From Better Homes and Gardens

These butter cookies bake longer and at a lower temperature than most cookies. To keep them tender, don't let them brown.

Tender Sugar Cookies

From Kellogg's

Easter Egg Treats™

From Better Homes and Gardens

These crispy and sweet sandwich cookies look like fluffy marshmallows. They'll be the star of the dessert tray at your next party.

Lemon Drop Sandwiches

From Better Homes and Gardens

High-sparkle sanding sugar is a little coarser than granulated sugar. It's available where cake decorating supplies are sold and by mail.

Pastel Cream Wafers

From Better Homes and Gardens

For more holiday fun, pat the cookie dough in a big bell for Christmas, a giant pumpkin for Halloween, or a huge heart for Valentine's Day. Make sure the shape has uniform thickness so it bakes evenly.

Yummy Bunny Cookie

From Better Homes and Gardens

The Easter bunny will hop to this basket. To dress up these cookies, stir 2 tablespoons small multicolor decorative candies into the dough with the last flour added.

Easter Sugar Cookie Cutouts

From Better Homes and Gardens

Edible wheat grass makes a cozy resting spot for these lemony cookies. Find the grass in the produce section of major supermarkets. Or check at large health food stores where the grass is used to make juice.

Easter Egg Cookies

From Parents

These pretty, colorful dessert puffs will melt in your mouth.

Meringue Kisses

From Better Homes and Gardens

Kids love these crispy peanut-shape cookies filled and drizzled with peanut butter. Let kids help make the patterns to make the cutout cookies.

Peanut Butter Sandwiches

From Better Homes and Gardens

Using pure vanilla extract instead of imitation vanilla creates unbeatable flavor in this decadently rich cookie recipe. A sprinkling of cardamom adds an extra dose of flavor.

Macadamia Nut Cookies with Vanilla Cream Frosting

From Family Circle

For these sweet treats, an orange-flavored marshmallow filling is coated with thin layers of chocolate. Use different shapes for different holidays.

Easter Treats

From Family Circle

These chocolate cookies resemble birds' nests with coconut for twigs and jelly beans for eggs. Kids can help roll the dough into balls, fill the cookie nests with jelly bean eggs, and of course, gobble them up.

Chocolate Macaroon Nests

From Better Homes and Gardens

You may want to make more than one batch of theae jewel-toned cookies to give away to cooking-loving friends. Make some with raspberry jam and some with apricot preserves.

Pecan Shortbread Logs

From Better Homes and Gardens

Organically grown edible flowers are available year-round in many supermarkets. Before using the flowers, rinse and gently pat them dry. When edible pansies are not available, look for edible violas.

Pansy Shortbread

From Betty Crocker

Making sweet bunnies and chicks is child's play. Devouring the cookies is a tasty pleasure for all.

Bunny & Chick Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Coconuts and macadamia nuts flavor these crisp macaroon cookies.

Macadamia Nut Macaroons

From Better Homes and Gardens

Pssst. Want to know two sweet secrets to making the best coconutty treats in town? Here they are: Use two kinds of coconut and a hint of honey.

Golden Macaroons

From Better Homes and Gardens

Share the dynamic duo of white chocolate and raspberries by baking up a batch of these easy drop cookies for Christmas.

White Chocolate and Raspberry Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Homemade cookie wands are a sweet Christmas, birthday, or special occasion treat.

Marbled Magic Wands

From Better Homes and Gardens

These cookies are as hearty and spicy as the original ginger cookie recipe, but fat and calories have been drastically reduced.

Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

These tropical cookie cutouts are bursting with pineapple, coconut, and buttery macadamia nuts.

Tropical Pinwheels

From Parents

These rich, butter and nut cookies are a Christmas favorite. Their powdered sugar coating looks like freshly fallen snow.

Crescent Moons

From Midwest Living

Use edible glitter instead of frosting to decorate these holiday cookies.

Bet You Can't Eat Just One Sugar Cookies

From Taste of the South

Lemon Easter Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Easy to prepare, try this sensational cookie recipe with a delicious white chocolate peppermint topping.

Peppermint Sandies with White Chocolate Glaze