Cookie time machine: 11 vintage recipes to try

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Craving old-fashioned flavors? These vintage cookie recipes will take you back in time to Grandma’s kitchen.

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies served on a white plate. Plate and three clear glass bottles of milk are sitting on a concrete countertop next to a blue print fabric napkin.
Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies. Photo Credit: Glenda Embree Blog

Toffee Cookies

Toffee Cookies are crunchy like toffee without getting stuck in your teeth, so grandma would definitely approve. These cookies are perfect for a potluck in the summer or a cookie tray at holiday time!
Grab the recipe: Toffee Cookies.

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies

Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies satisfy every indulgently gooey, chocolatey cookie craving! Classic chocolate chip cookie goodness in a small batch that gets me in and out of the kitchen in 30 minutes.
Grab the recipe: Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Easy Cake Mix Cookies

Grandma was a smart cookie and made her cookies with a cake mix. Only 5 ingredients are needed to make these delicious and Easy Cake Mix Cookies! The best part? You can customize them depending on your tastes for a different cookie each time!
Grab the recipe: Easy Cake Mix Cookies.

4 stacked rhubarb cookies with small pieces of rhubarb and blue bowl in background
Rhubarb Cookies. Photo Credit: All Ways Delicious

Mashed Potato Cookies

Mashed Potato Cookies are a delicious blend of mashed potatoes, spices, nuts, and raisins, just like Grandma loved! The mashed potatoes create a soft, moist cookie without affecting the flavor!
Grab the recipe: Mashed Potato Cookies.

Rhubarb Cookies

Rhubarb Cookies are a fun change of pace from the usual cookie recipe. They’re a simple buttery, sweet, cinnamony cookie studded with chunks of tart rhubarb.
Grab the recipe: Rhubarb Cookies.

Ginger Snaps

Are Gingersnaps the best cookie? I think so! They’re quick and easy to make and packed with spicy ginger flavor. These are perfectly crisp, the way a gingersnap should be!
Grab the recipe: Ginger Snaps.

Flourless Chocolate Cookies

These flourless chocolate cookies are crispy on the outside, gooey, and chewy on the inside, with a deep, rich chocolate flavor all the way through.
Grab the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Cookies.

Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies

meringue cookies in brown bowl
Sugar Free Keto Meringue Cookies. Photo Credit: Low Carb – No Carb.

This Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies recipe is made with just 2 simple ingredients and only 1 gram of net carbs for 10 pieces. These light and fluffy, with crispy exterior sugar-free meringue cookies, are a delicious and healthy low-carb alternative.
Grab the recipe: Sugar-Free Keto Meringue Cookies.

Peanut Butter Keto Cookies

The easiest ever Peanut Butter Keto Cookies Recipe with only a few ingredients and done in less than 20 minutes are a perfect staple for a quick keto dessert idea. Fully gluten-free, grain-free, and sugar-free, those simple keto cookies are filled with all of the protein you have been looking for.
Grab the recipe: Peanut Butter Keto Cookies.

Keto Shortbread Cookies

This Keto Shortbread Cookies recipe with almond flour contains only 1 gram of net carbs per piece. Its buttery keto cookie taste is not only low carb, diabetic friendly, and sugar-free, but also an entirely gluten-free shortbread cookie everyone has been looking for.
Grab the recipe: Keto Shortbread Cookies.

Quick Oatmeal Cookies

Pile of oatmeal cookies on a plate.
Quick Oatmeal Cookies. Photo credit: Real Life of Lulu.

Whose grandma didn’t make oatmeal cookies? Quick Oatmeal Cookies are easy to make with ingredients you already have in your pantry! They are perfect for a picnic or potluck!
Grab the recipe: Quick Oatmeal Cookies.

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