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    Drop Cookie Recipes

    Drop cookies are scooped with a cookie scoop (also called a disher) and the scoops are "dropped" onto a sheet pan before baking, thus the name. The dough may be chilled for some recipes, but not always. These thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies don't require refrigeration, for example.

    Learn how to make the best drop cookies with these easy recipes, from the best chocolate chip cookies with pecans to mincemeat cookies.

    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat Cookies
    • A glass of milk served with apple butter, cranberry, white chocolate chip cookies.
      Fall Cookies With Cranberries, White Chocolate And Apple Butter
    • Blueberry oatmeal cookies with white chocolate and golden brown edges, freshly baked on a parchment paper-lined sheet pan.
      Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies with White Chocolate
    • Image filled with homemade chocolate chip cookies made with different flours, including whole wheat flour, buckwheat flour, oat flour, and even corn flour (producing yellower cookies)
      The Science of Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • A plate of freshly-baked homemade snickerdoodles transferred from the cookie sheet with a spatula.
      Snickerdoodle Cookies
    • Transferring baked banana oatmeal cookies to a plate to serve them.
      Banana Oatmeal Cookies
    • A black plate with 5 big peanut butter white chocolate chip cookies.
      Peanut Butter White Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • A plate of lemon poppy seed sugar cookies.
      Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
    • Transferring oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to a plate.
      Thick Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Peanuts
    • Plates of oatmeal raisin cookies served with milk.
      Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
    • White chocolate macadamia cookies on a cooling rack.
      White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies
    • Freshly baked spelt chocolate chip cookies on a sheet pan with a glass of milk.
      Spelt Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Chocolate chip cookies with pecans cooled on a rack being served on black plates with glasses of milk.
      Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
    • A plate of chocolate chocolate chip cookies with a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Freshly baked ginger cookies on a cooling rack.
      Ginger Cookies with Molasses
    • Thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies on parchment paper.
      The best chocolate chip cookie recipe
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate
    • A pan of chocolate spice cookies topped with cinnamon sugar.
      Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies
    • Plates of oatmeal raisin cookies.
      Crispy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
    • A plate of peanut butter cookies.
      Classic Peanut Butter Cookies with Natural Peanut Butter
    • Sprinkle sugar cookies on a cooling rack and on pink plates, served with glasses of milk.
      Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
    • Maple cookies cooling on a sheet pan.
      Maple Sugar Cookies
    • A blue plate of flourless peanut butter cookies.
      Best Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies (gluten-free)
    • Chocolate drop cookies with coffee frosting
    • A plate of apple oatmeal cookies served with milk.
      Apple Oatmeal Cookies
    • Mini Eggs cookies cooling on a wire rack.
      Easy Mini Eggs Cookies
    • Compost cookies made with potato chips, chocolate chips and graham cracker
      Momofuku Milk Bar compost cookies
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    Bake With Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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