143 walnut cookie recipes

Birds in the Nest cookies with brown sugar dough rolled in ground nuts and filled with jelly. A thumbprint cookie recipe passed down through generations of holiday baking.

Walnut crescent cookies rolled in powdered sugar, made with ground walnuts, butter, and egg yolks. Delicate, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread that improves with age.

Buttery walnut shortbread scored into elegant wedges with a tender, sandy crumb. Just 5 ingredients and one pan for a cookie that melts on your tongue.

Pogen's gingersnaps deliver a thin, crisp Swedish-style cookie spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves over a deep molasses base. Press into flat rounds and bake quick for snap-crisp edges.

Chocolate chip cookies made from yellow cake mix with just 5 extra ingredients. Soft, cakey cookies with walnuts that come together in minutes and bake in 12.

These cookies are very tasty and rich, not too sweet, but enough chocolate flavor.

Triple chocolate chip cookies with semi-sweet chunks, white chocolate pieces, and milk chocolate chips plus crunchy walnuts. Chewy brown sugar cookies loaded with variety in every bite.

Buttery walnut biscotti inspired by Chez Panisse, laced with Cognac and vanilla. Twice-baked to a golden crunch, these elegant cookies bring California fine dining to your cookie jar.

Pineapple drop cookies with crushed pineapple, brown sugar, walnuts, and raisins. Soft, cake-like cookies with tropical fruit flavor and chewy pockets of nuts and raisins.

Chewy brown sugar drop cookies loaded with crushed Special K cereal and chopped walnuts. This retro recipe makes 5 dozen crispy-edged, buttery little bites that vanish fast.

Greek monastery cookies rolled in chopped nuts or sesame seeds, filled with apricot or rose preserves. Buttery thumbprint cookies with a crisp nut coating and jammy center.

Raisin Puree is the basis for the dough of this rich-tasting, chewy bar. The combination of orange and chocolate is a classic favorite. We considered cutting the amount of chocolate in the recipe, thereby cut ting the fat, but in the end we agreed that the extra richness is worth the extra grams of fat.

Tiny Bohemian chocolate cookies with melted milk chocolate, grated walnuts, and butter, baked low and slow until they melt on your tongue. Makes 16 dozen bite-sized cookies for holiday platters.

Portuguese biscoitos shaped into rings from hand-rolled dough ropes. A simple butter and egg cookie that bakes golden, lightly sweet, and crisp.

Waffle iron drop cookies: a chocolate cocoa cookie dough baked in 2 to 3 minutes in a waffle iron instead of an oven. Crisp, patterned, and ready faster than preheating.

Brown sugar raisin walnut drop cookies for the holiday cookie tin. All brown sugar (no white) for deep caramel chew, packed with raisins and walnuts in every bite. Three dozen from one bowl in twenty minutes.