35+ Unique Cookie Recipes That Will Impress!

Combine sweet fruit with crunchy almonds and rich dark chocolate - you have the perfect, decadent dried apricot cookie recipe for year-round indulging!

Linzer cookies are usually shortbread cookies sandwiched with a jam that shows through a cutout, and they are quite common. This recipe is a unique twist because the cookie has pieces of pistachio and cranberry baked in and the whole cookie is Vegan!

A melt in your mouth lime infused shortbread cookie topped with a tequila lime glaze. All the flavors of a margarita in a delicious cookie!

These buttered popcorn and butterscotch cookies are a unique twist on a tradition favorite! They are sweet, salty, chewy, and delicious - and the recipe is very easy to make.

This delightful recipe combines millionaire shortbread bars with alfajores (a dulche de leche sandwich cookie). Just look at them! I can see why this combination takes them up from a millionaire to a billionaire.

Learn how to make the most delicious chocolate chip bacon cookies. This recipe is easy, and you're going to love the combination of sweet and salty!

Cream Horn cookies (also known as Lady Locks or Clothespin cookies) are a flaky crust surrounding a cream filling. They are then dusted with powdered sugar.

Snickerdoodles are a holiday staple! Here's a way you can take the classic recipe to the next level by adding a little white chocolate and toffee.

An impressive cookie that only takes 20 minutes of prep! Vanilla shortbread cookies are dipped in dark chocolate, almonds, and edible rose petals.

Espresso sugar cookies frosted with honey lavender buttercream and sprinkled with dried lavender flowers.

Watch the pureed blackberries in this recipe change the cookies from purple to bright blue when baked. No artificial colors needed!

A Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolate is hidden in a Nutella and oat cookie. It is then topped with a drizzle of white chocolate shining with gold luster glitter reminiscent of the Ferrero Rocher gold packaging!

A crisp, delicate black sesame biscuit cookie dipped in matcha green tea chocolate. Definitely a unique cookie!

Don't adjust your screen — yes, these cookies are purple, and no, it isn't food coloring! These naturally purple cookies get their color from ube, a purple sweet potato from the Philippines.

These maple cookies with maple cream filling only have five ingredients. Bonus? They are sugar, gluten, and grain-free! Perfect for a low carb diet.

You'll love these snickerdoodle cookies with a heart-shaped center filled with caramel and sprinkled with flake salt. Oh, and those little hearts that were cut out? They make cute mini cookies.

A soft fluffy cookie that combines the flavors of salty bacon, rich bourbon, and sweet brown sugar. Yes, please!

Breskvice is a traditional Croatian cookie that is made for special occasions. Each cookie is made to resemble a peach and sometimes even has a leaf to further the illusion. The 'pit', or filling is made from apricot jam spiked with rum.

Soft lemon and poppy seed mascarpone cheese cookies topped with a sweet icing and slivered almonds!

A fudgy chocolate cookie with salted caramel chips and a sprinkle of sea salt on top! A delicious way to enjoy salted caramel.

A gooey chocolate center wrapped in Mochi (a Japanese treat made with milk, sweet rice flour, sugar and butter) and then wrapped with buttery cookie dough topped with chocolate chips.

Cranberry buttercream sandwiched between two sage sugar cookies and then topped with a candied sage leaf. A delicious combination of flavors!

These white chocolate chip cranberry cookies are the perfect combination of tart, sweet, and crunchy. This is my FAVORITE cookie recipe.

These delicate sandwich cookies feature buttery pistachio shortbread filled with Meyer lemon buttercream and then they are rolled in chopped pistachios!

Can't decide what cookie to make? Why not make three — in one? You can enjoy a bite of strawberry, then vanilla, then chocolate with Neapolitan cookies.

Topped with pecans, these soft chewy cookies feature sweet potato, semolina and butter. This is a really easy cookie recipe!

Just like with zucchini bread, the zucchini in these cookies provides a lot of moisture. If you like your cookies to not be overly sugary, these lemon glazed cookies are definitely for you!

Although thumbprint cookies are quite common, the 'thumbprints' are usually filled with jam. You can also use cheesecake or chocolate filling. However, these hazelnut cookies have a dollop of maple cream on top!

A buttery sweet tahini filling sandwiched between one bowl cookies with the crunch of oats!

Adapted from a Pennsylvania Dutch cookie recipe, these treats are packed with raisins, dates and chopped nuts!

This delicious caramel apple cookie recipe has the best flavors of fall packed into one amazing cookie. They are so rich and moist - you'll love them!

Cream cheese cookies hugging raspberry jam and sprinkled with powdered sugar. A pretty cookies with delicious flavor!

Take the classic ginger cookie up a few notches with this recipe! Candied ginger, fried ginger and fresh ginger juice give these cookies a big ginger kick and the addition of bacon fat provides a bit of a smoky flavor.

Cardamom shortbread cookies boast an exotic warm flavor, balanced with a sweet, citrusy orange glaze. The cookies are buttery, tender, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

A chocolate cookie chock full of delicious mix-ins! These cookies feature naturally pink ruby chocolate chips, freeze dried raspberries and chopped pistachios.

This cookie recipe was born when Jamie was unable to find cinnamon chips in her grocery store. She decided to try Red Hots instead. I love the way recipes come together sometimes!

Wait, what? Named for what they look like, these Italian meatball cookies don't have any meat in them. The base cookie is like a chocolate walnut cookie with the flavors of fall baking. It is then topped with a chocolate buttercream frosting!

These cookies are gluten-free, vegan, paleo and allergy-free! Earthy lavender flavor with buttery coconut and the nutty flavor of tigernut makes a healthy but delicious cookie!