cinnamon. Twice-baked Italian cookies with a deep nutty crunch and no butter or eggs.

Mexican wedding cookies shaped into crescents with butter, crushed pecans, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Tender, crumbly, and melt-in-your-mouth with just six ingredients.

White chocolate macadamia cookies with chunky white chocolate pieces and coarsely chopped unsalted macadamias in a brown sugar butter dough. Rolled, flattened, and baked golden.

Jam Jams are old-fashioned sandwich cookies made with brown sugar and corn syrup, rolled and cut, then filled with apple butter or raspberry jam.