Best Milk Street Cookie Recipes of 2025

Date-Stuffed Semolina Cookies (Ma'amoul)

A combination of semolina and all-purpose flours gave the shortbread crust a rich, crumbly texture and complex flavor. Chilled butter prevented the dough from getting overly sticky, but if your kitchen is particularly warm and the dough is soft and sh

Chewy Molasses Spice Cookies with Browned Butter Icing

These generously sized cookies are soft and cake-like. Spiced with cinnamon and ground ginger and made with just 4 tablespoons of butter, their flavor is mostly about the bittersweet, subtly smoky notes of molasses. Use either mild or “robust” (or “fu

By Rose HattabaughOctober 16, 2019

Catalan Biscotti

These simple, rustic cookies are our spin on carquinyolis, or Catalonian biscotti. Traditionally, the dough is baked in slightly flattened logs, then the logs are sliced and the slices are baked again until dry and crunchy. We, however, opted to bake

Gingerbread Pepper Cookies

A new world of holiday cookies

By Jenn LaddOctober 16, 2017

Triple-Chocolate Almond Cookies

This chewy, rich chocolate cookie uses an unorthodox one-bowl mixing method that is easy and cuts down on cleanup. The almond butter keeps these cookies moist, fudgy and almost brownie-like. We liked them with sliced almonds pressed onto the tops, but

Brown Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies deliver big flavor because the key ingredients get special attention. We toast both the oats and pecans to coax out their nuttiness, then grind the oats in a food processor so the finished cookies have a more refined texture than your st

By Hisham Ali HassanAugust 12, 2024

Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies

Rye flour—an addition we learned from Claire Ptak—makes for a far more complex, robustly flavored chocolate chip cookie.

Peanut Butter-Miso Cookies

Based on Falco Bakery’s wildly popular creation, this classic cookie gets a savory upgrade with white miso.

By Diane UngerJune 8, 2020

Tahini and Browned Butter Cookies

These sweet and nutty cookies are proof that chocolate can make anything better, even from a rich and luscious starting point!

By Rose HattabaughNovember 16, 2022

Chocolate Meringue Cookies

Whipped egg whites keep an extra-chocolatey cookie tasting light

By Albert StummApril 8, 2019

Chinese Almond Cookies

These golden-hued cookies, meant to resemble coins, are believed to be a Chinese-American invention inspired by traditional Chinese walnut cookies called hup toh soh. The almond cookies sold in bakeries typically have a sturdy crispness throughout yet

By Rose HattabaughAugust 16, 2024

Belgian Spice Cookies

Butter, brown sugar and spices transform shortbread

By Albert StummOctober 17, 2019

Rosemary-Pine Nut Cookies

This cookie is sweet enough to be a treat but pairs as well with Parmesan as it does milk. Our inspiration was a hazelnut-rosemary biscotti by Claudia Fleming, the former pastry chef of New York’s Gramercy Tavern. We chose to reimagine Fleming’s bisco

Dried Cherry-Chocolate Chunk Cookies

The microwave offers an unlikely solution to a better chocolate cookie

By Shaula ClarkDecember 19, 2019

Corn and Cinnamon Butter Cookies (Galletas de Maíz)

These buttery cookies, with the warm, sweet fragrance and flavor of cinnamon and the subtly nutty notes of ground corn, are food writer and recipe developer Paola Briseño-González’ re-creation of the galletas de maíz (corn cookies) from a home bakery

By Rose HattabaughSeptember 12, 2023

Turkish Crescent Cookies with Spiced Walnut Filling

Rustic yet refined, these crescents are a perfect not-too-sweet treat with a cup of tea or coffee.

By Rose HattabaughDecember 6, 2022

Turkish Date-Filled Semolina Cookies

During a recent visit to Türkiye, we became fans of kömbe, buttery, pastry-like cookies made with spices and semolina, filled with nuts or dates and imprinted with delicate patterns or designs. Similar to Middle Eastern ma’amoul, kömbe are a specialty

By Rose HattabaughFebruary 1, 2024

Ugly but Good Cookies (Brutti ma Buoni)

They may not look like much, but they’ve got it where it counts. That’s brutti ma buoni, a satisfyingly chewy, nut-centric Tuscan cookie that translates as “ugly but good.” The folks at Antonio Mattei Premiata Fabrica di Biscotti in Tuscany say they w

By Rose HattabaughMarch 27, 2025

Chocolate-Almond Spice Cookies

From Switzerland, an easier, chewier chocolate cookie.

By Albert StummOctober 8, 2018

Double Sesame and Almond Cookies

We’re taking tahini beyond the hummus tub and into the cookie jar. The sesame paste adds savory, nutty richness to these cookies, which get a second dose of sesame from a coating of the seeds. Be sure to use raw seeds; already roasted seeds can turn b

By Erika BruceMarch 26, 2025

Venetian Cornmeal and Currant Cookies (Zaletti)

Zaletti are buttery, crisp Italian cornmeal cookies studded with raisins or currants. The dried fruit usually is first plumped in grappa, a fiery Italian brandy, but we opted instead to use orange liqueur for its more nuanced flavor. We then upped the

By Julie RackowOctober 16, 2018

Spiced Citrus-Plum Linzer Cookies

Plum jam filling and toasted hazelnuts give these special cookies a little something extra. OR We boost the sweet-tartness of plum jam in Austrian Linzer cookies with citrus, hazelnuts, and spice.

Polish Gingerbread Cookies with Honey and Rye (Pierniki)

Peppery and honeyed pierniki, Poland’s celebrated gingerbread. OR To decorate, roll the dough balls in turbinado sugar before baking to create a pretty, crackled appearance. Or you can drizzle the baked and cooled cookies with an espresso glaze.