Easy cookie recipes

These easy butter cookies will melt in your mouth – they're deliciously soft and crumbly. Make and give these as a homemade edible gift

The food processor does most of the work in this cookie recipe, but younger children will enjoy rolling the dough into balls and thumbprinting. Older kids can make them on their own

Bake a batch of our irresistible all-American double chocolate chunk cookies to enjoy with your cuppa. These easy sweet treats are ideal for weekend baking

Sandwich ginger biscuits with a creamy, zesty filling to make these gluten-free teatime treats that are aromatic with wintry spices - cloves, nutmeg and cardamom

You've got all bases covered with white, milk and dark chocolate in these American-style cookies, best enjoyed warm with a cold glass of milk

Looking for a healthier version of your favourite treat? These cookies from Leiths School of Food and Wine use wholemeal flour, oats and walnuts to create an ultra nourishing sweet bite

These festive vanilla cookies make a beautiful edible Christmas tree decoration. Or, you could pack them into boxes to give as end-of-term gifts for teachers and friends.

Oaty, chewy, spicy cookies - ready in under an hour and great for tea time

These freezable biscuits are completely irresistible and make a great gift for kids to give to teachers or grandparents

Angela Nilsen has created a lighter, yet still chocolatey cookie with just 97 calories per biscuit

With just three ingredients, these simple peanut butter cookies will delight kids and grown-ups alike – and they're gluten-free, too

If you love ginger nuts, you'll love these American-style spiced biscuits with chunks of stem ginger, dipped in dark chocolate

Fill the biscuit tin with these rustic cookies. Soaking the raisins gives a boost to the texture and stops them from burning during cooking

These are truly delicious – crunchy round the edges, chewy in the centre

These easy cookies with a fruity jam filling are perfect teatime treats. Make a batch as a weekend project and fill your biscuit tin with sweet bites

Keep these chewy cookies in the freezer ready for when friends or family pop around

Bored of buns? Try these cute cookies instead - sure to become a family favourite

An English, shortbread-based version of the classic Mexican wedding cookie - perfect for homemade wedding favours

These nutty biscuits are packed with chocolate chunks and chewy dried fruit - swap the cashews for peanuts if you prefer

Little hands can help make these fruity biscuits topped with icing and sprinkles. It's an ideal way to get kids in the kitchen

Chewy, crunchy, salty and sweet- these biscuits have it all, including some white chocolate chips thrown in for good measure

Kids can help cook these chewy American-style biscuits - use two of them to squish vanilla ice cream into a hand-held treat

A big pile of spiced double chocolate chip biscuits next to a tub of ice cream is an easy way to feed a crowd

Make these round vanilla biscuits, ice in bright colours, thread on a ribbon and give out as edible prizes