Nothing satisfies the sweet tooth better than a perfect little cookie (or three). From Nutella Sandwich Cookies (aka Yo-yos) to Forgotten Kisses, these adorable treats are all easy to make and impossible to resist.
These cookies look just like little yo-yos: you make them by joining together two buttery shortbread cookies with a layer of creamy chocolate-hazelnut spread. GET THE RECIPE
Also known as Snowballs, Butter Balls or Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cookies are crisp, shortbread-like cookies made from ground nuts, flour, butter and sugar. This version is flavored with lime, pecans and ground coconut. GET THE RECIPE
This is another version of the Mexican Wedding Cake. Nutty and not-too-sweet, the shortbread is the perfect base for luscious fruit preserves. GET THE RECIPE
Delicious to eat and fun to make, rugelach (pronounced rug-a-lah) are miniature crescent-rolled pastries posing as cookies. They're made by rolling a triangle of dough around a sweet filling of fruit, nuts, chocolate or pretty much anything your heart desires. GET THE RECIPE
You can't eat just one of these adorable little cookies. They're technically snickerdoodles, but since they taste and look so much like donut holes, my kids have renamed them Donut Hole cookies. GET THE RECIPE
As a coconut lover, I've tried dozens of coconut macaroon recipes over the years -- these are my favorite. Chewy and moist on the inside, crispy and golden on the outside, they're delicious plain but even more irresistible dipped in chocolate. GET THE RECIPE
If you've been searching for the perfect peanut butter cookie, look no further. This recipe, adapted from My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow, is the best I've tried. The cookies are thick and soft with a rich peanut butter flavor and almost sandy texture. GET THE RECIPE
Light as a cloud, kiss-shaped meringue chocolate chip cookies. You "forget" about them in the oven overnight - letting them cook ever so slowly - resulting in the dreamiest, lightest, most irresistibly simple chocolate chip cookies you could imagine. What's more: they're gluten free. No strange substitutions, just naturally that way. GET THE RECIPE