Recipes for National Homemade Cookie Day, Oct. 1st!

There are few better ways to celebrate October 1 than to enjoy some delicious, homemade cookies – and we’ve got recipes!

Chocolate and Chocolate Chip Recipes:

Chocolate-Pecan Shortbread Bars. John Kernick/Food & Wine Magazine

Shortbreads:

Salted Caramel Tot Cookies. Matthew Benson/”Tots!”

More Treats:

Holiday Cookie Recipes:

• From Martha Stewart: Cream-Cheese Walnut Cookies, Chocolate Crackle Cookies, and Cranberry Pistachio Cornmeal Biscotti
• From Thalia Assuras: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Cookie, Best-ever Sugar Cookies, and Marshmallow Christmas Trees
• From Tish Boyle: Brandied Eggnog Cookies, Caramelized Pecan-Orange Biscotti, Chocolate Meringue Swirls, Chocolate Toffee Brownie Bites, and Caramel-Almond Tiger Cookies
• From Katie Lee: Gingerbread Cookies, Speedy Snowmen, Seven-Layer Cookies, and Mini-Sufganiyot (ball-shaped doughnuts)
• Also from Katie Lee: Poinsettia Butter Cookies, Peanut Butter Surprise Balls, and Christmas Wreath Cookies