Sharing some favorite cookie recipes today! I’ve got 10 Perfect Back to School Cookies for you to make everyone’s day a little brighter! There’s nothing like coming home from school to a fresh batch of cookies in the kitchen. You can’t go wrong with my favorites below!
Cookie Recipes
These buttery crisp cookies are packed with your favorite candy bars. The best part….use your family favorites!
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Chocolate Malted Chip Pudding Cookies
These cookies have all of my favorite things packed inside. You will love the hint of malt in each bite.
White Chocolate Lemon Pudding Cookies
I remember creating this cookie with my oldest son a few months ago. He loves lemon desserts and these cookies did not disappoint!
Double Chocolate and Junior Mint and Chip Cookies
Who doesn’t love Junior Mints?! Bites of gooey mint in every bite!
Best Cookie Recipes
Soft Batch Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are a family favorite. Soft and loaded with chocolate chips. Can’t beat these!
I’m not typically a PayDay candy bar fan, but wait until you try them inside these cookies! Whoa! Amazing.
Mini Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Everything is always cuter when it’s mini. These itty bitty chocolate chip cookies have a hint of mint with great chewy texture.
I could eat these all day everyday. Soft peanut butter cookies with added pudding mix makes one perfect cookie.
Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you haven’t baked cookies with brown butter before, you have to do it! The richness it brings to a batch of cookies is unbeatable 🙂
These don’t need any introduction. They’ve been a reader favorite for a long time. Perfect shape, perfect texture and….now I want a cookie, lol! Enjoy!
Tips For Making The Best Cookies
- Don’t alter the recipe, use all ingredients as listed.
- For a more firm cookie, refrigerate your cookie dough for 24 hours before baking.
- Always use butter, not margarine. ALWAYS. I prefer salted butter for my chocolate chip cookies. Try it!
- Do not ever grease your cookie sheets. Will make cookies spread and change texture.
- Don’t skip creaming your butter and sugars for a good 2 minutes. Helps create a fluffy, chewy cookie.
- Try sprinkling dough with just a touch of salt for a perfect sweet and salty combination.
- Don’t overtake your cookies. Cookies will continue to cook on hot cookie sheet when removed from oven.
- Let cookies cool completely before storing in containers. This will keep their crispness
- Store leftover cookies in an airtight container for 3 days room temperature.
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Hi. When I click on peanut butter pudding cookies it pulls up mini mint chocolate chip cookies. Can this be fixed? Thank you and thanks for delicious recipes!
I just vowed(again) to start eating healthier and now can’t stop staring at tis list of cookies and thinking about what I’d like to bake first… Great list, Jenny!
Your favourites are my favourites. Delicious, Jenny!!
I totally want to make all 10 batches today! So good!
I want to live at your house! I need to dust off my baking tools and make some after school cookies for my kids.
I need to make cookies for my kiddos more often… they would love every single one of these as an after school treat!
Wow. So many great ones I don’t know where to start!
Have a great Wednesday!
I want to eat all of these!
You always make the best cookies, Jenny!!
Hi,
The link for the Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies goes to https://picky-palate.com/2014/08/06/mini-mint-chocolate-chip-cookies/. Can you update the link for the PB Pudding cookies?
Thanks.
Oh man, I can not WAIT to try some of these out!!! Cookies are my favorite thing to bake. My family rarely argues when I say I’m trying out a few new recipes. 😉
Cute!!! I was just thinking that I need to make a bunch of cookies this week and stick them in the freezer for lunches!
The best cookies for back to school! I want a whole lunchbox-full! Haha
These look great… however the link for the peanut butter pudding ones go to the mini mint chip ones. Did a search and found them… but thought I’d let you know! 🙂
Melissa..how did you find the link for the Peanut Butter cookies?
I need them all!
I would certainly want to come home from school for all of these cookies!
wow, i think this is the most fantastic list i have ever seen! i want to try them all!
I’m not in school anymore and don’t have kids yet, but I’d love to have any (and all) of these waiting for me when I get home from work!!