1. About.com
  2. Food & Drink
  3. Southern Food

Butter Cookies - Butter Cookie Recipes

Butter cookies, including recipes for spritz cookies, butter pecan cookies, butter refrigerator cookies, and shortbread cookies.

Wedding Cookies

These delicious little butter cookies are made with powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla. They're tasty, and so easy to mix and bake!

Snickerdoodles

These all butter snickerdoodles are the perfect cookies for a Christmas or holiday party or gathering. In this recipe, the cookies are coated with an egg wash before dipping them in the cinnamon sugar, making an yummy, slightly crusty exterior. Try this version of snickerdoodles!

Brown Sugar Cut-Out Cookies

Brown sugar cookies are rolled then cut in decorative shapes. Decorate these brown sugar cookies with icing, if desired.

Cream Cheese Cookies With Caramel Topping

The cream cheese cookies are made with a simple flour, cream cheese, and butter formula, but they get plenty of sweetness and flavor from the caramel and chocolate topping. Make these cream cheese cookies for Christmas, Halloween, or any occasion.

Favorite Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies

These thumbprint cookies are easy to make and are a real treat to eat.

Sour Cream Cookies

Sour cream cookies with nutmeg and walnut halves. Tasty sour cream cookies spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon-sugar topping.

Holiday Spritz Cookies - Spritz Cookie Recipe

Cookie press cookies with vanilla, egg yolk, cream cheese, and other intredients. Butter cookies made with the cookie press, also known as Spritz Cookies.

Hazelnut Butter Cookies - Delicious Hazelnut Cookie Recipe

Delicious hazelnut cookie recipe with butter, finely chopped hazelnuts, flour, powdered sugar, and vanilla. An easy hazelnut butter cookie recipe.

Shortbread Cookie Recipe - Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread Logs

Shortbread logs are butter cookies in a log shape, dipped in melted chocolate and chopped almonds. A delicious chocolate-dipped butter cookie recipe with butter, brown sugar, chocolate, almonds, and other ingredients.

Pecan Praline Cookies - Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe With Pecans

These delicious pecan cookies are packed with chopped pecans. Pecan cookie recipe ingredients include butter, brown sugar, pecans, and vanilla.

Butterscotch Snaps Recipe - Butterscotch Cookies With Butterscotch Chips

Butterscotch snaps are cookies made with butter and shortening, sugar, butterscotch chips, egg, corn syrup, and other cookie ingredients.

Butterscotch Pecan Refrigerator Cookies - Butterscotch Pecan Cookie Recipe

Butterscotch pecan cookies are refrigerator cookies with brown sugar, pecans, and butter, along with vanilla and other ingredients. Delicious refrigerator cookies with brown sugar and pecans.

Cashew Drops with Browned Butter Icing

Cashew cookies with icing, a cashew cookie recipe. Drop cookies are made with cashews and a browned butter icing.

Butterscotch Pecan Cookie Recipe

Butterscotch pecan cookies, with butter, vanilla, brown sugar, and chopped pecans. Easy butterscotch pecan cookie recipe.

Butter Cookie Recipes - Butter Cookies With Vanilla

Butter cookie recipe rolled in confectioners' sugar and colored sugars. A butter cookie ball recipe, called snow balls.

Orange Slice Cookies- Orange Slice Bar Cookie Recipe

Orange slice cookie recipe - bar cookies made with brown sugar, orange slice candy slices, pecans, and butter.

Lemon Tea Cakes

Lemon tea cake recipe with lemon peel, butter, sugar, egg, lemon juice, and lemon glaze. A lemon tea cake recipe or lemon cookie recipe.

Almond Spritz Cookies - Butter Cookie Recipe

Almond spritz cookie recipe with almond extract and butter, pressed through a cookie press. An almond spritz cookie recipe for the holidays.

Jam Crescents - Cream Cheese Cookies With Preserves

Jam crescent cookies, with cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, butter, and your choice of fruit preserves.

Walnut Crescents - Nut Crescent Cookie Recipe

These butter cookies are made with walnuts, sugar, vanilla, confectioners sugar, and other ingredients. Walnut cookie recipe rolled into crescent shapes.

Favorite Butter Tea Cakes

Tea cake recipe - butter cookies with powdered sugar and vanilla, along with pecans. A favorite buttery tea cake recipe.

Hazelnut Crackles - Hazelnut Cookie Recipe

Hazelnut cookies with brown sugar, chocolate, and toasted hazelnuts. Hazelnut cookie recipe.

Butterscotch Bites - Butterscotch Cookie Recipe

These butter cookies are made with vanilla, pecan halves, and butterscotch chips.

Butter Rum Cookies

Butter rum cookies, made with butter, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla and almond extracts, rum, flour, and orange peel.

Mocha Butterballs

Mocha cookie recipe, made with butter, cocoa, sugar, pecans, and other ingredients. Mocha butterball cookie recipe.

Basic Refrigerator Cookie Dough and Ribbon Cookies

Basic cookie dough and directions for making ribbon cookies. Refrigerator cookie recipe with chocolate and pistachios.

Old-Fashioned Brown Sugar Cookies

These cookies are made with sweetened condensed milk.

Cornmeal Cookies - Cornmeal Cookie Recipe

These butter cookies are made with cornmeal, lemon, raisins, and other ingredients.

Preserve-Filled Thumbprints

This recipe for jam thumbprints was shared on our forum. A thumbprint cookie recipe with cream cheese, butter, and jam.

Pinwheel Cookie Recipe and Checkerboard Cookie Recipe Instructions - Cookies Icebox Recipe

Icebox cookies formed into pinwheel with light and dark chocolate doughs. This is a great holiday cookie to make, made with butter and sugar and chocolate.

Tea Cakes - Cookie Recipes

Recipe for old fashioned tea cakes cookies, made with buttermilk and vanilla. These cookies are rolled out and cut into shapes or simple circles.

Petticoat Tails - Petticoat Tail Cookies

Recipe for petticoat tails cookies with cinnamon and butter, and many more cookies recipes.

Buttery Tea Cakes - Cookie Recipe for Tea Cakes

Recipe for buttery tea cakes, traditional cookies made with vanilla and butter.

Easy Tea Cakes Recipe - Old Fashioned Cookies

A simple tea cake recipe with butter, eggs, and other ingredients. These tea cakes are similar to sugar cookies.

Old Fashioned Buttermilk Tea Cakes - Tea Cakes Recipe

A recipe for old fashioned buttermilk tea cakes, similar to sugar cookies. A tea cake recipe.

Jam Thumbprint Cookies

These butter cookies are formed and filled with jelly or jam. A butter cookie recipe with jelly or jam.

Butter Cookie Recipe - Butter Cookies with Chocolate Frosting

Butter cookies with chocolate filling and jam with chocolate frosting. Cookies are made with ground hazelnuts or pecans in the batter.

Sand Tarts Recipe - Recipe Sand Tart Butter Cookies

Sand tarts butter cookies with vanilla. These sand tarts are made with butter and vanilla - also links to shortbread cookies and sand tarts with cinnamon.

Shortbread Recipe - Buttery Shortbread

Shortbread with butter and sugar and flour- a basic butter shortbread recipe. Scottish Shortbread Recipe.

Recipe Sesame Seed Cookies

Sesame seed cookies with butter and vanilla, and 1 cup sesame seeds. Delicious sesame seed cookies are coated with toasted sesame seeds.

Jam Cookie Recipe - Jam Cookies with Ground Almonds

Jam cookies with ground almonds, butter, and almond extract, filled with strawberry preserves or other jam.

Candy Cane Cookies Recipe

Candy cane cookies are made with food coloring, vanilla, butter, and pepermint extract. Candy cane cookie recipe.

Nut Crescent Cookies - Recipe for Nut Cookies

Nut crescents are cookies made with 3 different kinds of chopped nuts, including hazelnuts or macadamia nuts, pecans, and almonds.

Brown Eyed Susans Cookie Recipe - Thumbprint Cookies

Brown eyed Susans cookies are made with a piece of chocolate candy in the center of each cookie. Use chocolate stars, chocolate mints, or similar candies.

Melt Away Butter Cookies Recipe - Recipe for Butter Cookies with Almond and Vanilla Extracts

Melt Away Butter Cookie Recipe. These butter cookies are made with almond extract and vanilla extract and sprinkled with a little sugar.

Toffee Cookies - Recipe for Toffee Cookies with Coffee and Rum

Toffee Cookies Recipe. This recipe for toffee cookies includes rum and strong black coffee and pecans.

Butter Cookies Recipe - Recipe for Butter Cookies with Chocolate Glaze

Butter Cookie Recipe. These butter cookies icebox cookies, baked and dipped in chocolate glaze.

Icebox Cookies Recipe - Butterscotch Icebox Cookie Recipe

Icebox Cookies Recipe. These butterscotch icebox cookies are chilled in a loaf pan, then cut and baked.

Anise Cookies - Anise Cookies Recipe

Anise cookies with anise seeds and molasses and evaporated milk and butter. These cookies are made with ground anise seeds and butter then chilled and sliced and baked.

Chocolate Chip Thumbprint Cookies - A Recipe for Thumbprint Cookies

Chocolate Chip Thumbprint Cookies. Thumbprint cookies made with butter and brown sugar and filled with a chocolate filling.

Hazelnut Cookie Recipe - Recipe for Hazelnut Butter Ball Cookies

Hazelnut Cookie Recipe. Hazelnut butter ball cookies with vanilla and hazelnuts or filberts.

Macadamia Nut Cookie Recipe - Recipe for Macadamia Nut Butter Ball Cookies

Macadamia Nut Cookie Recipe. Macadamia nut butter ball cookies with vanilla.

Brandy Wafer Cookies - Recipe for Cookies with Brandy and Molasses

These brandy wafer cookies contain ginger and molasses and butter. Brandy cookies with molasses and ginger.

Brown Edge Butter Cookies - Recipe for Butter Cookies

Butter cookies are baked until edges are browned. Brown Edge Butter Cookies.

Bright Eyed Thumbprint Cookies - A Recipe for Thumbprint Cookies

These bright eyed cookies are preserve filled thumbprint cookies. Thumbprint cookies with chopped nuts and jam or jelly.

Butterscotch Cookies Recipe - Butterscotch Icebox Cookie Recipe

Butterscotch Cookie Recipe. These butterscotch icebox cookies are chilled in a loaf pan, then cut and baked.

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies - A Recipe for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Chocolate thumbprint cookies with a center filling of icing and a milk chocolate kiss candy. This chocolate thumbprint cookie recipe comes from Candy.

Benne Wafers Recipe - Recipe for Sesame Seed Cookies from Shan

Benne wafers recipe, also known as sesame seed cookies, from Shan. Recipe for benne wafers or sesame seed cookies made with toasted sesame seeds, butter, and brown sugar.

Butter Cookies - Recipe for Butter Cookies

Butter cookie recipe. These butter cookies are shaped into balls and topped with almond halves.

Cheesecake Cookie Slices Recipe - Cream Cheese Cookies

recipe cream cheese cookies drop cookies sugar

Kourabiedes Cookie Recipe with Whole Cloves

These butter cookies, kourabiedes, are Greek cookies with whole cloves, rolled in confectioners sugar. Greek butter cookies with cloves.

Lemon Cookies - Recipe for Lemon Cookies with Butter

These lemon cookies are icebox or refrigerator cookies. Lemon cookie recipe.

Lemonade Cookie Recipe - Recipe for Lemon Cookies with Lemonade

These easy lemonade cookies are made with butter, lemonade, eggs, sugar. Lemonade cookie recipe makes about 3 to 4 dozen cookies.

Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe - Cream Cheese Drop Cookies

Cream cheese drop cookies with vanilla, coconut, and candied cherries. Cream cheese cookie recipe.

Cinnamon Cookie Recipe - Cinnamon Cookies Ball Cookies

Butter cookie balls are rolled in a mixture of cinnamon sugar and chopped nuts and baked. Cinnamon cookies recipe.

Spritz Cookie Recipe - Cookie Press Cookies with Butter

Spritz cookies with butter and egg yolks. Spritz cookie recipe.

Anise Cookies - Anise Cookies Recipe

Anise cookies with aniseeds or anise seeds and brown sugar. Anise cookie recipe.

Sour Cream Cookies with Raisins and Walnuts or Pecans - Recipe for Sour Cream Cookies

Sour cream cookies with raisins and pecans or walnuts. Sour cream raisin cookie recipe.

Benne Wafers Recipe - Recipe for Sesame Seed Cookies also known as Benne Wafers

Benne wafers recipe, also known as sesame seed cookies, a southern favorite. Recipe for benne wafers or sesame seed cookies.

Pecan Butter Cookie Recipe - Butter Cookies with Pecans

recipe cookies butter pecans brown sugar vanilla sugar butter

Hazelnut Crackles - Hazelnut Cookie Recipe

Hazelnut cookies with brown sugar, chocolate, and toasted hazelnuts. Hazelnut cookie recipe.

Discuss in my forum

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved. 

A part of The New York Times Company.