Hand-Formed Cookies Recipes

"These are chewy, fudgy, SUPER EASY cookies that you can probably make right now! I have watched these disappear time and again and everyone is always asking for the recipe. It is almost embarrassing to give it out, it is that easy :) Enjoy! (12/14/06: I wanted to add that Betty Crocker has updated this recipe by adding 1 tsp. vanilla extract, but I..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, devil's food cake mix...

"Mrs. Fields- step aside. Here are the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever tasted. The secret to these soft and chewy cookies is the pudding mix not found in the traditional cookie recipe. Ever wonder how the bakery comes up with a soft chewy cookie- well now you know!"

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Ingredients: chocolate chips, eggs...

"These are one of the best cookies I have ever eaten. They make up easily, and they disappear fast. I make these every year when we put up our Christmas Tree. I serve them with hot Cocoa while we decorate our tree. I swear the cookies are anticipated as much as the tree!"

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cinnamon sugar, eggs...

"I've been baking these since I was a little girl. Nothing better than a glass of milk and a couple of warm peanut butter cookies!"

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Ingredients: eggs, peanut butter, salt...

"This flourless peanut butter cookie recipe is excellent and so easy to make. Your kids will love it and you will too! Because this recipe contains no flour, the true taste of the peanut butter comes through loud and clear! I hope you will enjoy these cookies as much as I do!"

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Ingredients: eggs, peanut butter, sugar...

"I first saw these at a bake sale and was so impressed. You bake a ball of dough in a mini-muffin tin, bake, and press a Reese's peanut butter cup into it after you take it out of oven. You are left with a picture-perfect tart, receiving "oohs and aahs" and "how did you do it?" You could even use the refrigerated sugar/peanut butter..."

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Ingredients: eggs, miniature peanut butter cups...

"I found the original recipe for these cookies on allrecipes.com, and modified it to be vegan, as well as by changing the spices slightly. They are truly delicious cookies, and very easy to make."

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Ingredients: fresh ginger, margarine...

"These are my absolute favorite cookies. A friend in college had received a huge tin of homemade cookies from her mother and a version of these cookies were inside, along with many other types of cookies. I had never heard of black pepper cookies before and loved the unique flavor-sweet & buttery, with a slight kick from the pepper. I searched for..."

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Ingredients: eggs, granulated sugar...

"These balls are so quick and easy to make. They make a nice addition to the baked goodies that you give as gifts. Make these about a week before you want to serve them as they mellow and the sharp strong alcohol taste blends in more with the other ingredients. Store in a tin with a tight lid. This year I couldn't find the Vanilla wafers so I used..."

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Ingredients: spiced rum, cocoa, icing sugar...

"Refrigerated cookie dough and mini peanut butter cups make preparing these a breeze...BUT they taste like a lot of effort goes into them. This recipe was given to me, so I do not know who Stormy is, but I figured I should give him/her credit! According to "Stormy", you can also do these with Rolos (haven't tried that yet!)"

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Ingredients: peanut butter cookie dough, miniature peanut butter cups...

"There's not much to say...the name says it all. These are better than Toll House in our book. I make these every Christmas and it is my standard Chocolate Chip Cookie."

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Ingredients: eggs, pecans, salt...