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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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 :) https://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! https://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.
https://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..
https://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: https://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: https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/2012/10/brown-butter-snickerdoodle-cookies/