25 Most Over-The-Top Cookie Recipes

25 Most Over-the-Top Cookie Recipes

Chocolate chip, sugar, and oatmeal cookies are delicious and simple to make, but sometimes you just want a treat with a little extra flavor. Chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks, oatmeal cookies drizzled with Nutella, or sugar cookies dipped in chocolate are a nice surprise for cookie-lovers. They're familiar, but offer a little something extra.

5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies

If you like the flaky, buttery crust of a pie, you're going to love this easy cookie recipe. These 5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies are everything you love about your favorite pie crust, but in the form of portable cookies.   

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Asparagus Cookies

Don't knock these cookies until you try them. They have one cup of grated asparagus in them, but they're delicious.

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Carrot Walnut Cookies

These cookies are packed filled with oats, carrots, banana, and apples for a sweet and fruity cookie.

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Choco-Mint Crownies Recipe

It's a cookie and brownie all in one. Two all-time favorite desserts, chocolate chip cookies and fudge brownies, are combined into an indulgent cookie dough-topped brownie. Now that's excessive.

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Chocolate Cherry FroYo Sandwiches

Black cherry Greek yogurt is combined with chocolate chip cookies to make a sweet treat.

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Chocolate Fudge Cookies

Chocolate fudge cookies seem a little plain, but the added ingredient of black beans changes these into something special.

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Chocolate Ginger Bliss Oatmeal Cookies

Trail mix is added to these cookies for a cookie packed with dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, and ginger. 

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Chocolate-Hazelnut-Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

These cookies are over-the-top delicious! Dipping the cookie dough in semisweet chocolate and topping with chopped hazelnuts gives them an extra-special look. — Pillsbury

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Chocolate White Chocolate Mint Cookies Recipe

These dark chocolate cookies are studded with white chocolate chips, have a burst of peppermint flavor, and a crunch factor thanks to the walnuts.

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Cranberry, White Chocolate, and Nut Cookies

These quick and easy cookies combine tart cranberries, sweet white chocolate, and crunchy nuts for an awesome snack.

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Mini Chip Snowball Cookies

These cookies take on the consistency of a "snowball" or a very soft cake. They're different in texture, but have the same taste as a chocolate chip cookie.

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Nutella Amaretto Icebox Cookies with Almonds

Two delicious cookie doughs combine to create striped and swirly patterns in this easy recipe. And who can resist the nutty sweetness of Nutella? — Oneida

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Oatmeal Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies

This oatmeal cherry chocolate chip cookie recipe is a twist on an old classic. The hint of orange extract perfectly complements the dried cherries and dark chocolate chips, giving the cookies a surprisingly bright flavor. — Butter & Type

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Orange Ricotta Cookies Recipe

Cookies made with ricotta are surprisingly delicious.  Try these delectable ricotta cookies topped with orange glaze. You won't be able to eat just one.

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Orphan One Hundred Cookies

They're chewy, crisp, sandy, rich, buttery, and light, all at the same time. It's hard to stop eating them, so it's a good thing the recipe really does make a hundred cookies. They have a secret ingredient: crunchy Rice Krispies. — Dora Charles

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Overstuffed Nutters

This recipe combines two great recipes into one fantastic dessert. Oatmeal raisin cookies and peanut butter cookies come together to create an excessively delicious dessert.

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Pesto Cookies

Pesto is usually a sauce that dresses pasta or pizza, but pesto can be used to make a savory cookie with walnuts and orange, which adds a twist to a traditional short bread cookie recipe.

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Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies

Fair warning: These cookies are very indulgent. But the best part about them is that you can taste every layer of flavor without being overwhelmed. The pumpkin spice chips are muted by the chocolate morsels and the cinnamon cream cheese filling gives it that fall flavor you crave. — Lauren Gordon

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Salted Cashew and Milk Chocolate Whippersnappers Cookies

Toasted Marshmallow and Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

Trail Mix Cookies

Trail mix is an unusual ingredient to add to your cookie, but it will give you a burst of energy and taste delicious.

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Triple Chocolate Pistachio Mint Cookies

Having a chocolate cookie isn't enough — you need to have a triple chocolate cookie studded with white chocolate chips.

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Viennese Cookies Recipe

These cookies are stuffed with apricot jam and topped with semi-sweet chocolate for an outrageously good result.

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Whiskey-Bacon Cookies with Pecans and Maple Sugar

This is a crispy but chewy cookie that is irresistible — chunks of pecans and chewy pieces of bacon make a salty-sweet cookie that we're sure you'll fall in love with. — But I'm Hungry

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White Sesame Cookies