Your favorite everyday cookie recipe? ("Passed down from a French ancestor named Nestlé Toulouse…”)

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Amy · Answer

Cowboy Cookies Recipe: These cookies are bonkers - the dough almost overflows out of the mixer! But they’re super easy and it makes a LOT. So I like to portion and freeze dough balls for future me. And they’re tasty! Everyone who has one raves about it, and takes 2 home with them.

Jeanine Nault · Answer

Smitten Kitchen salted peanut butter cookies: Foolproof and gluten free!

fairuseabby · Answer

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (In Fine Taste): My most requested treat. Not a low calorie food.

Eric F · Answer

No Bake Cookies 🍪: Favorite homemade cookie from childhood/the only type of cookie that we made. Chocolate, peanut butter, oats, and all that good stuff.

Melanie Bell · Answer

Toby's Cookies That Blew Us All Away: From Cup of Jo. I love making these because they are so easy!

Lindsey Sailors · Answer

Smitten Kitchen Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookies: The only ccc recipe you’ll ever need. Very easy, no resting or planning required, consistently earns me friends.

Lara Chapman · Answer

Tiny, Salty, Chocolaty Cookies : Alison Roman

Rachel · Answer

How to Make Smash Cookies from Zoë Bakes Cookies: Made these tonight. Easy as heck. Big big big cookie. Smash cookie? Like really smash it a lil bit right out of the oven. I don’t know but it worked. Chopped macadamia as the nut for meeeeee.

Steve M · Answer

The Best Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookie (Dorie Greenspan's World Peace Cookies): Claire Saffitz always hypes this recipe in the days of the BA test kitchen.

Ella McMahan · Answer

Broma Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies: Recently discovered these and I’m never going back

Jenn · Answer

Asha's Spiced Cacao Cookies with Coconut Glaze: my go-to cookies: super flavorful, melt in your mouth, easy to make (would recommend having all Diaspora Co spices for this one!)

Noelle · Answer

Frosted Sugar Cookies: I must spread the gospel of this cookie. I am not a sugar cookie person at all, but these are some of the best cookies of all time.

Noelle · Answer

Chocolate Chip Cookies (NYT gift link): Best chocolate chip cookies. Save yourself the frustration and scoop the dough balls before refrigerating!

Emily · Answer

Tara O'Brady's Chocolate Chip Cookies: Despite the “basic” in the name, these have made me a legend among my friends. Double the vanilla. Portion and keep in the freezer. Bakery-quality cookies whenever a friend stops by.

Jamie · Answer

nyt peanut butter-miso cookies: so comforting and yummy, always a crowd pleaser even when people start skeptical

bella · Answer

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies: barking and foaming at the mouth. i ate an entire batch in 24 hours

Analisa Burns · Answer

Tahini Maple Chocolate Chip Cookies: my go-to since college! almond flour / tahini / maple syrup

Very Carrie · Answer

Easy Lemon Cookies: We used to make these in college. It’s barely “baking” but we’d bake triple batches because one person could eat a whole sheet on their own. So light and fluffy and slightly crispy.

JV · Answer

AK Cookies, Peter Meehan (Lucky Peach): The one and only. I first took notice of this recipe in a 2014 issue of Lucky Peach (RIP!!) Author and cook Peter Meehan and his wife Hannah Clark first had these cookies while visiting friends in Anchorage, Alaska (aka: AK Cookie.) This cookie reps a kind of “crunchy granola” identity: roughly chopped dark chocolate or semisweet chips, coconut, walnuts and oats. This is a forgiving recipe to make an impressive chocolate chip cookie.