25 Cookie Jar Favorite Cookies and Cookie Cookbook Giveaway
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I love cookies and make tons of them. I’m often asked for my favorites and that’s a loaded question.
How can I pick between a tender soft and buttery snickerdoodle, a gooey Snickers-stuffed chocolate chip cookie, or a beloved peanut butter cookie? They’re all so different, but all so good.
I wrote a Favorite Cookies List about 6 months ago, but as I make more cookies and try new recipes, the list changes. As of today, I’d be thrilled to gobble any of the following right off the baking sheet.
My current 25 Favorite Cookies, by category:
Chocolate Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Adaptations
Brown Sugar and Soft, Buttery, Doughy Cookies
Coconut Oil Cookies
Oatmeal-Based Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Fruity and Seasonal Cookies
Chocolate Cookies
1. Thick and Soft Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (GF)
2. Soft and Chewy Brownie Cookies
3. Quintuple Chocolate Fudgy Brownie Cookies
4. Nutella Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Adaptations with my Favorite Dough Base
And also see Cookie #22
5. Chocolate Chip and Chunk Cookies – Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
6. Soft and Chewy Snickers Chocolate Chip Cookies
7. Soft and Chewy M&Ms Cookies
8. Twix Bar Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown Sugar and Soft, Buttery, Doughy Cookies
Also See Cookie #14
10. Soft and Chewy Cinnamon Chip Snickerdoodle Cookies
11. White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies
12. Sugar-Doodle Vanilla Cookies
13. Buttery Sugar Wafer Sandwich Cookies
Coconut Oil Cookies
14. Soft Batch Dark Brown Sugar Coconut Oil Cookies
15. Soft and Puffy Peanut Butter Coconut Oil Cookies
16. Coconut Oil White Chocolate Cookies
Oatmeal-Based Cookies
Also see Cookies #21, 22
17. Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Scotchies Cookies
18. Thick and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
19. Soft and Chewy Spiced Carrot Cake Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Also see #’s 1, 4, 15 for other favorite Peanut Butter Cookie variations that I’ve blogged about
My Cookbook contains 3 of my all-time Favorite Peanut Butter Cookie Recipes
20. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies (gluten-free) – Favorite Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe on my Blog
21. Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies
22. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Fruity and Seasonal Cookies
23. Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
25. Cranberry and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
There’s always room for more cookie recipes and I’m giving away a copy of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer: All the Good Cookies
About the Book
“In 2007, Gretchen Holt-Witt set the lofty goal of baking and selling 96,000 cookies during the holidays, all in the name of funding research for pediatric cancer, the #1 killer of kids in the United States and the disease her young son was battling. Armed with the determination of a mom on a mission plus the knowledge that funds for research mean more treatment options, better survival rates, and hope for the future, Holt-Witt succeeded in selling all 96,000 cookies and raising over $400,000 for new pediatric cancer treatments.
Soon after, Gretchen and her husband Larry founded Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a national nonprofit that inspires people to host bake sales of all sizes, from desktops and porches to entire corporations and communities, with some raising more than $100,000 in a day. Gretchen’s first book, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer Best Bake Sale Cookbook, raised thousands more for pediatric cancer research. All the Good Cookies gathers a mouthwatering collection of recipes that promise to satisfy any cookie craving, with the author’s profits again going to the charity.”
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150 Comments on “25 Cookie Jar Favorite Cookies and Cookie Cookbook Giveaway”
I love all of the cookie recipes you post! Cookies are my favorite :)
i just love the power of a mom on a mission…how amazing she raised that much $..and to now have a cookbook…thanks for sharing Averie. Everyone loves cookies!!!
Warm and thick chocolate chip cookies.
I love making any cookie with brown butter!
White chocolate macadamia.
I finally bought the coconut oil so I can try your cookies – first stop being the peanut butter ones.
Oh my goodness, I clearly have a lot of recipes to try! I’ve tried the soft and chewy M&M and chocolate chip and the pb oatmeal white chocolate chip. They were all fabulous, soft and chewy, just the way I like!
My favorite cookie is probably….plain ol’ chocolate chip using the soft and chewy dough base that you often use. Although peanut butter cookies are up there too. And I’m in love with these cinnamon roll sugar cookies: http://picky-palate.com/2010/02/11/cinnamon-roll-sugar-cookies-yes/ .
Cookies I want to make, oh boy.
Peppermint white chocolate chip cookies : http://www.closetcooking.com/2012/12/peppermint-white-chocolate-chip-cookies.html
PB Chocolate Swirl Cookies: http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/02/24/soft-baked-peanut-butter-chocolate-swirl-cookies/
Deep dark chocolate cookies : http://www.divine-baking.com/2011/04/deep-dark-chocolate-cookies.html
Monster cookies
Oatmeal raisinet cookies
Your cookie cups, sugar doodles, oatmeal scotchies, and coconut oil cookies to name a few. ;)
Wow – so many great links and ideas! Thanks for all of these, Megan!
I really want to try this cookie recipe! They look amazing :)
http://www.pastryaffair.com/blog/honey-chocolate-chunk-cookies.html
I love love love cookies with cacao nibs
Oatmeal dark chocolate and peanut butter!
Double chocolate mint cookies!
I am new to your site and I can’t wait to make the peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies. I too am a major peanut butter lover and mixed with chocolate makes it even better!
My favorite cookie is definitely a peanut butter cookie with chocolate chips!
I would love to try your chocolate chip cookie recipe with the cornstarch!
so many cookies…so little time!
I love oatmeal raisin cookies and these White Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Raisin Cookies were some of the best I’ve made!
http://luvwhatyoudo.net/2013/03/16/white-chocolate-chunk-oatmeal-raisin-cookies/
I want to try out the coconut oil cookies
Definitely a classic chocolate chip cookie. I’m always on the hunt for the perfect recipe. Thanks for the giveaway!!
i found a super recipe for cookies which you can put in rolos or any other confectionary pieces you like always popular
I love my double chocolate mint chip cookies that I make at Christmastime every year! I sadly have no link to the recipe and is it just at home in my recipe box :(
Those chocolate cookies with nutella look tremendous! :-)
Peanut butter cookies – I’ve been making them since I were a kid!
I am head over heals for your chocolate peanut butter coookies! sometimes I get crazy with these totally gf cookies and sub cocoa powder with carob or peanut butter with hazulnut or sunflower butter : )
Thank you for all your inspiration!
I love peanut butter cookies
I love soft chocolate cookies!
I want to make these https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/01/coconut-oil-white-chocolate-cookies.html but have yet to invest in coconut oil. :(
Peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies!
One of my 11 yr old grandsons is fighting a horrible cancer – so anything that supports pediatric cancer – I want to be a part of.
My favorite cookie is an oatmeal, choc chip cookie. YUM!
My favorite recipe is my moms homemade peanut butter chip cookies. They are to die for!
I would love to try the Cranberry and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love every type of cookie! Oreo chocolate chip are a favorite
These all look delish!
May Day cookies from The Bread Basket in Chattanooga, TN. They are made with cream cheese & have sprinkles mixed in. I would love to have the recipe!
I really like coconut macaroons made with condensed milk, coconut, vanilla extract and almond extract. In fact, I made some today.
I’ve never made whoopsie pies and want to try that recipe soon…
I can’t wait to try the buttery sugar wafer sandwich cookies
Double chocolate chip cookies.
I like Jam Thumbprints.
I cannot keep enough cookies in the house for my husband
I love warm chewy chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven
I have a Chocolate Chai snickerdoodle recipe that I love!
can’t wait for your cookbook!!!
I would love to make http://eatcakefordinner.blogspot.com/2011/05/soft-cookies-with-pink-icing.html
these sugar cookies with pink icing! :) I love the idea behind this cookbook. The support for cancer patients is amazing while integrating baking! <3
Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies, for sure. Your cinnamon-chip variation is one I haven’t tried yet, but plan to soon:
https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/05/soft-and-chewy-cinnamon-chip-snickerdoodle-cookies.html
(I know you’ve listed them above in the blog post, but I’m linking them here for good measure.)
I love oatmeal walnut chocolate chip cookies from Great Harvest Bread!
My favorite cookie is Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip! http://satisfymysweettooth.com/brown-butter-double-chocolate-sea-salt-cookies/
I love your Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies!
I love them too – thanks for trying them!
Hi!
1, Your cookbook got here yesterday YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2, I made your double chocolate “muffins” last weekend and sent them with my husband to work (after eating *ahem* several), and one of his coworkers liked them so much she asked for the recipe. :-)
3, I need to make those chocolate PB cookies that are your #1 here. I keep putting if off. Why is that? They’re so easy and delicious. Oh I know – because I’d eat all of them. Delectable.
Thanks for ordering my book!! The old-fashioned PB cookies in there are excellent and one friend already made them and said they’re the best pb cookies she’s ever had or made :)
The butterscotch ones are crazy good too! LMK what you try from the book!
https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/02/thick-and-soft-chocolate-peanut-butter-cookies.html
The thick and soft chocolate peanut butter cookies appeal to me, I have been cutting out gluten as an experiment lately , noticing I tend to get congested when I eat gluten , first I was collecting recipes for my niece who is gluten free then tried it for myself and noticing I feel better too.These are my favorite flavors chocolate and peanut butter.
My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip lava cookie – sublime! Here is the link for the recipe: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/dessert/chocolate-chip-lava-cookies.html
My favorite cookie would be chewy oatmeal raisin cookies like this one: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/oatmeal_raisin_cookies/
My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip lava cookie – sublime!
Your M&M cookies are next on my list!
I love this post!!! My all time cookie favorite is peanut butter cookies. You just can’t beat them with a big glass of (almond, hemp, cashew, cow, coconut) milk:)
I love all kinds of cookies, but if forced to choose I would pick chocolate chip
Who doesn’t love cookies? I think my favorite is the good ole Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies from the recipe right off the chocolate chip bag. It’s what my mom made and it’s what I make now. You can’t go wrong with them!
These cookies look absolutely undeniably amazing, and I am a cookie monster so I know a good cookie when I see one. Didn’t think I’d be inspired by all these recipes but I guess never say never, can’t wait to try these out!
Chocolate chip!
I love maple walnut cookies!
There’s no way I could choose between all of these either…in fact, I would happily eat one of each!
My favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin. Love those warm out of the oven!!
Chocolate chip- I try lots but I see that that one is the one I come back to.
My favorite cookies are from Levain Bakery!
My favorite cookies are Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese icing. My family eats them as fast as I can ice them!
Monster Cookies are my favorite!
Soft sugar cookies.
I would love to make Cafe Mocha Cookies (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mexican-Wedding-Cakes-108073).
I love you white chocolate & cranberry cookies. It’s the first recipe I made from your website. Delish! One of my favorite cookies to make & eat.
Another lady just asked me about those and I told her how much I loved them and glad you love them too! And that it was the first recipe you made from my site!
My favourite cookie is Shortbread cookies, but your Pumpkin Whoopies Pies look really delicious and different and I will have to try them.
I would love to make ALL of your cookies! They look delicious!
Peanut blossoms are my favorite.
I love chocolate chip cookies, great big chewy ones. Thanks.
chocolate poeanut butter chip
Old school peanut butter chip cookies are the best things ever.
I love gingerbread cookies.
EEEE! You know how I looooove cookies! This post just made my heart happy :D
Sugar Cookies with Frosting
http://eatcakefordinner.blogspot.com/2010/10/kneaders-sugar-cookies.html
I just checked those out, and your pink sugar cookies, and opened up like 10 links. Wow, you made me hungry :)
As you may have noticed I love cookies as well. I wish I could try all of yours!
Chocolate chip cookies…mmmmmm.
pecan shortbread YUM!
Like you I have more than a few “favorite” cookie recipes. But one that is currently on my and my daughter’s list is this:
http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2012/09/04/buckeye-peanut-butter-cup-cookies/
try it out – it’s easier than it looks and tastes terrific!
snickerdoodles!!
I would like to try your Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. I had been looking for a White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut cookie recipe but I think this sounds just as good. Here is the link to the page for your recipe https://www.averiecooks.com/2012/12/cranberry-and-white-chocolate-chip-cookies.html
They are incredible. Love that dough base, so much. Feel free to swap out the cranberries and add nuts instead; it’s a great dough base for anything white chocolate related. If you try them, please lmk!
my favorite is snicker doodle. I just love cinnamon
My favorite cookies are Oatmeal Scotchies since childhood. https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/04/soft-and-chewy-oatmeal-scotchies-cookies.html
now that’s yumminess!
My favorite cookie is your white chocolate snickerdoodles! I am way too lazy to make them too often (I prefer making bars) but I LOVE them! I asked my husband to watch the baby this weekend so I can make some for my birthday!
love trying out different versions of chocolate chip cookies
I love salted caramel chocolate chip cookies! (I’ve used Sally’s Baking Addiction’s recipe in the past. YUM-MO.)
I made your pumpkin whoopie pies and they took me down memory lane to Lancaster, PA and the Amish farm stands and their pumpkin whoopie pies. Yum!!!
Thanks for LMK that you tried them! I love those things, too! :)
I love cookies, I really need to sample one of each of these! :) I was making PB frosting earlier today and realized I haven’t baked PB cookies in forever, so that’s on my list at the moment.
These are amazing –
http://leitesculinaria.com/79156/recipes-chocolate-m-and-m-cookies.html
It makes a lot – feel free to halve or quarter the recipe – I’ve done both, and thy turn out fine
Chocolate chip!
Choc chip cookie from Levain Bakery in NYC or Ben’s Cookies in London!
What an amazing collection of cookies Averie! My favorite cookies could be any one of your recipes because anytime I’ve tried any of your cookie recipes they have turned out beautifully! My favorite part is that most of your cookies are one bowl no mixer required – this is a huge time saver and saves on the messy clean up! Just wanted to say how much I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and hope you have a great weekend :)
My favorite cookie is peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip :) http://www.culinarycoutureblog.com/2010/12/trifecta-cookies.html
wow what a plethora of amazingness!!! my fav cookies are anything with peanut butter!
I would love to make one of these monster cookies from Sally’s Baking Addiction. This M&M one look particularly fantastic! http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/06/04/one-giant-monster-mm-cookie/
I love making nobakes!
Okay, now I want to bake cookies again! :D
A classic, fluffy chocolate chip cookie is my absolute fave!
Cookies! I think I love them all :) I seem to gravitate towards any cookie with chocolate and you just can’t go wrong with an awesome chocolate chip cookie recipe.
My favorite cookies is one of your recipes and I also make these with bananas and a strawberry filling. They are to die for.
http://averiecooks.ziplist.com/recipes/1583732-Pumpkin_Whoopie_Pies?return_to=%2Frecipes%2Fbox
Thanks for LMK you tried the pumpkin version and oh wow, banana whoopie pies w/ strawberry filling sounds wonderful!
I love chocolate spice cookies, especially with a cup of tea..
http://thewellflouredkitchen.com/2013/03/01/chocolate-spice-cookies/
I have still yet to try Sally’s soft baked choc chip cookies!!
My favorite cookie, besides a good monster m&m cookie, is one made from the $250 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe.
Here’s the link: http://www.food.com/recipe/neiman-marcus-250-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe-13307
I must say, this is my favorite collection EVVVERRRR! When I feel like I need to relax…and bake, I always turn to baking cookies! I get so intrigued by the science of baking them. (And I’m a bit of a perfectionist.) So, I get super excited when they come out perfect. Besides, baking up at almost 7,000 ft is a challenge…but think I have it figured.
The one I still want to make is your Buttery Sugar Wafer Sandwich Cookies. It makes my mouth water every time I see them on my screen!
Have a fun wkend, Averie!
Those sugar wafer sandwich cookies are soooo good and have many happy childhood memories associated. You will love them, Gloria! And thanks for saying this is your fave collection! :)
Your cookies always look (and taste) amazing! I love peanut butter cookies best.
Apricot Thumbprint cookies. You can’t go wrong with a Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip.
BUT. These are amazing: http://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/2012/10/brown-butter-snickerdoodle-cookies/
GF peanut butter cookies! soo amazing!
My favorite cookies are the mini shamrock cutout cookies I make for our family reunion every year (we’re Irish). It’s a family recipe, so I don’t have any links to the recipe to post. But every year I make them, I’m one of the few people who doesn’t take any leftovers home from the reunion because they’re all gone! :)
I want to try making a mint chocolate chip cookie without solely relying on mint chocolate chips – I want to infuse the mint flavor into the cookie itself.
I’ve adapted a chocolate chip cookie recipe to become “Ultimate Protein Chocolate Chunk Cookies.” My son requests them weekly!
I have a recipe for a cookie called Chocolate Crinkle Puffs. They’re not like Chocolate Crinkles (the ones rolled in powdered sugar and crackle when they bake) but they’re soooooo good. Almost everyone I make them for die with how good they are.
I am famous for my chocolate chip cookies in our local circle and with the family, but I love the chance to try new recipes and variations. Hard to decide which of the recipes to try first…maybe the Twix Bar Cookies?
My favorite cookie is definitely chocolate chip. So simple but delicious! Here’s my egg-free version: http://livliveslife.com/2012/01/20/chocolate-chip-cookies/
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love fruit add-ins, but I’m also crazy for butterscotch chips!
Any type of chocolate cookie is my favorite. I haven’t made any of your cookie recipes yet, but I have been drooling over the pictures!
first of all i got my cook book of yours two days ago and it is beautiful! all those pictures..everything looks sooo tempting. i can’t even decide what to make first!! next on my baking list is something from your cook book or those twix cookies!!
Thanks for LMK you got it! Another friend just made the old-fashioned PB cookies in my book yesterday and said they’re the best cookies she’s ever had. http://web.stagram.com/p/472496483808094247_144380041
The Twix cookies are amazing. I personally liked the Snikcers in them more than the Twix but they are both excellent. LMK what you make!
So many to choose!! Seriously, you have the very, very best cookie recipes!! I want all of these!! Plus, you photos are all just incredible. Makes every cookies look like the worlds best!
Thanks, Tieghan. I appreciate your sweet words!
Peanut butter cookies are my absolute favorite. 2nd is a perfect oatmeal raisin. MMMM
I love peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
I am addicted to the cake batter chocolate chip cookies from Sally’s Baking Addiction.
Hey Averie, love the look of all of these!! The Donna Hay cookies look fab but I’m in Ireland where Silpats aren’t on sale :( Anyways, just a heads up- the link to No. 11 the White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookie doesn’t work- it just has an a “averiecooksa.com” so it’s easy to fix :) I’m new to your blog and absolutely LOVE IT! :D
My favorite cookie to make is oatmeal chocolate chip pecan… though I’m lucky if the dough makes it to the oven! Your peanut butter nutella cookies look incedible– that’s happening this weekend, for sure!
I would love to make your Spiced Carrot Cake cookies! Especially since I have 2 bags of shredded carrots on hand left over from making carrot cake cupcakes. ;)
https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/04/soft-and-chewy-spiced-carrot-cake-cookies.html
Okay, so this post is completely unfair – because all I want to do is try one of each of these! They all look soooo good!
One of my fav cookies is my pecan, cranberry, cinnamon chip cookies. They are always a hit, every time I make them!! And I won a Whole Foods pecan recipe contest with them too!
http://whatisbakinginthebarbershop.blogspot.com/2012/01/pecan-cranberry-cinnamon-chip-cookies.html
Wow, how to choose a favorite cookie! Chocolate chip, apple caramel,banana drop, that’s just a start!
Now how am I supposed to decide which one I want to make first?!
Or, what cookies would you love to make?
I love making cookies that are incredibly chewy with yummy chunks to them (think oatmeal but with really big chocolate chunks). The cookie MUST be soft and chewy!!
My favourite is oatmeal chocolate chunk
GF Peanut butter chocolate chunk from your blog.
GF peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies from your blog. I am looking forward to baking GF cookies.
GF Peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies – so looking forward to finding gf cookies to bake.
My favorite cookie is the traditional Toll House chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven!
I would love to make the coconut carrot cake and cream cheese cookies from your cookbook–lots of good stuff going on in that recipe!!
Oh man, I always say I love the simple chocolate chip cookies but with a list like that it seems so lame. Love the Twix.
So many favorites! One of them would have to be banana chocolate chip cookies. I’m sure the recipe is on the internet somewhere, but I just got it from a college friend a few years ago.
your flour free peanut butter are ridiculous! I add those tiniest mini trader joes on cups!
I love peanut butter cookies in any way shape or form.
As far as chocolate cookies go, this recipe from Kraft Recipes is my favorite. I’ve experimented by adding cranberries or raspberries, adding the really nice fruit twist to the chocolatey goodness. I haven’t really experimented much outside of traditional chocolate chip, so I’m way excited to have all these recipes. http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/double-chocolate-chunk-cookies-54597.aspx