70+ Easy Summer Cookie Recipes
Hey there, cookie lovers! Summer is here, and with it comes the perfect opportunity to whip up some fresh and fun treats for your family and friends.
Whether you’re planning a picnic, hosting a barbecue, or just looking for a sweet way to beat the heat, these summer cookie recipes are sure to hit the spot.
I’ve scoured the internet to bring you a collection of the best and easiest cookies to make this season. From zesty lemon bursts to no-bake chocolate oatmeal delights, there’s something here for everyone. So, grab your apron and let’s dive into these deliciously easy summer cookie recipes!
1. Soft & Chewy S’mores Cookies
All of your childhood memories in one cookie! These S’mores Cookies are thick and chewy, filled with chocolate chips, graham crackers and marshmallows.
2. Lemon Raspberry Cookies
These Lemon Raspberry Cookies are soft and fluffy, sweet with a slight tang. This eggless sugar cookie recipe is made with lemon zest, lemon juice and frozen raspberries.
3. Easy Raspberry White Chocolate Cookies
These buttery Raspberry white chocolate Cookies have soft and chewy centers, and crispy edges; They’re super easy to make and they’re loaded with white chocolate and fresh raspberries.
4. Peanut Butter & Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
Made with just 6 ingredients, these sweet & salty gluten-free peanut butter & jelly bites are both easy and delicious, making them a quick and easy favorite for summer.
5. Soft & Chewy Blueberry Lemon Cookies
Looking for the perfect cookie to brighten up your day? These soft and chewy blueberry lemon cookies are just what you need! With a delicious combination of fresh blueberries and tangy fresh lemon juice, each bite offers a burst of flavor.
6. Strawberry Shortcake Cookies
Strawberry shortcake cookies taste just like shortcakes in cookie form! With fresh juicy strawberries and buttery shortbread crumbs, these strawberry cookies are perfect for any occasion from spring to summer and beyond!
7. Lavender Lemon Curd Cookies
These Lavender Lemon Curd Cookies are so full of flavor and perfect for dessert, tea, or coffee. Made with fresh lemon zest, culinary lavender buds, and lemon curd these cookies are sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
8. Coconut Mango Cookies
Mango cookies are the perfect dessert for mango lovers! Each chewy cookie is packed with coconut and a mango curd center. Make these tropical-flavored cookies year-round with frozen or fresh mango!
9. Lemon Biscotti
These scrumptious Italian biscotti are perfectly crunchy, loaded with nutty pistachios and flavored with zesty lemon.
10. Peach Cobbler Cookies
These peach cobbler cookies are peach cobbler in cookie form! Each chewy cookie is filled with peach cobbler filling and topped with cinnamon crumble and vanilla glaze. These peach cookies are the perfect summer treat!
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11. Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
These Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies Sandwich make the most delicious little treat that is perfect for afternoon tea or a special occasion. They combine two layers of strawberry shortbread cookies with a strawberry cream cheese frosting filling.
12. Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
These soft and chewy raspberry chocolate chip cookies are stuffed with juicy raspberries and dark chocolate chips. Make them year-round with frozen or fresh berries with no cookie dough chilling required!
13. Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
These deliciously fresh and buttery Strawberry Shortbread Cookies are packed with Strawberry Flavours. They are perfect for an Afternoon Tea sweet treat or summer treat.
14. Creme Brulee Cookies
Creme Brulee Cookies are exactly what you’ve been looking for to spice up your summer dessert table. These drop cookies are easy to make and are quite the show-stopping centerpiece. Pull out your kitchen butane torch and get ready for some fun!
15. Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are soft, creamy and sweet – great for picnics + potlucks! This strawberry cookie recipe is a summer favorite.
16. Glazed Lemon Lavender Cookies
These glazed Lemon Lavender Cookies are made for any lavender lover’s dream! Made with freshly squeezed lemon juice and zest for the ultimate floral spring cookie.
17. Blueberry Lemon Oatmeal Cookies
These blueberry lemon oatmeal cookies are soft and chewy inside and bursting with bright, fresh summer flavors of lemon and blueberries.
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18. Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies satisfy every indulgently gooey, chocolatey cookie craving! They’re classic chocolate chip cookie goodness in a small batch.
19. Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
These Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are made with the quickest, easiest, no-chill, no-roll cookie dough. They’re perfectly chewy with crisp edges and filled with real, juicy strawberries.
20. Easy S’mores Cookies
S’mores Cookies are made with soft, chewy graham cracker cookie dough. They crisp around the edges and are overflowing with gooey, melted marshmallows and chunks of semi-sweet chocolate!
21. Key Lime Cookies
With just 8 simple ingredients and only 15 minutes of active kitchen time, you can whip up a batch of these crunchy, chewy, pucker-worthy easy lime sugar cookies that are perfect for any occasion.
22. Chocolate Cherry Cookies
The ingredients are easy to source and can be adapted according to preference or whatever you find around the kitchen. All you need is a little patience and to be in the mood.
23. Chocolate Strawberry Cookies
These chocolate strawberry cookies came out soft and flavorful, full of color and lots of texture. They have chocolate cream, ripe strawberries, and a sweet white chocolate glaze.
24. Lemon Raspberry Cookies
These Raspberry Cookies are soft, fluffy, buttery, and bursting with the delicious flavors of fresh lemon and raspberries. Super quick and easy to make and everyone loves them!
25. Lemon Lavender Cookies
Easy lemon lavender cookies with lemon glaze! These lemon lavender shortbread cookies are an incredible spring and summertime treat, made with just a few ingredients. These are the best lemon lavender cookies, with vegan and gluten-free options included!
26. Healthy Banana Oatmeal Cookies
This healthy banana oatmeal cookie recipe is made with only 3 simple ingredients. They are delicious, chewy, and so easy to make—the perfect treat to enjoy as breakfast, snack, or dessert.
27. Edible Flower Shortbread Cookies
Edible Flower Shortbread Cookies are beautiful and delightful melt-in-your-mouth cookies. They feature sweet lemon shortbread dipped in a sweet lemon vanilla bean glaze adorned with pressed flowers. This surprisingly simple recipe only requires a few steps and is perfect for hosting and gifting.
28. Strawberry Lemonade Cookies
Strawberry Lemonade Shortbread Cookies are sweet, tart, and taste like summer in a cookie! They feature buttery strawberry shortbread dipped in a lemonade glaze and topped with freeze-dried strawberry powder.
29. Almond Sand Dollar Cookies
Almond Sand Dollar Cookies are crunchy, buttery treats that look remarkably like a treasured beachcombing find. A few sliced almonds and cutout holes are such an easy way to decorate these almond-flavored cutout cookies.
30. Watermelon Sugar Cookies
Bright, cheerful Watermelon Sugar Cookies are summer-in-a-cookie. Each bite of these crunchy treats brings thoughts of picnics, vacations, and the beach. Sharing these eye-catching, slice-and-bake watermelon wedges, is fun and easy.
31. Key Lime Cookies
Inspired by the flavors of the classic pie, these key lime cookies feature a chewy graham cracker cookie, a silky sweetened condensed milk frosting and a hearty helping of tart lime curd.
32. Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies
Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies is a perfect cookie recipe for lemon lovers. These easy lemon cookies give a lemony spin to traditional sugar cookies you’ll love!
33. Cake Mix Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies have a bright, fruity cookie outside with a creamy, tangy cream cheese filling. Made with cake mix & other simple ingredients!
34. Easy Lemon Strawberry Cool Whip Cookies
Are you cool enough for cool whip cookies? Here is how to make these easy soft and delicious cookies with only a couple of ingredients!
35. Summer Sugar Cookies With Sour Cream & Cream Cheese Frosting
Topped with a cream cheese frosting, these summer cookies will be the perfect dessert for all your summer plans! And they’re the perfect summer activity for kids when it’s too hot to play outside.
36. Chocolate Cherry Blossom Cookies
These cherry blossom cookies are as adorable as they are delicious. The soft, shortbread-like cookies are a festive treat, perfect for any time of the year. These cute pink cookies with a Hershey’s Kiss on top are an irresistible treat that you’ll want to make again and again.
37. Fruity Pebbles Meringue Cookies
These Fruity Pebbles meringue cookies couldn’t be easier to prepare. They’re a real treat for cereal lovers. So, if this type of cereal is one of your favorites, these sweet and crunchy Fruity Pebbles cookies are going to impress you.
38. Raspberry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Almond Thumbprint Cookies are super easy to make. They only have five ingredients. Sometimes the simple recipes are the best.
39. Cheese Burger Macarons
Featuring a chocolate ganache burger, fondant cheese and tomato, buttercream lettuce, and a sesame seed macaron shell bun, these homemade burger macarons look just like real cheeseburgers!
40. Vegan Lemon Crinkle Cookies
With a hint of lemon in every bite and its unique soft texture, one would think you have spent hours in the kitchen, but it is super simple to make with ingredients you probably already have in your cupboard.
41. Lemon Daisy Slice and Bake Cookies
Made with lemon juice, zest, and oil, this spring-inspired lemon daisy slice and bake cookie recipe features a vibrant yellow color, zesty lemon flavor, and a fun cut out flower surprise in the middle!
42. Lemon Cookies With Lemon Frosting
They have a cakelike texture and a bright, tangy lemon flavor! These cookies make the perfect sweet treat, dessert, or lunchbox snack.
43. No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Soft, chewy, and delicious peanut butter no-bake cookies are a quick and easy treat!
44. Oatmeal White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies
Chewy white chocolate raspberry cookies with oats are a delicious dessert any time of year! These cookies are studded with melty pools of sweet white chocolate and juicy raspberries. No electric mixer needed!
45. Soft Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies With Mascarpone
If you’ve been craving all the summer flavors like I have, then you need these lemon poppy seed mascarpone cookies in your life! They’re soft and tender, with deliciously chewy edges.
46. Strawberries And Cream Cookie Cups
Get ready to savor a berry-licious treat! Try our Strawberries and Cream Cookie Cups recipe, a delightful blend of juicy strawberries and creamy goodness. Perfect for a sweet indulgence!
47. Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Enjoy making and eating our Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe at home. Chewy cookie centers, crispy edges, and loaded with chocolate goodness! You don’t want to miss this!
48. Croatian Peach Cookies
With a sweet, soft jam filling sandwiched between two equally round shaped hard cookies and dipped in red and yellow food dye, there are few desserts that look and taste quite like this. Requiring quite a few steps to prepare and assemble, these unique Croatian breskvice cookies are a labor of love to make.
49. Gluten-Free Raspberry And White Chocolate Cookies
These gluten-free Raspberry and White Chocolate Cookies are the perfect mix of sweet and tart. They are soft, chewy, and absolutely irresistible!
50. Soft Pineapple Cookies
Pineapple cookies with icing are a wonderful treat with tropical flavor. Your guests will be blown away at the simple yet elegant presentation of the cookies, as well as how much flavor they have!
51. Gluten-Free Monster Cookies
These monster cookies have everything in them but the kitchen sink, and they are gluten-free.
52. Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
Buttery, bright, juicy, and so easy to make, these strawberry shortcake cookies are a great recipe any time of year!
53. White Chocolate Chip Strawberry Cookies
These easy strawberry cookies are made with real strawberries and creamy white chocolate chips – a delicious and pretty treat to make for a hot summer day or to take advantage of strawberry season!
54. Lemon Thyme Madeleines
Next time you want to comfort someone set out a plate of these lemon thyme madeleines. You won’t have to say a word.
55. Black Sesame Matcha Shortbread
The sesame shortbread biscuits are nicely buttery and flavorsome due to the tahini and have a nice thin snap. A matcha chocolate dip adds a complimentary taste and delicious extra sweetness.
56. Blueberry Cookies
These delicious blueberry cookies are quick, easy and so fun! They are naturally a deep blue color. These cookies have a strong blueberry flavor!
57. Rainbow Sugar Cookies
These Rainbow Sugar Cookies bring you a kaleidoscope of color in rainbow-shaped cookies that are soft and chewy with a touch of crispness at the edges.
58. Watermelon Cookies
These Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are easy to decorate Watermelon Cookies! Perfect Cookies to bring on your next BBQ party or for easy Summer Treats.
59. Strawberry Milkshake Cookies
If you love unique cookie recipes you will enjoy this yummy Strawberry Milkshake Cookies Recipe. Delicious strawberry flavors from the dehydrated strawberries, strawberry ice cream (we did say milkshake cookies) and strawberry Jell-O! It’s like the taste of summer in a cookie.
60. Gluten-Free Monster Cookies With Coconut
These thick bakery-style Gluten-Free Monster Cookies are made with shredded coconut, peanut butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and M&M’s. This amazing no oat option tastes just as good as traditional monster cookies.
61. Raspberry Cookies
Tangy fruit and sweet chocolate — a match made in heaven any day of the week, any time of the year!
62. Crumbl Copycat Pina Colada Cookies
These Crumbl Copycat Piña Colada Cookies taste like a vacation drink in sugar cookie form! Made with fresh pineapple juice, rum extract, and a maraschino cherry on top, these cookies are sure to please everyone.
63. Palm Tree Cookies
Decorate Palm Tree Cookies using modeling chocolate to give them texture including 3-dimensional coconuts. These cookies will make a great addition to your pool party, luau, or oceanfront wedding.
64. Sunshine Cookies
Turn any day into a sunny day. Share these adorably cute candy-filled piñata-style Sunshine Cookies to make anyone’s day a little brighter.
65. Easy Lemon Blueberry Cookies
Lemon Blueberry Cookies are super soft, ultra fluffy, and topped with a delicious lemon glaze. This easy gluten-free dessert recipe makes a wonderful treat for your Summer parties!
66. No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
There’s no need to heat up your oven when you taste these melt-in-your-mouth No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies!! A butter and sugar mixture is stirred together with peanut butter and old-fashioned oats then refrigerated until firm. Enjoy these classic chocolatey treats for an afternoon snack or holiday dessert!
67. Samoas Cookie Bars
These Samoas Cookie Bars are melt-in-your mouth, magically delicious! They’re like famous Samoas cookies, but made super easy in a dessert bar.
68. S’Mores Cookie Bars
These S’mores Cookie Bars are supremely chewy, soft, and fabulous. The graham cracker crumb crust is covered with chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with gooey, melty marshmallows and chocolate.
69. Buckeye Cookies
These Buckeye brownie cookies combine all those yummy flavors into a chewy, delicious cookie.
70. Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies
These Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are so soft and flavorful, you’ll be making them at your house on repeat!
71. Honey Lavender Latte Cookies
These Honey Lavender Latte Cookies are espresso sugar cookies frosted with honey lavender buttercream! They’re your favorite drink in cookie form!
72. Strawberry Lemonade Cookies
The tartness of the lemonade and the sweetness of the strawberries are a match made in heaven with these cookies. Made with soft, fluffy homemade lemon cookies and topped with sweet strawberry frosting. These strawberry lemonade cookies are a perfect summer cookie treat!
73. S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies
These s’more marshmallow cookies are fun, easy chocolate chip cookie recipe that everyone is going to enjoy. A classic chocolate chip cookie dough sits on top of a buttery graham cracker, then gets topped with a marshmallow and chocolate square after baking for a true classic S’mores experience! These S’mores marshmallow cookies come together in less than 30 minutes!
74. Easy Lemon Meringue Pie Cookies
These lemon meringue pie cookies are perfect for those who love lemon. They are crisp, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies topped with tart and smooth lemon curd and a light and airy meringue. These cookies are packed with lemon flavor.
I hope you’re as excited to try these summer cookie recipes as I am to share them with you! Whether you’re a fan of citrusy flavors, rich chocolate, or tropical fruits, there’s a recipe here to make your summer just a little bit sweeter.
So, next time you need a treat for a picnic, barbecue, or just a lazy afternoon, give one of these cookies a try. And don’t forget to share your creations with family and friends – because cookies are always better when enjoyed together. Happy baking, and have a fantastic summer!
