Cookies & Bars

Let your inner Cookie Monster out, and bake up a batch of cookies. Here you’ll find all kinds of cookie recipes, bar recipes, brownies, and even our family’s favorite sugar cookie icing.

Reader favorites include the best chocolate chip cookies ever (my family agrees), no bake peanut butter bars, wonderful oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and easy Rice Krispie treats.

best cookie recipes, bars, brownies, and cookie icing
mummy halloween brownies made with Fun Size Twix bars on a plate with candy corn

Twix Bar Mummy Halloween Brownies

Twix Bar Mummy Halloween Brownies are quick and easy Halloween treats anyone can make! So cute and fun for kids, they’re the perfect Halloween desserts!

stack of soft pumpkin sugar cookies, made from scratch

Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

Mix up a batch of soft pumpkin sugar cookies from scratch, a deliciously easy recipe, perfect for a fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving treat.

Chewy peanut butter cookies stack with a bite taken out

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies, made with brown sugar and creamy or crunchy peanut butter, have a crispy outer edge and a soft, chewy middle. Delicious cookie recipe!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies have the perfect crispy outer edge and thick, chewy middle. Scrumptious old fashioned cookie recipe with cinnamon and raisins. They remind me of Grandma’s oatmeal cookies.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, made with brown sugar, cinnamon, and oatmeal, have a crispy outer edge and a soft, chewy middle. Delicious cookie recipe!

Easy Sugar Cookie Icing, using only 5 ingredients. This is my favorite cookie icing, it’s so creamy delicious and perfect for decorating Christmas cookies!

Easy Sugar Cookie Icing

Easy Sugar Cookie Icing, made with powdered sugar and a flavorful secret ingredient. So creamy delicious, my favorite recipe for cookie decorating.