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Shortbread.

Either shortbread, or gingersnaps with as much ginger as possible. Fresh, crystalized, powdered... throw it all in.

I've recently fallen in love with molasses cookies..

nice thin chewy chocolate chip cookies.... they're the best.

I like chocolate chocolate chip cookies....yum. Big chunks o' chocolate!

chocolate chip with pecans and dried cherries!

oatmeal chocolate chip, for sure. but still chewy, not cooked to a crisp.

From the Once Upon a Tart cookbook-- chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries (wheat germ is added for an extra crunch-- incredible cookie!).

ANZAC!

brownies!

reverse chocolate chip-chocolate with white chocolate chips. soo good

My favorite: ginger snaps, especially with a nice cup o'tea! I've never made my own but I want to try. Whole Foods used to make their own under the 365 brand that had big chunks of candied ginger, but I think they changed the recipe and the chunks are gone :(

Banana oatmeal walnut cookies. Chewy. Recipe is from St. Augustine, FL Junior League cookbook. Also love my Mother's molasses & walnuts cookies...again, chewy not crispy!

gotta be chocolate chip!

Only one favorite? Oatmeal with raisins or chocolate. Anything with peanut butter!

Salty Oats!

black and white cookies. but only to look at.

Molasses cookies. raisins optional

Honey pots from Rosie's bakery. Or a nice chewy molasses.

chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. or the reverse, peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips.

Sherry Yard's gingersnaps. Tried them last week, and never before had I inhaled anything so quickly.

ooh, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with cranberries, natch

Fudgy peanut-butter brownies

Black and whites! Full size, extra cakey.

White chocolate and macadamia nut - very soft, please!

Florentine Lace cookies are my FAVORITES! And have such a problem finding them sometimes.
I also love Oatmeal Chocolate Chip.

@tidmus: WORD! Punitions to the max.

My favorite is classic chocolate chip. I could make a "top 5" list, but chocolate chip...that's where it's at. And a handful of punitions on the side.

My Mom hates peanut butter, so I looked forward to bake sales at school so I could purchase the sweet, sweet goodness of peanut butter cookies with hershey kisses plopped on top.

Do pecan tassies count? Otherwise, chewy chocolate chip and pecan cookies!

i love any cookie with oatmeal in it. and in terms of commercially processed cookies i can never eat less than five of those albertson's brand maple cookies in one sitting.

a big, fat slightly-crispy-on-the-outside-but-chewy-on-the-inside-chocolate chip cookie with walnuts...and any variation of it...

My girlfriend make the best chocolate chip cookies. Those are my favorite.

Ginger Cookies.

At the moment, Gille's double chocolate oatmeal crisps, which keep luring me back to Ikea, despite the fact that I have no need for more furniture. Le Petite Ecoliers with the slab o' chocolate on top come a close second.

mom's oatmeal cranberry cookies

My boyfriend makes a cookie that he calls "Sin."- It's a basic Toll-House chocolate chip recipe, but he adds cocoa powder, then chocolate, cinnamon, peanut butter, and white chocolate chips, and dried cherries. They're truly sinful. :-)

The best cookies for my money are raspberry Rugelach (singular, Rugel?) from Delancy Bros. bakery. Actually, any bakery that can pull off the ruglach with a soft swirl of dough and a nice flakey exterior does it for me. Runner up: white lace cookies. Mmmmmm.

French macarons...especially Pierre Herme. I still dream (and weep) of that etheral, awesomely delicious, macaron that is impossible to find in NYC.

Macaroons from Bouchon Bakery

Chocolate espresso cookies

I love lemon poppy seed cookies.

little debbie oatmeal creme pies

I'm a sucker for those Pierre Herme Korova cookies (dark chocolate with fleur de sel.)

m&m - my recipe calls for a package of vanilla pudding. mmmmmm

I've never met a cookie I didn't like, but my fave is...peanut butter :)

Peanut Butter Cookies are my favorite (Right Out The Oven)!!!

peanut butter cookies with lots of chocolate chips

ginger snaps - Trader Joe's has a triple ginger version that I can eat WAY too many of.

Brownies Brownies Brownies. And Dorie Greenspan's recipe (New York Times) is the best. What a wonderful book this must be!

White chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookies are the bomb.

chocolate chocolate chip

Slightly warm Chocolate chips cookies!!!

As someone who grew up with a Polish mother who baked all sorts of delicious cookies--and other traditional baked goods, I have a soft spot for baking cookbooks....just looking at the photos takes me back to my mom's kitchen. While not from the old country, the cookie my mom made that became my favorite is a perfectly baked macaroon cookie--pure and simple--not dipped in chocolate, no extra flavor added.

Crispy Peanut Butter is my downfall !

White chocolate and Macadamia nut is one of my favorites with a brownie type cookie running a close second...oh, and Thin Mints...oh, and a chewy Oatmeal cookie...and the list could go on and on!

My favorite is a sugar cookie (homemade with sour cream in the dough) and iced--enough of a sugar blast to satisfy my super sweet tooth!!

The best cookies are fresh-baked and soft. My favorites include white chocolate and macadamia nut and my aunt's pizzelles (not a true cookie, maybe, but delish anyway).

My mom makes what she calls "wafer cookies". Two flaky, buttery cookies with buttercream icing (traditionally colored pink or light green) between them. So good.

oatmeal chocolate chip!

any kind of shortbread with sea salt: chocolate, lemon, lavender...they're all lovely

chocolate chip cookies... though I sometimes like to mix it up and and put peanut butter or butterscotch chips in also.

Peanut butter cookies, made with chunky peanut butter, Joy of Cooking recipe.

Mexican Wedding Cookies, preferably made with the Alabama pecans I buy in the fall. However, if I'm in a hurry the ones from Whole Food are darn good.

Chocolate chip; sometimes the simplest things are the best.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES ARE THE BEST!

Extra-soft molasses cookies are the best

Either peanut butter, soft oatmeal raisin, or molasses...there are just so many good cookies out there (and so many horrible store bought ones as well!)
Basically, I'll eat anything without chocolate, though (I know, I'm a chocolate-hating freak, but believe me, I get enough grief about it from my chocoholic friends...)

Peanut Butter, with extra salted peanuts folded in....

Definitely oatmeal-chocolate chip with loads of walnuts.....unless of course, homemade whoopie pies with peanut butter filling are considered a cookie!

snickerdoodles are my favorite home made cookie. my grandmother spoilt me when i was little.

cornmeal cookies studded with candied pecans

Mmmm, a soft warm chocolate chip cookie!

TKOs(oreos for grownups) and NutterButters from Bouchon Bakery

Definately New York Cheesecake!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmmm!!!! Yummy!!!!!!!!!

I love honey cardamom cookies when my sister bakes them. When I bake them, they torn into sweet rocks. When she bakes them, they are chewy bites of heaven. :)

Usually I lean towards cookies chock full of spice, or chocolate, or black sesame...mmm peanuty-esque goodness.

Yet, recently I found this chunky french cookie recipe in the one upon a tart book. It had cranberries in it, but I swapped out cherries, and really really good chocolate for crumby chips. They were so loaded with stuff in the way that a good chocolate chip cookie should always be loaded, but when I was baking them I was worried that they wouldn't cook right...that they would just be a giant melty gooey blob of chocolate nutty fruity goodness.

Now though I realize they just needed more chocolate...and I know this sounds blasphemous, but who is dory greenspan? ^^

I was going back and forth, mired in indecisiveness, until I remembered Oreos. Definitely Oreos.

I like to bake chewy oatmeal cookies with different treats in them. Sometimes I'll use craisins, candied ginger and walnuts. Sometimes I'll add pumpkin and cinnamon. My husband likes them with almonds and semi-sweet and white chocloate chunks. No matter what I put in them though, they always make our house smell delish!

Chocolate chip.

My favorite cookies contain more butter than any other ingredient. The dough is so good, you're tempted to eat an entire batch without turning on the oven.

There's a little salt, less sugar than many recipes require, and they're almost always under-baked by a minute or two. That way, they remain chewy and moist even when teeth first encounter the crunch of sugar, a hardened frosting, crusty glaze or crispness before piercing the crumb.

There are a few exceptions to this general rule, especially when ginger is stirred into the dough. However, the question asks about favorites and my favorite cookies are naked.

While I adored Toll House cookies as a child, rolling out, cutting and frosting cookies at Christmas was such an important family ritual that I have developed a thing for spicy dough and cookies that grow more tender and flavorful as they age in tins.

As an adult, I am grateful for ingredients that were not available when I was young and big blocks of dark chocolate have replaced bags of milk chocolate chips. Valrhona cocoa. Organic pistachio paste. Fresh rosemary and pine nuts. The pleasure of new, unexpected flavors is hard to compare with comforting nostalgia.

I'm torn between a love of grated gingerroot and crystallized ginger on the one hand and bittersweet chocolate on the other. Chocolate wins when it promotes what men and women in dark suits cannot hope to deliver as they stand before microphones and plead.

Chocolate chip cookies made with lots of good butter. No crisco here. With icy cold milk. Mmmmmm :)

grandma's frosted sugar cookies!

toffee sugar cookies

Soft chewy oatmeal raisin cookies right out of the oven

Mexican wedding cakes/russian tea cakes. I've heard them called both. Those dense, nutty little cookies rolled in powder sugar. Mmmm... Tastes like Christmas. :)

Homemade soft and warm chocolate chip BIG cookies. They have to be fresh and 5 min done out of the oven.

Yum!!!!

Mom's triple chocolate chip. Lots of milk, semi-sweet, and white chocolate in a crispy outside-smooshy inside combination with a slight crispness to the bottom due to the supremely high sugar content.

Chocolate chip with nuts and coconut and dried cherries. And spritz cookies with plum or apricot jam filling, dipped in chocolate.

I almost forgot...Browned Butter Shortbread Cookies. There was a recipe in Gourmet a couple of Christmases ago...they are really spectacular!

Macarons! But I suppose those would be considered confections of sorts... Otherwise it's chewy ginger cookies that are made with fresh ginger. Yum!

I like peanut butter cookies best.

It's a tie between chocolate chip cookies and fudgy brownies, although whichever one I happened to be munching on at the moment might have a slight advantage!

Easy..chocolate chip cookie. No two recipes are alike. I like mine with a lot of brown sugar and chocolate chips in them!

Pecan Pie Bars

Peanutbutter cookies with chocolate chips thrown in for good measure. When they are still warm I could eat a dozen.

Okay, I'm picking one: HUGE chocolate chip cookies with walnuts, heavy on the chips and walnuts. However, I've rarely met a cookie I didn't like, especially if they're freshly homemade and maybe even still a little warm..... (drool)...

I think it is mean to chose a favorite cookie, because why discriminate all cookies? All should be loved equally. That said, if someone put a gun to my head and made me chose just one cookie, it would probably be oatmeal raisin.

I like cookies fine: I mean, I wouldn't say no to a cookie (unless it was something made from soy, grass, carob, pure unadulterated evil, and other "healthy" ingredients.) Chocolate Chip Cookies cannot be denied, truly.

But if you really want to make me squeal like a little girl on her birthday and mom and dad just got her a pony AND barbies - I'd have to say that the magical seven-layer bar is my super ultra favorite. When I used to work in Dupont Circle in WashDC, our office was right next to Firehook Bakery, home of the most bodacious 7-layer bars in the world. Every bite is a mouthful of coconut, chocolate, butterscotch and graham crackers (I could also swear on my not-dead-yet grandmother's grave that it also has condensed milk).

Each bite is like an enchanted trip through AWESOMELAND.

My favorite cookies are Italian almond macaroons, followed by choc. chip with oatmeal (both aparently quite popular with the other folks that have commented!)

Well, I don't know if brownies are considered cookies, but if they aren't, my favorite non-brownie cookie has to be chocolate chip.

my nana's sugar cookies decorated to perfection : )

I have a great recipe for Oatmeal Cookies made with brown sugar - Yummy! And I'm always a sucker for Spritz1

My favorite cookies are macadamia chocolate chunk but I'll try any kind of cookies including potato chip cookies because I love cookies.

My favorites have always been something we've called Margaret's Mess, after the cousin who gave us the recipe. They have oatmeal, cocoa, peanut butter, butter and some other things. They are wonderful!!

Chocolate chip with pecans and semi-sweet chips warm from the oven