Who doesn’t love a cookie? They are a staple dessert and sweet treat. One of the best things about cookies is that there is always something for someone. Whether your favorite is classic, trendy, vegan, gluten-free, or holiday-inspired, there is always a cookie that suits everyone’s taste buds. Luckily, you can find a cookie (or a variety of cookies) that you’ll crave in these recipe books!
Cookies & Crumbs: Chunky, Chewy, Gooey Cookies for Every Mood by Kaja Hengstenberg
This recipe book features classic cookies such as milk chocolate chip, peanut butter, and chunky double chocolate. And luckily, it also features everyone’s new favorites, including coffee, cardamom, and s’mores! This book has an array of flavors, including vegan and gluten-free recipes. Not only does Kaja Hengstenberg make you crave delicious cookies, but she also guides you through the fundamental basics of baking cookies. Her doable recipes, handy tips, and ideas for using leftovers will help you become a cookie master. Dive into this book to make the best fresh-out-of-the-oven gooey, chewy, chunky, and crunchy sweet treats that everyone will adore!
Small Batch Cookies: Deliciously Easy Bakes for One to Six People by Edd Kimber
Edd Kimber believes there is nothing better than a chocolate chip cookie coming straight out of the oven. However, most recipes make cookies for a large group. These recipes are perfect for a party or if you want to eat the same flavor for a whole week. But sometimes you only need a few cookies to hit the spot, which is why Kimber created this recipe book. A small batch of warm chocolate chip cookies will be enough for just one or two individuals. Although chocolate chip cookies are the best and a classic, this book includes a vast variety of flavors to indulge in. Vegan and allergy-free recipes are also featured in this lovely recipe book!
The King Arthur Baking Company Essential Cookie Companion by King Arthur Baking Company
If you are seeking a recipe with an extremely large range of cookies, this is the cookie recipe book for you. The King Arthur Baking Company proudly presents you with over 400 delightful cookie recipes, ranging from a classic chocolate chip cookie to shortbread, blondies, graham crackers, cinnamon, macaroons, biscottis lemon, and sugar cookies. This book seriously has it all!
It also features modern techniques that will suit bakers at every skill level. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations will easily guide you while making the best cookies of your life. Each recipe also has a sidebar full of tips, shortcuts, advice, and recipe lore. You’ll become an expert cookie baker with information about variations, substitutions, gluten-free flours, measuring ingredients, high-altitude baking, and making the perfect icings, fillings, and dips!
Fabulous Modern Cookies: Lessons in Better Baking for Next-Generation Treats by Paul Arguin and Chris Taylor
It was Paul Arguin and Chris Taylor’s mission to bring a fresh perspective to America’s most traditional handheld dessert: the cookie. This book reinvents the classic cookie flavors we’re used to and offers cookie fanatics 100 creative recipes. Expect flavors like pumpkin super crinkles, black-bottom lemon squares, coffee bean crunchers, bronze butter chocolate chip cookies, and a bunch more next-level cookies. Arguin and Taylor combined their love for cookies with their scientific backgrounds to deliver new baking methods, modern ingredient pairings, and innovative techniques. Dive into these outside-of-the-box recipes to make everyone (including yourself) crave a mouthwatering cookie.
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Treats by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
This recipe book is invading your cookie jar with dairy-free and egg-free batches of cookies. Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero present you with more than 100 irresistible vegan cookies. Recipes such as coconut cookie bars, chocolate chip cream cheese brownies, peanut butter crisscrosses, New York City black & whites, key lime shortbread rounds, call me blondies, and macadamia lace cookies will tempt everyone. These vegan recipes are perfect for family occasions, social gatherings, birthdays, parties, and bake sales — or to treat yourself! You’ll also get the best advice on mixing, baking, decorating, making gluten-free batches, and vegan-izing popular recipes.
Stuffed: The Sandwich Cookie Book by Heather Mubarak
A yummy sweet treat in between two cookies — who could possibly resist? This recipe book includes desserts that are essentially a cookie sandwich. For example, ice cream sandwiches, whoopie pies, and macaroons. Heather Mubarak, also known as Browned Butter Blondie on her blog, presents 65 mix-and-match cookie sandwiches. You’ll get a bunch of sweet recipes, such as homemade Oreos, strawberry shortcake macaroons, chipwiches, and homemade nutter butters. You’ll also have the opportunity to make savory recipes, including parmesan polenta crackers with chive cream cheese. This recipe book will teach you how to make the cookies and their delicious fillings and how to assemble these sweet treats!
Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan’s baking career is so successful that she created more than 300 cookie recipes. Luckily, you can attain these sought-after recipes in this book, created by the culinary guru! You’ll discover a wide variety of delicious and iconic flavors such as Portofignos, blueberry buttermilk pie bars, “might be breakfast” cookies, almond crackle cookies, German jam cookie sandwiches, snowy-topped brownie drops, Christmas cookies, pink-peppercorn thumbprints, Italian Saucissons, and Dorie Greenspan’s popular “World Peace cookie.”
With millions of internet fans, Dorie Greenspan will undeniably bring you all the mouth-watering and irresistible cookies you need. Purchase this recipe book to bake cookies for every occasion!
Cookies: The New Classics: A Baking Book by Jesse Szewczyk
It was Jesse Szewczyk’s goal to make this book’s recipes as experimental and creative as possible. He traded in the basic chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oatmeal cookies that everyone is bored of to introduce us to the boldest cookies we have ever seen. You’ll find 100 brand-new and intriguing cookie recipes that you won’t stop craving. You’re in for malted brownie biscotti, key lime pie meringues, smoked butter & chocolate chunk cookies, blueberry muffin sugar cookies, and pretzels & stout cookie bars. These recipes will level up your cookie game with their extraordinary chocolatey, boozy, fruity, smoky, and savory flavors!
Zöe Bakes Cookies: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Cookies and Bars by Zöe François
This book’s recipes are deeply rooted in Zöe François’ Vermont roots and Midwestern living. She learned some of these recipes from her grandmother and is proudly sharing them with us! Not only does each recipe create the perfect cookie but they also come from different eras of her life. Whether your favorite cookies are thin, crispy, soft, or cakey, you’ll be able to bake them perfectly. You’ll learn how to create ultra-peanut butter, coconut oatmeal raisin, lemon lavender shortbread, chocolate caramel matzo, chocolate chip, blueberry butter bars, cocoa Nutella brownies, and smash cookies. This recipe book will provide you with easy-to-follow directions and cookies you won’t stop craving.
The Artisanal Kitchen: Gluten-Free Holiday Cookies: More Than 30 Recipes to Sweeten the Season by Alice Medrich and Maya Klein
Everyone loves Christmas and holiday cookies, but what could make them even better? Being gluten-free! Luckily, Alice Medrich and Maya Klein created this recipe book so those with gluten sensitivities or allergies can still bake their favorite traditional Christmas cookies. This book is filled with 30 cozy recipes, including ginger cookies, pine nut shortbread, cutout cookies, and orange-filled chestnut cookies. You’ll learn how to use alternative flours such as oat, sorghum, teff, coconut, and a variety of nuts. This recipe book is on a mission to bring the world’s best dessert to every individual with Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity during the happiest season of all!
Now that you have these ten cookie recipe books, it’s your time to shine as a baker! Indulge in chocolate, raspberry, red velvet, peanut butter, lemon, gingerbread, and a bunch of other flavored cookies. These cookie recipes are eagerly waiting for you to try them. And you can’t deny it — we know you’re absolutely craving them!
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