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4th of July Cookies

By Food & Wine
Updated June 20, 2019
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Cookies makes for the perfect easy dessert when celebrating the Fourth of July, and are sure to please anyone at your Fourth of July party. Here, our best cookie recipes for your Independence day celebration, from classic chocolate chip cookies to easy sugar cookies, and more.
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Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies

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Crunchy natural peanut butter gives these crisp and buttery cookies a deeply peanutty taste, but any peanut butter will work well in this recipe.

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Double-Ginger Sugar Cookies

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F&W's Grace Parisi opts for baking soda instead of baking powder to create delectable holiday sugar cookies that are especially crispy.

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Cardamom-Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

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These spiced-just-right oatmeal cookies are the perfect texture for ice cream sandwiches--chewy and soft.

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Swedish Butter Cookies

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The recipe for these smor bullar–light, crumbly pecan cookies similar to Mexican wedding cakes–comes from the terrific Swedish cook Marge Peterson.

  • Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

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Maple-Oatmeal Cookies

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Use a good, pure maple syrup. The better the syrup the more the maple flavor shines in these cookies.

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Ginger Sandwich Cookies

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Nick Malgieri adds a puckery note to his gingersnap cookies by sandwiching them with a fresh lemon cream.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Cookies

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Tiffany MacIsaac of Buttercream Bakeshop in Washington, DC, tops her perfectly tender, sweet and nutty cookies with crunchy honey-roasted nuts, then sandwiches the cookies with silky peanut butter cream and tangy jam.

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Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

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This holiday inspired oatmeal cookie has dried sweet cranberries and perfect for your next gathering.

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Chocolate-Pine Nut Cookies

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These chewy, fudgy, almost flourless cookies have rich chocolate flavor and a great nutty crunch.

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Salt-and-Pepper Sandwich Cookies with Strawberry-Lemonade Jam

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These sweet and savory cookies are terrific with their strawberry-jam filling and on their own. The recipe makes a little extra jam--it's also excellent on toast, muffins and angel food cake.

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1 of 10 Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies
2 of 10 Double-Ginger Sugar Cookies
3 of 10 Cardamom-Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
4 of 10 Swedish Butter Cookies
5 of 10 Maple-Oatmeal Cookies
6 of 10 Ginger Sandwich Cookies
7 of 10 Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Cookies
8 of 10 Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
9 of 10 Chocolate-Pine Nut Cookies
10 of 10 Salt-and-Pepper Sandwich Cookies with Strawberry-Lemonade Jam

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