Cookie baking becomes a bigger event when kids can help with the fun parts, from scooping dough to frosting cooled cookies. These 23 recipes cover Crumbl copycats, fruit cookies, chocolate cookies, filled cookies, thumbprints, mint cookies, cinnamon cookies, and frosted treats. Some are quick bake-and-cool recipes, while others need chilling, filling, dipping, or decorating before they are ready. Use this list when the kitchen needs a cookie project that ends with a full tray and a lot of stolen bites.
Copycat Crumbl Biscoff Cookies
Ready in 20 minutes and making 12 cookies, Copycat Crumbl Biscoff Cookies bring cookie butter, crushed Biscoff cookies, and white chocolate chips into one thick bakery-style cookie. Butter, cookie butter, white sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, salt, flour, Biscoff cookies, and white chocolate chips make the dough. Kids can help press the dough balls flat before baking. Serve with milk, hot cocoa, or a dessert board.
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Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
With 20 minutes of prep, 14 minutes of baking, and 2 hours of chilling, Strawberry Shortcake Cookies make 30 cookies. Fresh strawberries are pulsed or mashed before going into the dough with butter, sugar, egg, egg yolk, cream, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, and white chocolate chunks. The dough chills before scooping, which helps the cookies bake properly. Serve them after lunch, at parties, or with a glass of milk.
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Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookie
Ready in 30 minutes and making 18 cookies, this Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Cake Cookie gives chocolate fans a frosted cookie project. Butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, corn syrup, vanilla, flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, and chocolate chips make the cookie base. Butter, cream cheese, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and vanilla make the frosting. Kids can help pipe or spread the frosting once the cookies cool.
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Peaches & Cream Cookies
Ready in 28 minutes and making 24 cookies, Peaches & Cream Cookies use fresh peaches in the dough and topping. Flour, salt, baking soda, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, peach jam, and diced peaches make the cookie base. Heavy cream, vanilla, powdered sugar, vanilla pudding powder, and more peaches make the topping. The cookies are best served soon after assembling. Serve them for summer baking, birthdays, or a fruit-filled cookie tray.
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Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Mallow Cupcake Cookies
With a 50-minute total time and eight servings, Copycat Crumbl Chocolate Mallow Cupcake Cookies make a filled chocolate cookie with a glossy topping. Butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, flour, and marshmallow fluff make the base and filling. Semi-sweet chocolate chips, heavy cream, and white chocolate chips finish the topping. Kids can help swirl the white chocolate once the ganache is spread.
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Butter Pecan Cookies
With a 1-hour 32-minute total time and 36 servings, Butter Pecan Cookies bring toasted pecans into a soft cookie dough. Chopped pecans are toasted first with butter before mixing into a dough made with brown sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, and self-rising flour. The dough chills for one hour before rolling. Kids can help roll the dough balls in toasted pecans and press a pecan half on top before baking.
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Crumbl-Style Confetti Cake Cookies
Ready in 45 minutes and making 22 servings, Crumbl-Style Confetti Cake Cookies bring sprinkles, frosting, and bakery-style size into one cookie tray. Butter, sugar, egg whites, princess cake emulsion, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, and sprinkles make the cookie dough. Butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and pink food coloring make the frosting. Kids can help add sprinkles and decorate the cooled cookies.
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Cookie Frosted Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ready in 27 minutes and making eight cookies, Cookie Frosted Chocolate Chip Cookies turn a basic chocolate chip cookie into a decorated treat. Flour, baking soda, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, egg, vanilla, and chocolate chips make the cookie base. Vanilla frosting gets mixed with crushed chocolate chip cookies before going on top. Kids can help crush the mini cookies and add the cookie crumb topping.
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Copycat Thin Mint Cookies
Ready in 30 minutes and making 24 servings, Copycat Thin Mint Cookies bring chocolate and mint together in a crisp dipped cookie. Butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, mint extract, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt make the dough. Dark chocolate melting wafers and more mint extract make the coating. Kids can help cut the dough into rounds, while an adult handles the melted chocolate and dipping.
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Ready in 22 minutes and making 24 cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies keep the cookie tray simple with oats, cinnamon, and golden raisins. Flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, egg, vanilla, rolled oats, and raisins make the dough. A small cookie scoop helps keep the portions even. Serve these with milk, pack them for snacks, or add them to a mixed cookie plate.
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Crumbl Copycat Pink Velvet Cookies
Ready in 42 minutes and making 18 cookies, Crumbl Copycat Pink Velvet Cookies bring a bright frosted option to the baking day. Butter, sugar, eggs, cake batter flavoring, flour, baking powder, and pink food coloring make the cookie base. Cream cheese, butter, vanilla, powdered sugar, and milk make the frosting. Kids can help shape the dough discs and sprinkle cookie crumbs over the frosted tops.
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Chocolate Caramel Cookies
Ready in 27 minutes and making 10 cookies, Chocolate Caramel Cookies add frosting, caramel, and toffee bits to a chocolate cookie base. Flour, baking soda, cocoa, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and chocolate chips make the cookies. Chocolate frosting, soft caramels, heavy cream, and Skor bits finish the top. Kids can help sprinkle the toffee bits after an adult melts and drizzles the caramel.
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Copycat Crumble Coconut Lime Cookies
Ready in 40 minutes and making 16 servings, Copycat Crumble Coconut Lime Cookies bring citrus and frosting to a bakery-style cookie. Butter, sugar, powdered sugar, oil, egg, lime juice, coconut extract, flour, salt, and baking powder make the dough. Butter, powdered sugar, lime juice, and lime zest make the frosting. Kids can help flatten the dough balls and sprinkle extra lime zest once the cookies are frosted.
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Salted Dark Chocolate Cookies
With 15 minutes of prep and 12 minutes of baking, Salted Dark Chocolate Cookies make 30 cookies. Flour, Dutch-processed cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, flaked sea salt, dark brown sugar, white sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, and chopped dark chocolate build the dough. The flaked salt goes on before baking, giving each cookie a small salty finish. Serve with milk, coffee, or a chocolate-heavy cookie tray.
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Crumbl Copycat Churro Cookies
Ready in 32 minutes and making 12 cookies, Crumbl Copycat Churro Cookies bring cinnamon sugar and frosting into one bakery-style cookie. Butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking powder, and cinnamon make the dough. The cookies are rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Butter, cinnamon, powdered sugar, milk, and salt make the frosting. Kids can help roll the dough in cinnamon sugar and add the final sprinkle.
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Chocolate Linzer Cookies
Ready in 40 minutes and making 36 servings, Chocolate Linzer Cookies turn cutout cookies into a sandwich-style treat. Butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, espresso powder, salt, and baking powder make the chocolate cookie base. Butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla make the filling. Kids can help cut the rounds and centers, then dust the assembled cookies with powdered sugar before serving.
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Copycat Crumbl Key Lime Cookies
With a 2-hour 44-minute total time and 10 cookies, Copycat Crumbl Key Lime Cookies bring a chilled citrus filling into a graham cracker-style cookie. Butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, crushed graham crackers, salt, baking soda, and baking powder make the base. Cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice, and lime zest make the filling. Kids can help roll the dough in graham crumbs.
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Easy Peanut Butter & Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
Ready in 27 minutes and making 24 cookies, Easy Peanut Butter & Jelly Thumbprint Cookies bring a lunchbox flavor into cookie form. Peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, baking soda, salt, and strawberry jam make the dough and filling. Kids can help press the center wells and spoon in the jam. Serve these for after-school snacks, parties, or a weekend baking tray.
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Copycat Crumbl Cookies and Cream Milkshake Cookies
Ready in 30 minutes and making 18 cookies, Copycat Crumbl Cookies and Cream Milkshake Cookies use Oreos in the dough and frosting. Butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, and crushed Oreos make the cookie base. Butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, milk or cream, and more crushed Oreos make the frosting. Kids can help crush the Oreos and top each cookie with a mini Oreo.
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Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
Ready in 40 minutes and making 36 cookies, Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies bring lemon zest and poppy seeds into a small, bright cookie. Flour, baking soda, lemon zest, poppy seeds, butter, sugar, egg yolks, a whole egg, and lemon oil or extract make the dough. The cookies bake at a lower temperature until the edges are lightly golden. Serve with milk, iced tea, fruit, or a spring dessert tray.
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Copycat Crumbl Twix Cookies
Ready in 32 minutes and making 11 servings, Copycat Crumbl Twix Cookies bring caramel and chocolate to a thick cookie base. Butter, sugar, brown sugar, oil, egg, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, cornstarch, and toffee pieces make the dough. Caramel candies, heavy cream, and melted chocolate make the topping. Kids can help flatten the dough discs and spread the cooled toppings with supervision.
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Sweet Potato Cookies
Ready in 31 minutes and making 24 cookies, Sweet Potato Cookies bring mashed sweet potato, pecans, and maple glaze into one soft cookie. Flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, salt, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, sweet potato, egg, vanilla, and toasted pecans make the dough. Powdered sugar, maple syrup, milk, more pecans, and maple sugar finish the glaze. Serve after dinner or on a fall cookie tray.
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Copycat Crumbl Dark Dream Cookies
Ready in 22 minutes and making 12 servings, Copycat Crumbl Dark Dream Cookies bring cocoa powder and chocolate chips into a thick chocolate cookie. Butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and semi-sweet chocolate chips make the dough. Extra chocolate chips are pressed on top before baking. Kids can help scoop the dough and add the final chocolate chips.
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