Desserts
Favorite Cookie Recipes
From smelling the aroma to taking the first warm bite, cookies have long been a comforting food. Here are some of our favorite cookie recipes.
By Cathryn McCann|Apr 20 2018|
Favorite Cookie Recipes | Toll House Cookies
Photo Credit: Adam DetourFAVORITE COOKIE RECIPES
Ruth Wakefield’s Original Toll House Cookies
Today the most popular cookie in America, the Toll House Cookie was invented right here in New England by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, during the 1930s. Here’s the official recipe!Photo Credit : Adam Detour
Joe Froggers Cookies
This classic New England treat flavored with molasses, rum, and fresh nutmeg is a chewy and delicious option.
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Fragrant and buttery with crackled tops and slightly crisp bottoms, these cinnamon and sugar snickerdoodles are an old-fashioned favorite.
Photo Credit : Aimee Seavey
Coffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies
A great way to get your chocolate and caffeine fixes in one place, these crispy chocolate chip cookies have coffee blended right into the batter.Earthquake Cookies
What makes these chocolate crinkle cookies so good? Intensely rich chocolate flavor and a texture that’s the perfect mix of crisp exterior and chewy, brownie-like interior.
Photo Credit : Amy Traverso
Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are based on a recipe that ran in December 1939. With small adjustments, we ended up with delicious cookies perfect for cutting and decorating — and eating.Hermit Cookies
Spicy, sweet, and studded with raisins and currants, hermit cookies are a classic New England treat. This recipe was a first-place winner in our August 1952 issue.
Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker
Molasses Ginger Cookies
These chewy cookies get their spicy boost from chopped crystallized ginger.Soft Pumpkin Cookies
We love this recipe for tasty, spicy, soft cookies made with pumpkin puree and packed with nuts, raisins, or chocolate chips.
Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker
Gluten-Free Cornmeal Thumbprint Cookies
We love the texture of these tender cornmeal-based cookies, as well as the way the raspberry flavor complements the corn.Nutty Oatmeal-Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Photo Credit : Howard L. Puckett
Maple Pecan Refrigerator Cookies
With their maple goodness, these treats are very New England — but with a Southern twist, thanks to the pecans’ nutty flavor. Use grade B maple syrup if you can find it, or else grade A dark amber will do.Molasses Clove Cookies
These richly spiced cookies get their sparkle from a quick dunk in sugar before baking.
Photo Credit : Amy Traverso
SEE MORE: Toll House Cookies | The Original Chocolate Chip Cookie Hermit Cookies | Yankee Recipe Archives (1952) 75 Classic New England Foods
When I was in high school one of my friends’ mother, who was Russian Orthodox, boy was she a great cook!, introduced me to a very soft, frosted cookie, which are called butter cream drops. That recipe was on a Robin Hood Flour bag, which was very high quality flour. They have, in addition to butter, “naturally”, sour cream and chopped walnuts and the frosting is browned butter with confectioners sugar. My husband didn’t like these, he liked “Ruth’s”!!!!!!!!!!!, and I have a copy of her original Toll House Cookbook, I think mine is the 8th edition. That cookbook also has inside it the Yankee Magazine article written about her!!!!!!!!! The Toll House was still in business when I met my husband in 1980! Unfortunately, it is now, yet another, Walgreens store…he also like Hermits. The recipe I used was from the PATRIOT LEDGER newspaper and it is called “Woodrow Wilson’s Hermits”. They are pretty soft. I put raisins and walnuts in those when I make them. I have also made a version of the earthquake cookies, which I liked very much. I was never “really fond” of molasses or peanut butter cookies, but I do like the peanut butter cookies topped with a Hershey’s Kiss. I also like chocolate mint cookies, for which I have a recipe. One of my other real favorites is Wedding Cookies, which are also called Russian Tea Cakes. Boschetto’s Bakery on Salem St. in the North End of Boston, established in 1914, made wonderful cookies, including almond biscotti, Italian sesame cookies and Wedding Cookies. All of them were outstanding, in a word! I liked their Wedding Cookies the best, however, they finally were bought out and soon after that went out of business several years ago. It was a truly “family-owned” business in the best way. No matter what quantity of cookies you ordered the family member (a lady that was there forever) gave you “a little (a lot!) extra”…We all just loved her.