What's your favorite cookie?

[Silverlady]

We all have favorite sweets/desserts, and for me, COOKIES,  are my weakness. I just LOVE them.

My favorite though is a Toll House chocolate chip cookie ( from the recipe on the back of a bag of Hershey's chocolate chips). The raw dough itself is delicious, BUT when you bake them and eat one while it is still warm and the chocolate soft ... oh, pure bliss. 

My second favorite is a Spritz Christmas cookie.  When I was a child I used to help my mom bake these for the holidays. Basically, the dough is just a softened butter, sugar, egg, and flour mixture that's stuffed into a tube and pressed onto a baking sheet through interchangable discs.  Then you can decorate the stars, wreaths, trees, and other assorted cookie shapes with colored sugars or sprinkles.  The cookies themselves just melt in your mouth.  I kept this tradition goring with my own kids, and plan to continue with my grandkids.

And my third favorite is Oatmeal Raisin.  The cookie has to be soft though, not hard. I have made my own, but I really like the ones from SUBWAY!

Geez, I'm making myself hungry ...  well, how about you guys?  What are your favorites?

[Trevor]

South Africa has a great cookie tradition: the famous Marie Biscuit which is great for dunking in tea or coffee or just eaten like that. The local chocolate chip ones aren't up to much but strangely, the cookies the SA Blood Donor Service gives you are great. 

[Raffine]

The Girl Scouts' Thin Mints.



There are now many variations of this cookie available year round at grocery stores, but they are just not quite the same!

[Raffine]

Now I'll be singin' this all day...

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[Derf]

My favorite is a no-bake oatmeal fudge cookie. It's cooked on top of the stove, making the chocolate part first and then adding the oatmeal and then dolloping it out onto wax paper to cool. We used to call them cowpattie cookies. Many people add peanut butter, but that ruins the taste for me.

Then there are the Girl Scout Samoas: a cookie covered with caramel, chocolate and oatmeal. Mmmmmmmm.

And then Snickerdoodles: Cinnamon and sugar are an awesome combination.

I love a good shortbread cookie, too, but the above would make up my all-time favorites list.

[Mr. DS]

I personally feel the cookie gods went beyond perfection when they inveted the Double Stuff Oreo.  I also enjoy, as a strain to pat myself on the back, my homemade chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven with a tall glass o' milk.  Anyone want the recipe let me know and I'll post it.

[3mnkids]

Peanut butter cookies, slightly undercooked. I want my cookies soft and mushy. My husband is making chocolate chip cookies right now and they smell so good. He overcooks them though   

[The Gravekeeper]

I don't mind chocolate chip, but I do have a soft spot for sugar cookies (provided I made them; the store-bought ones are just too hard and tasteless. Plus, when I make them I can use the Halloween cookie cutters no matter what time of the year it is).

My all-time favourites? Girl Scout cookies.

I haven't seen any Girl Scouts selling them around here for years...it's always the thin mints, and they're not the same at all!

PS- When I googled that Girl Scout cookie image, I discovered that there are more varieties than what I grew up with. Heck, when I was IN the Girl Scouts we didn't have that many varieties!

[The Burgomaster]

This is a tough choice, but I'll go with Oatmeal Raisin.  

[Newt]

Those thin mint Girl Guide cookies are sneaky: I can eat a whole box at once if I am not paying attention.

When I was a toddler we lived next to a small town bakery: they had THE most delicious raisin cookies - the raisins had marvelous flavour! One of my happiest memories has to do with the taste and scent of those cookies.   Funny, but I have not found a raisin cookie to live up to that taste since.  In fact, I actively DISlike raisin cookies!

I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe (from a kids' cookbook) that makes tasty chewy cookies without fail.  (The dough that makes it into the oven, that is)  For school events I make them into 'sandwiches' with buttercream icing between.  Deadly.  

We make multi-coloured spritz at Christmas time.  My daughter loves them.

3mnkids: have you tried the peanut butter recipe that does not use flour?  They're almost like soft, slightly chewy candies. (But it is still possible to overcook them).

But my absolute most favourite cookie has to be (drum roll)    Whipped shortbread.  With or without chocolate chunks.  Oh my!    

[Ash]

I like iced oatmeal cookies.



I also love those Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies with the red and green sprinkles.

[retrorussell]

Brands: Chips Ahoy and Soft Batch.
Types: Chocolate Chip, Double Chocolate with either chocolate or white chocolate chips, or both.
Also, cookies with peanut butter chips.
And the thin mint cookies are pretty awesome.  Shortbreads are good too.

[Paquita]

I love cookies too much to pick a favorite, but homemade Toll House chocolate chip cookies are up at the top.  However, I've noticed I only like them made with McCormick vanilla, for some reason even more expensive fancy brands of vanilla don't taste right.

I LOVE Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies too!  It's basically the same recipe with 1 cup of pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice added.  They're cakey and never get hard!

There's a place by my work called Specialty's that makes the best cookies I've ever had.

I also love sugar cookies, shortbread, spritz, magic middles (RIP), gingerbread, peanut butter, snickerdoodles... drool drool.

I've never heard of WHIPPED shortbread though!  I'll have to look that up!

Darksider - I want to know your recipe!

[Mr. DS]

Paquita my dear, here you go;

Indgrediants
2/3 cup of shortening (aka Crisco In A Can)
2/3 cup of butter
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
3 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
6 oz of semi sweet chocolate chips, preferable from Nestle (or more if you like them chocolatey)

Preheat your oven to 350. Mix all the ingrediants and kneed it into the cookie dough.  I find your using your hands, though gross, works best.  Place a small ammount side by side on a slick cookie sheet pan. Usually they take about 10 minutes to complete.  BUT my suggestion is to keep an eye on them.  If the outsides edges seem done I'd take them out.  It keeps them from overcooking.

I actually got the recipe from my mother who I think stole it from Betty Crocker.  She'll probably never admit that though.  Enjoy and make sure Skull don't eat them all on you. 

[Rev. Powell]

The Girl Scouts' Thin Mints.



There are now many variations of this cookie available year round at grocery stores, but they are just not quite the same!

How can two people agree so much on bad movies, but disagree so much on cookies?  I can't stand Thin Mints, though maybe my dislike of them is as much related to my dislike their guilt-tripping little salespeople as to the cookie itself.

I'm not that much of a cookie guy, but my favorite cookies are fresh, hot ones---Toll House chocolate chip being at the top of the list (but peanut butter is a close second).  The only ones I can stand to eat cold are oatmeal raisin, when they have a nice chewy consistency.  And I could go a lifetime without eating store-bought cookies out of a bag.