20 Tasty Treats to Bake in Honor of National Cookie Day
National Cookie Day is the perfect excuse to preheat the oven, gather your favorite ingredients, and bake something sweet. This celebration is all about indulging in the simple joy of homemade cookies.
Check out delicious treats that are easy to make, fun to share, and guaranteed to satisfy every craving. Let’s get baking!
Crispy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
This is the ultimate Crispy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe you’ll ever need, delivering the perfect balance of texture and flavor. These cookies offer a delightful contrast in every bite, making them an irresistible treat that stands out from the rest.
Get the Recipe: Crispy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.
Molasses Cookies
Indulge in the irresistible charm of our soft and chewy molasses cookies, where each bite offers a delightful blend of rich, deep molasses flavor and a perfectly tender texture. These homemade treats are a cozy embrace for your taste buds, perfect for those who cherish the warmth of classic, comforting flavors.
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Cherry Pie Cookies
When you’re craving cherry pie but short on time, try this delicious recipe for cherry pie cookies instead. Not only do they satisfy your craving quickly, but they also look like adorable mini cherry pies!
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Mascarpone Cookies
Mascarpone cookies are soft, tender and so simple to make. They’re great on their own, dipped in chocolate, sprinkled with your favorite nuts, dusted with powdered sugar, or jazzed up any way you like.
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Heath Bar Cookies
Heath Bar Cookies are the treat that always disappears fast at our house. The soft, chewy cookie base combined with crunchy bits of toffee and chocolate makes them impossible to resist.
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Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies
An easy holiday cookie recipe using hot chocolate mix that kids will love to eat and help bake. It’s time to step up your cookie game and bring something unique to your next Christmas cookie exchange! These festive hot chocolate cookies are simply irresistible.
Get the Recipe: Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies.
Lemon Crinkle Cookie
Lemon Crinkle cookies are soft, chewy, and coated with confectioners’ sugar to create a cracked exterior. Full of delicious sweet and tart lemon flavor, these lemon cookies make the perfect holiday cookie! Find tips below to get the perfect crinkle cookie each and every time!
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Carrot Cake Cookie Sandwiches
Soft, chewy, and packed with warm spices, these Carrot Cake Cookie Sandwiches are everything you love about classic carrot cake! Each bite delivers a perfect balance of cinnamon-kissed cookies and a rich, tangy cream cheese filling. No need for a fork or plate, just grab one and enjoy!
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Frosted Applesauce Cookies
Welcome the season with these Frosted Applesauce Cookies with raisins and pecans. Each cookie is like your own individual mini spice cake!
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Rainbow Fruit Sugar Cookies
There is something about a soft sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting that keeps you coming back for more. These cookies are good any time of the year, from the heat of summer to the cold of winter.
Get the Recipe: Rainbow Fruit Sugar Cookies.
Simple Oatmeal Protein Cookies
If dessert for breakfast sounds like your cup of tea, you need to try this easy, toddler-approved recipe for Oatmeal Protein Cookies. Loaded with whole-grain oats, sweet bananas, salty peanut butter, and two types of heart-healthy seeds, these protein breakfast cookies are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth AND fuel you up for the day ahead.
Get the Recipe: Simple Oatmeal Protein Cookies.
Salted Caramel Cookies Sandwiches
Salted caramel cookie sandwiches are loaded with rich, sweet, salted buttercream frosting sandwiched between two soft and chewy salted caramel chocolate chip cookies. They’re guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth!
Get the Recipe: Salted Caramel Cookies Sandwiches.
Lofthouse Cookies
Made with a secret ingredient, this Lofthouse sugar cookies recipe is extra fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, and topped with a sweet buttercream frosting for a truly decadent soft sugar cookie. Whip them up for birthdays, holiday parties, and more!
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Alice in Wonderland Cookies
These vegan Alice in Wonderland cookies are vanilla sugar cookies filled with strawberry vegan white chocolate and dark chocolate ganache and decorated to look like a kawaii deck of cards.
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Soft Apple Spice Cookies
These Soft Apple Spice Cookies are perfect for Fall baking! Made with warm spices, chunks of juicy apples, and a caramel topping, these apple pie cookies will satisfy any sweet tooth!
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Coffee Cake Cookies
You will be obsessed with these tender, light coffee cake cookies with a crunchy streusel topping and sweet glaze drizzled over each one. They are perfect to munch on with a mug of coffee or hot chocolate.
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Copycat Chocolate Spelt Hobnobs
These copycat chocolate spelt hobnobs are my take on the British oat cookie classic. There’s nothing quite like a Hobnob, but these come very close. Crunchy, oaty cookies are topped with a silky dark chocolate ganache and can be made with either all-purpose or spelt flour.
Get the Recipe: Copycat Chocolate Spelt Hobnobs.
Cardamom Cookies
Cardamom Cookies are soft, buttery treats infused with the warm, aromatic flavor of cardamom. These cookies are perfect for tea time, festive occasions, or when you want a simple yet elegant dessert.
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Cowboy Cookies
These soft, chewy, chunky Cowboy Cookies are made with oats, chocolate chips, shredded coconut, and pecans making them perfectly sweet, salty, nutty, and hearty. This is the best Cowboy Cookies recipe!
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Easy Cookie Monster Cookies
These easy cookie monster cookies are a guaranteed hit with the whole family! This is the blue cookie monster cookies recipe Tiktok inspired, packed with two kinds of chocolate chips, Oreo cookies and chocolate chip cookie chunks, and stuffed with melty milk chocolate!
Get the Recipe: Cookie Monster Cookies.
