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This collection of cookies is a delightful assortment of Unusual Cookies to fill your cookie trays that blend creativity and convenience, from vegan and gluten-free treats to no-bake wonders that require minimal effort. These easy-to-make yet elegant cookies offer something for every taste, proving that indulgence can be both simple and extraordinary.
Almond Meltaway Cookies
Almond Meltaways Cookies melt in your mouth cookie with a sweet delicious almond glaze on top will be a welcome addition to any holiday cookie exchange or cookie tray this year. Recipe: Almond Meltaways Cookies
Amish Sugar Cookies
Amish Sugar Cookies soft, melt-in-your mouth, old-fashioned sugar cookies are made with common pantry ingredients, and are super easy to make. They’re perfect for a cookie tray! Recipe: Amish Sugar Cookies
Apple Pie Cookies
It’s an apple pie in a bite sized cookie. This Apple Pie Cookies recipe is perfect for anyone who loves apple treats. Recipe: Apple Pie Cookies
Berliner Kranz Cookies
Berliner Kranz Cookies are Norwegian Christmas Cookies that are traditionally made into wreath shapes and decorated with little bit of red and green sugars. The name translates into “Berlin Wreaths”. Recipe: Berliner Kranz
Blackberry Muffin Cookies
Blackberry Muffin Cookies are delightfully soft and buttery and topped with Streusel. And they’re bursting with fresh blackberries and marbled with blackberry jam. The perfect treat for fruit lovers. Recipe: Blackberry Muffin Cookies
Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies
These Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies are my favorite cookies, and I’m sure they’ll be yours as well. These rich and delicious buttery cookies have the perfect nutty flavor with just the right amount of sea salt on top. Recipe: Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies
Brown Sugar Oatmeal Lace Cookies
These are easy to make and so beautiful. Perfect for a holiday cookie tray, but welcome any time of year. Everyone will love these! Recipe: Brown Sugar Oatmeal Lace Cookies
Candy Cane Cookies
Candy Cane Cookies are flavored with peppermint extract, and topped with crushed candy canes for a festive and delicious buttery twisted sugar cookie. Recipe: Candy Cane Cookies
Cannoli Cookies
Cannoli Cookies have a light and crispy cookie shell that’s filled it with sweet ricotta filling. It’s all the flavors you love without having to deep fry a shell. Recipe: Cannoli Cookies
Chewy Almond Cloud Cookies
Chewy Almond Cloud Cookies have a light and chewy texture with a nutty almond flavor, are made in one-bowl, and are naturally gluten-free. They’re the perfect addition to a cookie exchange. Recipe: Chewy Almond Cloud Cookies
Chinese Almond Cookies
Chinese Almond Cookies are dense, sandy, diary free, and crunchy. A fun cookie when you’re looking for something different for any holiday cookie tray! Recipe: Chinese Almond Cookies
Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies
Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies have that classic meringue texture with a chewy inside and crisp outside. Luscious chocolate and tart cherries are mixed throughout the meringue make these a festive treat. Recipe: Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies
Coconut Almond Meal Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Coconut Almond Meal Cookies with Chocolate Chips are flourless and gluten-free delicious cookies! They’re the perfect little treat for all your potlucks. Recipe: Coconut Almond Meal Cookies
Coffee Walnut Cookie Bars
Coffee Walnut Cookie Bars have a soft chewy center with a crispy crust top, making them a fun and unique cookie treat. And they’re an easy to make no fuss cookie! Try them with chocolate chips too! Recipe: Coffee Walnut Cookie Bars
Flourless Chocolate Pecan Cookies
Flourless Chocolate Pecan Cookies are crispy outside and chewy inside; these naturally gluten-free and dairy-free cookies are so good, like a cross between a brownie and a meringue. Recipe: Flourless Chocolate Cookies
Ginger Bars
Ginger Bars topped with maple cream cheese frosting are rich, buttery, and deliciously zesty. Perfect for holiday entertaining. Recipe: Ginger Bars
Italian Pizzelle Cookies
Italian Pizzelle Cookies are light, crisp, slightly sweet and made with a special waffle iron. They’re the perfect beautiful addition to holiday cookie trays. Recipe: Italian Pizzelle Cookies
Italian Ricotta Cookies
Italian Ricotta Cookies are soft, cake-like cookies covered in a sweet glaze and colorful sprinkles. These are a staple Christmas cookie for many folks. Recipe: Italian Ricotta Cookies
Jubilee Jumbles
Jubilee Jumbles Cookies with brown butter frosting are a soft cake-like cookie with a nice brown sugar flavor. This is an older classic cookie that you might find in a church cookbook. Recipe: Jubilee Jumbles Cookies
Kolache Cookies
Kolache Cookies are lightly sweet and delicate cream cheese cookies from Poland that are filled with your choice of jam. Recipe: Kolache Cookies
Lemon Sandwich Cookies
Lemon Sandwich Cookies are bursting with bright, sweet, creamy lemon flavor in soft, tender, cookies sandwiched. And don’t forget that zingy lemon icing filling. Recipe: Lemon Sandwich Cookies
Lime Meltaway Cookies
Lime Meltaway Cookies are a simple melt-in-your-mouth little shortbread cookie with tart lime, and coated in powdered sugar that’s simply divine. Recipe: Lime Meltaway Cookies
No Bake Chocolate Candy Cookies
No Bake Chocolate Candy Cookies come together in minutes with no need to heat up the oven, and no peanut butter. These are so delicious. Just a few simple ingredients, and you have amazing little candy cookies. Recipe: Chocolate Candy Cookies
No Bake Oatmeal Raspberry Sandwich Cookies
If you’re looking for a gluten free treat, this is it! No Bake Oatmeal raspberry sandwich cookies are the perfect healthy way to indulge in something sweet. Recipe: Oatmeal raspberry sandwich cookies
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
Peanut butter and jelly cookies are your childhood favorite lunch turned into a cookie. Soft, chewy, and bursting with flavor. These will be a hit at the cookie exchange. Recipe: Peanut butter and jelly cookies
Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
These Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies may look like mild mannered chocolate cookies on the outside, but on the inside, there’s a peanut butter surprise waiting for you! This recipe is straightforward, requires no chilling, and is great for bakers of all skill levels (this means you can get the kids involved in this one!). Recipe: Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Peppermint Brownie Sandwich Cookies
Peppermint Brownie Sandwich Cookies filled with sweet marshmallow crème and crushed peppermints or candy canes are soft and delicious. A festive addition to your cookie exchange. Recipe: Peppermint Brownie Sandwich Cookies
Pignoli Cookies
Italian pignoli cookie with a vegan twist. This recipe replaces the egg whites with almond paste, giving you a deliciously chewy, almond flavored cookie with a crunchy toasted pine nut top! Recipe: pignoli cookies
Salted Caramel Pretzel Thumbprint Cookies
Salted Caramel Pretzel Thumbprint Cookies are a moist cookie rolled in crunchy pretzels and topped with rich salted caramel frosting! These would be great for enjoying while watching football too! Recipe: Salted Caramel Pretzel Thumbprint Cookies
Yugoslavian Christmas Cookies
Yugoslavian Christmas Cookies, a 3-layer bar-type cookie with a rich buttery shortbread base, a layer of jam, and a nutty meringue topping. They’re really easy to make, elegant, as well as unusual. Recipe: Yugoslavian Christmas Cookies
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