17 Cookie Exchange Recipes You Haven’t Seen a Billion Times

Put a new spin on an old classic by adding big chunks of sea salt to your chocolate chip cookies. Heidi Larsen shared Milk Bar’s recipe for the famed treats with us.

Jesse Reilly puts her own spin on blackout cookies with a recipe that includes bittersweet chocolate chunks, cocoa powder and caramelized white chocolate.

Why did we never think to add our favorite sugary cereal to cookies? These are definitely what’s in those pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Chunks of Oreo and peppermint candy adorn these pudding-based cookies from Maria Lichty.

Not technically a cookie, per se, but who can say no to cookie dough...as a dip?

Ice cream lovers, rejoice: You can make these chocolate cookies in just 30 minutes (and top them with rocky road ice cream, of course).

There’s no need to buy a premade gift basket just for the can of Pirouettes. Stefani Pollack gives us the perfect at-home recipe for the cylindrical cookies, including a tasty Nutella filling.

What’s better than a doughnut and a cookie? A doughnut cookie. It’s got all the cinnamon-sugar flavors and sprinkle-topped icing without that whole fried-in-a-vat-of-oil thing.

We love whipping up a quick batch of wedding cookies—the powdered sugar is everything. If that’s your jam too, try Jane Ko’s chai tea version.

Don’t judge a cookie by its “cover.” These may look like ordinary pumpkin cookies, but the creamy cheesecake filling is anything but.

Why do these sesame shortbread cookies taste so amazing? Jodi Moreno will tell you it’s because she added umami with two tablespoons of sweet white miso.

Saffron adds color and pizzazz to Carlene Thomas’s s’mores-inspired cookies made from whole-wheat flour and anise extract.

Green is the color of the season. Use matcha to add a festive hue to classic cranberry linzer cookies.

Not all cookies are best served warm. Case in point: These Girl Scout-inspired Samoa cookie sandwiches filled with vanilla ice cream.

As long as kids aren’t involved, pass around Gaby Dalkin’s Kahlúa-infused chocolate-chip cookies.

Classic thumbprints made with jam are nothing new, but using cheesecake as a filling? That’ll surprise the cookie exchangers.

If a pumpkin-flavored cinnamon roll married a cookie, that would mean we could eat it for breakfast, right?