Cookies + Cakes

I'm crazy for cookies and cakes! Here you'll find all of my best cookie and cake recipes. There's something for every occasion, from Christmas cookie recipes like Pignoli to sandwich cookies, gluten free specialties, and tons of chocolate chip cookie varieties!

You'll also find lots of bar cookies, like my famous Salted Caramel Brownies, and moist homemade cakes, too.

Featured Recipe

Italian Pignoli Cookies

Pignoli Cookies, or pine nut cookies, are a classic Italian confection. They're chewy, sweet and only require 5 ingredients! This is one of my all time favorite cookies to bake during the holidays.

Italian Pignoli Cookies

broken pignoli cookie on a gray surface surrounded by more cookies

Close-up of a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie in a cast iron skillet topped with vanilla ice cream, chocolate shavings, and caramel sauce. The warm cookie edges are golden-brown and crisp while the center remains soft beneath the melting ice cream.

Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie for Two

Close-up of a split shortcake biscuit topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, dusted with powdered sugar. A bottle of whiskey is partially visible in the background, suggesting a boozy addition to the dessert.

Roasted Strawberry Rhubarb Shortcakes

Italian Ricotta Cheesecake

Italian Ricotta Cheesecake

Top-down view of a whole strawberry pie in a white baking dish. The golden crust has a dusting of sugar and shows bubbling red strawberry filling. Fresh strawberries and delicate pink blossoms surround the pie on a marble surface.

Homemade Strawberry Cake Recipe

Close-up view of a rhubarb cake in a baking dish showing bright pink rhubarb stalks embedded in golden cake batter.

Rhubarb Cake

Close-up of baked chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

A fork cutting a bite off a slice of lemon blueberry pound cake on a small plate.

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake

A homemade ice cream cake with caramel sauce dripping off the top.

Best Ice Cream Cake Recipe

A whole ricotta cake with pears and sprigs of rosemary on a wooden board.

Classic Italian Ricotta Cake with Pears

Three mini chocolate souffles in ramekins next to a bowl of freshly whipped cream.

4 Ingredient Flourless Chocolate Soufflé Cakes

A blue plate with a piece of plum torte and a fork.

The New York Times Plum Torte

A slice of pumpkin tiramisu on a blue plate with the cake and pumpkins in the background.

Easy No Bake Pumpkin Tiramisu

overhead shot of Espresso Brownies on light blue plate with coffee beans

Espresso Brownies

overhead view of brownies cut into squares with the top right one pulled aside

Fudgy Salted Caramel Chocolate Brownies

overhead shot of a marble table with random cookies in the corner and lots of scattered coffee beans

Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Cookies

Top view of a flourless chocolate cake with a cracked top and cardamom pods

Turkish Coffee Flourless Chocolate Cake

Top view close up of chocolate chunk cookies on a wood table.

Crispy Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

a plate of cookies with a broken cookie in the foreground and ingredients in the background

Mom's Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Top view of peanut butter cookies dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt spread out on a wood tabletop.

5 Ingredient Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

A hand dunking a chocolate chip cookie into a glass of milk next to a serving platter of more cookies.

Paleo Chocolate Chunk Cookies

A plate of chocolate toffee chip cookies with one cookie broken apart in the foreground

Chocolate Toffee Chip Cookies

broken pignoli cookie on a gray surface surrounded by more cookies

Italian Pignoli Cookies

Sliced peanut butter grape bars on a sheet of parchment paper.

Peanut Butter Grape Shortbread Bars

Top view of chai snickerdoodle cookies spread out on a counter among sugar sprinkles.

Chai Snickerdoodles

Four Brown Butter Ginger Molasses Cookies stacked and wrapped in twine

Brown Butter Ginger Molasses Cookies

Meyer Lemon + Pistachio Sandwich Cookies | ColeyCooks.com

Meyer Lemon + Pistachio Sandwich Cookies

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake | ColeyCooks.com

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

Ricotta Cheesecake with Plums | Coley Cooks

Ricotta Cheesecake with Plums

Pink Grapefruit Shortbread Cookies

Pink Grapefruit Shortbread Cookies

The texture of a cinnamon toast cookie up close.

Cinnamon Toast Cookies

Husk Cherry Torte

Ground Cherry Torte

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