70 cookie dough recipes

Crispy unsweetened oat cookies sandwiched with a sweet date filling. A Canadian grandma recipe with an icebox dough sliced paper-thin and baked into delicate wafers.

Linzer pastry dough with a full pound of butter, egg yolks, lemon zest, and vanilla. A rich, tender Austrian dough for jam-filled cookies, tarts, and meringue-topped pastries.

Green-and-white peppermint pinwheel cookies, sliced from a swirled frozen log. A classic Christmas icebox cookie with spiraled layers of vanilla and mint dough.

Chocolate chip cherry drop cookies with cream cheese in the dough, maraschino cherries, and a half-cherry crown on each cookie. Holiday-bright bite-sized treats.

Fig Star Cookies feature a maple-scented shortening dough wrapped around a homemade dried fig filling with lemon and nuts. A vintage holiday cookie worth the effort.

Ginger snaps roll molasses-spiked dough into balls and bake into crackly-topped, snappy spice cookies. Brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon give the classic chewy-crisp texture in 36 cookies.

Fudgy chocolate chip cookies with melted chocolate in the dough plus extra chips and walnuts throughout. A quick-soured milk trick adds tang and tenderness to a dense, brownie-like cookie.

Cinnamon sugar cookies with a tender shortening-based dough, brushed with egg white and topped with a cinnamon sugar sparkle. Crisp edges, soft centers.

Chocolate walnut meringue cookies rolled and cut into rounds from a fondant-like dough of powdered sugar, cocoa, egg whites, and ground nuts. Crisp, chewy, and gluten-free.

Vanilla pecan slice-and-bake cookies from a make-ahead dough that chills into logs and freezes for up to 3 months. Crisp, buttery icebox cookies baked from frozen in 12 minutes.

Thin, crispy slice-and-bake cookies with shredded coconut and walnuts. A refrigerator cookie dough you roll, chill, and slice into wafer-thin rounds that bake up snappy in 10 minutes. Makes 48.

Vanilla chip biscotti studded with white vanilla chips and twice-baked Italian-style for a crisp, dunkable cookie. Almost fat-free in the dough, with a clean vanilla-citrus crumb.

Cherry chocolate chip cookies with chopped maraschino cherries, semi-sweet chips, and almond extract in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bake 8 minutes for chewy, 13 for crisp.

Gingerbread dough made the old-fashioned way with boiled molasses, shortening, allspice, and cinnamon. Perfect for rolled cookies, houses, or cut-out shapes.

Buttery rolled sugar cookies with a hint of sour cream and fresh lemon zest, cut into any shape you like and sprinkled with crunchy granulated sugar. A chilled dough that rolls out beautifully every time.

Slice-and-bake molasses cookies with ginger, brown sugar, and a crisp, thin snap. Shape the dough into a log, chill, slice thin, and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.