17 of Our Easiest Cookie and Bar Recipes

Make this crowd-friendly, sweet, and crunchy cookie for dessert. Instead of forming individual bites for each member of your family, you press the dough into one cast-iron skillet, which saves time and makes for a speedy treat.

We'd be remiss to not include a classic sugar cookie recipe. This one-bowl recipe is simple to follow and easy to enjoy—let the whole family help decorate the cookies with royal icing and sanding sugar.

This six-ingredient cookie recipe comes together in a snap. Start by heating brown sugar, milk, and butter in a small saucepan, then stir in oats, peanut butter, and vanilla. Form individual cookies, chill, then drizzle with melted chocolate.

Take the campfire inside with these Rice Krispies treats inspired by s'mores. Broken graham crackers and chopped chocolate are folded into the rice cereal and marshmallow mixture for a bite that tastes just like the great outdoors.

Gluten-free and ready in just 25 minutes? Sign us up! All you need to do is combine a handful of ingredients—almond butter, semisweet chocolate chips, brown sugar, and eggs—in a bowl, drop tablespoons of dough onto a sheet pan, and bake for 10 minutes.

While these cookies are a staple on our holiday table, they're delicious and easy to make year-round. Start by making peanut butter cookie dough, chilling it, then form the cookies, and bake. Don't forget the finishing touch—a single Hershey kiss pressed into each cookie.

This easy cookie recipe doesn't require rolling dough or using cookie cutters. Once you've made our all-purpose, five-ingredient drop cookie dough, decide if you want to turn it into thumbprint or sandwich cookies with a jam or chocolate filling.

So much easier than traditional French macarons or coconut macaroons (but just as delicious!), these jammy macaroon sandwich cookies are a winner when you're pinched for time.

This fancy-sounding cookie is so easy to make—the recipe uses store-bought puff pastry instead of homemade cookie dough. Sprinkle the dough with a combination of sugar, cinnamon, and orange zest, fold together, then slice and bake.

One-pan and no oven makes this a favorite easy chocolate bar recipe. And did we mention it's packed with almond butter, honey, oats, toasted almonds, bittersweet chocolate, and raisins?

This cookie recipe is fast, easy, and sweet as can be. Chopped pecans are folded into a five-ingredient brown sugar cookie dough and each tray of cookies bakes in only 15 minutes. No fussy ingredients or overcomplicated steps here!

Just ¼ teaspoon of cayenne pepper gives these chocolate cookies some serious heat. A combination of Dutch-processed cocoa powder and chopped semisweet chocolate make them super-rich, too. All you need to do is mix the wet and dry ingredients together, form into balls, and bake.

Loaded with nuts, oats, maple syrup, and plenty of chocolate, these easy cookies are irresistible. The pecans are ground and used in place of flour, so even gluten-intolerant eaters can grab one to snack on. Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl by hand, then use a ¼-cup measuring cup to scoop and form the dough into cookies.

These cookies will never go out of style—and for good reason. The dough—which is enhanced with wheat germ and cinnamon for nutty, subtly spiced flavor—is as simple and delicious as you can get.

All you need are three ingredients to make these basic butter cookies. They're formed and baked in a cake pan, which cuts down on prep work.

Two kinds of chocolate are far better than one. That's why this easy skillet cookie recipe calls for both cocoa powder and chocolate chips. It's a chocolate-lover's dream.