In preparation for the holidays, we’ve rounded up over 50 of the Best Cookie Recipes of All Time. You’ll find everything from our favorite chocolate chip cookies to decorated Christmas cookies to no-bake cookies and all sorts of amazing cookies in between!
And if you are looking for even more amazing dessert recipe lists, you can also check out our Best No Bake Cookies, Best Caramel Desserts, or our complete list of cookie recipes.
The Best Cookie Recipes of All Time
Whether you want good cookie recipes to try for a cookie exchange or you’re searching for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe, we’ve got you covered. This list of 50+ amazing cookie recipes has a little something for every taste and occasion.
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These are all simple, tried and true, awesome cookie recipes that your family, friends, and neighbors will love. The most difficult part is choosing which recipe to bake first!
Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are the ultimate chocolate chip cookies. They’re buttery, soft, and even better than your favorite bakery chocolate chip cookie.
DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookies
These famous DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookies are packed full of chocolate chips, walnuts and a few secret ingredients. There’s no need to have stayed at a Hilton DoubleTree hotel to appreciate this out-of-this-world version of a chocolate chip cookie.
Crushed Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookie and cream cookies are a soft, chewy cookie with Oreo Cookie pieces loaded into every delicious bite. They are a fun crushed oreo cookie to bring to birthday parties, school events, or something new to make for the holidays.
White Chocolate and Coconut Cookies
These White Chocolate and Coconut Cookies are a simple and easy oatmeal cookie recipe loaded with coconut and white chocolate chips. They’re the perfect cookie to customize for your favorite holiday. Your family is going to love these amazing coconut and white chocolate chip cookies.
Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
This soft and chewy coconut chocolate chip cookie recipe is irresistible! They’re rich buttery cookies, loaded with oatmeal, shredded coconut, and loads of chocolate chips.
Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy and filled with delicious chocolate chips. They’re made with all purpose Einkorn Flour and make the best einkorn cookies. These will soon be your family’s favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Cowboy Cookies
These soft and chewy Cowboy Cookies take everyday chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level. Filled to the brim with rolled oats, pecans, chocolate chips, and coconut they are packed with different textures and flavors and are so easy to make.
Heath Toffee Cookies
These Heath Toffee Cookies are soft and chewy with a delicious buttery, burnt caramel flavor. They are an easy, must-try alternative to regular chocolate chip cookies.
Best Christmas Cookie Recipes
Andes Mint Cookies
These Andes Mint Cookies are chocolate mint cookies with an Andes mint melted on top. These fudgy chocolate cookies are perfectly thick and chewy. No need for mint frosting, just use an Andes mints to melt on the hot cookies, just out of the oven. YUM!
Snickerdoodle Cookies
This Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe is soft and chewy, buttery and sweet! If you love great cinnamon and sugar combos, this is the cookie recipe for you!
Einkorn Snickerdoodles
If you’re wanting to experiment with some ancient grains, these Einkorn Snickerdoodles won’t disappoint even your toughest critic. These buttery, chewy and soft Einkorn Snickerdoodles are going to be a family favorite in no time.
Cranberry Orange Cookies
This soft and chewy Orange Cranberry Cookies recipe is packed full of tangy dried cranberries, sweet and silky white chocolate, and fragrant orange zest. They make the perfect holiday cookie but taste great any time of year.
Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Buttercream Frosting
This festive Eggnog Cookie recipe is my version of the perfect Christmas cookie. They’re soft, chewy, and topped with creamy eggnog buttercream.
White Chocolate Dipped Ornament Oreos
These dipped white chocolate Oreos are decorated as Christmas Oreo ornaments and couldn’t be any cuter! They are such cute cookies and perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange. Your family and friends are going to love these cute little ornament cookies!
Mint Chocolate Dipped Oreos
These chocolate dipped Oreos are covered in silky Andes Chocolate and are minty, chocolaty, and melt in your mouth delicious.
Soft Molasses Cookies
These Frosted Molasses Cookies are tender, chewy, and made with simple ingredients. The creamy vanilla buttercream pairs perfectly with these rich cookies, but they are equally delicious on their own.
Soft Gingersnap Cookies
These Frosted Molasses Cookies are tender, chewy, and made with simple ingredients. The creamy vanilla buttercream pairs perfectly with these rich cookies, but they are equally delicious on their own.
Gingerbread Cookie Bars
This Gingerbread Cookie Bar Recipe is incredible! They are the perfect Christmas cookie. They are packed with all your favorite holiday flavors. These cookie bars are soft and chewy. Your family is going to love them!
Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy and fully loaded with crunchy peppermint candy bits. They’re perfect for serving during the holiday season, or whenever a chocolate and peppermint craving hits.
Best Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes
Peanut Butter Cookies
These classic Peanut Butter Cookies are hard to resist. They’re wonderfully soft, buttery and packed full of peanut butter flavor. Enjoy with a cold glass of milk for a real throwback treat.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cookies take chocolate chip cookies to the next level. They’re soft and chewy and stuffed with creamy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in every single bite.
Reese’s Pieces Cookies
These Reese’s Pieces Cookies are packed with peanut butter and studded with colorful Reese’s Pieces in every bite. They’re perfectly soft, quick to throw together and taste amazing with a cold glass of milk.
Peanut Butter S’mores Cups
These Peanut Butter S’mores Cups are the best of both worlds, combining our favorite peanut butter cookie with everyone’s favorite ooey-gooey s’mores. You just can’t beat peanut butter cookies, toasted marshmallows, and melted chocolate.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
This peanut butter stuffed cookies recipe is a chocolate cookie with a brownie-like texture and an incredible Reese Peanut Butter filled cookie surprise. This chocolate peanut butter surprise cookies is just a little chewy and crispy on the outside and has a chocolate and peanut butter lava inside. Wowza!
Peanut Butter Bars
These no-bake Peanut Butter Bars are a delicious, easy dessert to make any time of the year. They are rich, extra thick and perfect for any chocolate and peanut butter lover.
Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
This Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies Recipe is an iconic Christmas Cookie for any peanut butter lover. They’re soft and chewy, sweet and salty, and the perfect combo of peanut butter and chocolate.
Best Bar Cookie Recipes
Lemon Sugar Cookie Bars
These Lemon Cookie Bars are an easy treat with an intense lemon frosting. They are perfectly chewy, sweet, and tart and great for just about any occasion.
S’mores Cookie Bars
These S’mores Cookie Bars are soft, chewy, and taste just like the ooey-gooey campfire classic, with less mess. Made with crushed graham crackers, mini marshmallows, and Hershey’s Chocolate, this is sure to become your family’s new favorite treat.
Coconut Cookie Bars
These Coconut Cookie Bars are buttery, chewy, crispy on top, and totally delicious. They’re the perfect hassle-free dessert recipe to bring to picnics, BBQs, or last minute get-togethers.
Sugar Cookie Bars with Blood Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
These delicious Sugar Cookie Bars are soft and chewy with a thick layer of blood orange cream cheese frosting and a candied blood orange on top. They’re a perfect dessert for special occasions and easy enough for an everyday treat.
Coconut Lime Sugar Cookie Bars
These Coconut Lime Cookies Bars are soft, chewy, and covered with coconut lime buttercream frosting. They’ll soon be a family favorite, perfect for any time of year and all sorts of occasions.
Caramel Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
These Caramel Peanut Butter Cookie Bars are a variation of the magic cookie bars that everyone loves. They’re an oatmeal cookie bar with a caramel sauce, peanut butter spread, chocolate chips, and a wonderful oatmeal cookie bar topping.
Raspberry Cookie Bars
These Cookie Bars With White Chocolate and Raspberry are incredible. They’re oatmeal cookie bars with cream cheese and raspberry filling topped with white chocolate chips and oatmeal crumble topping. These are quick and will be everyone’s favorite at your next BBQ or family gathering. This is a fantastic cookie bar recipe!
Coconut Caramel Magic Bars
These Coconut Caramel Magic Bars are irresistible! They are oatmeal cookie bars with a layer of coconut filling, caramel drizzle and another layer of oatmeal cookie topping. They are an incredible cookie bar, perfect for any party or family gathering!
No-Bake Cookie Recipes
When you don’t feel like turning on the oven, but still want a cookie, these one-bowl cookie recipes are a quick, easy and delicious option. They’re sweet, salty, chewy, crunchy and are easily towards the top of our family’s list of absolute favorite cookies.
Classic No Bake Cookie Recipe
These quick and easy Chocolate No-Bake Cookies are made without peanut butter for a fudgie, nut-free take on the classic. They are a snap to throw together and great for packing into a lunchbox or serving as a movie-night snack.
Peanut Butter Chocolate No Bake Cookies
No hot oven is required to make these totally addicting Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies. With these super nostalgic flavors and unbelievably quick and easy steps, they make the perfect cookies for kiddos to help with, too.
No-Bake Peanut Butter Cornflake Cookies
These no-bake Peanut Butter Cornflake Cookies are salty sweet, ooey gooey and so easy to make. Filled with simple ingredients like peanut butter, marshmallows and crunchy Cornflake cereal, it’s impossible to stop at just one!
Nutella No-Bake Cookies
These Nutella No-Bake Cookies are completely irresistible and so easy to make. Made with Nutella, old-fashioned oats, and mini marshmallows, this is a perfectly simple no-bake cookie recipe that everyone in your family will love. Best of all, they come together in just minutes, without ever even turning on the oven.
Coconut Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies
These Coconut Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies are quite possibly the best no-bake cookies. They’re loaded with shredded coconut and have plenty of that irresistible peanut butter we all love. These no-bake cookies are quick, easy and delicious every time!
No-Bake Peanut Butter S’mores Cookie Bars
These peanut butter no bake Golden Grahams S’mores Bars combine gooey marshmallows, melted chocolate and Golden Grahams cereal for a quick and easy take on the classic. These delicious bars are the perfect fast, fun and low-maintenance summer dessert.
Best Rice Krispy Treat Cookies
Scotcharoos
These no-bake scotcheroos are quite possibly the best peanut butter Rice Krispie Scotcharoos recipe. This is a no-bake cookie bar. It’s a soft and chewy peanut butter Rice Krispie Treat and has thick and rich butterscotch and chocolate topping.
Fruity Pebbles Rice Krispies
If you’re looking for a fun and colorful twist on the classic rice crispy treat, you’ve come to the right place! This fruity pebbles crispy treats recipe perfectly satisfies your sweet tooth and adds some extra pizzazz to your dessert table. These rice crispy treats with fruity pebbles are perfect for any party, celebration, or quick treat!
Cocoa Rice Krispy Treats
These Chocolate Rice Krispies Treats are just as quick and easy as the original recipe but with a yummy cocoa twist. Plus, they can be ready to eat in 30 minutes flat without ever having to turn on the oven.
Bird Nest Rice Krispies
These adorable little Rice Krispie Bird Nests are an easy and delicious springtime and Easter Rice Krispie Treats. They are easy to make and fun to eat!
Red White and Blue Rice Krispy Treats
These Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispies Treats are the perfect dessert to bring along to any Fourth of July festivity. This colorful variation on Rice Krispie treats is a fun and patriotic recipe, an easy way to make nostalgic no-bake treats.
Lemon Cookies
Lemon Meltaway Cookies
These quick and easy Lemon Meltaway Cookies are so tender that they literally melt in your mouth. They’re topped with a tart and creamy lemon glaze that makes them completely irresistible.
Glazed Lemon Cookies
These light and fluffy Glazed Lemon Cookies are lemony, soft, and topped with a delicious lemon glaze. They’re made with fresh lemon juice and zest and have the perfect balance of sweet and sour.
Fun and Unique Cookie Recipes For Every Occasion
Orange Creamsicle Cookies
If you love creamsicles, you’re gonna love these soft and chewy Orange Creamsicle Cookies. They are slightly crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. They also have a thick layer of creamsicle frosting. It’s cookie perfection in every bite!
Cake Mix Cookies
This Cake Mix Cookie recipe makes the most soft, chewy and delicious cookies in no time. These are fun cookies to make when you are short on time.
The Best M&M Cookies
If you’re looking for the best M&M Cookies, this is the recipe for you. These great cookies are soft and chewy, soft and chewy M and M Cookies. So delicious!
Cadbury Cookie Bars
These Cadbury Mini Egg Cookie Bars are unbelievably adorable, delicious and simple. They are everything that a good oatmeal chocolate chip cookie should be, in cookie bar form! These mini egg cookie bars are perfect for Easter dessert or a great way to use up that leftover Easter candy.
Monster Cookies
These Halloween Monster Oatmeal Cookies are loaded with chocolate chips, M&Ms, and are decorated for the spooky season. They are super cute and good cookies for Halloween parties.
Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies
These Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies are loaded with butterscotch chips, brown sugar and oats, making them epically soft, chewy and flavorful. This is sure to become your new favorite oatmeal cookie recipe.
Oreo and M&M Cookies
These chewy Oreo Cookies and Cream M&M Cookies liven up the everyday cookie by stuffing it full of Oreos and M&M candies. They are fun, colorful, simple to make, and always a complete hit.
4th of July Cookies
These Red White and Blue M&Ms Cookies take our favorite chocolate chip cookie and dress it up for the Fourth of July, or any other patriotic holiday. They’re perfectly chewy, packed full of chocolate chips and M&M candies and are sure to disappear fast.
Cadbury Cookies
This soft and chewy Cadbury Mini Egg Cookie Recipe is as delicious as they are adorable. They are perfect for an easy spring dessert or Easter treat.
Hot Cocoa Kiss Cookies
These delicious Hot Cocoa Kiss Cookies capture the flavors of a warm, cozy mug of hot chocolate. Complete with a gooey marshmallow and Hershey’s Kiss on top, this is one of my favorite fun cookie recipes to serve any time of year.
More Fun Cookie Recipes to Try
- Gingerbread Men Cookies
- Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Peanut Butter S’mores Cups
- Candy Bar Cookies
- Lemon Cream Cookie Cups
- Coconut Cream Cookie Cups
- Mint Chocolate Oreos
- More Dessert Recipes
- More Cookie Bar Recipes
In preparation for the holidays, we’ve rounded up our over 50 of our best homemade cookie recipes of all time as a gift to you. You’ll find interesting cookie recipes, fun cookies, the best cookies to make for the holidays, and of course our favorite chocolate chip cookies.
Thanks for this roundup. There are so many new favorites I’ll need to try. But today, I made your #1 – chewy chocolate chip cookie. Glad you put it on your list first. It has the classic flavor I want in a cookie and the best texture!
Thanks, Mel! I appreciate you taking the time to tell me!
Such a great collection of cookie recipes! Can’t wait to bake my way through them all!
Now that’s a set of goals I can get behind! haha!