Reply With QuoteA ginger nut, and it's a biscuit, not a cookie. That is, it's hard.
The Classic, plain old Chocolate Chip
The Also Classic Oatmeal
Chocolate Chip with nuts!
Sugar cookies and/or Snickerdoodles
Peanut butter cookies
Seasonal cookies like gingerbread, rum balls, etc
I like cookies with stuff in the middle (Oreos, Jaffa Cakes)
Butter cookies, (you know, those kind you get in tins)
I have a national/cultural cookie that's better than those
I don't like any of those, I will make a comment
I like cookies made of SHITBONERZ
(for you fast threadclickers, poll is incoming!)
I have to make some cookies for a group of people, and I was curious to take a sample of QT3 population to see what general preferences are for cookies. If I have left out your preferred type of cookie, make a comment! Or just make comments yelling at me about useless threads (I figure everyone on QT3 gets to make at least one useless poll, right?)
Sorry about the short options, I started thinking of all the kinds of cookies and biscuits and my brain seized up a little, so I probably could have listed more!
Last edited by Athryn; 11-07-2010 at 12:59 PM.
A ginger nut, and it's a biscuit, not a cookie. That is, it's hard.
Peanut butter chocolate chip and snickerdoodles in a two way tie.
I would say Fig Newtons, but they're not cookies, they're fruit and cake.
But my vote has to go for Mother's Taffy cookies. But you have to let them sit on top of the fridge for a few days to get to the perfect milk-dipping density.
Chocolate chip. How is this even a question?
Anyone who picks chocolate chip with nuts is a commie.
Is oatmeal chocolate chip the first or second option? I picked both.
White chocolate macadamia. nomnomnomnom
Chocolate chip is best. I'm not a big cookie snob, though, so I won't turn many away.
I used to like Oreos as a kid but as an adult I find the filling tastes too much like a chemical experiment that happens to be edible.
Sadly, I indulge rarely these days due to my no-sugar policy. Are there sugar-free cookies? Probably. But a sugar-free cookie is wrong. Just wrong.
Biscochitos
There are actually sugar free/gluten free cookies! A friend of mine has a friend who can't eat any gluten or processed sugar, so you make stuff using agave nectar or something like that. It's a challenge for sure though!Originally Posted by Creole Ned
No option on poll for "All of the above"
My mom makes these cookies that she calls "whiskey cookies" I've tried a search for them and can't find anything quite like what she makes. Basically they are a yeast dough cookie, that you roll out and cut into triangles. Then they are spread with a mixture of chopped walnuts and sugar and rolled up to resemble tiny crescent rolls. My grandmother used to make them with various fruit spreads, but I've always liked the walnut version best.
I love cookies of all kinds and am always on the look out for new ones. last year I was introduced to the ANZAC biscuit. My neighbors grandma makes them and they rock my world.
Edit: They look a lot like these Rugelach. Though they don't appear to be the same thing. I don't know how they came into the family as I don't think I have any Jewish ancestors. I do know that my grandmother's mother brought them with her from Norway.
Last edited by Major Icehole; 11-07-2010 at 02:06 PM.
That's why it's multiple choice!
I like that one butter cookie with a layer of milk chocolate on top, and the chocolate-dipped cookies with a fruit filling.
Other things I like: Rum balls; Russian tea cakes. I like cookie dough when it's in a particular ice cream.
But cookies aren't really my thing. I'm more of a chocolates gal. Like the Theo Single Malt Scotch Ganache. Mmmm. If you haven't tried that, you need to.
I like many cookies, and I do have a special love for butterscotch in all its forms, especially chip form. But nothing beats a perfectly baked, still-warm chocolate chip cookie with a tall, frosty glass of milk to wash it down.
I reject the cultural imperialism present in this thread. Athryn would have you believe that "the cookie" as defined by north America is the sole choice for baked sweet type good and relegates all other choices to a "national/cultural cookie that's better than those" when cookie isn't even the defining parameter. Cookie is merely a sub-category of the far greater "biscuit!" And as there was an invitation to include categories outside the simple "cookie" it is obvious that the views presented here are perpetuating the creation of a sub-super-class, expanding it's way out of the venn diagram McVities and Jacobs stand for.
I will not have it! OH NO!
Truly, you must go to a tea-drinking nation to find the glorious dominance that the simple "cookie" holds. For dunking in tea is the greatest pastime for the biscuit devouring masses.
(I still vote for Ginger Nuts.)
Dammit now I can't change my vote. I picked sugar cookie. Nothing to get in the way of it's cookie goodness. No need for that oatmeal or chocolate chips, just a good old plain sugar cookie.
Hrm, it depends on what mood I'm in when I go for a cookie I guess. I am fond of most mixtures of chocolate, peanut butter, nuts, and white chocolate. Occasionally no-bakes but not as often. Sometimes I even like cookies with fruit in them - general store next to my house makes great "everything cookies." Overall, though, Chocolate Chip. With nuts.
Oh shit, while voting in the poll I noticed the "cultural cookie" option and I would be remiss not to mention Hamentashen!! God I love those. They are normally only made on Purim but now I think I need to make a batch.
I love shortbread cookies.
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me.
I can't choose your none-of-the-above option, because I do like the listed cookies.
But where the hell is my chocolate chocolate chip choice?
Hard choice, mostly because the cookies I make rarely survive the dough stage. Mmm...cookie dough.
I voted that I will make a comment...
The Girl Scout Thin Mints
:3
I've eaten a whole box in 1 sitting, on many occasions.
My wife makes awesome dark-chocolate-chip-and-butterscotch-chip cookies. Those are my favorite.
Girl scout thin mints are pretty good, as well.
I have a couple of different reverse-engineered recipes for the cookies they hand out at Doubletree Hotels - they're chocolate chip with walnuts and some oatmeal flour in there for extra flavor. They're pretty much to die for.
I don't know why you're pretending sugar cookies and snickerdoodles are AT ALL the same thing because, yeah, no.
Anyway, chocolate chip cookies should always be made with pecans. I suspect the reason people these days think they shouldn't is that they've had their tastes trained by shitty mass-market cookies, where nuts are too expensive to actually include.
I mean if we are going to include Girl Scout cookies we need more poll options or another thread. Those are like crack cookies. Or Super Cookies. Normal cookies can't compare.
If we are including girl scouts, nothing beats the coconut one with chocolate. Samosas? If calories were not an issue I could eat like 3 boxes in one sitting. Maybe. Damn they are dense and chewy and good.
Samoas.
Samosas are fried pastry shells filled with spiced vegetables (and sometimes meat).
Doh! I mean, Dough!
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