These 20 summer cookie recipes are packed with seasonal flavors and perfect for sharing. Whether you’re craving fruity strawberry biscuit cookies, bright coconut lime cookies, or chocolatey s’mores chocolate chip cookies, you’ll find plenty of warm-weather favorites here. Easy to pack, transport, and share, cookies are the perfect dessert for picnics, cookouts, beach days, and summer gatherings.
Favorite Summer Cookie Recipes
Let’s talk cookies.
Between the recipes on my website, the cookies chapter in Sally’s Baking 101, and those in my cookbook Sally’s Cookie Addiction, I’ve amassed a giant collection of trusted cookie recipes. Obviously they’re the star treat during the holidays (SO many Christmas cookies!), but what about in the summer months?
I often turn to cookies during the summer because they’re a relatively easy dessert to prepare and bake, perfect for stacking and transporting, and provide an opportunity for fun seasonal flavors. Plus, children, who may be in need of an activity, love to help make them!
Coconut lime cookies and strawberry biscuit cookies are two favorites. Or try these very lemon crinkle cookies—don’t they look like little rays of sunshine? And no summer is complete without a batch of cookie ice cream sandwiches.
If you have young bakers at home, these mini animal cracker cookies are one of my go-to kid-friendly baking recipes. Kids love dunking the cinnamon-spiced cookies in icing and topping with sprinkles.
My team and I collected 20 of our favorite summer cookie recipes and listed them below. These are our top seasonal favorites (out of every single cookie recipe I’ve ever published…) and each recipe is perfect for sharing at summer cookouts, 4th of July festivities, beach days, graduation parties, on a picnic blanket, around a campfire, or poolside.
Success Tip: Traveling with Summer Cookies
Transporting dozens of cookies without ruining them can be tricky, but my solution is layering them (after cooling) in a handy cupcake carrier. The cupcake trays are removable. And if you’re bringing along sheet cakes or bars, bake and transport them in a 9×13-inch pan with a lid, which could also work for cookies.
For more summer baking inspiration, here’s my entire collection of summer recipes.
20 Summer Cookie Recipes
S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is a fun and easy way to dress up an ordinary chocolate chip cookie with the classic s’mores flavors we all know and love!
Strawberry Biscuit Cookies
Adapted from my biscuits and strawberry shortcake recipes, each buttery cookie is tender and flaky in the centers, packed with juicy strawberries, and topped with a sprinkle of crunchy sugar and sweet icing.
Very Lemon Crinkle Cookies
These zingy lemon crinkle cookies are soft-baked, coated in confectioners’ sugar, and made with real fresh lemon flavor, not extract.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookies on my site, and they’re guaranteed to be the most popular treat at any summer gathering, too.
Blueberry Muffin Cookies
Packed with blueberries and a hint of lemon, these cake-like cookies taste like muffin tops and are very easy to make.
Glazed Coconut Lime Cookies
Soft and flavorful coconut lime cookies are topped with a sweet and tangy lime glaze that sets, which makes them perfect for stacking, storing, and transporting.
Toasted S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies
This toasty take on my favorite chewy chocolate chip cookies includes extra chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows.
Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Make your own cookie ice cream sandwiches at home using my quick no-chill cookie recipe and your favorite ice cream flavor.
Lemon Coconut Drop Shortbread Cookies
These easy two-bite lemon coconut drop shortbread cookies are buttery and light with a tender, yet crumbly shortbread texture.
Soft-Baked M&M Cookies
My recipe guarantees M&M cookies that are soft-baked style with extra chewy edges and tons of mini M&Ms packed in each bite.
Zucchini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
A great way to use some of summer’s bountiful vegetable, these zucchini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are extra soft with chewy centers, crisp edges, and oodles of melty chocolate chips.
Frosted Strawberry Cookies
No artificial flavors, no food coloring… just pure, concentrated strawberry flavor in every bite!
Marshmallow Crispy Cookies
If you love the marshmallow crispy cookies from Costco, these have a similar chewy, crispy texture—just made from scratch!
Cookies & Cream Cookies
These 2-in-1 cookies are packed with chunks of Oreos and sweet white chocolate chips, promising lots of flavor and texture in each bite.
Drop Sugar Cookies With Sprinkles
My soft, chewy, sprinkle-loaded drop sugar cookies are made from only 8 ingredients, and are no rolling pins or cookie cutters required.
Fireworks Celebration Cookies
I created these fun fireworks cookies using my base sugar cookie dough (with lemon flavoring) and an easy icing design that is doable for cookie decorators of all skill levels.
Mini Animal Cracker Cookies
These simple 8-ingredient kid-friendly cookies are flavored with cinnamon and topped with icing and rainbow sprinkles.
Coconut Macadamia Nut Cookies
Featuring crispy edges, soft centers, flecks of coconut, chunks of macadamia nuts, and a white chocolate drizzle, these cookies are always a popular choice in the summer months.
Lemon Blueberry Cookies
Sunny citrus meets bright blueberry flavor in these soft and thick, naturally flavored and colored blueberry frosted lemon cookies.
Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies
My reader-favorite cake batter chocolate chip cookies are a cross between soft-baked chocolate chip cookies and sprinkle-filled confetti cake.
