350 sugar cookie recipes

Max's chocolate chip cookies fold rolled oats into a buttery brown-sugar dough for extra chew, loaded with semi-sweet chips. A heartier, oatmeal-laced take on the chocolate chip classic.

Chunky peanut chocolate chip cookies pack chunky peanut butter, salted peanuts, and semi-sweet chocolate chips into a buttery brown sugar dough. Crisp edges, chewy middles, and a salty-sweet finish in every bite.

Oatmeal raisin cookies with toasted walnuts, dark brown sugar, cinnamon, and a hit of nutmeg. Chewy in the middle, crisp on the edges, and packed with three cups of rolled oats for serious texture.

Buttermilk whoopie pies: pillowy chocolate cake cookies sandwiched around fluffy marshmallow buttercream. The classic New England diner dessert, soft, sweet, and snack-cake delicious.

Maple date cookies with brown sugar, chopped dates, and nuts baked into soft, chewy rounds. Maple extract gives these drop cookies a warm, caramel-like sweetness you won't find in ordinary cookie recipes.

Aunt Catherine's Italian Cookies: a heirloom cookie with almond extract, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, finished in pastel-colored powdered sugar icing. Stores for months in tins.

Kitchen-sink cookies loaded with rolled oats, crushed cornflakes, shredded coconut, and pecans. Crispy edges, chewy centers, dusted with powdered sugar. Similar to ranger cookies.

Walk to school cookies: buttery slice-and-bake shortbread with chopped pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. Make-ahead icebox cookies sturdy enough to survive a backpack and lunchbox.

Fruit cake cookies loaded with candied cherries, candied pineapple, white raisins, and pecans with brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Holiday baking in cookie form.

Mincemeat oatmeal cookies: chewy spiced drop cookies that pack the entire flavor of a Christmas mince pie into a hand-held bite. Brown sugar, molasses, oats, and a generous spoonful of mincemeat per cookie.

Diabetic-friendly date nut cookies sweetened with sugar-free orange marmalade instead of sugar. Chopped dates, nuts, and cinnamon in a simple drop cookie.

Diabetic-friendly cookies sweetened with raisins, dates, and apples instead of sugar. Drop cookies built around boiled fruit base with sugar substitute. Makes 3 dozen lower-glycemic cookies.

Dried cherry oatmeal cookies with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Chewy, buttery oat cookies studded with tart dried cherries instead of the usual raisins.

Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies made extra tender with sour cream. Brown sugar, cinnamon, chopped nuts, and plump raisins in every bite. Makes about 4 and a half dozen.

Boston cookies are an old-fashioned drop cookie with cinnamon, raisins and chopped walnuts in a simple butter-sugar base. Soft in the middle, lightly chewy at the edges, ready in 30 minutes.

Rugalach rolls cream cheese dough around apricot preserves, cinnamon-sugar, ground pecans, and currants into bite-sized crescent cookies. The Jewish-American holiday cookie passed down through generations of bakers.