Just Like Grandma Made: 11 Classic Cookie Recipes You’ll Love

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Nothing says ‘home’ quite like Grandma’s cookies. These recipes will help you bring back those cherished memories while creating new ones with the special people in your life.

Oatmeal Cookies on White Plate with bowl of oats in background
Quick Oatmeal Cookies. Photo Credit: Real Life of Lulu

Easy Cake Mix Cookies

Grandma was a smart cookie and made her cookies with a cake mix. Only 5 ingredients are needed to make these delicious and Easy Cake Mix Cookies! The best part? You can customize them depending on your tastes for a different cookie each time!
Grab the recipe: Easy Cake Mix Cookies.

Quick Oatmeal Cookies

Whose grandma didn’t make oatmeal cookies? Quick Oatmeal Cookies are easy to make with ingredients you already have in your pantry! They are perfect for a picnic or potluck!
Grab the recipe: Quick Oatmeal Cookies.

Toffee Cookies

Toffee Cookies are crunchy like toffee without getting stuck in your teeth, so grandma would definitely approve. These cookies are perfect for a potluck in the summer or a cookie tray at holiday time!
Grab the recipe: Toffee Cookies.

4 stacked rhubarb cookies with small pieces of rhubarb and blue bowl in background
Rhubarb Cookies. Photo Credit: All Ways Delicious

Mashed Potato Cookies

Mashed Potato Cookies are a delicious blend of mashed potatoes, spices, nuts, and raisins, just like Grandma loved! The mashed potatoes create a soft, moist cookie without affecting the flavor!
Grab the recipe: Mashed Potato Cookies.

Rhubarb Cookies

Rhubarb Cookies are a fun change of pace from the usual cookie recipe. They’re a simple buttery, sweet, cinnamony cookie studded with chunks of tart rhubarb.
Grab the recipe: Rhubarb Cookies.

Flourless Chocolate Cookies

These flourless chocolate cookies are crispy on the outside, gooey, and chewy on the inside, with a deep, rich chocolate flavor all the way through.
Grab the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Cookies.

Ginger Snaps

Are Gingersnaps the best cookie? I think so! They’re quick and easy to make and packed with spicy ginger flavor. These are perfectly crisp, the way a gingersnap should be!
Grab the recipe: Ginger Snaps.

Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies

meringue cookies in brown bowl
Sugar Free Keto Meringue Cookies. Photo Credit: Low Carb – No Carb.

This Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies recipe is made with just 2 simple ingredients and only 1 gram of net carbs for 10 pieces. These light and fluffy, with crispy exterior sugar-free meringue cookies, are a delicious and healthy low-carb alternative.
Grab the recipe: Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies.

Keto Shortbread Cookies

This Keto Shortbread Cookies recipe with almond flour contains only 1 gram of net carbs per piece. Its buttery keto cookie taste is not only low carb, diabetic friendly, and sugar-free, but also an entirely gluten-free shortbread cookie everyone has been looking for.
Grab the recipe: Keto Shortbread Cookies.

Peanut Butter Keto Cookies

The easiest ever Peanut Butter Keto Cookies Recipe with only a few ingredients and done in less than 20 minutes are a perfect staple for a quick keto dessert idea. Fully gluten-free, grain-free, and sugar-free, those simple keto cookies are filled with all of the protein you have been looking for.
Grab the recipe: Peanut Butter Keto Cookies.

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies served on a white plate. Plate and three clear glass bottles of milk are sitting on a concrete countertop next to a blue print fabric napkin.
Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies. Photo Credit: Glenda Embree Blog.

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies satisfy every indulgently gooey, chocolatey cookie craving! Classic chocolate chip cookie goodness in a small batch that gets me in and out of the kitchen in 30 minutes.
Grab the recipe: Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies.

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