Softened unsalted butter, light brown sugar, vanilla, and a few other essential baking ingredients come together to create the perfect soft and chewy brown sugar cookie dough. By experimenting with additional ingredients or toppings, you can transform this simple dough into an endless variety of flavors and textures. Whether you’re baking up a storm for the holidays, crafting a colorful cookie platter for your next party, or simply indulging your sweet tooth, this cookie dough is your new best friend. Below, you’ll find some of our favorite flavor combinations, each offering a delicious and exciting new twist to the classic cookie recipe.
Several months ago, I wrote about how everyone should have a few go-to basic cookie recipes. Simple recipes that you can easily add sprinkles, candy, nuts, chocolate, dry cereal, oats, or dried fruit; either on top of the cookies or mixed in. So that each time you make a new batch, you can switch things up. The first recipe below, for Simple Brown Sugar Cookies (Soft & Chewy), is one of those recipes. It’s a non-fussy, straightforward, easy-to-make recipe, made with simple ingredients, resulting in cookies that are soft, chewy, and full of sweet brown sugar flavor.
After the first cookie recipe pictured below, which is the original recipe, you’ll find some of our favorite other cookie recipes, which use the same basic cookie dough as a base. For those of you who don’t always have every ingredient on hand to make a specific recipe, a cookie recipe like this one can be a real lifesaver. As long as you have the basic ingredients listed above, you can pick and choose other items from your pantry to switch things up each time you’re in the mood to bake a batch of cookies. This is definitely one of those cookie recipes you’re going to want to keep on hand.
Simple Brown Sugar Cookies (Soft & Chewy)
Looking for a simple non-fussy cookie recipe that uses basic ingredients you already have on hand in your pantry? Look no further than this soft and chewy simple brown sugar cookie recipe. The brown sugar adds a sweet flavor and a soft, chewy texture to these cookies, and a final sprinkle of demerara sugar before baking gives them a delightful crunchy topping.
Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Fresh Mint
Imagine soft, chewy brown sugar cookies, bursting with the refreshing taste of fresh mint. Now, add in just the right amount of roughly chopped rich chocolate chunks. These chocolate chunk cookies with fresh mint are the epitome of summer’s sweet indulgence, offering a cool and minty twist on the classic brown sugar cookie. If your backyard garden or porch planters are overflowing with fresh mint, or you just so happen to stumble upon gorgeous fresh mint at your local market or grocery store, these cookies are a must-bake.
Summertime Cookies with Peanut Butter M&M’s
Picture this, a soft and chewy brown sugar cookie, infused with the irresistible crunch of chunky salted cocktail peanuts and the colorful sweet burst of Peanut Butter M&M’s. But wait, there’s more. These cookies are just as colorful, festive, and enticing as they are delicious. With the addition of colorful summertime sprinkles, these attractively irresistible cookies are destined to become a real crowd-pleaser, whether served at your next barbecue, picnic, or summer vacation pool party.
X’s & O’s (Hugs & Kisses) Brown Sugar Cookies
Nothing quite compares to the warmth of a hug or the sweetness of a kiss, and with these X’s & O’s Brown Sugar Cookies, you won’t have to choose between the two. These cookies are topped with Hershey’s Hugs and infused with the rich, melty goodness of roughly chopped Milk Chocolate Hershey’s Kisses. The unexpected addition of Grape Nuts cereal gives these buttery, crunchy, and chocolatey hugs and kisses cookies a delightful twist that makes them almost impossible not to fall head over heels in love with.
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