Classic & Creative Cookies

Best Gluten-Free Flour Blends for Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut butter cookies look simple on paper, but they are sneaky. They need enough structure to hold those classic fork marks, enough tenderness to melt in your mouth, and enough moisture to stay chewy instead of turning sandy and dry. When you remove wheat flour, the flour blend becomes the...

No-Chill Cut-Out Sugar Cookies That Hold Their Shape

I love a cut-out cookie moment, but I do not love clearing fridge space for baking sheets or babysitting dough for hours. The good news is you can absolutely make cut-out sugar cookies that hold their shape without chilling, as long as the dough is built the right way and you handle it with a few...

Butter vs. Shortening for Classic Cookies

I have tested cookie dough with just about every fat option you can imagine, and I keep coming back to this truth: there is no single “best” fat for every cookie. Butter and shortening both make fantastic classic cookies, but they behave very differently in the bowl and in the oven. Once you know...

10 Creative Mix-Ins for Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are already doing the most: chewy, buttery, cozy, and just sweet enough. But if you have a solid oatmeal cookie base you love, mix-ins are the easiest way to make it feel brand new without rewriting the whole recipe. Below are 10 of my favorite upgrades, each with a specific “how...