Bake and decorate the best cookies ever

How can anyone not like cookies? By their nature and numbers (nobody makes just one), cookies are warm and sociable, the ideal partners to coffee, tea, milk, and friendly chatter. On this site, you’ll find original recipes for old favorites like chocolate chip cookies, brownies, oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies, butter cookies, sugar cookies, as well as more offbeat recipes such as whole wheat vanilla crescents and five-spice shortbread.

Every cookie recipe includes information on whether the cookie can be frozen or mailed, and high altitude baking tips when appropriate.

We hope you enjoy our creations as much as we do. Happy baking!

Ginger, Webmaster and Master Cookie Baker
(with a lot of help from Barbara)

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