Food Desserts & Baking Cookies Easy Drop Cookies For No-Fuss Treats By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on November 22, 2022 Trending Videos We love drop cookies because they're so easy to make. Our recipes include drop cookies highlighting the flavors of chocolate chips, peanut butter, coconut, oatmeal and more. 01 of 21 Triple-Flavored Big-Batch Cookies Chocolate chips, peanut butter and oatmeal pack these cookies from a Door County, Wisconsin, bed-and-breakfast. Because this recipe makes so many cookies, you might want to freeze some dough for future use. The Midwest's Best Cookie Recipes View Recipe 02 of 21 Jumbo Chocolate-Cherry-Oat Cookies Brie Passano Sometimes it's fun to have cookies the size of your face—these are 5 inches in diameter! For smaller cookies that are still impressive, use a 1/3-cup measure to portion the dough for 15 or 16 cookies. View Recipe 03 of 21 Salty Caramel and Pecan Oatmeal Cookies These cookies come with a friendly warning: Chewy caramel, toasted pecans and a flurry of sea salt will make you popular. Very popular. A product called caramel bits gives these cookies great flavor and chewy texture. Some supermarkets carry them, and they're widely available online. (Search for Kraft Caramel Bits.) Take care to follow recipe directions when baking: caramel bits melt quickly. View Recipe 04 of 21 Mocha Munchies These cookies get their delicious flavor from a blend of coffee-covered espresso beans, coffee liqueur, pecans and vanilla. View Recipe 05 of 21 Hazelnut-Chocolate Chunk Cookies We packed these crisp and chewy chocolate chip cookies with white and chocolate chips along with toasted hazelnuts. View Recipe 06 of 21 Loaded Oatmeal Cookies Flax seed meal, wheat germ, dark chocolate and dried cranberries bring a healthy touch to this drop cookie recipe. View Recipe 07 of 21 Spiced Apple Drops An apple a day tastes even better in cookie form, especially with frosting on top! Our Favorite Fall Cookie Recipes View Recipe 08 of 21 Avalon's Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies Avalon International Breads in Detroit created these drop cookies. View Recipe 09 of 21 Lindsay's Chocolate Cafe Chocolate Chip Cookies This cookie, from the former Lindsay's Chocolate Cafe and Coffee House in O'Fallon, Missouri, wowed us with its flavor-packed lineup of ingredients. "These are the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever had! " says one of our website reviewers. "These are wonderful with a glass of cold milk while the cookie is still warm!" 6 Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Recipes View Recipe 10 of 21 Double Chocolate-Cherry Cookies Carol Schneider of Wausau, Wisconsin, brought home a blue ribbon when she entered these cookies at the Wisconsin State Fair. The recipe combines white and semisweet chocolate with dried cherries and walnuts. View Recipe 11 of 21 Double Dark Chocolate Cookies Chunks of bittersweet chocolate dot this rich chocolate drop cookie. Decadent Chocolate Desserts View Recipe 12 of 21 Awesome Chocolate-Peanut Blowout Cookies What makes these cookies so awesome? "Special ingredients," says the Marion, Ohio, reader who contributed the recipe, which includes chocolate and peanut butter. "I like them because they're decadent yet so easy to make." Love Peanut Butter? These Dessert Recipes Are For You View Recipe 13 of 21 Oatmeal-Cherry Cookies Dried cherries make oatmeal cookies even more memorable in this recipe from American Spoon Foods, which has locations in the Traverse City, Michigan, area. We like the cookies' crisp edges and chewy centers. View Recipe 14 of 21 Marjorie's Chocolate Chip Cookies Marjorie Johnson of Robbinsdale, Minnesota, won one of her 2,500 state fair ribbons with this recipe. It's also part of her cookbook, The Road to Blue Ribbon Baking. View Recipe 15 of 21 Ranger Cookies Filled with flaked coconut and dried fruit, these cookies can be ready in just over 30 minutes. View Recipe 16 of 21 Espresso-Nut Drop Cookies Instant espresso coffee powder and toasted hazelnuts add great flavor punch to these drop cookies. View Recipe 17 of 21 Krista's Kitchen Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies These big cookies—loaded with chocolate chips and nuts—were a favorite at the former Krista's Kitchen in Portage, Wisconsin. The cookie bakes crisp on the outside, cakey inside. View Recipe 18 of 21 Melt-in-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies These cakelike pumpkin drop cookies are delicious by themselves, but even better topped with a simple brown sugar frosting. Pumpkin Recipes We Absolutely Love View Recipe 19 of 21 Rene's Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies Coconut adds chewiness to this full-of-chips cookie. The recipe is from Rene's Bakery in Indianapolis, one of the most popular Indy bakeries. View Recipe 20 of 21 Peanut Butter Apple Cookies Looking for a healthier cookie? Shredded apple, whole wheat flour, canola oil and wheat germ reduce saturated fat and add whole grains and flavor to peanut butter cookies. View Recipe 21 of 21 Our Own Dream Cookies It's not easy satisfying everyone, but this cookie from the Midwest Living Test Kitchen tries to meet the challenge! It's packed with oatmeal, chocolate, peanut butter and nuts. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit