Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip cookie is #1.
I just baked some.
After the chocolate chip, the Maurice Lenell Pinwheel Swirls are killer.
The Girl Scouts couldn’t hack chocolate chip cookies, and apparently just gave up on even trying. Let’s face it–the Girl Scouts are content with mediocrity, because they know people will always buy their (over-priced) cookies anyway, out of sympathy. They come up with these seemingly exotic models, but when you actually taste them, they are consistently underwhelming–with the thin mint as the only exception.
While I bake from scratch almost exclusively, I have never made nor found any chocolate chip cookies to beat King Arthur Flour’s Triple Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix. Yes, it is pricy.
The snickerdoodle is God’s own cookie.
I make a plain sugar cookie that we use for cut out cookies. Flour, eggs, butter, vanilla, salt and leavening. Perfect in it’s simplicity. My kids actually prefer them unfrosted, they are so good.
Call me picky, but I like my sugar cookies with actual sugar in them. 
Picky, picky. Fine. I’ll add sugar… Just for you.
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I made cookies this weekend. Before starting, I took a survey - Chocolate Chip beat Peanut Butter 3-2.
I did try subbing more brown sugar for granulated sugar, and added in a bit of cocoa power. They’re nice and chewy, and disappearing rapidly.
I love the chocolate chip cookie - particularly Toll-House, and especially if pecans are added. With that said, however, my favorite cookie to MAKE is my mother’s oatmeal cookie, especially after I made a substitution to the recipe later in life. Specifically, where the recipe calls for shortening, I substitute BUTTER-FLAVOR shortening…
Depending on how long I bake them, they can come out chewy, or crispy, or crispy-chewy…the only variant is the baking time. The really crispy ones are usually hollow and their buttery, nutty goodness almost literally dissolves on the tongue.
So simple - flour, oatmeal, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, shortening, baking soda, baking powder and pecans (you can add raisins or coconut, but why ruin a good cookie?)
Mmmm…pardon me, I’ll be in my kitchen, getting funky with the KitchenAid…
The real imitations are no better.
Only effete gourmets like Niles Crane would prefer those to original Toll House recipe, the Great American Cookie. 
Yes. The true genius of the CCC is that the dough and the chocolate interact synergetically to bring out the full flavor of both and produce the transcendent, near-miraculous product.
Oh, and crispy.
I agree completely, Nestle Tollhouse cookies are heavenly.
I’m amazed that anyone would suggest a store bought cookie, or og forbid, cardboard girl scout cookies, are in the same ballpark as even a bad homemade chocolate chip cookie. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll eat them if they’re sitting there, but a homemade cookie is sooooo much better. Damn, I’m going to have to make some cookies this week.
YES to every good thing that everyone here has to say about CCC’! They are my drug of choice. And I am not otherwise a sweet-toothed candy lover at all.
I routinely delete my cookies, and a matter of habit. Except when they’re chocolate chip, in which case I eat them.
ETA: Earlier this year I had a massive acute depressive episode, running non-stop for about six months. During that time, I subsisted almost entirely on CCC’s. Well, CCC’s and microwave popcorn, to be more precise.