# Cookie Poll! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298 "2005-05-03T23:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/1 "2005-05-03T23:46:54Z")
What time is it? … no, not “Tool Time” :rolleyes: … It’s time for a Cookie Poll! 🙂 Simply state your favorite type of cookie (and/or any other cookie-eating preferences), and why. Personally, I’m an old-fashioned chocolate chip man m’self. The bigger and chewier, the better. I’ve stuck with this as my favorite because I love chocolate, and this is the easiest way to get it in cookie form. Crunchy cookies just make me thirsty. Mind you, I won’t say no to most other types of cookies, except really crunchy ones. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/2 "2005-05-03T23:54:46Z")
Homemade oatmeal raisin. Crunchy around the edges, chewy in the middle, with a big glass of cold milk. Cinnamon, vanilla, oats and raisins taste sooo good together. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/3 "2005-05-03T23:56:12Z")
I have a hard time choosing between chocolate chip cookies with pecans and snickerdoodles. It would seem like a no-brainer with the ccw/p, but there’s just something about cinnamon…nope, can’t call it. Just have to make _both_ ! ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/4 "2005-05-03T23:58:23Z")
I just had to go out and buy a box of vanilla wafers - that’s '_Nilla_ wafers, in fact. I got this new pup dog that just happens to be the color of a vanilla wafer. All golden brown on the outside, and when you lift her fur, buttery white underneath. Just like a - vanilla wafer. It was driving me crazy. Ate a half box just like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/5 "2005-05-04T00:00:02Z")
White chocolate with macadamia nuts (I know, I know…“white” chocolate isn’t real chocolate but I don’t care, I love 'em just the same). ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/6 "2005-05-04T00:15:15Z")
1st place: Chewy Chocolate Chip served with ice cold milk 2nd: Sugar with orange oil in the dough. With a nice cuppa tea. YUM 3rd: Those little store bought lemon cookies covered in powdered sugar. With tea. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/7 "2005-05-04T00:18:07Z")
Iced sugar cookies (Lofthouse brand) have edged out chocolate chip as my absolute faves. Cookies are the perfect junk food. Full of sugar and a fork isn’t required. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/8 "2005-05-04T00:26:29Z")
Butter Cookies or, as I like to call them, those cookies with the jelly in the middle. Yep, that’s my favorite. But I’ve gotta say those new break and bake tollhouse sugar cookies are pretty damned good too. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/9 "2005-05-04T00:29:24Z")
Nothing beat a fresh out of the oven peanut butter cookie. Eaten with a glass of ice cold chocolate milk. ---
**Author:** ![Imbrium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Imbrium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imbrium)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/10 "2005-05-04T00:30:53Z")
Soft, chewy, homemade molasses cookies are the best. I learned to bake just for these things. As far as storebought cookies go, it’s Oreo’s all the way. And dipping in milk is required. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/11 "2005-05-04T00:32:24Z")
Oatmeal, white chocolate, and cranberries. (The recipe is on the back of the bag of dried cranberries.) You could take over the world with these puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/12 "2005-05-04T00:36:41Z")
> [@Imbrium](#): > > Soft, chewy, homemade molasses cookies are the best. I learned to bake just for these things. > As far as storebought cookies go, it’s Oreo’s all the way. And dipping in milk is required. **Imbrium** , does your recipe call for vinegar? When I made the molasses cookies for the pastry shop, smell from the comination of spices and vinegar reminded me of barbeque sauce. BBQ Cookies! ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/13 "2005-05-04T01:13:50Z")
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip that you buy in bulk at the Loblaws grocery store chain. I believe that the brand is McCormick but I’m not sure. They are nice and crunch. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/14 "2005-05-04T01:15:01Z")
It’s so hard to choose just one, but my favorite is the Pecan Pie Cookies at Whole Foods. I wish I had a recipe for cookies like these–they’re so nutty and chewy, and oh, so good. Close second is warm, chewy chocolate chip cookies, or maybe peanut butter chocolate chip, or ginger cookies. . . ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/15 "2005-05-04T01:20:11Z")
I’m still a huge fan of Famous Amos cookies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/16 "2005-05-04T01:28:47Z")
Snickerdoodles, hands down. Homemade only. To use margarine is an action bordering upon the heretical. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/17 "2005-05-04T01:42:22Z")
[Chocolate Buttersweets](http://busycooks.about.com/od/cookierecipes/r/buttersweetcook.htm) My Mom used to make these when I was a kid. I swear you can’t cram any more sugar into a cookie, it’s physically impossible. ---
**Author:** ![laurelann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5daacb/32.png) [@laurelann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laurelann)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/18 "2005-05-04T02:22:16Z")
The macaroons my great aunt used to make around Christmas, they had chocolate on the bottoms. Home made chocolate chip cookies, preferably still warm…mmmm…_drool_ Gingerbread cookies and gingersnaps I miss having an oven to bake. That’s one reason I don’t want to live in the dorms anymore. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/19 "2005-05-04T04:04:14Z")
My grandma used to make chocolate chip cookies with walnuts that were wafer-thin and very crispy along the edges, but _slightly_ chewy in the centers. I used to make them with her, and I inherited her recipe along with all her advice. And mine NEVER come out the way hers did. So I don’t even like chocolate chip cookies anymore, because they’re never as good as Grandma’s. Now I’m way into gingersnaps. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298/20 "2005-05-04T15:01:15Z")
Pick a favorite cookie? You may as well ask a parent to pick their favorite child. Homemade is best. 1. Fresh from the oven chocolate chip, chewy in the middle. This is one of the few times I will drink milk, because you have to dunk them in milk. The cookie dough logs that you cut and bake yourself will qualify as homemade because you can still have them fresh from the oven. I am not crazy about store bought choc chips that are hard and crunchy. 2. Oatmeal, sans raisins. Raisins shall not touch my oatmeal cookies. I can tolerate date pieces but no raisins. Of course, fresh, warm and chewy from the oven is best as long as there are no raisins in it. Did I mention that I don’t like raisins? NO RAISINS! 3. Coconut macaroons. Yum. 4. Anything else without raisins. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-poll/302298.md?page=2)