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Bakeries Sell Millions of These Cookies. How Many Are Actually Homemade?

These iconic cookies are omnipresent at Italian-American bakeries along the East Coast, but not all are made from scratch.

Italian Butter Cookies

The freshest Italian butter cookies are the ones you bake at home. This butter cookie recipe gives you delicate almond-scented cookies in your favorite design.

Linzer Cookies

Scotcheroos

A Midwestern dessert most easily described as peanut butter Rice Krispies Treats layered with chocolate and butterscotch, scotcheroos are practically impossible to dislike.

Hamantaschen

These triangular cookies—traditionally stuffed with poppy seed filling, but often with jam or jelly—are a signature of Purim.

Caffeinate Your Cookies With Any Coffee or Tea

Coffee grounds, tea leaves, matcha powder? The choice is yours.

Any Tea or Coffee Shortbread Cookies

Pick any sort of coffee or tea to turn this moreish cookie into a caffeinated treat fit for breakfast or dessert.

Blondies

Everyone needs an irresistibly buttery back-pocket blondie recipe in their toolbox. This is ours. 

Choose Your Own Holiday Adventure With Mix-and-Match Biscotti

One recipe, endless possibilities.

For the Shiniest Cookie Icing, Meringue Powder Is a Must

Thanks to this shelf-stable ingredient, you’ll have the prettiest cookies at the swap.

Brandied Almond Biscotti

This almond biscotti recipe gets oomph from a splash of brandy.

Anything Goes Biscotti

Think of this flexible biscotti recipe as a formula for whatever flavor of crunchy cookie you’re craving.

Peppermint Bark Brownies

Deep, rich dark chocolate, milky white chocolate, and sharp peppermint come together in a gift-worthy brownie.

Light Up Your Cookie Swap With Tutti-Frutti Thumbprints

Using an array of freeze-dried fruits and jams creates a striking mix-and-match palette of colors and flavors.

Tutti-Frutti Thumbprint Cookies

These shortbread-like cookies are tossed in a mixture of freeze-dried fruit pulverized with granulated sugar, coating the outsides in a fun blanket of fruity flavor.

Cuccidati

Buttery cookie dough and brandy-soaked dried fruit make these Italian fig cookies a holiday must-have.

Italian Rainbow Cookies

Store-bought versions are rarely as good as you want them to be. Take matters into your own hands with this step-by-step recipe.

Butter Cookies

Remember that tin of Danish butter cookies you used to love? These are better.

Whoopie Pies With Whipped Marshmallow Filling

Nobody knows exactly where whoopie pies came from, but we guarantee these marshmallow-stuffed chocolate cakes will go fast.
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