Looking for a few fun and festive Memorial Day cookies to serve up your guests? Look no further because these cookies are perfect even if you waited til the last minute. From easy cake mix cookies to decorated sugar cookies, there's something for everyone.
Memorial Day celebrations also help ring in the start of the summer season. They are full of fun, refreshing and easy eats and treats. And, serving up some delicious and festive cookies is perfect for your guests.
We selected these Memorial Day cookies based on the following criteria: ease to make, ability to make in large batches, festive look. So, scroll on down and find the perfect cookies for your celebration.
Watermelon Sugar Cookies
These watermelon sugar cookies are just like a slice of summer. They look like little slices of watermelon with green rind, pink flesh and cute chocolate chip seeds.
Why it's good: the sweet sugar cookie dough base is super easy to make. They are a nice centerpiece for a dessert table at a Memorial Day cookout.
Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies
Fruit pizza sugar cookies are delicious, soft and fruity. They have a soft and chewy sugar cookie based, topped with sweet frosting and fresh red and blue berries.
Why it's good: they are festive with red, white and blue colors. Easily customize them by using different fruits to top them off.
Maraschino Cherry Cookies
These maraschino cherry cookies are a pretty pink, easy to make cookie. They are bursting with cherries and chocolate chips for an over the top sweet taste.
Why they're good: this is a no chill recipe, so they are fast and easy to make. Their pink color and chocolate cherry flavor is super yummy and festive.
Lemon Blueberry Cookies
Tart and sweet, lemon blueberry cookies combine citrus and berry flavors. The cookie itself is soft and chewy.
Why they're good: no chill time is required for these. They can use fresh or frozen blueberries.
Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
Sweet and tart, these lemon cake mix cookies are super delicious. The crinkle effect and light powdered sugar coating really throws them over the top in terms of flavor and texture.
Why they're good: you only need 3 ingredients (4 if using powdered sugar). And, they don't take long to mix up at all since you use a cake mix as the dough.
Apple Pie Cookies
Skip baking an actual pie and whip up a batch of these apple pie cookies instead. They are topped with spiced apples just like a pie, but are on top of a sweet cookie base.
Why they're good: these cookies are super cute and look like mini pies. You can make them even more fun by adding a dollop of vanilla ice cream of whipped cream on top.
