These peppermint meringues are light, airy and packed full of peppermint flavor. The color of the meringues makes these the perfect cookie for the holidays. For extra color sprinkle the tops with crushed candy canes before baking.

The key to a great dessert is the balance of salt to sweet. These molasses oat sea salt cookies are highly addictive. Salty sweet with a deep molasses flavor and a soft and chewy texture, this is what makes the molasses cookie addictive.

Traditionally these Italian cookies are fried but this version is baked. Less mess, less clean up and a bit healthier, too! What more could you ask for?

What could be more appropriate for any occasion than a beautifully decorated sugar cookie to match the theme or the colors of the party? Be creative with your color selection and the shapes of the cookies; add edible sprinkles, edible glitter or edible silver beads to accent the cut-out sugar cookies.

Pignoli Cookies are traditional almond cookies rolled in pine nuts and served during the holiday season. They’re crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. If you are an almond lover, you will love these cookies. Once these cookies are piped and topped with pine nuts you will need to practice patience; they need to dry for at least 8 hours before baking and enjoying. They are worth the wait!

Old-fashioned and irresistible is what comes to mind when eating a peanut butter cookie. They have a great balance of sweet to salt and crispy to tender texture. These golden-blonde peanut butter cookies are the perfect after school treat.

These lemon butter cookies are intended for piping with a star tip, using a cookie press or scooping into a molded decorative cookie pan. These bake up very buttery, tender and packed full of lemon flavor.

These ginger molasses cookies are highly addictive. Sugar coated with rich spicy flavor and a soft and chewy texture make these cookies hard to resist. For added crunch roll the cookies in Turbinado sugar instead of granulated sugar.

These butter cookies are intended for piping with a star tip, using a cookie press or scooping into a molded decorative cookie pan. These bake up very buttery and tender and are best served with jam or dipped in chocolate.

Whoopie pie, also known as Moon pie, is a chocolate cookie that is more the texture of a cake. How the cake cookie got its name - the Amish women would bake off leftover cake batter and make sandwich cookies out of them to pack in the husbands’ lunch boxes. When the men would open the lunch box and see the sandwich cookie they would yell, “WHOOPIE!” If we saw these in our lunch boxes we’d say the same thing.

This recipe uses the simplest ingredients, but it’s almost impossible to eat just one snickerdoodle. The edges are wonderfully crisp while the inside is soft and chewy. Although similar to a sugar cookie, the snickerdoodle is rolled in cinnamon sugar just before baking, giving the outside a dark crackled top.

Oatmeal cookies are always a crowd-pleaser and a family favorite. It’s one of the most popular cookies next to the classic chocolate chip. Experiment with different nuts and dried fruits: pecans, pistachios, almonds, chopped dates, dried cranberries, etc. You can’t go wrong whichever way you go.