31 Easy Cookie Recipes That'll Please Everyone

Textured and slightly crisp on the outside and oozing with chocolate goodness on the inside, these cookies will satisfy people on both sides of the crispy vs. chewy debate. 

Recipe: The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Caramel, coconut, and chocolate are the holy trinity when it comes to cookie recipes. I've never come across a recipe with these three ingredients that hasn't tasted like the best thing I've ever chewed.

Recipe: Salted Caramel Coconut Cookies

If you've ever tried Speculoos cookies or the namesake butter, then you know how deliciously spiced and buttery they are. Now you can make your own batch of 'em using this easy recipe. Cut them into your favorite shapes or use a cookie stamp to make them extra special. 

Recipe: Speculoos Cookies and Homemade Cookie Butter

In a pinch, you can substitute 2 teaspoons of baking soda and 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar for 4 teaspoons of baking powder.

Recipe: The Best Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies

These flour-free cookies come together with just peanut butter, sugar, and an egg. And in exchange for sacrificing most of a jar of peanut butter, you'll be rewarded with more than two dozen cookies. 

Recipe: 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

If you've got some leftover fun-size Halloween candy lying around, this is a great recipe that lets you pair them with chocolate chip cookie dough for a delicious Frankentreat! Bonus points if you're actually baking them Oct. 31. 

Recipe: Caramel Snickers Cookie Cups

These cookies have a secret: They're actually baked with crushed-up chocolate cookies and made extra creamy with the addition of ample cream cheese. 

Recipe: Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Cookies

With their eye-popping red color, vaguely luxe-sounding name, and lush cocoa flavor that always tastes as if it's hiding a secret ingredient, these red velvet cookies are always a good dessert choice. 

Recipe: Red Velvet Box Cookies

It's 11 p.m. and you know you should go to bed, but you have a craving for something sweet that you haven't been able to ignore for the last two hours. What do you do? Make this scrumptious mug cake, which comes together with just a couple of pantry ingredients. 

Recipe: Cookies and Cream Mug Cake

I don't know what it is about these cookies, but the older I get, the more I seem to be drawn to them. If you're into buttery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies garnished with little more than large sugar granules, you might love them too! 

Recipe: Danish Butter Cookies

Adding 2 teaspoons of espresso powder to this recipe adds a certain je ne sais quoi that can only be described as a more pronounced cocoa taste.

Recipe: Brown Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

Try this with any of your favorite cream-stuffed cookies, like Nutter Butters, Oreos, or Vienna Fingers.

Recipe: Cookies and Cream Stuffed Cookies

Personalize these cookies with your favorite colors and ingredients, including candy flavoring, cocoa powder, or even a bit of matcha. 

Recipe: Sugar Swirl Cookies

Soft, fluffy, and iced with a melt-in-your-mouth frosting, these sugar cookies are a must-have in your day-off tool kit.

Recipe: The Softest Sugar Cookies Ever

Be sure to grease your spoon before scooping up your cookie dough, or you might be in for a mess.

Recipe: Birthday Cake Mix Cookies

If you're someone who's used to having oatmeal first thing in the morning, you'll appreciate these cookies that pair with peanut butter, chocolate chips, or walnuts for an on-the-go treat!

Recipe: 3-Ingredient Breakfast Cookies

For an extra-lemony flavor, consider adding 1 or 2 tablespoons of real lemon juice to the mix. 

Recipe: Lemon Crinkle Cake Mix Cookies

If you're feeling indecisive about what kind of cookies you'd like to make, these stuffed delights will let you try out all of your options. Let your imagination run wild with fun batches sprinkled with mini marshmallows and chocolate chips or even crushed-up potato chips and pretzel bits! 

Recipe: Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you're the kind of person who looks forward to the holiday season all year, then here's a cookie for you. It's made with peppermint extract and crushed-up candy canes for an intense minty flavor that'll bring festive cheer straight to your kitchen. 

Recipe: Peppermint Brownie Cookies

For those days when you're craving something that's not overpoweringly sweet, these moist and soft banana bread cookies are just the thing.

Recipe: Super-Soft Banana Bread Cookies

Quick tip: Try adding just 1 teaspoon of salt to start, as some people feel that 2 teaspoons of salt tastes overpowering.

Recipe: Homemade Oreos

Crispy on the edges and oozing with chocolaty peanut butter flavor, these cookies honestly sell themselves.  

Recipe: Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Serve these after your next dinner party for something that'll sweeten everyone's palate and breath!

Recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

These crispy cookies are gorgeous and delicious. Be sure to let your dough chill for at least an hour or they'll be more difficult to shape. 

Recipe: Raspberry Poppyseed Linzer Cookies

For the perfect cookie, try adding your mini marshmallows as soon as you pull them out of the oven instead of incorporating them into the mix. This way, they'll get gooey without blending into the cookie. 

Recipe: S’mores Cookies

Rich, fudgy, and dense with cocoa flavor, these cookies toe the delicious line between brownie and cookie. Dunk them into a glass of milk for the perfect treat.

Recipe: Brownie Fudge Cookies

The best cookie recipes are sometimes the ones that are the most fun to make. For these gingerbread Wookiees, don't worry too much about getting the body and head right. The chocolaty details will bring out the Wookiee resemblance in a pinch!

Recipe: Gingerbread Wookiee Cookies

What happens when you combine brownie cookie mix with cookie dough mix? A double serving of brookies!

Recipe: Box Brownie Cookies (Brookies)

Crunchy, buttery, and sweet, these cookies are a great afternoon pick-me-up. You can thank almond extract, oats, and ground flaxseed for their wonderful nutty texture.

Recipe: Cranberry Almond Cookies

Crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, these oatmeal cookies are a great solution to the cookie conundrum of how to mix both textures into one treat. A mix of butterscotch and chocolate chips makes them even more heavenly.

Recipe: Crispy Rice Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

What do you get when you take one refrigerated piecrust and combine it with cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, and butter? These adorable cinnamon roll cookies, which you can have as a dessert or as a sweet breakfast! 

Recipe: Mini Cinnamon Roll Cookies