Spoon cookies

Scandinavia is known for all kinds of cookies, mostly flavored with anise or lemon. The flavor we found most compelling in cookies from all over Scandinavia, however, was brown butter — it's nutty, rich and delicious, and pairs perfectly with a tart fruit jam. These cookies get their elegant shape from the teaspoons used to form them.

This sugar cookie recipe has been handed down in my family for at least four generations. It's easy, traditional, and will make your home smell like the holidays any time of the year! They can be rolled out to be cut with cookie cutters or dropped by spoonfuls for a truly old-fashioned sugar cookie.

These salted honey cookies are soft and chewy cookies sweetened with honey and brown sugar and sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt!

This recipe is from my Italian mother-in-law. She refers to them as spoon cookies because most Italian cookies are shaped and these are just dropped from a spoon. They're usually seen at Christmas.

If you take a sugar cookie and a silicon spoon mold and put them together what do you get? OMG you get these adorable Sugar Cookie Spoons!

Say hello to this upgraded cookie version of your favorite childhood treat! These Cosmic Brownie Cookies are rich chocolate cookies with a shiny chocolate ganache frosting. They are topped with the traditional cosmic brownie chips, and make for a chocolate lovers heaven!

Buttery, crumbly and nutty brown butter shortbread cookies with toasted, chopped pecans and a sweet maple glaze.

Try these Orange Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cookies for your Christmas Cookie Exchange and there will be no leftovers—I promise!

Summer has been pretty slow around here. No complaints though. This relaxing downtime is a nice change of pace from the hustle of holiday cookie-making. The extra free time made it the perfect time to try new things and experiment with a few ideas I had tucked away. With back-to-school season just a few weeks away (Crazy, right?), I was thinking it would be fun to try a new cut-out cookie flavor to complement the start of the new school year. These spiced apple cut-out cookies seemed like…