What is your favorite kind of cookie?
Cookies are the easiest dessert to bring to a potluck or bake up when you're in need of a pick me up. But what's your favorite kind?
Is it the classic chocolate chip? Or do you like oatmeal raisin? Or what about snickerdoodles? There are soooo many cookies out there and I'm just wondering which ones you Serious Eaters love to eat.
I personally love sugar cookie and oatmeal cookies with craisins, macadamia nuts and all sorts of goodies.
Hillary
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27 Comments:
Oatmeal raisin are my absolute favorite. White chocolate with macadamias are a close 2nd.
I made great cookies once in my life, I think. The other times they have been leaden and one time, I really screwed up and they were salty! Pathetic, I know.
marieinla at 2:46PM on 08/01/08
Oatmeal raisin-ite here too!
Especially if they're made with only a LITTLE honey, and they're still soft and chewy...mmmm..
hungrychristel at 2:49PM on 08/01/08
The peanut butter cookies my mom makes, with the fork-pressed criss-crosses. And her homemade italian cookies with orange icing.
Also, my grandmother used to make a strange yet delicious cookie -- chocolate chip cookie recipe, but with raisins instead of chocolate chips. Mmm, sweet and a little salty.
Basically, the simpler the better. I get confused with too many fancy add-ins.
savecara at 2:53PM on 08/01/08
chocolate chip -- lame i know but still my favorite.
megannesta at 3:03PM on 08/01/08
My favorite kind of cookie is pretty much any cookie that isn't very sweet, is soft, moist, and chewy, and preferably w/o mac nuts, peanuts, or cocoa in them. I am most fond of cookies with walnuts, blackcurrants, and molasses. White chocolate in small doses is pretty good too.
Cassaendra at 3:07PM on 08/01/08
@savecara:
orange icing? My bf would love that!
Do you happen to have your moms recipe?
hungrychristel at 3:11PM on 08/01/08
I'm recently a big fan of this oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookie. It sounds like a lot going on, but the ingredients work in perfect harmony :-)
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 3:52PM on 08/01/08
My mom used to bake the most amazing M&M cookies so I would have to say those are my favorite..I also really like chocolate& coconut cookies an expresso chocolate chip cookies are amazing!!!
rabbitriddle at 3:55PM on 08/01/08
Chewy chocolate chip cookies have and probably will always be my favorite. Though I have been making batches of homemade oreos lately, much to my waistline's chagrin!
gnats at 4:03PM on 08/01/08
Mmm, keep them coming. I totally just gave myself a reason to bake cookies! Muhaha...:)
Chew on That at 4:46PM on 08/01/08
whatever is in my mouth? or white chocolate mac nut. I am not a huge cookie eater but i would love to try gnats idea of homemade oreo's. My hubby's fav is fig newtons but not homemade sticky out of the box. that is just nasty.:)
organic mom
love2cook at 5:31PM on 08/01/08
I love the nutty cookies that are covered in powdered sugar. At Christmas, they're crescent cookies, and other times of they year I've hear them called Mexican wedding cookies or sandies. Other names, too, but they're all similar. The only bad thing about them is that they don't spread out much, so if you're baking them to give away, it seems like you need to make a heck of a lot more of them. Plus, they take longer to bake than other cookies, and you have to roll or form them, so there's a lot more effort than in a drop cookie.
Hmmmmm...I also like spritz, peanut butter, chocolate chip (with nuts) and oatmeal cookies a lot.
Dorie Greenspan's World Peace cookies were a big hit around here, too.
dbcurrie at 5:41PM on 08/01/08
Chewy gingery molasses cookies first, ANZAC biscuits second, Maamoul third (though I guess those could be called pastry, sorta) which would mean my cranberry almond oatmeal spiced cookie is third.
Depends on my mood and the season what I crave. I do love a good peanut butter cookie though. (And those criss-cross fork marks are mandatory!)
sadiepix at 8:46PM on 08/01/08
dvchurch mentions cookies with "alot goin' on"---that's what I love, lots of chewy texture & various ingredients like nuts,chips, oatmeal, pb....
JEP at 8:51PM on 08/01/08
The chocolate chip cookie recipe from Cooking Light. Or the chocolate chip cookies my old roommate made all the time. It seemed like she always put just a bit too much salt, and they were amazing.
@love2cook: someone I know makes these weird homemade oreos that seem more like chocolate whoopee pies. All I know is it uses a box of devil's food cake mix and 4 eggs....and something else. Anyways, they never got hard and crackery like real oreos.
amanda0730 at 8:55PM on 08/01/08
Good old chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, the ones I have been making lately came from a Martha Stewart magazine from several years ago. I also LOVE Oreos, hardly ever buy them because my husband and I have been known to eats a whole package in two days (this from someone whole rarely buys store bought baked goods)
@gnats I would love your recipe for homemade oreos, I tried one recipe but was disappointed, the filling just wasn't right.
mrsmoosie at 10:03PM on 08/01/08
it's a toss up between standard chocolate chip cookies -- a well made one is the perfect food, in my opinion -- and lemon squares.
cybercita at 10:24PM on 08/01/08
Too hard of a question, any cookie that is big, warm and chewy.
pjracz10 at 10:54AM on 08/02/08
Butter cookies with Almonds and Vanilla Bean Cookies with pralines
JacquelineS at 1:16PM on 08/02/08
it's a cookie. what isn't my favorite?
but really...the chewy cookie from alton brown. or a toffee snickerdoodle
supersu75 at 3:32PM on 08/02/08
Moroccan cookies of many shapes and sizes. Specifically the lemon crescent shaped ones and anyone with almonds.
pecorino at 5:35PM on 08/02/08
crunchy nestle tollhouse chocolate chip cookies made with a bag and a half of chips...mmm
gastronomeg at 5:42PM on 08/02/08
Right now it's Peanut Butter, using the 1963 Betty Crocker's Cooky Book recipe, because I have eight jars of Jif in the cupboard!
(seven Creamy/one Extra Crunchy)
(plus one jar of Skippy Creamy)
srhcb at 6:36PM on 08/02/08
peanut butter with chopped nuts folded in.
czken at 6:37PM on 08/02/08
CHOCOLATE CHIP. I can't be bothered with any others.
eatorama at 9:46PM on 08/02/08
Dominic--
Try this Oatmeal Peanut Butter Choco Chip recipe--it's amazing, and it doesn't have an butter in them which I really like. There is a lot of sugar, but that can be reduced too (not that you have to though ;) ). Just don't overbake 'em!
http://www.stanford.edu/~jsdaniel/pb_oatmeal_cc_cookies.html
Lorie
luswim06 at 12:49PM on 08/03/08
BTW, those might be my favorite...
luswim06 at 12:49PM on 08/03/08