Easy Drop Cookies

By The editors of MidwestLiving.com
Updated October 07, 2020

We love drop cookies for a no-fuss baked treat. Our recipes include chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, coconut cookies, oatmeal cookies and more.

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Triple-Flavored Big-Batch Cookies

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Chocolate chips, peanut butter and oatmeal pack these cookies from a Door County, Wisconsin, bed-and-breakfast. Because this recipe makes so many cookies, you might want to freeze some dough for future use.

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Mocha Munchies

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These cookies get their delicious flavor from a blend of coffee-covered espresso beans, coffee liqueur, pecans and vanilla.

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Salty Caramel and Pecan Oatmeal Cookies

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These cookies come with a friendly warning: Chewy caramel, toasted pecans and a flurry of sea salt will make you popular. Very popular. A product called caramel bits gives these cookies great flavor and chewy texture. Some supermarkets carry them, and they're widely available online. (Search for Kraft Caramel Bits.) Take care to follow recipe directions when baking: caramel bits melt quickly.

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Hazelnut-Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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We loaded these crisp and chewy chocolate chip cookies with white and chocolate chips along with toasted hazelnuts.

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Loaded Oatmeal Cookies

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Flax seed meal, wheat germ, dark chocolate and dried cranberries bring a healthy touch to this drop cookie recipe.

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Spiced Apple Drops

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An apple a day tastes even better in cookie form, especially with frosting on top!

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Our Own Dream Cookies

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It's not easy satisfying everyone, but this cookie from the Midwest Living® Test Kitchen tries to meet the challenge! It's packed with oatmeal, chocolate, peanut butter and nuts.

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Kansas Sunflower Cookies

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Seeds from the Sunflower State (along with rolled oats and shredded coconut) star in this crunchy favorite.

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Avalon's Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies

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Avalon International Breads in Detroit sells these drop cookies. 

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Dream Jumbles

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Chocolate, raisins, pecans, almonds, brown sugar-this recipe has it all, in an easy drop cookie. They are a dream to eat as well as to make.

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Mrs. Truman's Coconut Cookies

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Here's our version of Bess Truman's coconut cookie recipe from the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. We added the fruit.

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Lindsay's Chocolate Cafe Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This cookie, from the former Lindsay's Chocolate Cafe and Coffee House in O'Fallon, Missouri, wowed us with its flavor-packed lineup of ingredients. "These are the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever had! " says one of our website reviewers. "These are wonderful with a glass of cold milk while the cookie is still warm!"

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Double Chocolate-Cherry Cookies

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Carol Schneider of Wausau, Wisconsin, brought home a blue ribbon when she entered these cookies at the Wisconsin State Fair. The recipe combines white and semisweet chocolate with dried cherries and walnuts.

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Awesome Chocolate-Peanut Blowout Cookies

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What makes these cookies so awesome? "Special ingredients," says the Marion, Ohio, reader who contributed the recipe, which includes chocolate and peanut butter. "I like them because they're decadent yet so easy to make."

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Marjorie's Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Marjorie Johnson of Robbinsdale, Minnesota, won one of her 2,500 state fair ribbons with this recipe. It's also part of her cookbook, The Road to Blue Ribbon Baking.

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Peanut Butter Apple Cookies

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Looking for a healthier cookie? Shredded apple, whole wheat flour, canola oil and wheat germ reduce saturated fat and add whole grains and flavor to peanut butter cookies.

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Ranger Cookies

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Filled with flaked coconut and dried fruit, these cookies can be ready in just over 30 minutes. 

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Espresso-Nut Drop Cookies

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Instant espresso coffee powder and toasted hazelnuts add great flavor punch to these drop cookies.

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Krista's Kitchen Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies

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These big cookies-loaded with chocolate chips and nuts-were a customer favorite at the former Krista's Kitchen Bakery/Cafe in Portage, Wisconsin. The cookie bakes crisp on the outside, cakey inside.

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Double Dark Chocolate Cookies

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Chunks of bittersweet chocolate dot this rich chocolate drop cookie. 

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Oatmeal-Cherry Cookies

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Dried cherries make oatmeal cookies even more memorable in this recipe from American Spoon Foods, which has locations in the Traverse City, Michigan, area. We like the cookies' crisp edges and chewy centers.

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Rene's Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Coconut adds chewiness to this full-of-chips cookie. The recipe is from Rene's Bakery in Indianapolis, one of the most popular Indy bakeries.

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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies

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These cakelike pumpkin drop cookies are delicious by themselves, but even better topped with a simple brown sugar frosting.

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By The editors of MidwestLiving.com