These oatmeal cookie bars are soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate chips! They taste just like your favorite cookie, minus the hassle of chilling or rolling out the dough.

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The name says it all! Lemon meltaways are so soft that they practically melt in your mouth when you bite into them. The cookies are topped with a zingy lemon glaze that brings the whole recipe together.

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Classic chocolate chip cookies are made softer and even more decadent with the addition of cream cheese! Make these cream cheese chocolate chip cookies for your next cookie swap, potluck, or the next time a cookie craving hits.

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Take your chocolate cookies up a notch with an easy mint chocolate icing spread all over the top. These Andes mint cookies are incredibly easy to make and perfect for mint chocolate lovers!

Soft, chewy, and full of mint chocolate flavor, these Andes mint cookies are such a fun treat for St. Patrick’s Day!

They start out with an easy chocolate cookie dough that’s chilled, then scooped, and baked. As soon as they come out of the oven, an Andes mint is placed on top to melt, then spread over the warm cookies.

The end result is a delicious and impressive treat that’s incredibly easy to throw together. If you love mint chocolate as much as I do, you won’t regret making a batch of these cookies!

Ingredient Notes

The base of these cookies is actually adapted from my double chocolate chip cookies, but scaled up and adjusted to make them thicker.

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Classic peanut butter cookies are made even better with the addition of chocolate! The chocolate peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy, and easy to make. No dough chilling required!

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These bakery style chocolate chip cookies are super thick, soft, and delicious! They’re incredibly easy to make too – no mixer required!

Over the last 10 years I’ve shared a lot of chocolate chip cookie recipes, like chocolate chip pudding cookies, eggless chocolate chip cookies, and brown butter cookies too.

Today’s recipe is probably one of my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes to date though. These cookies are super thick (each one is 1/3 cup of cookie dough!), incredibly soft, and full of melted chocolate chips in every single bite.

After multiple rounds of recipe testing, I can confidently say these cookies are better than anything you could ever buy at a bakery or cookie store. An added bonus – you don’t even need a mixer to make them!

What You Will Need

This cookie recipe is based off of my classic chocolate chip cookies, but with a few modifications to get them thicker, softer, and chewier:

• Flour: In my recipe testing I found that a mix of all-purpose flour and cake flour was the best combination.

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Chocolate sugar cookies are a unique take on the classic cookie. They're soft, chewy, and can be decorated to suit any holiday!

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Soft and chewy chocolate peppermint cookies are dipped in white chocolate and sprinkled with crushed candy canes for an extra festive presentation. The cookie dough is also flavored with peppermint extract for twice the peppermint flavor!

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Haystack cookies are an easy no-bake treat that require just three ingredients! Top them with any color of sprinkles you like to suit any season or holiday.

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Classic snickerdoodles are made even better with the addition of browned butter. Brown butter snickerdoodles are soft and chewy in texture, with a nuanced flavor that will have you reaching for a second cookie!

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