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Saturday mornings were made for baking cookies. There's no rush, the house is quiet, and the smell of butter and brown sugar is the best alarm clock there is. Today I'm sharing five of the most-loved bakery and snack-aisle cookies you can make yourself — soft and chewy, buttery and crumbly, and one sheet-pan bar for when you don't feel like scooping. Grab a big glass of milk. 🍪

🥖 The Sandwich-Shop Classic

​Subway Chocolate Chip Footlong Cookie — Soft in the center with crisp, golden edges and plenty of chocolate chips in every bite. Baking it as one giant footlong is half the fun and makes it feel like a treat from the counter. Slice it into pieces to share, or don't.

🍪 The Giant Bakery Cookie

​Crumbl Chocolate Chip Cookies — Thick, soft, and almost underbaked in the middle, with the kind of pillowy bite that made the mall-bakery version famous. Bake a few and keep the dough chilled for the rest. They're best the day they come out of the oven.

🌰 The Melt-in-Your-Mouth One

​David's Cookies Butter Pecan Meltaways — Tender, buttery cookies packed with toasted pecans and rolled in sugar, dissolving the second they hit your tongue. They're elegant enough for a holiday cookie tray and easy enough for a quiet Saturday. One is never enough.

🗳️ You Pick the Next Cookie

I have a long list of bakery cookies I'd love to crack, and I want your vote. Head over to the CopyKat Community and tell me which cookie I should develop next — a Levain-style giant? A Mrs. Fields classic? Your request could be the next recipe on the site.

🥜 The Crisp Shortbread

​Keebler Almond Shortbread Cookies — Crisp, buttery, and perfectly sweet with a gentle almond flavor, like the favorite from the snack aisle but fresher. They're lovely with coffee or tea and keep beautifully in a tin. Make a batch for yourself and a batch for a neighbor.

🍫 The Sheet-Pan Shortcut

​Fudge Jumbles Cookie Bars — All the chocolatey, chewy goodness of a loaded cookie, pressed into one pan and cut into squares. There's no scooping, no batches, and no waiting around for the oven. They're a lifesaver when a crowd is on the way.

🛒 In the Kitchen: Cookie Baking Essentials

Three picks that make a cookie-baking Saturday easier from mixer to cookie jar.

🥄 Hand Mixer — Creaming butter and sugar until it's light and fluffy is the secret to tender cookies, and a hand mixer makes it quick. It's lighter and easier to store than a stand mixer when you're making a small batch.

📄 Precut Parchment — Sheets already cut to fit your pan mean the Crumbl-style cookies never stick and cleanup is nearly nonexistent. Slide a fresh sheet in between batches and keep going.

🫙 Air Tight Containers — Soft cookies stay soft and crisp shortbread stays crisp when they're sealed tight. It's the easiest way to make Saturday's baking last all week.

🥛 Save Me One

That's the beauty of a cookie Saturday — the house smells wonderful, the jar fills up, and everyone wanders into the kitchen asking what's baking. Start with the one that sounds best and work your way down the list through the weekend. I'd love to hear which cookie disappears first at your house. Thank you for baking along with me! 🧡

Option 1: P.S. Want Cinnabon cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning without the early alarm? I'm teaching make-ahead copycat sweets at Holiday Kitchen Kickoff on November 13th. It's free. Grab your spot here.