Bars, Squares, & Brownie Cookies

Drop Cookies

Molded Cookies

 

Rolled Cookies &
Cutout Cookies

Chocolate Cookies
 

Apricot Gems
These moist bars have a great flavor. Everyone goes for these gems of a dessert! I have had this recipe for years, and I have no idea where it is originally from.
 

Brown Butter Hazelnut Shortbread with Fleur de Sel
Browning a portion of the butter before adding it to the cookie batter intensifies the buttery taste of this crisp, nutty shortbread. The final flourish of fleur de sel or sea salt enhances the flavors and textures of the cookie.
 

Chocolate Mint Squares
You'll enjoy this refreshing combination of chocolate and mint.
 

Chocolate Raspberry Crumb Bars
The flavor combination is so delicious, they're usually gone very quickly. This is a great way to use your homemade jams.
 

Ambrosia Macaroon Cookies
These delicious cookies are brought to new heights with the addition of orange zest and drizzling them with chocolate for a festive finish. Very easy-to-make and so good!

Benne Wafers - Sesame Seed Cookies
You will find these delicious Benne Wafers in candy shops and stands throughout the Low Country (the coastal area around Charleston, SC) of the South.
 

Cherry Pecan Meringue Cookies
A wonderful delicious low-calorie cookie to help satisfy your sweet tooth.
 

Chocolate Chip Cookies
The absolute best  Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. The addition of powdered rolled oats makes these exception chocolate chip cookies. This will definitely become your favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe!

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten Free/Casein Free - I made these gluten free and casein free cookies for my grandson who is on a special diet. 

Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Gluten-Free Buckwheat & Rice Flour Recipe)
 

Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This delightful cookie recipe was shared with me by Marianne Wright of Austin, Texas.
 

Chocolate Cornflake Cookies
This fantastic recipe is from the cookbook, Dessert Circus, Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home, by Jacques Torres.

 

Chocolate Espresso Cookies
Chocoholics Beware!  I like to call these cookies Chocolate Bombs, as the chocolate, espresso, and cayenne powder seem to explode in your mouth with flavor.
 

Chocolate Meringue Cookies
A delicious low-fat cookie that will fit on your diet.
 

Chocolate Sundae Cookies
These cookies remind me of the chocolate pinwheel cookies. This recipe was shared with me by a neighbor of mine, Shirley Snyder of Scholls, Oregon. I believe this cookie recipe is an older Pillsbury Cook-Off recipe winner.
 

Coconut Cornflake Macaroons
These coconut macaroons are a delicious, chewy version of the classic macaroon cookie. They are also very easy to prepare. My mother used to make these cookies when I was young. To this day, these cookies are one of my favorites.

Cowboy Cookies
My daughter, Brenda Weller, says this are the best Cowboy Cookies ever. Once you make them, I know that you will agree with her.
 

Cranberry Lemon Cookies
This is a very delicious cookie that I like to make every Christmas season, and everyone seems to love them. If you are looking for a special cookie, these are it!

Dunking Platter Cookies
This cookies are also known as Cowboy Cookies.
 

Flourless Pistachio Cookies
(Ka'ik ib'Fis'dok)
These delicious cookies are traditionally served as a Jewish Passover treat. They are a gluten-free treat that everyone, especially pistachio lovers, will enjoy.
 

Frosted Date Creams
These cookies are very moist, chewy, and delicious.
 

Fruit Cake Cookies
These cookies are simply great! They are lovely to look at, easy to make, fabulous eating, and expensive to make. They are similar to a fruit cake. The longer you store these delicious cookie, the better they taste.
 

Latin Lace Florentines
The lacy texture of this traditional Florentine results from its thin, buttery batter giving the cookie a festive holiday look and feel. A surprising hint of chili powder nicely balances the Florentine's crisp texture and slight sweetness.
 

Lavender Meringue Cookies
These Lavender Meringues Cookies are fabulous! You are sure to get raves when you serve them. These cookies are also low in fat.
 

Lemon Meringue Cookies
My husband absolutely loves these low-fat cookies! These cookies seem to be a favorite of men.
 

Macaroons
This traditional French cookie may be sandwiched with flavored fillings of pastry cremes, fruit, ganache, or half dipped in chocolate.
 

Maple Oatmeal Cookies
These wonderful version of oatmeal cookies.

 

Mountain Bar Cookies
These cookies are a very chewy and delicious no-bake cookies - just mix and eat! When my daughter, Nancy Hartman, was young, this was her favorite cookie to make.

Oatmeal Cookies
What could be easier and simpler than an old-fashioned oatmeal cookie?  Easy-to-make and always delicious! I like adding raisins to this simple version, but you can add nuts and/or chocolate chips if desired.
 

Pistachio Rose Water Macaroons
These exotically flavored, pale green cookies are quite special. The recipe comes from the cookbook Jewish Food: The World at Table by Matthew Goodman.
 

Sweet Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
Bananas and peanut butter all in one cookie. What could be better?

Toasted Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
These make a delicious cookie for your tea party.
 

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
These cookies are a little more expensive to make, but make luscious gifts or great snack cookies. They also freeze very well. High quality white chocolate is essential to these cookies.


Whoopie Pies
A whoopie pie is like a sandwich, but made with two soft cookies with a fluffy white filling. Traditional whoopies pies are made with vegetable shortening, not butter. The original and most commonly made whoopie pie is chocolate.

After-Dinner Mint Cookies
A very refreshing and delicious cookie to serve at the end of a great meal.
 

Baby Button Cookies
This delicious cookie recipe is by Lisa Ritter of the Big Sugar Bakeshop in Studio City, CA.
 

Biscoitos de Maizena - Cornstarch Cookies
These cookies are a favorite in Brazil. They are named "Maizena" because that is the brand name of their cornstarch. Delicious anytime of the year, but also great for a Gluten-Free Diet.
 

Bon Bon Cookies
Some people will call these candy - but candy or cookie they are a wonderful! These cookies have always been a holiday favorite of mine.
 

Cherry Bon Bon Cookies
These cookies are so good that you will think you are eating candy.
 

Chocolate Biscotti
These biscotti are as pretty as they are delicious tasting. Excellent served with a cup of coffee. But on special occasions or after dinner, serve them with a sparkling wine or a sweet dessert wine for a wonderful treat.
 

Chocolate Crinkles (Kringles)
These are wonderful cookie - a chocolate lover's delight! I definitely love chocolate! The recipe is adapted from Betty Crocker's 1963 Cookbook.

 

Classic Lace Cookies
These cookies are named after the lace-like holes that form as they bake. These exquisite cookies are very fragile and delicate, and are well worth the time it takes to make them, even thought they are actually easy-to-make.
 

Doughnut Cookies
How about a cookie that looks like a doughnut? The cookies are simple to make and not too sweet. Let your children help decorate these delightful cookies.
 

Gingersnap Cookies
Gingersnaps have been popular with children for generations, and today's children have seldom tasted true gingersnap cookies. This excellent recipe makes cookies that really snap. 
 

High Tea Lemon Cookies
This is an old-fashion recipe that is very rich and delicious. If you love lemon, you'll absolutely love these cookies. Be prepared though, all your friends will want this recipe after they taste these delicious cookies. 
 

Honey Butterball Cookies
These holiday Honey Butterball cookies look similar to Mexican Wedding Cakes, Swedish Tea Cakes, Russian Tea Cakes, etc., but they are a softer cookie.
 

Honey-Lavender Biscotti
These biscotti are as pretty as they are delicious tasting. Excellent served with a cup of coffee. But on special occasions or after dinner, serve them with a sparkling wine or a sweet dessert wine for a wonderful treat.
 

Italian Pignoli Amaretti
(Pine Nut Cookies)
One of my favorite macaroon cookies which is featured in most Italian bakeries. Pignoli (pine nuts) cookies are the Southern Italian version of macaroons.
 

Italian Pizzelles - Italian Wafer Cookies
Pizzelle's come from Italy. They are also known as Italian wafer cookies. Many different cultures have adapted this cookie and re-named it accordingly.
 

Kentucky Bourbon Balls
Some people will call these candy - but candy or cookie they are a wonderful! I do not recommend serving these cookies to children.
 

Korova Cookies (Sables Korova)
This is a simple butter cookie turned into something magical. It's that unexpected hint of salt and how it combines with the chocolate that makes for an explosive burst of flavor.

 

Molasses Crinkles
This recipe originally came from an older 1950s Betty Crocker Cookbook that I received for a wedding gift.
 

Oatmeal-Lemon Sugar Cookies
I've had this Oatmeal Sugar Cookie recipes for years, and I have no idea where it originally came from. The elusive lemon flavor makes these cookies the ideal accompaniment to an evening dessert.

Old Fashioned Refrigerator Cookies
During the late 1920s and 1930s in Vernonia, Oregon, Grandma Myers baked these cookies in the oven of her wood stove.
 

Oreo-Style Cookies
These delicious dark chocolate sandwich cookies come very close to matching the taste of the original Oreo cookies.
 

Peanut Butter Chocolate Kiss
What better place to put a chocolate kiss candy than in the center of a delicious peanut butter cookie.
 

Peanut Butter Cookies
A recipe collection wouldn't be complete without most children's favorite cookie - Peanut Butter Cookies. This is a very easy-to-make and delicious cookie.
 

Pecan Tassies
This is a favorite Southern cookie - especially at Christmas. You will find these tassies very addictive! Tassies are little tarts or pies, or actually miniature pecan pies.
 

Peppermint Snowballs
This is a great-tasting holiday cookie and these cookies are very pretty on your holiday cookie plate.
 

Pistachio and Cherry Mexican Wedding Cookies
A wonderful and delicious version of the Mexican Wedding Cookies.
 

Pistachio Cranberry Cookies
I have changed the original recipe to include the egg in the dough. I used the dried tart cherries. My husband really enjoyed these cookies.
 

Popcorn Balls
These old-time popcorn balls are great anytime, but they're especially fun to enjoy at Halloween or Christmas time.
 

Russian Teacakes
Mexican Wedding Cakes
Swedish Tea Cake
This favorite holiday cookie is known by many different names around the world, such as Mexican Wedding Cakes, Russian Teacakes, Swedish Tea Cakes, Italian Butter Nut, Southern Pecan Butterball, Snowdrop, Viennese Sugar Ball, Sand Tarts, and Snowball. Butterballs.

Snickerdoodles
Cookies as we know them in America were originally brought to the United States by our English, Scottish, and Dutch immigrants. Earlier names for cookies such as Snickerdoodles and Cry Babies originated with the New England states.
 

Spritz Cookies
Crisp, fragile, and buttery tasting. Great for Christmas goodies. What Christmas holiday cookie plate would be complete without Spritz Cookies? My mother made these every Christmas season since I was little, and I make them now.
 

Turtles
These could be considered either a candy or a cookies. They are delicious no matter what you call them!
 

Viennese Chocolate Sables
Sable cookies are a classic French cookie originating in Normandy. Sable is French for "sand," which refer to the sandy texture of these delicate shortbread-like cookies. Typically, these cookies are shaped into a "W" to represent the Wittamer pasty shop in Brussels.

Biscochitos - Anise Seed Cookies I

Bizcochitos - Anise Seed Cookies II
Usually every Christmas gathering in New Mexico serves these wonderful biscochitos. Biscochitos are said to be native to New Mexico.
 

Chocolate Mint Wafers
This wonderful cookie recipe and photo were shared with me by my sister, Carol Arroyo, and her website called The Baking Pan.
 

Date Pinwheel Cookies - Date Swirl Cookies
My mother made this cookies every Christmas season when I was young. I've always loved these cookies!
 

German Springerle Cookies
These have been and still are traditional Christmas cookies in Bavaria and Austria for centuries. Springerle are anise-flavored cookies, made from a simple egg-flour-sugar dough. Usually rectangular or circular in shape, they have a picture or design stamped on the top.

 

Gingerbread Cookies
How about making these traditional Christmas gingerbread cookies?
 

Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies
My daughter, Nancy Hartman, makes these every Christmas for our family. They are easy to make, yet elegant and delicious.  She likes to "half dip" the cookies in bittersweet chocolate! 
 

Joe Fogger Cookies
A Joe Frogger is a oversized molasses-spice cookie that dates back to Colonial times, approximately 200 years ago to Black Joe's Tavern in Marblehead, MA, a seaside town about 25 miles north of Boston. Because these cookies could be kept for long period of time, fishermen would take barrels of them along with them on their long sea journeys.
 

Lavender Tea Cookies
These Lavender Cookies are fabulous! You are sure to get raves when you serve them. I created this cookie recipe to showcase how Lavender can be used in your baking.
 

Lemon Melt Away Cookies
As the title says, "These cookies literally melt in your mouth!" These cookies have a shortbread-like texture and taste wonderful! If you like lemon, you will definiely love these cookies. These cookies are very similar to my High Tea Lemon Cookies.
 

Lemon Sable Cookies
Lemon Butter Cookies
Sable cookies are a classic French cookie originating in Normandy. Sable is French for "sand," which refer to the sandy texture of these delicate shortbread-like cookies.
 

Maple Shortbread Cookies
Excellent cookie for your afternoon tea time.
 

Merry Christmas Cookies
Christmas would hardly seem like Christmas without fancifully shaped and decorated cookies. Decorated cookies are thought to have originated in pre-Christian times as offerings to various gods. You and your children will love these cookies. The honey in this recipe makes these cookies melt in your mouth.

 

Mexican Orange Sugar Cookies
These cookies are so delicious with the orange juice and anise. Try them!

Moravian Ginger Cookies
This paper-thin ginger cookies are absolutely fantastic! Moravian ginger cookies are cut into shapes and baked. These cookies are considered a signature cookie of the town of Winston-Salem, NC.
 

Neapolitan Cookies
Two types of flavors combine to make a distinctive cookie. Light dough filled with almond flavoring, cherries and nuts is sandwiched between a chocolate, cinnamon, nutty dough. These take a little more time to prepare, but they get rave reviews.
 

Nun's Signs
(Suspiros de Monja)
This is a typical Spanish pastry. It could even be considered a cookie.
 

Palmiers - Elephant Ear Cookies
These French cookies are fantastic and so easy-to-make. Palmiers are crisp, buttery, sweet, and very elegant. Traditionally, the recipe is time consuming and labor intensive, but commercial puff pastry makes an almost identical substitute. Of course you can make your own puff pastry, but why?
 

Raisin-Filled Sugar and Spice
These are fantastic cookies! It is worth the extra time it takes to make them. The smell as you bake them, will drive you crazy with desire! A great holiday cookie.
 

Scottish Empire Biscuits
These are a traditional Scottish biscuit (cookie). As a reminder to Americans, cookies are called biscuits in England and Scotland. The biscuit is smaller than the Linzer Torte, but with the same top and bottom.
 

 
Snowflake Cookies
These beautiful and delicious decorated cookies are by Peggy Weaver of Idaho.

 

Sourdough Sugar Cookies
A wonderful and delicious way to use your sourdough starter!
 

Sugar Cookies
Buttery cut-out sugar cookies are always a favorite with children and adults. You make the shape and size of a sugar cookie to fit any occasion, and you can also dress them for a tea with simply granulated or colored sugars.

Chocolate Biscotti
These biscotti are as pretty as they are delicious tasting. Excellent served with a cup of coffee. But on special occasions or after dinner, serve them with a sparkling wine or a sweet dessert wine for a wonderful treat.
 

Chocolate Chip Cookies
The absolute best  Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. The addition of powdered rolled oats makes these exception chocolate chip cookies. This will definitely become your favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe!

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten Free/Casein Free - I made these gluten free and casein free cookies for my grandson who is on a special diet. 

Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Gluten-Free Buckwheat & Rice Flour Recipe)
 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
This wonderful quick and easy cookie pie is courtesy of Christine Torres and her web site called Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea and chocolate in between.

 

Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This delightful cookie recipe was shared with me by Marianne Wright of Austin, Texas.
 

Chocolate Cornflake Cookies
This fantastic recipe is from the cookbook, Dessert Circus, Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home, by Jacques Torres.
 

Chocolate Crinkles (Kringles)
These are wonderful cookie - a chocolate lover's delight! I definitely love chocolate! The recipe is adapted from Betty Crocker's 1963 Cookbook.
 

Chocolate Espresso Cookies
Chocoholics Beware!  I like to call these cookies Chocolate Bombs, as the chocolate, espresso, and cayenne powder seem to explode in your mouth with flavor.
 

Chocolate Graham Cracker Cookies
One of my favorite childhood treats! My mother always made these with leftover frosting (I thinks she made extra frosting on purpose). To this day, when I want a quick chocolate fix, I make these Chocolate Graham Cracker Cookies.
 

Chocolate Meringue Cookies
A delicious low-fat cookie that will fit on your diet.
 

Chocolate Mint Squares
You'll enjoy this refreshing combination of chocolate and mint.
 

Chocolate Mint Wafers
This wonderful cookie recipe and photo were shared with me by my sister, Carol Arroyo, and her website called The Baking Pan.
 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pizza
One big giant cookie! What could be better than chocolate and peanut butter? Surprise your family and friends with this easy-to-make dessert.
 

Chocolate Sundae Cookies
These cookies remind me of the chocolate pinwheel cookies. This recipe was shared with me by a neighbor of mine, Shirley Snyder of Scholls, Oregon. I believe this cookie recipe is an older Pillsbury Cook-Off recipe winner.
 

Dieters Beware Brownies
This recipe screams with calories! Very rich, very good, and very fattening.
 

Korova Cookies (Sables Korova)
Chocolate Butter Cookies
This is a simple butter cookie turned into something magical by French pastry chef, Pierre Hermés, and adapted by cookbook author Dories Greenspan. It's that unexpected hint of salt and how it combines with the chocolate that makes for an explosive burst of flavor.