Soft, buttery brown sugar cookies loaded with chopped leftover Halloween candy and brightened with lemon and lime zest. Use whatever’s in your candy bowl: Snickers, peanut M&M’s, Butterfingers, Reese’s, Payday. Bake a couple now and freeze the rest of the dough as scoops, so a fresh cookie is always about 10 minutes away.

Precision-cut strips of red-tinted and chocolate doughs are carefully assembled into a checkerboard brick, chilled, sliced, and baked into striking two-toned cookies. These eye-catching cookies cleverly echo the game night theme with their built-in board game pattern.

This recipe for Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies is Val and Sophie's sophisticated take on the ultimate classic. By swapping standard semi-sweet chips for dark chocolate and adding a generous two tablespoons of fresh orange zest, she transforms a childhood favorite into a bright, "grown-up" treat that balances rich cocoa with citrusy aromatics.