The Perfect Cookie

[MonkeyDragon]

Ohhh, cookies, how I love thee...

I think warm, gooey chocolate chip are the best. With cold milk. But I also love...

Thin mints, frozen or not.
Tagalongs. Better thawed, but can be eaten frozen for the impatient.

Christmas cookies are delicious, though I never think to make them outside of christmas.
Envelopes--a flour, butter and cream cheese dough rolled out thin and filled with cherry or apricot pastry filling, then baked and dusted with powdered sugar.
Russian tea cakes--I thought these were a family recipe, til I saw it printed on a bag of powdered sugar. I still pretend.
Pizelle--so light and crisp, you'd never guess that the batter contains a doezen eggs and two cups of oil.

Peanut butter cookies and oatmeal cookies are ok, but not things i usually seek out. I also dislike raisins. Chocolate chips are far superior.

Brownies are related to cookies. I love chocolate brownies.

Finally, cookie dough. Chocolate chip cookie dough is as good as the cookies themselves. Fun stuff? Make the dough according to a regular tollhouse recipe, but use a pasturized egg product instead of whole eggs. shape into small balls and chill, then dip in melted chocolate and chill again. The chocolate coating keeps the dough neat and moist. Fabulous.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Me, I don't like cookie dough, and I'm not too fond of piping hot cookies, either. Still a bit warm is fine, though.

I love oatmeal cookies with no raisins, and peanut butter cookies.

Oreos are great, too.

 

[Infiniti2000]

The best cookie is Chocolate Chunk, not chocolate chip. Chocolate chip cookies are so . . . organized and, I dunno, fake-looking.

 

[babomb]

It's ALL about the oatmeal cookies.

 

[Torm]

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Puffs!

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable shortening
1 15 oz can pumpkin puree
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 lb semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
Cream together sugar, shortening, pumpkin and vanilla extract. Mix until light and well combined. Mix the flour, baking soda and ground cinnamon in a separate bowl. Stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Mix until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoons onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until set. Cool cookies on a rack.

(Or, use baking soda instead of powder for flat cookies. But why? )

 

[Aeson]

The absolute best kind of cookie, without exception, is ... Another.
While people may argue about different flavors, no one ever turns down Another Cookie.

I agree but that is one of the reasons our country is way too much on the heavy side.

 

[Umbran]

The best cookie of all is... whatever my wife has baked

 

[Steve Jung]

Chocolate chip. With milk, of course.

 

[WayneLigon]

Pepperidge Farms Sausilito (sp) cookie; large chunks chocolate chip cookie with macadamia nuts in.

After that, any non-gooey chocolate chip cookie.

After those: Girl Scout Cookies. Trefoils, Samoans, and one of the other chocolate coated ones; I forget the name.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Perfect cookie?

2.5" Diameter, double pecan caramel cookie, still warm, served with a glass of milk...by a hot woman with your winning lottery ticket peeking out of her generous cleavage.

I've got that cookie...*sigh* still waiting for everything after the glass of milk, though.