586 cookie dough recipes

Vanilla bean chocolate chip cookies with real vanilla bean seeds scraped into buttery dough. The vanilla beans create flecked, fragrant cookies with sophisticated flavor and optional walnuts for crunch.

Spiced oatmeal raisin cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a hint of ginger in a chewy old-fashioned oat dough. A big-batch crowd cookie that stays soft for days.

Two-tone pinwheel cookies that spiral vanilla and chocolate-cinnamon dough into pretty swirls. A slice-and-bake icebox cookie, chilled firm and cut into rounds for buttery, eye-catching treats.

Holiday oatmeal chocolate chip cookies studded with semisweet chips and colorful M&Ms in a brown sugar oat dough. Choose chewy or crisp with bake time, perfect for cookie swaps.

Homemade rugelach filled with ground walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, and sugar, rolled into crescent shapes from a buttery honey-enriched dough. A classic Jewish bakery cookie.

Chocolate chip cookies built on an all-brown-sugar base for deeper caramel notes, loaded with chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Chilled dough bakes into a thick, chewy bakery-style cookie.

Double chip cookies pack peanut butter chips and chocolate chips into one buttery dough. A classic drop cookie that yields five dozen of the chewiest, most addictive bake-sale staples around.

Crunchy chocolate chip cookies with crisp rice cereal mixed into the dough for serious snap and a chewy interior. The unexpectedly textured spin on the classic chocolate chip cookie.

Old-fashioned sugar cookies made with sour milk, nutmeg, and shortening. A versatile dough that can be dropped soft or rolled and cut into shapes for Valentine's, Christmas, or birthday cookies.

Chewy double chocolate cookies combine a fudgy cocoa dough with semi-sweet chocolate chips for soft, dark, brownie-textured cookies. Bake just 8 to 9 minutes for the chewiest center.

Banana chocolate drop cookies with mashed ripe banana folded into the dough along with melted chocolate and chocolate chips. Soft, cake-like, and perfect for using up overripe bananas. Makes four dozen quick drop cookies.

Easy ginger spice cookies with no sugar in the dough: cinnamon, ginger, and cloves rolled and cut into rounds, then tossed warm in a sugar-substitute cinnamon coating. A diabetic-friendly cookie.

Greek baklava with buttery cookie dough rolled around spiced nuts and phyllo, soaked in honey-lemon syrup for layers of crisp pastry and rich almond filling.

Sturdy rolled sugar cookies built to hold an impression. Butter, flour, egg, and a whisper of nutmeg make a dough firm enough to take rubber-stamp imprints or detailed cookie cutters without spreading.

Giant chocolate chip cookies baked in pizza pans with cream cheese in the dough for extra-chewy centers and crispy edges. Loaded with semi-sweet chips and walnuts, then cut into wedges like a cookie pizza.

German springerle Christmas cookies: anise-scented egg-and-sugar dough pressed with carved wooden molds, dried overnight, and baked low to set the embossed pattern.