Top 30+ delicious nut-free cookies everyone will love

While we love the crunch of a nut-filled cookie, it's important to keep nut-free treats around for guests with potential allergies. Since it can be difficult for partygoers to tell if a cookie has nuts, as oats and chocolate chips can easily resemble peanuts, it's best to play things safe by baking treats without nuts. To keep you away from pecans, walnuts, peanuts, and other nuts, we collected cookie recipes that are irresistible and nut-free. Enjoy this variety of nut-free cookies at your next gathering. Cookies are the perfect punctuation for any dessert spread.

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

These chewy brownie-like cookies are easy to make and even easier to love. Recruit the kids to help you bake a batch; they will love rolling the dough balls in the powered sugar.

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

To make these one-of-a-kind cookies, brown the butter before getting started. The pecans in the recipe are optional. You won't miss a thing if you leave them out.

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Cheesecake Cookies

These bite-sized cheesecake cookies have a cherry fruity finish. Perfect for office parties, potlucks, and holiday gatherings, these cookies have all the flavor of a classic cheesecake.

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best-ever chocolate chip cookies include oats and flaky sea salt. With bittersweet and semi-sweet chunks of chocolate, they'll become a go-to.

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Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies

These vibrant red cookies begin with just a box of red velvet cake mix and a few other ingredients. The cake mix gives them a chewy bite.

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Lemon Thumbprint Cookies

The perfect combination of sweet and tangy, these fruity cookies belong at your cookie swap. Fill the lemony cookies with sweet raspberry jam, or create your own combination.

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Easy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are a cross between a pumpkin muffin and a chocolate chip cookie. The addition of pumpkin makes these chocolatey cookies even more tender.

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These sparkly sugar cookies know how to shine. The secret to richer sugar cookies is the addition of brown sugar.

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Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

Chocolate sugar cookies bind oh-so beautifully to minty frosting to create tasty cookie sandwiches. Get the candy cane-stripe effect by painting red food coloring gel inside of a pastry bag before piping the filling.

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Cranberry-Orange Butter Cookies

Dried cranberries and orange zest make these butter cookies fruity and festive. The trick to shaping the dough into a rectangular log before chilling is to fit the wrapped dough into an empty foil box.

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Brownie Cookies

Why choose between cookies and brownies when you can have both? Use brownie mix and a few other ingredients to make this best of both worlds dessert. Walnuts are an optional ingredient, and they taste just as good without them.

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Dark Chocolate-Ginger-Molasses Cookies

We transformed the classic ginger cookie into a chocolate lover's dream. Unsweetened cocoa and chunks of semi-sweet chocolate are a delicious update to spiced molasses cookies.

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No-Bake Chocolate-Oatmeal Cookies

No bake, no problem! These easy, buttery cookies only require 15 minutes of hands-on time.

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Grandma's Chocolate Drop Cookies

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Snowflake Sugar Cookies

These intricately designed sugar cookies are sure to impress guests this holiday season. Skip the almond extract to make these nut-free.

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

For the extreme chocolate lovers in your life, this cookie is their dream. With a chocolate batter and extra chocolate chips, they'll be swimming in cocoa after the first bite.

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Belgian Spice Cookies

Nothing puts us more in the holiday spirit than spice-flavored cookies. Place a stencil over the cookies before dusting them with powdered sugar to create a pretty pattern.

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Chewy Molasses Cookies

Dark molasses lends a strong flavor to these chewy cookies. Add spices like cinnamon, cloves, ginger, or anise for a spiced version. Add a bit of orange zest for a citrus twist.

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Birthday Cake Cookies

Confetti cake takes cookie form with these batter-flavored cookies. White chocolate chips and colorful sprinkles make every bite a party.

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Soft Oatmeal Cookies

One bite of these soft, chewy cookies will take you back to your childhood. Cake flour makes the raisin-studded cookies tender, but you can use all-purpose flour if that’s all you have.

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Cornmeal-Lime Cookies

Yellow cornmeal and lime may seem like untraditional cookie ingredients, but these treats are likely to become a staple on your holiday dessert menu. Kids will have fun using a cookie stamp to press the dough into rounds.

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Momma Millie's Potato Chip Cookies

Get your sweet and salty fix taken care of in one delicious treat. These are decadent in every way. Adding salty potato chips to sweet cookie batter is a match made in cookie heaven.

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Chocolate Mint Cookies

Chocolate-mint lovers, this is your cookie. Chopped mint candies make these chocolate cookies taste like grasshopper pie.

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Brown Butter Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles are cinnamon sugar goodness, but we've made them even better by using brown butter.

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Santa's Kitchen-Sink Cookies

These loaded treats have everything you could imagine in a cookie, except nuts. Pretzel pieces, marshmallows, chocolate chips, and colorful candies fulfill your sweet and salty cravings.

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Red Velvet Cake Crinkle Cookies

Bake these for your valentine, Santa’s cookie tray, or anytime you crave red velvet. Inside these cakey cookies dusted with powdered sugar is a fudgy center dotted with white chocolate chips.

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Sprinkle Sandwich Cookies

These colorful funfetti-like cookies bring all the joy to the holidays. Switch up the colors to celebrate your favorite team, grad, or holiday.

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Pumpkin Spice Cookies

These cookies are a fall favorite. The brown sugar and cream of tartar take these cookies to the next level. Make them for your next spooky activity or if your craving a pumpkin treat at home.

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White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

These cookies combine sweet white chocolate with a tart cranberry. They're perfect for holiday cookie tins or if you know a certain someone with a love for white chocolate.

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Ginger Cemetery Cookies

These bright ginger cookies will please any crowd. Bake them for longer to get them thin and crispy, or pull them out a bit early for a more gooey center.