127 cookie dough recipes

Chocolate surprise cookies hiding peanut butter chips and walnuts inside a cocoa-based drop cookie dough. The chocolate-peanut butter combo bakes up in just 8-10 minutes.

Raspberry gems are delicate sandwich cookies with a sour cream pastry dough, raspberry jam filling, dipped in semi-sweet chocolate and sprinkled with almonds. A gorgeous holiday cookie tin addition.

Red, white, and blue striped slice-and-bake cookies for the Fourth of July. Simple sugar cookie dough tinted with food coloring, stacked, chilled, and sliced into patriotic treats.

Great gorpies are trail mix cookies loaded with chocolate chips, peanuts, and raisins in a chewy brown sugar dough. A grab-and-go snack cookie inspired by classic gorp.

Peanut butter cup cookies: soft peanut butter cookie dough baked in mini muffin tins, with a whole mini peanut butter cup pressed into each one straight out of the oven. A melt-in-the-middle Christmas favorite.

Ginger snaps roll molasses-spiked dough into balls and bake into crackly-topped, snappy spice cookies. Brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon give the classic chewy-crisp texture in 36 cookies.

Fudgy chocolate chip cookies with melted chocolate in the dough plus extra chips and walnuts throughout. A quick-soured milk trick adds tang and tenderness to a dense, brownie-like cookie.

Soft banana cookies with brown butter penuche frosting: mashed ripe bananas in a cake-like dough, topped with a boiled brown sugar icing that hardens into a shiny, fudgy shell.

Cinnamon sugar cookies with a tender shortening-based dough, brushed with egg white and topped with a cinnamon sugar sparkle. Crisp edges, soft centers.

Chocolate walnut meringue cookies rolled and cut into rounds from a fondant-like dough of powdered sugar, cocoa, egg whites, and ground nuts. Crisp, chewy, and gluten-free.

Vanilla pecan slice-and-bake cookies from a make-ahead dough that chills into logs and freezes for up to 3 months. Crisp, buttery icebox cookies baked from frozen in 12 minutes.

Hungarian pastry cookies made with a flaky sour cream dough, filled with prune lekvar or apricot preserves, folded into pockets, and dusted with powdered sugar.

Thin, crispy slice-and-bake cookies with shredded coconut and walnuts. A refrigerator cookie dough you roll, chill, and slice into wafer-thin rounds that bake up snappy in 10 minutes. Makes 48.

Heath bar cookies loaded with frozen toffee bar chunks and nuts in a slice-and-bake butter cookie dough. Crispy edges, buttery crumb, and pockets of crunchy chocolate-covered toffee in every bite.

Slice-and-bake vanilla wafer cookies with powdered sugar, butter, and cream of tartar. Make the dough ahead, chill, slice thin, and bake crispy in 10 minutes.

Buttery spiced fig thumbprint cookies, tender brown-sugar dough rolled in a crunchy flax-sugar coating and filled with jammy fig preserves. Warm cinnamon and nutmeg make them a standout on the holiday cookie tray.