Cookie Recipes for Kids

By Southern Living

From chocolate chip to peanut butter cookies, these cookie recipes for kids are a treat to make and even more fun to eat!

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Fun Cookie Recipes for Kids

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Buffy Hargett; Food Styling: Rebecca Kracke Gordon

Recipe: Flourless Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Cookies

Get the little ones in the kitchen to bake up our cookie recipes for kids! They'll enjoy helping mix the batter and putting the finishing touch on each of these sweet treats. The best part will surely be the fun memories you'll share.

These flourless kid-friendly cookies are a dream, especially with the perfect pairing of peanut butter and chocolate. Your kids will enjoy them as an after-school snack or for a weeknight dessert served with a cold glass of milk.

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Cherry-Chocolate Thumbprints

Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Heather Chadduck

Recipe: Cherry-Chocolate Thumbprints

These cookies feature the irresistible flavor combination of cherry and chocolate. Kids can help by pressing their thumbs into each ball of dough before baking.

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Candy Bar-Peanut Butter Cookies

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Buffy Hargett; Food Styling: Rebecca Kracke Gordon

Recipe: Candy Bar-Peanut Butter Cookies

Tweak the recipe by using your child's favorite candy bar. These cookies will be sure-to-please treats.

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Snickerdoodles

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Buffy Hargett; Food Styling: Rebecca Kracke Gordon

Recipe: Snickerdoodles

Kids will enjoy rolling the balls of dough in the sugar mixture. They will also enjoy devouring these sweet treats.

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Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Photo: Jennifer Davick

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

How do you sneak gooey melted goodness into every oat-filled bite without the extra fat? Replace half the butter with an extra bar of chocolate. The kiddos won't know the difference.

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Blackberry Thumbprints

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas; Styling: Buffy Hargett; Food Styling: Rebecca Kracke Gordon

Recipe: Blackberry Thumbprints

Kids can help pipe preserves into the indentations for the perfect finishing touch.

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Swoon Pies

Photo: Jennifer Davick

Recipe: Swoon Pies

Our twist on MoonPies has tender graham cookies dipped in chocolate and a few special toppings. Kids will love these handheld treats.

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Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies

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Recipe: Easiest Peanut Butter Cookies

Invite your pint-size bakers into the kitchen to help you with this easy treat.

 

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Sweetheart Sugar Cookies

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Sweetheart Sugar Cookies

Show your love year-round with these cute cookies. Slip one in a child's lunchbox for a sweet and unexpected treat.

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All-Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: All-Time Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

If chocolate chip cookies are your little one's favorite, this recipe will be requested often.

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Frosted Sugar-’n’-Spice Cookies

Photo: Jennifer Davick; Styling: Lisa Powell Bailey

Recipe: Frosted Sugar-’n’-Spice Cookies

Get your kids to help you decorate these warm spice-filled cookies with their favorite color of sprinkles.

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Classic Sugar Cookies

Photo: Oxmoor House

Recipe: Classic Sugar Cookies

Allow your kids to cut this dough into a variety of their favorite shapes. The dippable Glaze will transform the cookies into works of art almost too pretty to eat.

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Peanut Blossom Cookies

Recipe: Peanut Blossom Cookies

These six-ingredient cookies, ready for the oven in 10 minutes, are a quick and fun treat to make with kids.

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