Our favourite cookie recipes
By Tasia Rivero
Recipes by the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
Find something to satisfy your sweet tooth in our collection of favourite cookie recipes.
No matter what the occasion, homemade cookies are always a welcome treat. Try a new recipes or make an old favourite from our list of cookie recipes perfected by the Canadian Living Test Kitchen.
Cookie recipes:
Frightening, festive, or just for fun you'll find the best cookie recipes right here. We've included over 20 of the most popular Teste-Till-Perfect cookie recipes, as selected by readers just like you.
Recipes
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Classic cookies are always a summer weekend favourite and easy for even a non-baking guest to make. Save some to bake into another treat, ... -
Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Canadian Living has published many chocolate chip cookie recipes, but founding food editor Carol Ferguson's recipe, with a punchy hit... -
Gingerbread Cookies
Mix together flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda and salt ; set aside. Beat shortening with mixer until creamy. Add eggs, molasses and milk a... -
Sugar Cookies
Baking cookies is the perfect way to get the family together in the kitchen. With this easy dough, it takes no time to cut the cookies into festive sh... -
Festive Shortbread Cookies
The equipment • Measuring spoons • 2 rimless and 1 rimmed baking sheet • Parchment paper am... -
Icebox Cookies
Shaping cookie dough into logs, ready to slice and bake, is an ideal way to have cookies ready to enjoy quickly whenever you need them or crave the... -
Witch's Hat Cookies
For the best hat shape and colour, use dark chocolate Hershey's Kisses. -
Candy Cane Cookies
Use a heavy pan or rolling pin to crush the candy canes, then shake through a fine sieve to remove the powdery bits. Avoid the food processor because ... -
Vanilla Mitten Sugar Cookies
Mittens or festive cookie cutters give these vanilla-flavoured cookies a touch of whimsy. Decorate them with the ... -
Ginger Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Recipes in early cookbooks, such as the 1915 edition of the Five Roses Cook Book, show that ginger cookies have been a favourite for generations. -
Kids' Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Watch how to decorate this classic drop oatmeal cookie recipe with a special party twist kids love in our Oatmeal Cookie video (see link below). -
Ricotta Cookies
Colourful cakey cookies with soft pastel icing are popular with everyone, but especially with the kids. -
Orange Slice Cookies
Fool friends and family with these trompe l'oeil cookies. -
Snowball Cookies
These white cookies are truly pop-in-your-mouth delicious. If you like, roll them in more icing sugar for a thicker coat. -
Easy Almond Cookies
A mini ice-cream scoop is a quick way to form these nutty balls, a favourite recipe of Shanta Solanki of Woodbridge, Ont. -
Crisp Seedy Oatmeal Cookie
This is a cookie to satisfy anyone. The raw pumpkin seeds are also known as pepitas. -
Pumpkin Lace Cookies
How appropriate in pumpkin season to incorporate green pumpkin seeds, or pepitas, in a crunchy lace cookie. -
Thimble Cookies
You can substitute jam for the red and green cherries but don't fill the centres until just before serving. -
Jumbo Oatmeal Date Sandwich Cookies
With a crispy exterior, soft interior and sticky date filling between them, these oversize cookies from the Canadian Living test kitchen make a perfec... -
Chocolate Caramel Cookies
The fudgy exterior of this cookie hides a decadent surprise — ooey-gooey melted caramel. Serve with slices of watermelon. -
Almond Crescent Cookies
Memories of making cookies in the kitchen with my mother focus on this irresistible melt-in-your-mouth crescent. You can also form the dough into ball...






