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15 of our favorite summery cookie and bar recipes, perfect for all your warm weather activities. They come together quickly and are crazy delicious!
Are you in the mood for a little baking project? We've rounded up some of our favorite, summery cookie and bar recipes that everyone will love.
These recipes come together quickly and easily, no mixer required. They are perfect for taking on picnics, potlucks, or easy entertaining. Or share them with neighbors and friends and make someone's day a little brighter. Some of these recipes have free printable labels that we are happy to email to you. Just leave a comment on each post you are interested in. Enjoy!
Key Lime Cooler Cookies
These Key Lime Cooler Cookies are crisp, buttery shortbreads, cloaked in a cool cloud of powdered sugar. There is an EXPLOSION of fabulous lime flavor as they melt in your mouth!
Ridiculously Easy Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies
If you enjoy shortbread and are a peanut butter fan you will LOVE these crisp, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth-delicious Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies! No one has to know how easy (actually ridiculously easy) they are to make with just one bowl and no mixer!
Watermelon Shortbread Cookies (with a super easy decorating technique!)
These one-bowl, no-mixer Watermelon Shortbread Cookies are fun, whimsical, super DELICIOUS and have an amazingly easy decorating technique! The free printable labels for gifting are the icing on the cake cookie!
Easy Blondie S'mores Bars
These delicious dessert bars are a delightful merging of two all-time favorite sweet treats; blondies and good old-fashioned s'mores!
Almond Toffee White Chip Cookies (with free printable labels for gifting)
Crisp, chewy, sweet and salty, these one-bowl, no-mixer Almond Toffee White Chip Cookies are a cookie lover's dream come true!
Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
With a crisp,melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base, a jeweled jam filling and a fabulous almond glaze, these Almond Shortbread Thumbprints always bring rave reviews!
Crinkly Crackly Lemon Sugar Cookies
These one-bowl, no-mixer, lemon sugar cookies have a melt-in-your-mouth texture, lots of crinkly cracks, super-crisp, sugar-coated exteriors and moist, chewy insides! There's also a burst of sunshiny lemon flavor with every bite!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies
These Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies will be a hit with kids of all ages! And you can mix them up in less than 10 minutes, with just one bowl and no mixer!
Ridiculously Easy Scandinavian Raspberry Jam Shortbread Tarts
These adorable Scandinavian Raspberry Jam Tarts are mixed up with just one bowl and no mixer needed. No one will know how easy they are as they taste as though they came from a fine, fancy European bake shop!
Better Than Grandma's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
A delicious take on old-fashioned grandma cookies. Shh... with chewy, toffee-studded interiors, crisp, buttery edges, and lots of melty chocolate chips in each bite, these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies might just be a bit better than Grandma's!
Ridiculously Easy Strawberry Lemonade Meltaway Cookies
These fabulous Strawberry Lemonade Meltaway Cookies will literally melt in your mouth. The easy, strawberry icing (made with fresh strawberries) is the crowning glory!
Ridiculously Easy Lemon Curd Shortbread Tarts
Made with our easy microwave lemon curd, these buttery, crisp Ridiculously Easy Lemon Curd Shortbread Tarts will steal the show and bring rave reviews!
Brown Butter Blueberry Blondies
The chewiest, butteriest dessert bars studded with bits of jammy blueberries, creamy white chips and crunchy toffee, these Brown Butter Blueberry Blondies are a delicious twist that will have sweet lovers smitten!
Ridiculously Easy Italian Lemon Amaretti Cookies (Gluten-Free!)
These easy (Ridiculously Easy) Italian Lemon Amaretti Cookies (aka Biscotti Amaretti Al Limone) Â have a thin, crisp outer shell, a chewy interior, and a burst of bright lemon flavor in every bite! A bonus is that they're gluten-free, making them a universal crowd-pleaser!
Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookies (aka Pink Cloud Cookies)
These one-bowl, no-mixer, Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookies taste like a soft, sweet, melt-in-your-mouth, pink cloud!. The recipe comes together with just one bowl and no mixer and we're including an adorable free printable label, as these cookies are wonderful for gifting.
Thought for the day:
I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
    I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
    your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
    let your glory be over all the earth.
Psalm 108:3-5
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Have blessed day.
Kim
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