No cookie swap is complete without buttery and crumbly shortbread cookies. Use some holiday-themed cookie cutters, sandwich them with jam, decorate them as you would a sugar cookie, or just make ...

Here are our best cookie recipes — from brown-sugar butterscotch cookies to snickerdoodles — that will easily win your cookie swap party. Updated Dec. 1, 2016, 1:03 PM EST / Source : TODAY TODAY ...

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe After many batches and experiments, López-Alt finally discovered what makes a chocolate chip cookie perfect. He browns the butter for a nutty, butterscotch ...

Using a teaspoon-sized ice-cream scoop or just a regular teaspoon, drop dough, 2 inches apart, onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes.

But to help you take your treats to the next level and really stand out in a cookie swap, we got Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie’s Cookies, a James Beard Award-winning collection of more than ...

A bad cookie exchange is disappointing, unexpectedly competitive, and make you realize there is such a thing as too many cookies. Don’t let a terrible cookie exchange come to pass. Here are tips ...

My absolute favorite holiday party is a cookie swap. You only have to do the work of making one kind of cookie, and then you get to go home with a whole variety of festive treats. However, it can be ...

No cookie swap is a success without chocolate cookies, and these are the ones to bring. They’re easy to adapt too, with options for double chocolate, chocolate mint, black forest, or orange ...