Easy Cookie Recipe Guide and Resource

I suggest you bookmark this Easy Cookie Recipe Guide and Resource page which brings you right into my country kitchen any time the baking 'bug' bites!

The information recorded here represents over 30 years of my cookie and bar baking! Learn from my mistakes and you won't make any of your own! Cookies from your kitchen will be the result of following only my favorite and best recipes.

Happy Baking!!

Homemade Cookie Recipes are the Most Popular in Country Kitchens

Homemade cookie recipes are the most popular in farm kitchens across the country. And for good reason; once the cookies are baked and put away, you can serve them on a moment's notice.

Many cookies are good keepers, although you may have to hide them or lock them in the freezer! They also come in portions which can be multiplied easily. Small children manage them well-with fewer crumbs to sweep up than with cake. Best of all, cookies encourage milk drinking; for they go together like peaches and cream.

There is almost no end to the diversity with cookies and bars. Most bakers have quite a collection of recipes amassed. I know you'll find several here at The Easy Cookie Recipe Guide and Resource to add to yours!

Drop Cookie Recipes

Drop cookie recipes are so admired for the ease in which they are 'molded' for baking. Simply dropping globs of dough onto a cookie sheet is all it takes to prepare these for the oven.

Classic
Easy and Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the first cookies our kids learned how to make....even the boys! The girls enjoy freezing the dough and eating that with ice cream or just by the spoonful~

Bar Cookie Recipes

So Easy Chocolate Brownies

A Little More About Bar Cookies

Bar cookies are the easiest of all to make ~ bake the dough in a pan and cut into bars. Almost like a slight-of-hand performance, you come up with rich, moist cookies. You can serve them plain, snowy with confectioners sugar or frosted and decorated. They serve equally well for dessert, snacks and party refreshments.

Brownies are king in this cookie class and are surely an easy cookie recipe to whip up. Success with bar cookies depends to no small extent on using the pan size designated in the recipe.

Here are other pointers:

Spread or press dough evenly in the pan for uniform baking.
To avoid over-baking, test for doneness by inserting a wood toothpick in the center as you do for a cake. If it comes out clean, the cookies are done.
Fudge-type cookies are done when the top looks dull.
Partially cool pan of cookies before cutting into bars, unless recipe directs otherwise.

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Molded Cookies

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Rolled Cookies

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Cookie Facts from the Best Cookie Cookbooks

Cookie Cookbooks Say the Perfect Cookie...

...should have good flavor, tender crumbs unless the variety is a hard cookie, soft or crisp texture depending upon variety of cookie, uniform color and shape depending upon type of cookie.

Types

Cookies are classified in many ways - by the texture of the baked cookie (soft or crisp), the consistency of batter or dough (soft or stiff), the richness of cookies (plain or rich), or by the method used in shaping cookie.

Bar

Dough is baked in a four-sided pan and cut into bars or squares after baking.

Refrigerator

Dough is pressed into a cookie mold or shaped into a thick roll or bar, chilled in refrigerator until ready to cut into thin slices with a sharp knife, then baked.

Drop

Dough is dropped from a teaspoon onto lightly greased cookie sheet.

Molded

Dough is shaped by hand.

Pressed

Dough is soft enough to hold a shape.

Rolled

Dough is rolled to desired thickness on a lightly floured surface and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.