175 walnut cookie recipes

Crisp, cloud-light meringue cookies loaded with chocolate chips and walnuts. Pop them in a hot oven, turn it off, and walk away. They bake themselves overnight.

Butterscotch chocolate chunk cookies: chewy brown-sugar cookies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chunks. The butterscotch flavor comes from both light and dark brown sugar, no chips required.

No-bake energy balls made with dried apricots, walnuts, coconut, and wheat germ, bound with orange juice and rolled in chopped nuts.

Cashew nut cookies with brown sugar, sour cream, and a buttery vanilla icing topped with whole cashews. Soft drop cookies with a caramel-like depth from the brown sugar base.

Authentic Italian cinnamon walnut biscotti: twice-baked cookies with toasted walnuts, orange zest, and a cinnamon-sugar crust. Crisp enough to dip into coffee, sturdy enough to ship.

Stained glass candies are no-bake chocolate log slices studded with colorful mini marshmallows and walnuts. A gorgeous holiday candy that looks like stained glass windows when sliced.

Date and nut bars with chopped dates, pecans, and powdered sugar rolled into chewy little squares. An old-fashioned cookie bar that's dense, fruity, and naturally sweet with minimal flour.

Honey-dipped cookies, the Greek melomakarona, are oval spiced cookies fragrant with orange, cognac, and cinnamon, soaked in honey syrup and showered with walnuts. An irresistible Christmas tradition from the Aegean kitchen.

Melomacarona, traditional Greek honey cookies made with oil instead of butter, dipped in warm honey syrup and topped with chopped walnuts. Egg-free and butter-free.

Macaroon jam slices made with ground walnuts and egg whites, shaped into logs with a jam-filled channel. A European-style flourless cookie with apricot or raspberry jam.

Caramel apple cookies are buttery shortbread balls on toothpick sticks, dipped in melted caramel with apple juice concentrate, and pressed into chopped walnuts. Miniature caramel apple treats.

Traditional Tuscan cavallucci spice cookies built from a hot sugar syrup kneaded with walnuts, candied orange peel, and warm spices like clove, anise, and cinnamon. Chewy, perfumed, and unmistakably medieval.

Chewy walnut squares made with brown sugar, one egg, and just half a cup of flour. A no-butter bar cookie that stays soft in the center with a crackly top.

Chocolate bourbon balls are no-bake holiday treats made with crushed vanilla wafers, walnuts, honey-sweetened melted chocolate, and a splash of bourbon. A Southern Kentucky tradition.

Christmas fruitcake cookies made with whole wheat flour, dried apricots, dates, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices. All the flavor of fruitcake in a quick drop cookie.

They stay moist, keep beautifully, are the perfect gift or food-bazaar item, and the recipe makes a huge batch.