Food Desserts & Baking Our Favorite Fall Cookie Recipes By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on August 8, 2023 Trending Videos Whether you make them for an afternoon snack or a weekend tailgating party, these 20 cookie recipes will bring autumn's scents and flavors into your home. 01 of 20 Caramel Apple Cookies Chopped apple, pecans, apple juice, apple pie spice and more combine for a hearty, delicious cookie. The frosting and nuts add just the right touch of sweetness and crunch on top. The Midwest's Best Cookie Recipes View Recipe 02 of 20 CCCC Cookies Carson Downing In the Middle East, cardamom often flavors coffee. Here, that duo teams up with cloves and chocolate shards in a bakehouse-style cookie with cozy chai vibes. (Trust us: The extra step of melting chocolate, spreading it out and breaking it into shards, rather than use chips, is worth it for a totally elevated cookie.) View Recipe 03 of 20 Mood-Booster Cookies Brie Passano Gray fall afternoon, as the season slowly slides toward winter? Slip yourself one of these insanely rich morsels, which fall somewhere between a truffle and a cookie. Decadent Chocolate Dessert Recipes View Recipe 04 of 20 Miss Rosa Lee's Oatmeal Cookies Andy Lyons Nothing fancy here; this is the perfectly chewy lunchbox classic, pebbled with walnuts and plump raisins. A combination of vegetable oil and butter ensures a chewy texture and rich flavor. This recipe comes from Patty Pinner's cookbook Sweets. Easy Drop Cookies for No-Fuss Sweets View Recipe 05 of 20 Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies Courtesy of Stephanie Simmons Fall means back-to-school, and that means peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...right? These easy, nostalgic-tasting cookies are a favorite of Stephanie Simmons, the Wisconsin blogger behind Blue Bowl Recipes and author of the cookbook, The One-Bowl Baker. Use your favorite preserves—Stephanie likes raspberry. View Recipe 06 of 20 Rene's Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies 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. View Recipe 07 of 20 Jumbo Cherry Chocolate-Oat Cookies Brie Passano These huge cookies (5 inches in diameter!) will satisfy any fall cookie cravings. But if you want smaller ones, use a 1/3-cup measure to portion the dough for 15 or 16 cookies. View Recipe 08 of 20 Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Mix pumpkin and chocolate and you have...fall! These cookies make a great after-school treat or any-time snack. Pumpkin Recipes We Absolutely Love View Recipe 09 of 20 Molasses Cookies Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside: This spice cookie has it all. Trust us, it will fill your house with all the fall scents while it's cooking. View Recipe 10 of 20 Avalon's Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies Avalon International Breads in Detroit sells these delicious drop cookies. View Recipe 11 of 20 S'more Cookies Fall is camping season, and camping means making s'mores. Recreate those autumn vibes at home with this cookie; cinnamon, brown sugar, oats and finely crushed grahams cradle a thumbprint filling of marshmallow creme and an upside-down milk chocolate candy. View Recipe 12 of 20 Peanut Butter Apple Cookies 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. View Recipe 13 of 20 Chocolate-Cranberry Biscotti Whether your autumn brew is coffee or tea or just a glass of milk, take a break with a tempting homemade biscotti. View Recipe 14 of 20 Quadruple Ginger Cookies To make ginger juice, Patty Erd of the Spice House in Evanston, Illinois, squishes coarsely chopped fresh ginger in a clean garlic press. View Recipe 15 of 20 Crisp Cherry-Almond Bars with Marshmallows Dried fruit and crunchy almonds bring antioxidants and omega-3s to these bars made from two kinds of rice cereal—regular and chocolate flavored—in our version of marshmallow-cereal bars. View Recipe 16 of 20 Spiced Apple Drops An apple a day tastes even better in cookie form, especially with frosting on top! View Recipe 17 of 20 Anita's Cranberry Scones Coarsely chopped cranberries spread the sweet-tart flavor throughout this tender scone, a winner at the Warrens Cranberry Festival fall recipe competition. A sweet almond frosting complements the berries. View Recipe 18 of 20 Fat Molasses Cookies Packed with flavor from molasses, ginger, cinnamon and brown sugar, these cookies look especially nice when cut with a scalloped or round cutter and sprinkled with coarse sugar or crystallized ginger. View Recipe 19 of 20 Lindsay's Chocolate Cafe Chocolate Chip Cookies 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!" View Recipe 20 of 20 Peanut Butter Munchies A Hanover, Kansas, reader sent the recipe for these chocolate cookies with peanut butter centers to a Midwest Living cookie contest. A judge described them as "regally rich chocolate with a peanut butter kick." View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit