1,966 sweet recipes

Cream cheese chocolate chip cookies: a full block of cream cheese creamed with two butters for an extra-tender, slightly tangy cookie loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chips. Makes 4 dozen.

Banana surprise cookies are soft chewy oatmeal cookies with mashed bananas, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and your choice of walnuts or chocolate chips. A 30-minute drop cookie.

Old-school peanut cookies packed with chopped peanuts, brown sugar, and vanilla. Crisp-edged, chewy-centered cookies that taste like a peanut butter cookie's nuttier cousin.

Oatmeal raisin cookies with rolled oats, plump raisins, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Chewy in the middle, lightly crisp at the edges, gone in minutes.

These moist and delicious cookies are the perfect treats for dessert or midnight snacks.

Mom's chocolate chip pecan cookies use shortening instead of butter for thicker, chewier cookies that hold their shape, packed with semi-sweet chocolate morsels and toasted pecans throughout.

Whole wheat peanut butter cookies with brown sugar and a single egg, fork-pressed in classic crosshatch style. A nuttier, heartier version of the lunchbox classic.

Low-fat oatmeal raisin cookies built on applesauce instead of butter, with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Chunky chocolate chip oatmeal cookies sweetened with honey instead of sugar and bulked out with puffed wheat cereal for extra crunch. Drops about 56 cookies with a craggy, chewy-crisp texture.

Vanilla oatmeal raisin cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and a touch of corn syrup for chewy texture. Soft, spiced, classic homemade cookies.

Dave's chocolate chip oatmeal cookies: classic combo of rolled oats and chocolate chips with chewy or crispy texture options. Twelve big bakery-style cookies in 30 minutes.

Peanut butter cookies use crunchy peanut butter, both white and brown sugars, and the classic fork-pressed crisscross top for soft centers and crisp golden edges. A big-batch family-favorite cookie.

Old-fashioned peanut butter cookies with crisp edges and a soft, chewy center. Chunky or smooth peanut butter, both sugars, and the classic fork-press crosshatch on top.

Hamantaschen for Purim with a tender carrot-flecked dough and a tangy apricot-pineapple filling spiked with cardamom and poppy seed. The classic triangle cookie with real character.

Dutch-style icebox spice cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in a brown sugar dough enriched with butter, lard and sour cream. Slice-and-bake rolls keep weeks in the fridge for instant warm cookies.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies you can bake chewy or crunchy just by watching the clock. Two cups of rolled oats give them real heft while shortening keeps them tender. Pull them early for chew, longer for crunch.