Colder weather keeping you indoors? Well, it’s the perfect time to bake up some delicious cookies. These are 5 world-famous cookie recipes, and they’re basically guaranteed to have you be the hit of any bakesale. Who doesn’t love a delicious cookie to warm you up on a cold day?

Compost Cookies

Made famous from New York’s Milk Bar, the Compost Cookie is Chef Christina Tosi’s upgrade of the classic “kitchen sink” cookie! They are full of sweet, salty, and bitter flavours, and crispy, crunchy, chewy, soft textures – each bite is as exciting as the next, because you never know if you’re going to get a mouthful of chocolate or butterscotch chips, pretzels, coffee grounds, or potato chips. Get the authentic recipe here.

Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies

“Pan-Banging” cookies? What could that possibly mean? Well, this NYT-acclaimed recipe from the Vanilla Bean Blog makes the most beautiful chocolate-chip cookies with crinkled crispy edges – by dropping the baking sheet onto the oven rack over and over while they cook! See her blog post for details, but essentially, this cookie dough is transformed by this completely innovative pan-banging process. You have to try this one!

Levain Bakery Super Thick Cookies

Levain Bakery was made famous by its 6oz chocolate chip walnut cookie – it’s about the size of your ear, and more soft, chewy, and gooey than you could ever imagine. Try this copycat recipe to satisfy the craving if you can’t get to NYC!

Thomas Keller Oreos – the TKO

If you want a famous chefs’ upgrade of the Oreo, Thomas Keller’s “TKO” is sure to satisfy! One of the world’s greatest chefs, Thomas Keller has made the world’s most glamorous oreo. It’s delicious, made with real ingredients, and a fun rainy-day project. Get his recipe here!

Balaboosta Bakery Stuffed Cookies

This awesomely crazy bakery is doing some pretty epic things with cookies – including stuffing them with just about everything delicious, from butterfinger chocolate bars, to smores, to Nutella, and everything in between. Try this copycat recipe, or just be inspired to create your favourite cookie base, and stuff each piece of dough with whatever looks exciting – chocolate bars, marshmallows, brownie batter … go nuts!

#TreatYoSelf to some really, really, really good cookies. If you get really good at them now, you’ll be an expert by the time Christmas cookie season comes around, too! Enjoy!

Kelowna born and raised, Keddy Pavlik of TheTreatLife has been passionate about the local food scene basically since birth. If she's not in the kitchen, you can probably find her at the farmer's market or taking pictures of food. Photo Credit: Jordana Dickson.