Easy Cookie Recipes - Chocolate Chip, Cranberry, Butterscotch, etc.

This page provides you with a ton of easy cookie recipes such as milk chocolate chip cookies, white chocolate cranberry chip cookies & many more. If you are looking for other easy dessert ideas, please visit Bread Dad’s Banana Bread Recipes, Sweet Quick Bread Recipes or Muffins Recipes sections.

List of Easy Cookie Recipes

Butterscotch Chip Cookies – Cookies made with deliciously sweet & buttery butterscotch chips.
Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies – My kids’ favorite homemade cookies! These are simple-to-make cookies that contain delicious chocolate and butterscotch chips.
Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies – Chocolate chips and slightly tart dried cranberries are a perfect cookie combo.
Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips – Delicious and double chocolaty!
Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies – A simple cookie recipe made with milk chocolate chips. Your kids will love them!
Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies – These are not tiny cookies. Rather they are delicious cookies made with mini chocolate chips.
M&M Chocolate Cookies – These are fantastic chocolate cookies covered with brightly colored M&Ms.
No Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies – Delicious chocolate chip cookies… made without any butter. This means that they contain a lot less saturated fat than regular chocolate chip cookies (made with butter).
No Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies – These eggless chocolate chip cookies are delicious!
White Chocolate Chip Cookies
White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies – These white chocolate treats are perfect for holidays & special occasions.

M&M Chocolate Cookies

FYI – You can also visit our Cookie Instructional Videos section if you want to watch videos that discuss common cookie problems & solutions, how to make chewy or crunchy cookies, etc.

Cookie Recipes – Questions

Do cookies need yeast?

No. Most traditional cookie recipes do not use yeast. Instead, many cookie recipes (i.e. chocolate chip cookies) use baking soda or baking powder as a leavening agent. These ingredients help cookies to quickly rise and become more airy & fluffy. Moreover, many easy-to-make cookies are fully cooked with 8-11 minutes and this is not nearly enough time for yeast to rise.

Why is baking soda added to cookie recipes?

Baking soda is added to many cookie recipes because it acts a “leavening” agent. The baking soda helps the cookie dough to rise during the baking process. This results in an airier & fluffier cookie.

For more information on baking soda, you should read this Wikipedia article.

Reference Sources

Wikipedia, Butterscotch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterscotch
Wikipedia, Oatmeal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatmeal
Wikipedia, Types of Chocolate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate

Noteworthy Visitor Comments & Recipe Suggestions

I want to thank EVERYONE who leaves a comment or suggestion in our recipe comment sections!! Beginning bakers learn a lot from your fantastic baking ideas, tips & recipe variations. Your comments also really help us to improve & clarify our recipe instructions. Below are some of the recent comments by our visitors:

We also really appreciate Mila’s kind remarks about our 2 Banana Bread Recipe. This is an “emergency” recipe for when you have only 2 bananas (and not the 3 called for in most banana bread recipes) – “So delicious! Turned out amazing. This is now going to be my new go-to banana bread recipe. I keep finding myself sneaking back to my kitchen for more!!“
I want to thank Jess for the kind remarks about our new 100% Whole Wheat Bread Machine Recipe – “This recipe worked very well. I am making it now for the second time this week. Per the notes in the recipe, I tried it with only 2 Tb of sugar, and it tasted great. Thanks for another new favorite recipe!“
Grammacat made some amazing modifications to our Bread Machine Chocolate Chip Bread – “Excellent bread. After reading that people made PB sandwiches, I decided to add peanut butter chips along with the chocolate chips. Made the dough in the bread machine. I then separated the dough in half and patted it out. I then added chocolate chips/PB chips and PB M&M’s. Folded the dough so the candy was in the middle. Placed in pans and let rise in a warm oven for 30 minutes. Then baked in a 350 degree oven about 25 minutes. After baking I let the bread cool about 10 minutes. Cut a piece. The candy in the middle was great.“
I want to thank Nik for this super nice comment about our Bread Machine White Bread – “The best bread machine white bread that I’ve had. Beautiful crumb, golden crust, easy to slice, and tastes great.“
MsD added an interesting “twist” to our Vegan Banana Bread by adding “hemp hearts” (I learn something new every day from this blog!) – “I added 1 cup of hemp hearts, 1 cup of blueberries, 1/2 cup shredded coconut, and 1 tsp cinnamon. This is my new favorite recipe!“
A big shout out to Kay who left some great details on how to make gluten free versions of our No Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies – “Best recipe ever! Finally I got the right combination for a perfect cookie! Also I substitute all purpose gluten free flour and the recipe worked perfectly! I added a half teaspoon of baking powder (because of GF flour it rises differently) amazing cookies, wowed everyone! Thank you.“
My thanks to Carol for pointing out which European measurements (i.e. milliliters versus grams) to use for the ingredients in our Strawberry Bread Recipe. Looks like I should use grams for things such as flour & sugar and milliliters for salt, milk, etc.
For more great visitor comments, tips & suggestions, you should visit our Noteworthy Visitor Comments section! It has tons of past “noteworthy” comments & suggestions.

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