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25 Most Over-the-Top Cookie Recipes
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Chocolate chip, sugar, and oatmeal cookies are delicious and simple to make, but sometimes you just want a treat with a little extra flavor. Chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks, oatmeal cookies drizzled with Nutella, or sugar cookies dipped in chocolate are a nice surprise for cookie-lovers. They're familiar, but offer a little something extra.
5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies
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If you like the flaky, butterycrust of a pie, you're going to love this easy cookie recipe. These 5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies are everything you love about your favorite pie crust, but in the form of portable cookies.
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Asparagus Cookies
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Don't knock these cookies until you try them. They have one cup of grated asparagus in them, but they're delicious.
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Carrot Walnut Cookies
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These cookies are packed filled with oats, carrots, banana, and apples for a sweet and fruity cookie.
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Choco-Mint Crownies Recipe
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It's a cookie and brownie all in one. Two all-time favorite desserts, chocolate chip cookies and fudge brownies, are combined into an indulgent cookie dough-topped brownie. Now that's excessive.
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Chocolate Cherry FroYo Sandwiches
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Black cherry Greek yogurt is combined with chocolate chip cookies to make a sweet treat.
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Chocolate Fudge Cookies
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Chocolate fudge cookies seem a little plain, but the added ingredient of black beans changes these into something special.
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Chocolate Ginger Bliss Oatmeal Cookies
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Trail mix is added to these cookies for a cookie packed with dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, and ginger.
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Chocolate-Hazelnut-Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
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These cookies are over-the-top delicious! Dipping the cookie dough in semisweet chocolate and topping with chopped hazelnuts gives them an extra-special look. — Pillsbury
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Chocolate White Chocolate Mint Cookies Recipe
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These dark chocolate cookies are studded with white chocolate chips, have a burst of peppermint flavor, and a crunch factor thanks to the walnuts.
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Cranberry, White Chocolate, and Nut Cookies
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These quick and easy cookies combine tart cranberries, sweet white chocolate, and crunchy nuts for an awesome snack.
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Mini Chip Snowball Cookies
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These cookies take on the consistency of a "snowball" or a very soft cake. They're different in texture, but have the same taste as a chocolate chip cookie.
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Nutella Amaretto Icebox Cookies with Almonds
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Two delicious cookiedoughs combine to create striped and swirly patterns in this easy recipe. And who can resist the nutty sweetness of Nutella? — Oneida
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Oatmeal Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
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This oatmeal cherry chocolate chip cookie recipe is a twist on an old classic. The hint of orange extract perfectly complements the dried cherries and dark chocolate chips, giving the cookies a surprisingly bright flavor. — Butter & Type
For the Oatmeal Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe, click here.
Orange Ricotta Cookies Recipe
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Cookies made with ricotta are surprisingly delicious. Try these delectable ricotta cookies topped with orange glaze. You won't be able to eat just one.
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Orphan One Hundred Cookies
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They're chewy, crisp, sandy, rich, buttery, and light, all at the same time. It's hard to stop eating them, so it's a good thing the recipe really does make a hundred cookies. They have a secret ingredient: crunchy Rice Krispies. — Dora Charles
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Overstuffed Nutters
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This recipe combines two great recipes into one fantastic dessert. Oatmeal raisin cookies and peanut butter cookies come together to create an excessively delicious dessert.
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Pesto Cookies
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Pesto is usually a sauce that dresses pasta or pizza, but pesto can be used to make a savory cookie with walnuts and orange, which adds a twist to a traditional short bread cookie recipe.
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Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies
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Fair warning: These cookies are very indulgent. But the best part about them is that you can taste every layer of flavor without being overwhelmed. The pumpkin spice chips are muted by the chocolate morsels and the cinnamon cream cheese filling gives it that fall flavor you crave. — Lauren Gordon
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Salted Cashew and Milk Chocolate Whippersnappers Cookies
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Chocolate cookies gets a makeover with the addition of cherries, salted cashews, and chocolate chips.
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Toasted Marshmallow and Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
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This is a delicious chocolate chip cookie that gets a revamp with marshmallows and hazelnut spread.
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Trail Mix Cookies
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Trail mix is an unusual ingredient to add to your cookie, but it will give you a burst of energy and taste delicious.
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Triple Chocolate Pistachio Mint Cookies
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Having a chocolate cookie isn't enough — you need to have a triple chocolate cookie studded with white chocolate chips.
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Viennese Cookies Recipe
These cookies are stuffed with apricot jam and topped with semi-sweet chocolate for an outrageously good result.
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Whiskey-Bacon Cookies with Pecans and Maple Sugar
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This is acrispy but chewy cookiethat is irresistible — chunks of pecans and chewy pieces of bacon make a salty-sweet cookie that we're sure you'll fall in love with. — But I'm Hungry
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White Sesame Cookies
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Sprinkled with white sesame seeds, these cookies are light, nutty, and delicious.
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