25 Vintage Cookie Recipes That Keep Making a Comeback
Enjoy our collection of easy cookie recipes, each promising to deliver warmth and comfort during the chilly winter months. From classic chocolate chip cookies and coffee cookies to salted caramel apple pie cookies, these cookies will make your home smell amazing.
Lemon Shortbread Cookies
When life gives you lemons, make lemon shortbread cookies! They’re easy to make and sweet and lemony, perfect for snacking.
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Banana Pudding Cookkies
If you’re looking for a cookie that everyone will love, look no further than these Banana Pudding Cookies. This is the perfect treat for any occasion, made with real bananas, brown sugar, and white chocolate chips.
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Our Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are loaded with rolled oats, sweet raisins, and delicious caramel and vanilla flavors. Golden brown with a crisp edge on the outside but buttery and soft inside.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Our scrumptious Chocolate Chip Cookies strike the perfect balance between soft and crispy with just the right sweetness and chocolate.
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Butterball Cookies
These German Vanillekipferl (Almond Crescent Cookies) are a hit you won’t want to miss. Made with simple ingredients like butter, vanilla sugar, and almonds, they’re as tasty as they are easy to whip up.
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Baked Churros
Imagine biting into warm, freshly Baked Churros: its delightful crunch giving way to a soft and deliciously chewy center. Packed with a delicious blend of cinnamon and sugar, these churros are a great example of how simple ingredients can create wonderful dishes.
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Cornflake Cookies
Enjoy these delicious Cornflake Cookies that are quick to make and sure to please a crowd. This recipe stars cornflakes, almonds, and a hint of cinnamon.
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German Strudel Cookies
Strudel Cookies are delicious pastry-like cookies that look like they came from an old-fashioned bakery. Best of all, they are one of the easiest cookies to make.
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Almond Crescent Cookies (German Vanillekipferl)
Vanillekipferl cookies (Almond Crescent Cookies) are traditional German-Austrian cookies with a wonderful vanilla-almond flavor and distinct texture. These sweet and buttery crescent-shaped cookies will melt in your mouth.
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Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
With their soft and chewy texture and sweet-tangy flavor combination of hearty rolled oats and dried cranberries, these Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious treat!
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Lemon Cool Whip Cookies
The love for cookies is universal, but the time and effort to make them aren’t always available. Cool Whip Cookies come to your rescue with a straightforward recipe. You’ll wonder why you haven’t been making these all your life. You can make them with a ton of different flavors, and they’ll always have four ingredients.
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Glazed Apple Pie Muffin Top Cookies
Apple cinnamon cookies are finished with the most exquisite vanilla maple glaze. You will love this muffin-top cookies recipe if you are a fan of soft apple cookies.
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S’mores Cookies
You don’t need a campfire to enjoy these sweet, gooey S’mores Cookies! With crunchy graham crackers, toasted marshmallows, and melty Hershey’s bars, you can have your S’mores any time of the year.
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Nutella Thumbprint Cookies
I made these sugar-free Nutella thumbprint cookies with almond flour and my easy-peasy homemade Nutella. Delicious, low-carb, and gluten-free treat for the holidays!
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Pizzelle
This classic Italian pizzelle recipe is easy and delicious, making crisp pizzelle cookies every time. These thin and crisp Italian waffle-style cookies are made from flour, eggs, butter, anise, and vanilla and cooked in a pizzelle iron.
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Chocolate Mascarpone Sandwich Cookies
These mascarpone cookies will delight you with their buttery, crumbly exterior and creamy chocolate mascarpone cheese filling. They are also incredibly easy to make, yet a perfect treat to amuse your weekend or make something special for those celebratory moments.
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Amish Pumpkin Cookies
These Amish pumpkin cookies will melt in your mouth. They are so easy to make with no chill time required. These pumpkin cookies are scaled down from a traditional Amish recipe, which made a huge batch. I love Amish recipes, but a lot of them are designed for a big crowd.
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Coffee Cookies
These coffee cookies are the best! They are soft and chewy and loaded with chocolate. They don’t taste like coffee but are perfectly sweet and bold.
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Salted Caramel Apple Pie Cookies
Made from scratch, these Salted Caramel Apple Pie Cookies are stuffed with a cinnamon-spiced fruity filling and drizzled with salted caramel for a delicious finish. Perfect any time of year, these cookies will be gobbled up in a flash!
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Palmiers
Palmiers are airy, flaky, crisp French cookies with only 2 ingredients. This sweet treat, easy dessert bake is divine any time of day. These might become your go-to cookie recipe once you learn how easy they are to bake.
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Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies
It’s time to elevate your cookie game with these irresistible Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies. They have the most incredible texture, which is super soft, fluffy, and chewy. Take a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe to the next level with one simple addition: instant pudding!
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Chunky Monkey Cookies
Delicious and easy to make, these chunky monkey cookies are loaded with banana chunks, peanut butter, dark chocolate chips, and walnuts. Inspired by the ice cream but healthier and in cookie form, they make the best treat!
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Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
Nothing beats a batch of fresh-baked chocolate chip marshmallow cookies: crispy edges, melty chocolate, gooey toasted marshmallows, and a chewy center. But beware, they’re ridiculously amazing.
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Maple Pecan Cookies
All the tasty flavors are wrapped up in these Maple Pecan Cookies! They’ve got maple syrup, chopped pecans, cinnamon, and nutmeg in every bite. This recipe doesn’t use any maple extract, just pure maple syrup!
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Honey Cookies
Complex recipes are a fun challenge for me, so I tend to go a little over the top. That said, these Honey Cookies are proof that I can still appreciate the simple things! These Honey Cookies are barely crisp, chewy, and sweet. The honey in these babies lends an irresistible floral, well-rounded flavor!
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Maike Corbett is the founder and food blogger of Cheerful Cook, a popular recipe website featuring comfort food recipes from the US and Germany. She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the AP Wire and MSN.