Five Classic Cookie Recipes

With their delicious blend of salty and sweet flavors, peanut butter cookies are always popular. This basic recipe uses the so-called "molded method" because you use a fork to flatten and shape the cookies.

Here's a recipe for sugar cookies that demonstrates the rolled cookie method where the dough is rolled out flat and then the cookies are cut out with cookie cutters.

These basic chocolate chip cookies are made using the "drop" method ​because balls of dough are simply dropped onto the baking sheet. This recipe uses semi-sweet chocolate chips and brown sugar for that old-fashioned goodness.

Another example of the "drop" cookie method, oatmeal-raisin cookies are everything a cookie should be. This classic oatmeal-raisin cookie recipe shows why it's one of the most popular cookies ever.

The perfect snickerdoodle is slightly soft and chewy with a generous dusting of cinnamon sugar on top. Snickerdoodles are also made by the drop method.