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.

"You really have to wait," says Barbour. "After a couple of days, the cookies' texture becomes lovely and melting. Earlier, they are good, but later, they're transcendent. Honest." Barbour likes these best with half strawberry and half cherry preserves.

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 Speculoos cookies are crisp, light, and perfectly spiced. Make the dough ahead and chill until needed. You can also freeze the cookies before or after baking, making this a perfect go-to Christmas cookie recipe!

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

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!

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.

Buttery, pillowy-soft and so deliciously good with hints of cinnamon spice, these are the best snickerdoodles! Check out the tips and tricks to make these yummy cookies perfectly every time!

Beautiful Austrian Linzer Cookies! Made with a buttery, nutty, tender and crisp cookie, a sweet, fruity and colorful jam filled center, and finished with