Celebrate the shift in seasons and all the gifts of the earth with these delicious spring cookies.
These easy recipes feature simple and natural ingredients like fruits, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers.
Make big batches to keep and share with friends and family near and far. These are also the perfect spring desserts to make for the charity bake sale, potluck, and beyond.
Spring Season Produce
Go beyond the standard and oh-so-wonderful chocolate chip cookies by featuring the produce of spring in your homemade cookies.
Spring is the time for fresh herbs. These wonderful bits of greenery are often the first things to pop up from the earth after a long winter. So often we think of them being medicinal or savory but many are also make a delicious cookie .
Fruits like rhubarb and strawberries also make great cookies. Granted fresh fruits add a lot of moisture to cookies but it can be done with tasty results.
If you keep chickens, spring tends to be quite a productive time and big batches of cookies are a great way to use up extra eggs.
Even vegetables like fresh spring carrots can make for lovely cookies.
Amazing Gifts
Cookies are the perfect sweet treats to give as gifts. They mail wonderfully in most cases and are great things to tuck into an easter basket for the kids and gift baskets for the neighbors.
Be sure to wrap cookies in plastic wrap or other airtight container like tins or plastic bags for shipping and giving. No one wants to give or receive stale cookies.
A box or basket of cookies is a great way to say happy spring or welcome to the neighborhood or thank you and well most anything else.
Use cookies to celebrate a special occasion or just to give a special treat on an ordinary weekday.
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Freeze for Later
Make your cookies full of spring ingredients now and freeze them for snacking and serving later.
You have two easy options here, choose whichever works best for you.
Make the cookie dough now. Drop the cookies onto your parchment paper lined cookie sheets. Freeze until solid. Place the mounds of frozen dough into plastic bags and freeze until you’re ready to bake.
When you’re ready to bake simply place the frozen cookie dough onto prepared baking sheet and bake as directed by the recipe. For best results add an extra minute or two to account for the frozen not room temperature dough.
Alternatively, bake and cool cookies completely on a wire rack. Once cool place in containers or bags and freeze. When ready to eat simply pull out of the freezer and let thaw or even eat frozen.
Looking for more spring dessert recipes? Try one of these favorites:
Spring Cookie Recipes
Pick one or several of these spring cookie treats to celebrate the season in decadent style.
Spring Flower Cookies
The gorgeous blooms of spring are a wonder to behold. Not every flower is edible, of course, but for the ones that are making cookies from them is a very good thing.
Infused Vinegar Pansy Cookies
Pansies are full of pastel colors and beauty that most of us enjoy. They are also edible and make for a lovely floral decoration on these easy cookies that whip up in no time.
Lilac Cornmeal Cookies
Lilac blossoms and cornmeal combine for pastel cookies that are crunchy and delicious. These are perfect for afternoon tea parties.
Dandelion Peanut Butter Cookies
Dandelion petals a have a soft honey-like flavor that combines incredibly well with peanut butter. These golden brown cookies have flecks of yellow petals for an eye-catching and easy spring dessert . They're a must try for peanut butter lovers.
Herbal Cookies
Take advantage of those tender and fresh herbs for some sweet cookie baking. These are a great way to share the herb garden with folks near and far as well.
Lemon Balm Poppy Seed Cookies
Lemon balm poppy seed cookies are crisp and a wonderful play on the common lemon and poppy flavor combination.
Anise Hyssop Whoopie Pies
Anise Hyssop Whoopie pies are almost a cupcake in sandwich cookie form. These soft cookies with a light licorice flavor are sandwiched around a sweet creamy filling are are a perfect dessert for spring break picnics and more.
Fruit Cookies
Using fresh fruit in cookies can sometimes be difficult because of all the moisture but the following favorite cookie recipes are the perfect balance of soft, sweet, and handheld dessert.
Strawberry White Clover Cookies
Strawberry White Clover cookies take advantage of a common 'weed' most of us having growing in our lawns. The white clover blossom has a light vanilla flavor that combines wonderfully with fresh strawberries.
Lavender Strawberry Cookies
Use dried lavender and fresh strawberries for a beautiful and unusual flavor combination that is sure to please. These are especially nice with a cup of tea and make a great a presentation on platters for that baby shower or tea party.
Lemon Shortbread Cookie Recipe
While citrus is technically a winter fruit, there is often some overlap in the early spring meaning we should indulge in the bright flavors inside as the brightness and warmer weather returns outside. These lemon cookies melt in your mouth and are a great way to enjoy the seasonal shift:
White Chocolate Strawberry Rhubarb Cookies
Strawberry and rhubarb is always a favorite spring combination for folks in the north. These cookies add some white chocolate chips to that classic combo for a sweet and delicious cookie.
Maple & Dried Apple Cookies
Technically these maple dried apple cookies could be made any time of year because they use dried apples but maple syrup is tapped and freshest in Spring. Find some local and super fresh maple syrup if at all possible to bake up these beauties.
Easy Coconut Macaroons
Because eggs are so very easy to find in spring when chickens lay more, coconut macaroons are a great way to use them. They're easy, naturally gluten-free if that's something you need and a quick dessert.
Rhubarb Cookie Recipe
Rich, tart, and sweet these cookies perfectly highlight those bright red stalks - make with or without caramel frosting.
Vegetable Cookies
Most of us don't think of adding veggies to our cookies but these amazing types show us sweet it is to try!
Carrot Cake Cookies
Carrot cake cookies have all the flavor of a traditional carrot cake with much less fuss and these come complete with a cream cheese frosting to make the experience authentic and wonderful in every way.
Chocolate Spinach Cookies
Hide some greens in your cookies with these chocolate spinach cookies, sweetened with maple syrup and full of chocolate chunks no one will be the wiser to these slightly healthier cookies in the cookie jar.