Make The Best Cookies Ever This Spring
One thing you can get a jump on for any occasion, or holiday is baking. Bake your cookies now, and throw them in the freezer. You'll be ready to pull them out at the last minute dress them up, or throw on some last minute decorations.
Your friends and neighbors will be impressed with how much you can accomplish. Don't tell them your secret, let them think you're just superhuman. With the great cookie recipes you'll find here your family's sure to be impressed.
Cookies are a great afternoon snack, housewarming gift, classroom treat, party finger food, holiday staple. Here are some of the best recipes I've ever tasted.
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- This Lens Was Awarded Squidoo Lens of the Day
- Best Cookies Ever: Raspberry Tarts
- Fun Nested Cookie Cutters for Raspberry Tarts
- Best Cookies Ever: Sugar Cutout Cookies
- Spring and Summer Cookie Stencil Sets
- Spring Flower Sprinkles
- Make Your Own Colored Sugar Sprinkles
- The Cookie Master
- Best Cookies Ever: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Painting Cookies Part 1
- Best Cookies Ever: Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
- Painting Cookies Part 2
- Easter Cookies!
- Painted Cookies Part 3
- Easter Cookie Sprinkles and Decorations
- Best Cookies Ever: Mexican Wedding Cookies
- 5 Reasons to Love Cookies
- Cookie Swaps
- Easter Cookie Cutters
- Best Cookies Ever: Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
- Links that prove the point (and more great cookie recipes)
- The Best Cookies Ever: Old Fashioned Cutout Cookies
- Best Cookie Icing Recipe
- Best Cookies Ever: Monster Cookies
- Kids + Cookies = Great Fun
- The Best Cookie Recipe Books
- Plan A Kids Cookie Party
- Cookie Recipe Blog
- Yummy Cookie Photos
- Pumpkin Cookies
- Halloween Cookie Sprinkles
- Fall Cookie Cutter Sets
- Valentine Cookie Confections and Sprinkles
- St. Patrick's Day Cookie Decorations
- Winter Cookie Cutter Sets
- Halloween Cookies: Witches Fingers
- The Best Christmas Cookie Sprinkles and Decorations
- The Best Cookies Ever: Without Baking Them Yourself
- The Best Christmas Cookie Recipe Books From Amazon
- Holiday Cookies
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Best Cookies Ever: Raspberry Tarts

These cookies make a great gift (think Valentines Day, Mother's Day, Easter, birthdays), or a stunning addition to a cookie tray. These jam filled cookies look yummy, and don't disappoint in taste.
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 cup softened butter
5 eggs (yolks only)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup strawberry preserves (seedless)
You will also need two heart shaped cookie cutters, one a little larger than the other, or other cookie cutter shape as long as you have 2 with one slightly larger.
Mix the flour, egg yolks, sugar, butter, and vanilla together until it forms a soft dough.
Let the dough chill for at least 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough on a floured surface, until it is about 1/8" thick for best results. Use the larger cookie cutter to cut out a shape for the base, then cut a second shape with the larger cookie cutter, and use the smaller cookie cutter to cut out the center of the shape, to make the top of the cookie.
Preheat your oven to 350`F. Put the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for ten minutes. When the cookies have cooled put jam in the center of the bottom cookie, and place the cut out cookie on top.
Fun Nested Cookie Cutters for Raspberry Tarts
Best Cookies Ever: Sugar Cutout Cookies
Ingredients:2 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups butter
3 eggs
8 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs. Sift dry ingredients, and add to sugar and egg mixture. Add milk and vanilla, work dough until smooth. Chill and roll to desired thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 375` until very lightly browned.
Makes about 12 dozen cookies, cut recipe in half for about 6 dozen cookies.
After the cookies cool, ice and decorate with sprinkles, or candies.
Spring and Summer Cookie Stencil Sets
Spring Flower Sprinkles
Make Your Own Colored Sugar Sprinkles
All you need is sugar and liquid food coloring in your favorite color. For each color of sugar sprinkles you'd like to make have one half a cup of sugar in a bowl or plastic bag. Add a couple drops of food coloring to the sugar and mix or shake until the color is mixed in. If the color is not dark enough add a couple more drops of food color, until you have the desired shade.
Store your colored sugar in an airtight container or plastic bag until you're ready to use them. more on making sugar sprinkles
The Cookie Master

Wilton Cookie Master Plus Cookie Press
This cordless cookie press is so powerful and easy to operate, you'll use it all year to create cookies, appetizers, desserts and more. Exclusive patented reverse action means there's no need to take press apart for refilling. Ergonomic design is shaped to fit in your hand for excellent comfort. Includes 12 metal disks in classic and seasonal shapes, 4 accent tips for decorating and filling and 2 bonus recipe booklets: sweet and savory. Uses 4 AA batteries, not included. ©Wilton "
Best Cookies Ever: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:1/2 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
2 cups flour
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cups sugar
1 cups butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoons baking powder
1 cups chopped nuts (optional)
Cream together in a bowl butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Mix in flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Fold in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375` Makes about 3-4 dozen cookies.
Best Cookies Ever: Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
This recipe came from a friend, these cookies are melt in your mouth good.1 cup shortening
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons baking soda
4 1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sourcream or buttermilk
Mix in the order given with a mixer. Drop by tablespoons on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Flatten with the floured bottom of a small glass, sprinkle with a mixture of nutmeg and sugar. (1/2 teaspoon nutmeg to 2 teaspoons sugar) Bake at 375` for 10-12 minutes.
Easter Cookies!
Easter Cookie Sprinkles and Decorations
Best Cookies Ever: Mexican Wedding Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 cups flour
3/4 cup powder sugar, reserve 1/4 cup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
Mix all ingredients, and roll into small balls. Place the balls on a cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 325.` Roll the hot cookies in the reserved powdered sugar, then repeat the roll when the cookies are cool.
This is one of my favorite cookies to have around the Christmas holiday.
5 Reasons to Love Cookies
- They're great for birthdays, holidays, a housewarming gift, or just because.
- Yummy, ooeeeyyy, goooeeeyyy cookies!
- What's better than a cookie still warm from the oven.
- What could be more fun for kids? Set up a cookie decorating bar at your next party.
- There's a cookie for every occasion.
Cookie Swaps

Have you ever been invited to a cookie swap? Invite a group of about 6 friends to all get together and swap cookies.
Every person brings one dozen cookies of their choice, for each person who is attending the swap. If there are 6 swap participants, everyone would bring six dozen cookies to share (plus a few extra for cookie party sampling).
Easter Cookie Cutters
Best Cookies Ever: Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

These cookies are simple to make but oh, so wonderful to eat.
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix ingredients together, then form into tablespoon size balls and roll them in sugar. Drop cookie balls onto ungreased baking sheet, and bake for about 10 minutes at 350.` When you remove the cookies from the oven, insert a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie before the cookies cool.
Links that prove the point (and more great cookie recipes)
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The Best Cookies Ever: Old Fashioned Cutout Cookies
1 cup sour cream
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
5 cups flour
Beat together the sour cream, sugar, and vanilla. Add the eggs, salt, and soda, mix well. Add the flour, mix. Chill for 3 hours.
Roll the dough out until it's about 1/4" thick. Cut with cookie cutters. Put on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375` for 8 to 10 minutes.
Frost them, and add sprinkles if you want to. Makes about 6 dozen.
Best Cookie Icing Recipe
I got this recipe from my sister, and I've had great luck with it.Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter (softened but not melted)
1/2 cup shortening
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt
5-6 tablespoons of warm water
Cream the butter and shortening together until smooth, add the vanilla. Dissolve the salt into the warm water completely. Mix the water/salt mixture into the creamed butter and shortening. Put the mixer on low, and add powdered sugar slowly, mixing constantly.
The amount of water can be increased or decreased to achieve the desired consistency, I usually have the best luck with 6 tablespoons.
Add food coloring to make the color you need, and ice away.
Best Cookies Ever: Monster Cookies

Your kids will love you if you bake these cookies! They are truly fun to make and fun to eat.
This is my grandma's recipe, cut in half. Make these cookies large, or they get tough.
Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 stick butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 tsp baking soda
4 cups oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup M & M's
1 cup nuts
1 tablespoon vanilla
Cream together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Add eggs and rest of ingredients. Drop on ungreased cookie sheet. Use an ice cream scoop for large soft cookies. Bake at 350` for 10-15 minutes. Do not over bake.
Kids + Cookies = Great Fun
Wilton Halloween Pre- Baked Cookie House Kit
Pre-Baked Halloween cookie house kit is easy to build and fun to decorate.
Children's Cookie Baking 8-piece Set for the Little Kitchen Chef: includes Rolling Pin, Cutter and Cookie Cutter Shapes (made in Austria).
Toys are free of PVC. Unlike other mass-produced toys, this item is still manufactured in Austria Europe. If you like quality, you will love this toy!
Children's Cooking Kits: Mini Cookie Cutters
This set is the perfect accessory for your young cookie lovers! Set includes 12 real stainless steel cookie cutters: 6 hearts, 3 flowers, 3 stars nested in a reusable 4" acrylic storage case.
Sassafras Fairy Princess Mini Cookie Kit
Sassafras mini kits are an offshoot of their deluxe boxed baking kits and include the necessities to create delicious cookies. Kit includes:Cookie mix that turns pinkPink FrostingFairy Dust SprinklesCookie CutterFairy WandRhyming Recipe/Instruction BookClear Storage Bag.
The Best Cookie Recipe Books
Plan A Kids Cookie Party
Let your child (or children) invite a few friends over to decorate cookies. This is a great party for grandmas to have, and invite the grandchildren. Have the cookie dough pre-made and chilling in the refrigerator.You can make several different kinds of cookies, but the cutout cookies will be the most popular. Lay out an assortment of cookie cutters. Let each child cut out a few cookies with the cookie cutter of their choice. Bake the cookies and let them cool.
Set up a cookie bar with different colors of icing, sprinkles, candies, and whatever else you can think of. Let the children each decorate their own cookies. Let them eat a couple, then take the rest home, or keep some for holiday gatherings.
It's a great project for a cold, or rainy fall day. What can brighten your day more than baking cookies?
Cookie Recipe Blog
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Pumpkin cookies are perfect for a harvest or Halloween party. They're delicious, I promise the kids will scarf them up and ask for more.~Pumpkin cookie recipe~
Cream together:
* 1 cup of sugar
* 1 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
* 1/2 cup butter
* 2 cups of flour
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1 tsp cinnamon
* 1/4 tsp salt
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Fall Cookie Cutter Sets
Valentine Cookie Confections and Sprinkles
St. Patrick's Day Cookie Decorations
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Sanding Sugars -- These are sugar crystals to give a sparkly decorative look to cookies, cupcakes, cakes and all sorts of dessert treats.
Winter Cookie Cutter Sets
Snowflake Cookie Cutters - Set of 4
USA Handmade Tin Cookie Cutters. Great for cookies, jello, and brownies. Perfect for those holiday party gifts
Christmas Cookie Cutters- Set of 8
USA Handmade Tin Cookie Cutters
Hanukkah Cookie Cutters - Set of 6
USA Handmade Tin Cookie Cutters.
Great for Gifts. Perfect for cookies, jello, and brownie
Halloween Cookies: Witches Fingers
Creep out everyone at your Halloween party with witches finger cookies. You can use any shortbread cookie recipe, and shape it like a finger, but here's one for you to use if you prefer.How To Make Witches Finger Cookies
The Best Christmas Cookie Sprinkles and Decorations
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Your turn: Am I right? What's Your Fave Cookie Recipe?
What's your favorite cookie recipe? I love to hear from readers.
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- sunita sunita Aug 14, 2009 @ 7:49 am
- You have provided excellent cookies recipes.I like raspberry tart .You can make edible bouquets of these cookies for gifting.
EDIBLE BOUQUETS
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- sunita sunita Aug 14, 2009 @ 7:49 am
- You have provided excellent cookies recipes.I like raspberry tart .You can make edible bouquets of these cookies for gifting.
EDIBLE BOUQUETS
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- MikkiGVee MikkiGVee May 23, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
- I think I'm going to try the Rasberry Tarts for Memorial Day (with stars in place of hearts). Great lens!
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- cookiefan cookiefan May 22, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
- Great Cookie Recipes and so much more!
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- HenryE HenryE May 20, 2009 @ 7:03 am
- You are one talented squidoo-er! What a plethora of information in such a well organized and attractive format. The recipes and cookies look amazing!
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- KarateKatGraphics KarateKatGraphics May 15, 2009 @ 8:04 pm
- My favorite cookie to make is incredibly simple and the subject for a future lens ;) -- but my favorite cookie to eat, if someone else is making? I like chocolate blackout cookies, oatmeal with butterscotch, almond/pine nut Italian cookies (haven't mastered those yet, alas), or just plain choc. chip ones hot out of the oven. Also Mexican wedding cookies, which you feature here--yum! 5*****
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- 24websurf 24websurf May 5, 2009 @ 3:17 pm
- Gorgeous and informative lens! Now choosing where to start...
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- Webcodes Webcodes May 2, 2009 @ 12:21 am
- Great lens 5 delicious stars.
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- AppalachianCountry AppalachianCountry Apr 15, 2009 @ 8:26 am
- Thank-you for the raspberry tart recipe. This lens is wonderful. Thanks for the hard work.
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom Mar 26, 2009 @ 8:54 pm
- I can see why this lens won a Lens of the Day award - VERY impressive! I'm going to have to try out some of these recipes VERY soon!
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- flighty02 flighty02 Jan 27, 2009 @ 6:52 am
- What a great lens! I am happy to feature it in The Cooks Cafe group.
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- DreamsFulfilled DreamsFulfilled Jan 15, 2009 @ 2:12 am
- Wow! What an awesome lens.
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- elliespark elliespark Jan 2, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
- Pure deliciousness!! I really like the "Cookie Swap" idea; I want to try that soon someday! Thank you for sharing! :] 5/5~
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- andreaberrios andreaberrios Dec 20, 2008 @ 2:42 am
- I love this lens, it's just yummy. 5*
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- veena1611 veena1611 Dec 11, 2008 @ 8:17 am
- Neat lens. Great looks. Cool style.
Keep it up.
Best wishes.
Veena Furtado
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