212 sugar cookie recipes

Delicious and crisp cookies, all my family love these cookies!

Use some of those apples you got from the store with this scrumptious cookie that is perfect with the morning coffee.

No-bake peach ice cream cake layered with gingersnap crumbs, toasted almonds, crystallized ginger, peach frozen yogurt, vanilla ice cream, and caramel sauce. Frozen overnight and sliced like a loaf.

Whole wheat oatmeal cookies with molasses, honey, raisins, and walnuts. Sweetened three ways with brown sugar, molasses, and honey for a chewy, spiced high-fiber cookie.

Lighter cocoa oatmeal cookies made with egg whites and nonfat yogurt instead of whole eggs and butter. Studded with mini chocolate chips and chewy with 3 cups of quick oats. Makes a whopping 66 cookies.

Black Forest oatmeal cookies with white and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, maraschino cherries, toasted almonds, and almond extract. A bakery-style drop cookie.

Grilled hoisin-marinated pork strips tucked into crisp lettuce cups with rice noodles, crunchy veggies, and a sweet peanut-chile dipping sauce. A fresh, hands-on Thai dinner for a crowd.

Lean pork loin strips seared fast and tossed with red, yellow, and smoky poblano peppers in a ginger-sesame sauce. A quick, low-carb skillet dinner that's on the table in 15 minutes.

Chewy molasses oatmeal cookies with pecans, raisins, cinnamon, and cloves, drizzled with melted chocolate. Three cups of oats give these a hearty, old-fashioned chew.

Fun see chicken, a Chinese stir-fry of slippery bean thread noodles tossed with soy-marinated chicken, napa cabbage, bamboo shoots, and snow peas. The glass noodles drink up the savory broth in every bite.

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Lung Fung Shrimps with jumbo shrimp and three kinds of mushrooms deep-fried then wok-tossed in oyster sauce, soy, ginger, and sesame oil. A classic Cantonese banquet-style seafood dish.

Stunning Chinese shredded vegetable and chicken platter with wood ear fungus, egg strips, and a ginger-mustard sesame dressing. A composed cold salad that looks as spectacular as it tastes.

Easy ginger spice cookies with no sugar in the dough: cinnamon, ginger, and cloves rolled and cut into rounds, then tossed warm in a sugar-substitute cinnamon coating. A diabetic-friendly cookie.

Applique cookies stack contrasting chocolate-pepper and sugar cookie doughs, cut in different shapes and glued with egg white before baking, then drizzled with chocolate. A striking two-tone decorating technique.

Soft gumdrop cookies made with buttermilk and brown sugar. The gumdrops stay chewy while the cookies bake up tender with slightly crisp edges.