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18 delicious fall cookie recipes

18 Delicious Fall Cookie Recipes

By Jenna Barnard

Fall is the ultimate baking season, and nothing says fall quite like a freshly baked batch of cookies filled with cozy spices and rich, comforting flavors! Whether you're looking for a chewy pumpkin cookie, the best snickerdoodles, or a classic brown butter chocolate chip cookie, you'll want to bake all 18 of these fall cookies…

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Fall is the ultimate baking season, and nothing says fall quite like a freshly baked batch of cookies filled with cozy spices and rich, comforting flavors! Whether you’re looking for a chewy pumpkin cookie, the best snickerdoodles, or a classic brown butter chocolate chip cookie, you’ll want to bake all 18 of these fall cookies before the season ends!



Brown Butter & Maple Chewy Pumpkin Cookies

Baked with loads of brown butter, warm spices, and pure pumpkin, these pumpkin cookies are bursting with flavor. They’re the the ultimate warm and cozy cookies!

4.9/5 from 257 ratings

Spiced Maple Butter Cookies

These maple cookies so irresistible! The cookies are swirled with a spiced maple butter and topped with maple icing. They’re perfectly soft and buttery in the middle with wrinkly chewy edges!

5/5 from 22 ratings

Turtle Cookies

Slice and bake shortbread cookie dough is topped with pecan halves before baking. Then, each cookie is topped with a dollop of homemade soft caramel and a swirl of melted chocolate!

4.5/5 from 2 ratings

Chewy Spice Cookies

These chewy spice cookies are so easy to make and bursting with flavor, baked with warm spices and rich molasses. These are the perfect fall cookies and guaranteed to be an absolute crowd pleaser! 

5/5 from 83 ratings

Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies

These Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies are the PERFECT fall dessert. Soft pumpkin cookie surrounds a silky cream cheese filling! It’s a pumpkin cheesecake/cookie hybrid that is unlike any other pumpkin cookie!

5/5 from 17 ratings



Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

These ooey gooey chocolate chip cookies are baked with savory pecans, rich dark chocolate, and nutty brown butter. The outside is golden and crispy and the inside remains soft and melty. They’re the perfect fall chocolate chip cookie!

5/5 from 60 ratings

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

This isn’t just any chocolate chip cookie recipe, because these cookies are baked with brown butter. These easy, chewy Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are an elevated version of a classic. They have a richer flavor, texture, and taste gourmet. You won’t make chocolate chip cookies the same way again!

5/5 from 34 ratings

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are rich and gooey with melty chocolate chips and a hint of pumpkin spice! These cookies have all the cozy vibes needed for a delicious fall cookie recipe.

4.9/5 from 36 ratings

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies have been a favorite for years! With a chewy edge, gooey center, chocolate, caramel, and sea salt, EVERYONE loves them!

5/5 from 8 ratings

Salted Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are crispy on the outside, gooey and chewy on the inside, and loaded with butterscotch and chocolate chips. Pecans and flaky sea salt are added to balance out the sweetness, making them SO GOOD!

4.9/5 from 93 ratings



Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies

These are the ultimate oatmeal cookies made with brown butter! It adds so much rich flavor and once paired with extra salt and a touch of cinnamon, these cookies taste completely gourmet. These cookies went through 15 rounds of testing, so you know that these are the absolute best oatmeal cookies!  

4.8/5 from 57 ratings

Toasted Milk Chocolate Cowboy Cookies

Traditional to cowboy cookies, these contain oats, coconut, pecans, and chocolate chips. However, we’re intensifying the flavor by toasting the coconut and pecans and mixing in milk chocolate and toffee bits! It may sound like a lot, but this medley of flavors is pure bliss.

5/5 from 3 ratings

Iced Apple Oatmeal Cookies

These apple cookies are inspired by a classic iced oatmeal cookie! Baked with tender honeycrisp apple pieces, these cookies contain warm spices, oats, and a kiss of icing on top. They’re also anything but cakey! These apple cookies are perfectly soft and chewy. Everyone will love them! 

5/5 from 12 ratings

Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

I will never turn down an oatmeal raisin cookie, especially one that’s perfectly chewy with just the right amount of raisins. These oatmeal raisin cookies check all the boxes as they’re full of flavor, easy to make, and incorporate a few baker-secrets to take these to the next level. You’re going to absolutely love these classic oatmeal raisin cookies!

4.9/5 from 16 ratings

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the most delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! They’re packed with flavor, using brown butter, toasted walnuts, and a hint of cinnamon and molasses. They bake with caramelized edges and a soft center filled with melty chocolate chips. 

5/5 from 18 ratings



Slice and Bake Ghost Cookies

These ghost cookies are made from buttery shortbread slice and bake dough that’s then tossed in sugar and decorated with spooky melted chocolate ghost faces. It’s the perfect Halloween cookie!

4.4/5 from 5 ratings

Frosted Halloween Sugar Cookies

These Halloween sugar cookies are made with a soft sugar cookie dough shaped into three adorable creatures. Topped with sweet buttercream, these Halloween cookies are brought to life with colorful decorations!

5/5 from 4 ratings

Leftover Halloween Candy Cookie Bars

When you buy way more Halloween candy than you needed, make these leftover Halloween candy cookie bars! They’re soft, chewy, and loaded with candy chopped candy bits. Pile more candy on top to REALLY load them up. You can never have too much candy!

4.9/5 from 7 ratings


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