Cookies (and bars or squares) are probably the most popular and commonly made dessert of all. They're easy to make, fit so perfectly
in our hands, almost always store at room temperature and come in endless flavors, shapes and textures. While chocolate chip cookies are probably at the top of the popularity list, there are other very popular cookie recipes, such as butter cookies, sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies and peanut butter cookies. Beyond these all-time favorites are so many other wonderful cookie recipes.
Bars are very similar to cookies, but are usually made in a pan, then cut into square or rectangular shapes. Whether you prefer your cookies and bars chewy or crunchy, sweet or tart, frosted or plain, I hope you find these cookie and bar recipes as delicious as I do. I am always on a quest for new great cookie and bar recipes, and will add them to this page as I find them.
Bars are very similar to cookies, but are usually made in a pan, then cut into square or rectangular shapes. Whether you prefer your cookies and bars chewy or crunchy, sweet or tart, frosted or plain, I hope you find these cookie and bar recipes as delicious as I do. I am always on a quest for new great cookie and bar recipes, and will add them to this page as I find them.
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Blondies are basically brownies made without chocolate. These chewy dessert bars are also sometimes called Butterscotch Brownies, due to the use of brown sugar rather than white sugar traditionally used in chocolate brownies. Chopped nuts, white chocolate or butterscotch morsels can be added to these bars, if desired. Blondies are also great topped with whipped topping or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
This Brown Sugar Cookies recipe produces a chewy cookie with a wonderful butterscotch-like flavor. Like traditional sugar cookies, these cookies are coated with sugar (coarse raw sugar is best!) that gives these cookies a delightful outer crunch. These cookies get their chewy texture and butterscotch flavor from brown sugar and browning of the butter before mixing it into the other ingredients. Melt-in-your-mouth goodness!
Buttermilk Oatmeal Cookies are chewy and delicious, and lean on the healthy side. This oatmeal cookie recipe uses a generous amount of oats, along with whole wheat flour, brown sugar, butter and buttermilk, and can be whipped up in very little time. These cookies are a wonderful balance of sweet and wholesome, and are perfect to eat as a light and easy dessert, a quick breakfast on the run, or as a quick snack anytime!
These Cashew Caramel Cookies are made with a homemade cashew butter that is prepared from actual cashews in your a processor, so these cookies have an undeniable authentic cashew flavor. More coarsely chopped cashews are added to the batter, giving these cookies even more delightful cashew goodness as well as a nice crunch. The cookies are topped with a delicious caramel sauce (optional, though wonderful!).
Cheesecake Brownies (also sometimes called Cream Cheese Brownies) begin with a moist and chewy chocolate brownie filled with semi-sweet chocolate chips. A delicious easy-to-make cheesecake topping is then poured over the top, and the two layers are baked together to create the perfect balance of chocolaty sweetness and the cheesy creaminess of cheesecake. An easy, elegant and irresistable dessert!
Chocolate Chip Blondies are basically chocolate chip cookie bars that combine the chewiness of chocolate chip cookies and the fluffiness of cake. The flavor of these cookie bars is much like chocolate chip cookies, and does not scrimp on the chocolate chips! The batter for these cookie bars is divided into two sections, with a layer of chocolate syrup sandwiched in between, giving these bars a double dose of delicious chocolate flavor!
If you're a chocolate chip cookie and cheesecake lover, these Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars will allow you to enjoy the flavors and textures of both desserts in one bite! This cookie bar recipe takes a traditional homemade chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe and combines it with a cream cheese filling similar to cheesecake that whips up in just minutes. Delicious cooled to room temperature or chilled.
This Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe produces the traditional moist and chewy chocolate chip cookie, featuring a generous amount of semi-sweet chocolate chips, making every bite amazing! This recipe also uses some whole wheat flour and a good amount of brown sugar, giving these cookies added chewiness and terrific flavor. The perfect chocolate chip cookie is not just about the ingredients - it's in the method, too! More...
This Chocolate Chunk Cookie recipe produces a cookie that brings to the table some serious competition to the all-time favorite chocolate chip cookie! These Chocolate Chunk Cookies feature plenty of large chunks of semi-sweet chocolate in a chewy and delicious cookie dough (if preferred, milk chocolate or white chocolate can be used instead of semi-sweet). Coarsely chopped nuts can also be added, if desired.
Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies take the irresistible goodness of traditional chocolate chunk cookies, and add some oatmeal for texture, flavor and a boost of healthiness. These delicious cookies can be made with semi-sweet or milk chocolate chunks, and will fill your mouth with chocolate with every bite! If you're a white chocolate fan, you can certainly make these cookies with white chocolate chunks as well.
If you enjoy Rice Krispy Treats and Oreos, Chocolate Cookie Crispies will have you dancing the happy dance! This bar / cookie / candy (could likely fit all these categories) recipe features puffed rice cereal, mixes it with marshmallows and broken bits of chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreos), and tops it off with an icing that is much like the filling you find in sandwich cookies. The frosting is optional, though fabulous!
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies (also sometimes called Stained Glass Cookies, Snow Top Cookies, Snow Cap Cookies or Slice and Bake Cookies) are chewy chocolate cookies rolled in confectioner's sugar before baking. While they bake, the cookies expand, leaving open cracks that expose the chewy chocolate interiors, while the powdered sugar creates a dramatic contrast to the dark cookie. topped with nonperil candies.
Chocolate-Dipped Chocolate Chunk Cookies take chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level, giving these cookies a double dose of chocolate! The cookie batter can be baked to a chewy texture or baked until golden and crispy, and can be made with semi-sweet or milk chocolate. White chocolate fans can easily turn this cookie recipe into a heavenly experience with double-dose of white chocolate as well!
These sandwich cookies are a heavenly indulgence in more ways than one! The sandwich cookies are thin, buttery and flaky shortbread cookies that melt in your mouth. The cookies are topped with granulated sugar before baking, giving them a crispy outer coating. Once cooled, the cookies are filled with a lemon-flavored creamy filling, then dipped in your choice of chocolate or white chocolate (or both!). They're almost too delicious!
Chocolate Oatmeal Bars lean on the healthier side and are made with oats, egg whites and brown sugar, and can be made with all-purpose or whole wheat flour (whole wheat flour tends to make them a little chewier as well as healthier). Semi-sweet chocolate morsels (regular or mini-size) add the perfect final sweet touch. Your favorite chopped nuts and/or mini marshmallows can also be added for additional flavor and flair.
Calling all lovers of peanut butter and chocolate! Just like traditional peanut butter cookies, this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie recipe produces chewy cookies with that rich peanut butter flavor, with the added bonus of chocolate provided by cocoa powder. These cookies have a rich, dark color that is a true representation of the chocolaty flavor they possess! The cookie dough can also be rolled out and cut into shapes if desired.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies are sweet and crispy little squares of chocolately and peanut buttery goodness. This bar recipe incorporates the light and chewy crunch that comes with Rice Krispie Treats and the delicious chocolate and peanut butter flavors of peanut butter cups, resulting in an irresistible treat that screams, "More!" This quick and easy candy (or bar) recipe requires no baking - simply heat, mix and chill!
Crispy Rice Cookies have a flavor similar to sugar cookies, yet have a light and crispy texture provided by puffed rice cereal and a wholesomeness provided by oatmeal flakes. This cookie recipe is very easy to make and uses common ingredients you likely already have in your pantry. These buttery rice cookies have a mild and sweet flavor that pleases all ages, and are great with a cup of coffee, tea or milk.
This decadently moist, rich and delicious brownie recipe will make it virtually impossible for you to ever go back to those prepackaged boxes of brownie mix. Once you realize how easy these fudgy brownies are to make from scratch, how moist they are and how they burst with flavor, the boxed brownie mixes will pale in comparison! These brownies feature chocolate chips in every bite, as well as an optional frosting that is over the top!
Ginger Cut-Out Cookies are soft and chewy, and are filled with that delicious festive flavor often found in many desserts around the holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas (though no holiday is required to enjoy this fabulous ginger cookie recipe!) A blend of ginger, molasses, cinnamon and cloves gives this cut out cookie recipe a distinctive and memorable flavor that is enjoyed by all ages.
This easy Gingerbread Butterscotch Cookie recipe combines chewy and soft and gingerbread cookies and marries them with the melt-in-you r-mouth flavor of butterscotch, resulting in a chewy and full-flavored cookie that is like no other! Made with molasses, ginger, brown sugar, cloves and cinnamon and butterscotch morsels makes these cookies festive and full of amazing flavor!
If you like the taste of honey graham crackers, you will enjoy these soft and chewy bars. Leaning on the healthier side, Honey Graham Bars are made with three types of flour and light doses honey and sugar, then sprinkled with coarse raw sugar on the top for a little added sweetness and crunch. They are crumbly and chewy and mildly sweet, with a very wholesome taste. Great with ice cream or yogurt and coffee or tea!
These Iced Chewy Spice Cookies get their distinct and festive flavor from ground ginger, ground cloves, nutmeg and allspice, applesauce and a healthy dose of molasses. The texture of these unique cookies falls somewhere between a chewy cookie and cake, giving them a tender chewiness while allowing them to plump up evenly while baking. The icing for these cookies is made with confectioner's sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.
These soft and chewy lemon cookies have refreshing flavor, and are coated with a light and tangy lemon icing made with a simple mixture of confectioner's (powdered) sugar and freshly squeezed lemon juice that firms up when it cools much like doughnut icing. These cookies are very quick and easy to make, and have a wonderful balance of sweet and tartness that will be enjoyed by all ages.
Iced Lebkuchen Cookies are soft and chewy and full of those wonderful spices we celebrate around the Christmas holiday, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom - though these German style cookies are of course fabulous any time of year! Sweetened with brown sugar and honey and topped with a sweet vanilla icing that has a nice light crunch after it sets, these cookies will not last long!
Warning: These cookies can be very addicting! Keflins are melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies that have a buttery and crumbly texture and a rich and wonderful flavor created by finely crushed walnuts and a mild hint of almond extract. The walnuts are entirely optional, though add a real boost of flavor and texture. Keflins were passed down by my Grandma Bonnie, who used to bring a tin filled with these cookies to every holiday.
Lemon Bars (sometimes called Lemon Squares or Lemon Slices) are light and refreshing dessert bars that consist of two delicious layers with different textures and flavors. The bottom layer is made with very basic ingredients often found in shortbread cookies, while the top layer is made with a mixture of freshly squeezed lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar and eggs, giving it a sweet and tangy, moist and chewy lemon topping.
These Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies are chewy little cookies with a texture and flavor similar to sugar cookies. What makes these cookies differ from traditional sugar cookies is the addition of cream cheese to the batter. These cookies can be made into little cookies, or into larger cookies. Just like sugar cookies, balls of cookie dough are rolled in granulated sugar, giving them that delightful crunchy, sparkling coating.
This Lemon Shortbread Sandwich Cookies recipe produces tender, crumbly and chewy cookies with fresh lemon flavor, which on their own would be delightful - but sandwich these lemon cookies around a buttery lemon cookie filling, and these cookies become absolutely irresistible! Each cookie is also coated with a little granulated sugar before baking, giving them added crunch and sweetness on the outside.
Malted Chocolate Sandwich Cookies take chocolate sandwich cookies to a whole new level by adding the flavor of malt into the cookie filling. Have you ever had a chocolate or vanilla ice cream malt? If so, then you have a glimpse of the distinctly wonderful flavor these cookies deliver! This sandwich cookie recipe produces crumbly and delicious cookies with a buttery and creamy filling with that distinct burst of yummy malt flavoring!
This Millionaire's Shortbread Bars recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth, your chocolate cravings and your appreciation for a flaky shortbread cookie - all in one bite! These cookie bars consist of three layers with different textures that blend beautifully together: The bottom layer is made of light and crumbly shortbread, the middle layer is made of chewy caramel (homemade) and the top layer is made of semi-sweet chocolate.
Molasses Cake Bars are moist and delicious little squares of cake made with the distinct flavor of molasses as well as some cinnamon and cloves; festive spices often often used during the holidays. If you enjoy gingerbread, spice cake, pumpkin pie or other desserts that utilize the wonderful flavors of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, maple syrup, nutmeg and/or allspice, then this cake bar recipe is a must try!
These Orange Cappuccino Cookies are a delightful and welcomed change from what you would normally expect from a cookie! The subtle flavors of orange and coffee combine beautifully, giving these cookies a sweet citrus flavor with just the perfect hint of coffee. The icing on these cookies is also flavored with coffee, and after mixed together with confectioner's sugar, has the perfect blend of sweetness and that cappuccino flair.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares is a delicious bar cookie recipe that entertains the well-loved flavors of peanut butter and chocolate along with rolled oats, giving these dessert bars a wonderful chewy texture. These chocolate and peanut butter bars start with a delicious baked sheet of cookie dough, then are topped with melted chocolate chips and drizzled with a thin peanut butter glaze.
This Peanut Butter Cookie recipe produces a chewy, cookie made with whole wheat flour and brown sugar. The cookies are rolled in granulated sugar and a traditional criss-cross pattern is created on top with the tines of a fork., The wheat flour and brown sugar give these cookies more substance and chewiness, as well as a richer flavor than peanut butter cookies made with white flour and white granulated sugar.
Peanut Butter Kisses are also sometimes referred to as Blossom Cookies, Peanut Blossom Cookies, Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies, Kiss Cookies or Hershey Kiss Cookies. Peanut Butter Kisses feature the famous flavor combination of peanut butter and chocolate. The cookies are nice and chewy, and are rolled in granulated sugar, providing a nice outer crunch. Once baked, each cookie is topped with a milk chocolate (or any other flavor) kiss.
These cookies eaten all by themselves (without the filling) would be delicious; but when you add the creamy, peanut-buttery cookie filling in between two of these baked delights, you're in for a divine cookie experience! The addition of rolled oats in this peanut butter cookie recipe adds flavor, texture and substance, as well as an element of healthiness. If you enjoy Girl Scout peanut butter sandwich cookies, look no further!
These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Kisses cookies are made with a blend of ingredients that produce cookies with a texture that has the perfect balance of soft and chewy yet light and crumbly. These cookies are made with oatmeal, and though different in flavor and texture than traditional Peanut Butter Kisses, are famously topped with a chocolate kiss, giving everyone that special surprise half-way through eating the cookie!
These melt-in-your-mouth Pecan Butter Cookies are as delicious and crumbly as they look! These cookies are sweetened with brown sugar rather than the traditional white sugar often used with shortbread cookie recipes, giving them a richer flavor, while the pecans add their own natural sweetness! For added decoration and sweetness, these shortbread cookies can be coated with powdered sugar, similar to Keflins.
This simple and delicious S'more Bars recipe entertains the flavors of S'mores (combining the words, "Some More", likely meaning once you eat one, you will want some more!), treats made with roasted marshmallows and milk chocolate sandwiched in between two graham crackers. This bar recipe will produce a large number of servings in much less time, without everyone having to wait their turn around the campfire!
This easy Sugar Cookies recipe produces a delicious soft and chewy sugar cookie with a light outer crunch made with either traditional granulated or raw sugar. These Sugar cookies are very versatile, in that rather than being rolled in sugar before baking, they can be baked plain, then decorated with one or more colorful icings and/or candy toppings to accommodate any holiday, birthday, or any celebratory occasion.
Sugared Chocolate Pretzels are a fun alternative to traditional cookie recipes because of their attractive twisted shape and crunchy sugar coating. These chocolate pretzels have a full chocolate flavor provided by powdered cocoa, and are sweetened with sugar and a little honey. These sweet pretzels can also easily be upgraded to a gourmet recipe, simply by dipping one or both ends in milk, dark or white chocolate!
Sweetheart Cookies are a great way to let someone know how special they are to you! These soft and chewy heart-shaped Sweetheart Cookies are the perfect cookie to bake for Valentine's Day, but can also be made any time of year, simply by using any variety of of year, simply by using any variety of cookie cutter shapes. These cookies are sweetened with honey and brown sugar, and flavored with hints of lemon and cinnamon.
Wheat Germ Crunchies are crunchy wholesome cookies made with all sorts of wonderful healthy ingredients. Whole wheat flour, oats, wheat germ, shredded coconut and cereal flakes (you can use any type of cereal flakes, such as corn, oat or bran) give these cookies substance and full flavor. A few butterscotch morsels (optional, but delicious!) are added to give these cookies a little boost of sweetness and flavor.
Calling all white chocolate lovers! This White Chunk Macadamia Cookies recipe produces a delicious and irrestistable large chewy cookie filled with big chunks of white chocolate and coarsely chopped macadamia nuts. The macadamia nuts help to counter the sweetness of the white chocolate, resulting in a perfect balance of sweet and salty and amazing flavor! The trick to making the perfect chewy cookie is also in the process! More...
Zebra Chunk Cookies are for all-around chocolate lovers, because they are filled with both dark and white chocolate chunks (thus, the name "Zebra" Chunk Cookies). As for the real chocolate, semi-sweet or milk chocolate can be used. If preferred, coarsely chopped macadamia nuts can also be added for more texture and flavor. These cookies have a chewy inside with a light and crispy exterior.
