15 Last-Minute Cookies to Make Dad Smile

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3-Ingredient Butter Cookies

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These 3-Ingredient Butter Cookies must be the quickest and simplest cookies to bake! The cookies require minimal prep and only 3 ingredients that everyone has around.

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Ginger Cookies with Candied Ginger

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These soft and chewy Ginger Cookies with Candied Ginger with a good touch of spices are absolutely delicious! They are really easy to make with a few simple ingredients, and they go down well all year around.

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3-Ingredient Condensed Milk Cookies

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My 3-Ingredient Sweetened Condensed Milk Cookies are one of the simplest and quickest cookie recipe to have around. The cookies are made with sweetened condensed milk, butter and flour, and nothing else! How simple!

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Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Candied Orange

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These Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Candied Orange are as delicious as they look. They are super simple to make, and the combo chocolate and orange is one of a kind!

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Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These soft and chewy Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies are extremely chocolatey and so rich! They use 3 different kinds of chocolate chips plus cocoa powder to create some indulgent cookies with a fudgy texture.

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Banana Oatmeal Cookies

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These Banana Oatmeal Cookies are made with peanut butter and agave nectar for a healthy cookie recipe that is vegan and gluten free. They have no refined-sugar added, no flour, and make a fantastic last-minute treat.

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Peanut Butter Cookies with Salted Peanuts

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These Peanut Butter Cookies with Salted Peanuts are crunchy and indulgent, and so easy to make! The peanut butter adds richness and a lovely salty touch, while the peanuts add a good crunch. What a treat!

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Peach Cookies

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These Peach Cookies are such impressive cookies! And a lot easier to make than you’d think. Yummy cookies sandwiched together with a jam and cookie crumb filling, then dipped into coloured milk, and coated in granulated sugar to resemble peaches.

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Coconut Shortbread Cookies

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My Coconut Shortbread Cookies are soft, rich and buttery and full of coconut flavour They are super easy to make with just a few ingredients, and go down a treat with your favourite hot drink.

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3-Ingredient Nutella-Stuffed Cookies

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Nutella-Stuffed Nutella Cookies are made with only 3 ingredients: nutella, flour and egg to create a fantastic dessert recipe that is so quick and easy to make. The cookies are so soft and baked to perfection.

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Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These Brownie Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies are not only so rich and indulgent, but they are also super quick to make! In just 15 minutes you can get these fantastic cookies that every dad would absolutely love!

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Lemon Shortbread Dipped in White Chocolate

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These Lemon Shortbread Cookies Dipped in White Chocolate are buttery, soft, nearly melting in your mouth. These shortbreads have a nice zesty kick, and the white chocolate adds richness and sweetness.

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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are the very best homemade cookies that can be made from scratch for every occasion. They are rich, buttery so delicious!

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Scottish Shortbread

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This traditional Scottish Shortbread is an old-fashioned recipe that is incredibly easy to make, and super quick too. The shortbreads are crumbly, rich and buttery, and ready from scratch in under 30 minutes.

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Romanian Cornulete

Bow tie cookies on a plate.
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My Romanian Cornulete are some fantastic cookies filled with jam or Turkish Delight. They are easy to make, and quick too, and they simply melt in the mouth.

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