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25+ Best Summer Cookie Recipes

Published: May 31, 2022 by Sunena Anand · This post contains affiliate links. I make a commission from sales. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. · Leave a Comment

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This collection of 25+ summer cookie recipes features delicious, bright flavoured cookies that will transport you to warmer weather. Ranging from fruit-packed to bright citrus flavoured cookies, these recipes will immediately transport you to summer!

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  • Fruity Cookies
  • Citrus flavoured Cookies
  • Classic Cookies
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Collage featuring photos of summer cookies, featured in the roundup.

Fruity Cookies

These cookies include summer-time favourite fruits, for a bright and summery twist!

Photo Credit: www.feastforafraction.com

Pineapple Cake Mix Whoopie Pies

These Pineapple Whoopie Pies are so easy to make and are bursting with pineapple flavor. Boxed cake mix makes it even easier!

Photo Credit: infinetaste.com

Blueberry Lemon Cookies

These blueberry lemon cookies have a bright lemon sugar cookie base studded with fresh blueberries and white chocolate chips.

Photo Credit: moneywisemoms.com

Bake Patriotic Thumbprint Cookies this Summer

These red, white, and blue patriotic thumbprint cookies are perfect for the upcoming summer holidays. There's nothing tastier than a cookie to celebrate!

Photo Credit: ourlovelanguageisfood.com

Chocolate Cherry Crinkle Cookies - Our Love Language is Food

This cherry chocolate crinkle cookies recipe is perfect for anyone who loves the combination of cherry and chocolate! These adorable red and white cookies are super chewy.

Photo Credit: www.inthekidskitchen.com

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Peanut butter and jelly cookies are a clever twist on a childhood favorite, packed with fluffy pinwheels of golden pastry dough, swirled with creamy peanut butter and sweet jam.

Photo Credit: urbanfarmie.com

Strawberry Shortcake Cookies

Nothing screams "summer cookies" like these simple, fluffy, fresh strawberry shortcake cookies! Keep them light or add a fluffy cream cheese filling to take them to the next level.

Photo Credit: www.beeyondcereal.com

Strawberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

These strawberry white chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and simply delicious. Packed with swirls of strawberry jam and white chocolate chips in every cookie, these are a nice treat to look forward to.

Photo Credit: funcookierecipes.com

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberry Cookies - Fun Cookie Recipes

These strawberry cheesecake cookies are soft, chewy, and buttery, with fresh strawberries throughout. A surprise center, stuffed with a deliciously sweet cream cheese filling makes them extra special.

Photo Credit: dancingthroughtherain.com

Raspberry Shortbread Cookies With Lemon Glaze

These Raspberry Shortbread Cookies With Lemon Glaze are the perfect treat any time of year! With bright fruity flavors and a buttery cookie base, this easy recipe is sure to become a favorite!

Citrus flavoured Cookies

Lemons, limes and oranges are the official flavours of summer! These cookies are packed with bright citrus, to make the perfect tangy and sweet treats!

Photo Credit: temeculablogs.com

Orange Creamsicle Cookies Recipe

Easy orange creamsicle cookies taste just like the popsicles you love! Using orange juice and a few other ingredients they’re a great Summer dessert.
Photo Credit: semisweetbites.com

Iced Lemon Mascarpone Cookies

These lightly sweet cookies have just the right amount of lemony flavor (from lemon zest and juice), plus an extra flavor boost from the poppy seeds. 

Photo Credit: www.barleyandsage.com

Homemade Lemon Curd Thumbprint Cookies Recipe ~ Barley & Sage

These lemon curd cookies have a tender, buttery thumbprint cookie filled with tangy homemade lemon curd and then dusted with powdered sugar! They're super easy to make and have just the right balance of sweet and sour!

Photo Credit: wearenotmartha.com

Margarita Shortbread Cookies

Thanks to orange cointreau in the cookie, tequila in the icing, and plenty of lime juice, these Margarita Cookies taste just like the drink! They're perfect for summertime parties or as happy hour treats.

Photo Credit: www.cookiedoughandovenmitt.com

Strawberry Lemon Sugar Cookie Cups

Let's get ready for summer with these strawberry lemon sugar cookie cups! The tender sugar cookie is baked into cupcake tins and the center is pressed down after being baked, and finished off by piping a sweet and tangy strawberry lemon curd in the center of each cookie.

Photo Credit: vintagekitchennotes.com

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Since lemon crinkles are a crowd-pleaser, let me tell you this is the only recipe you'll ever need. They’re simply sensational! Perfectly tender, easy to make, and with an intense fresh lemon flavor.

Photo Credit: lemonsandzest.com

Easy Key Lime Cookies with Lime Glaze

Move over pie, these soft and chewy Key Lime Cookies are so refreshing and delicious. The perfect texture cookie iced with a key lime glaze--these simple cookies are every lime lover's dream come true! Only 10 minutes to prepare the cookie dough!

Photo Credit: www.sweetrecipeas.com

Key Lime Pie Crinkle Cookies with Crushed Graham Cracker

These Key Lime Pie Crinkle Cookies are a twist on a classic crinkle cookie with tart key lime and rolled in graham cracker powdered sugar.
Photo Credit: www.retrorecipebox.com

Lemon Pudding Cookies

Lemon Pudding Cookies with white chocolate chips are soft and chewy, refreshing lemon flavored cookies that you’ll quickly fall in love with. These Easy Lemon Cookies have a wonderful texture and a bright lemon flavor with the sweet bite of the white chocolate chips.

Photo Credit: theforkedspoon.com

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!
Photo Credit: www.atastefortravel.ca

Crispy Lime Coconut Sugar Cookies

Delicious sweet and tart, these tropical sugar cookies that are made with shredded coconut, cream cheese, butter, lime juice and zest, and coconut extract. They’re perfect for gift-giving or munching on any time of day.

Photo Credit: www.willcookforsmiles.com

Glazed Lemon Vanilla Oatmeal Cookies

Unbelievable, soft oatmeal cookies made with fresh lemon zest for a nice citrus burst. These cookies are topped with delicious lemon vanilla glaze that’s made with lemon zest and vanilla bean.

Photo Credit: www.lovefromtheoven.com

Lemon Cookie Recipe

This easy and refreshing lemon cookie recipe combines a buttery lemon cookie, a satiny lemony glaze and crushed Lemon Heads. If you could take a bite of sunshine, I’m fairly sure this is what it would taste like.

Classic Cookies

These classic cookie recipes are exactly what you're looking or - easy to make, and the perfect sweet snack on a hot summer day!

Photo Credit: www.bakingbeauty.net

Chocolate Chip Cookie Smores

Chocolate Chip Cookie Smores: Gooey marshmallow and creamy chocolate sandwiched between two chewy chocolate chip cookies.

Photo Credit: www.dinneratthezoo.com

Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Sprinkles

These chocolate fudge cookies with sprinkles are a soft sugar cookie topped with a rich and creamy fudge filling and finished off with rainbow sprinkles.

Photo Credit: www.mimosasandmotherhood.com

4th of July Red White and Blue Cookies

These fun colored red white and blue cookies are perfect for your holiday plans. Bright and colorful while so easy to make, you’re sure to love these 4th of July cookies!

Photo Credit: bestcookierecipes.com

Neapolitan Cookie Recipe

Neapolitan Cookies a Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe flavored Strawberry, Vanilla, and Chocolate makes for a fun and tasty cookie recipe.

Photo Credit: funmoneymom.com

Watermelon Cookie Recipe

This Watermelon Cookie Recipe is festive and fun and just what your backyard BBQ or pool party needs this year! Everyone will love these sweet, adorable and super easy to make treats.

Photo Credit: cambreabakes.com

Double Chocolate S'mores Cookie Recipe

A rich, chewy dark chocolate cookie stuffed full of buttery honeyed graham crackers, sweet chocolate chips and a gooey homemade marshmallow center. These double chocolate s'mores cookies are perfect for a fun and unique way to enjoy your next s'mores craving!

Photo Credit: thesoccermomblog.com

Frozen Hot Chocolate Cookies (Crumbl Copycat)

A chilled fudge cookie topped with fluffy cocoa frosting and mini marshmallows — it’s easy to see why these Crumbl Frozen Hot Chocolate Cookies were such a hit! Now you can make them at home!

Photo Credit: www.lifebeginswithdessert.com

Fourth of July Sugar Cookies

These buttery, chewy sugar cookies will add a pop of patriotism to this year’s fourth of July barbeque! Made with simple ingredients, these fourth of July sugar cookies make the perfect summer night dessert or holiday activity for the kids.
Photo Credit: www.willcookforsmiles.com

Coconut Oatmeal Cookie Sandwich

Soft, chewy, delightful oatmeal cookies made with coconut flakes and vanilla bean. To make the cookie sandwich heavenly, these cookies are stuffed with some creamy coconut buttercream marshmallow filling.

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