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Cookies

a bunch of double chocolate olive oil cookies with sea salt and chocolate chips nestled together

Double Chocolate Olive Oil Cookies

The Ultimate (EASY!) Cookies and Cream Brownies

ice cream sandwich, with sprinkles lacing the edges

Deb Perelman Really Does Make The Best Ice Cream Sandwiches

We Baked King Arthur Baking’s Recipe of the Year (so you don’t have to?)

Dad holding a plate of browned butter chocolate chip cookies by the window.

Cliff Notes: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Candy Corn and Salted Peanut Rice Krispie Treats

a stack of white chocolate macadamia nut cookies with a bite taken out of the top one with milk

Classic White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

wider shot of lemon bars stacked on a plate with a bite taken out of one lemon bar

My Favorite Classic Lemon Bars Recipe

completed recipe close up shot of a blondie so the toasted almonds, chocolate chips, and sea salt can be seen

My Best Classic Blondie Recipe

cowboy cookies close up showing texture.

Cowboy Cookies with salted cereal brittle

Baked Taylor Swift cookies on parchment paper.

Taylor Swift’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

stacked sliced apple cheesecake bars

Apple Cheesecake Bars

These are the cookies you should bake this weekend

Stack of chocolate brownie cookies with sprinkles.

The Easiest Chewy Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Baked fluffernutter cookies broken apart on wire rack.

Fluffernutter Peanut Butter Cookies

Two huge small-batch chocolate chip cookies.

A Recipe For Just Two Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

sliced chocolate and peanut butter brownies

How To Make Box Brownies Better

Strawberry white chocolate chai sugar cookies on a cooling rack.

Taylor Swift’s Strawberry White Chocolate Chai Sugar Cookies

Lemon curd sandwich cookies on a board with dusting powdered sugar.

Lemon Curd Easter Egg Sandwich Cookies

Baked marshmallow moon pie recipe cut into squares.

S’mores Bars aka Mardi Gras Moon Pie Bars

Sliced cookie cake with forks, candles, and sprinkles.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

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