Favourite Cookie
Apr. 22nd, 2019 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqOn Ask an Atheist day, Kathy asked "What's your favourite cookie?"
It's a complex question that doesn't have a straight answer. First, what is a cookie anyway. Is it a small baked treat? Is a Nanimo Bar a cookie? How about a two-bite brownie? Any definition of a cookie likely includes those, but I think most people would agree that those are not cookies. Is it as simple as definitions of cookie-like things getting spawned off the bite-sized baked treat platonic ideal?
Ok, enough waffling. Second runner up: My own chocolate chip cookies. They're delicious, and I love making them, but the reason I make them is because I love eating the raw dough, and if the question were what's you favourite cookie dough, this would be the hand's-down winner.
First runner up: Costco makes chocolate/caramel macadamia things that are roughly cookie shaped, but aren't marketed as cookies. These things are like crack to me, so I only buy them once a year. However, they're more of a chocolate than a cookie. This is why I was wondering about definitions above.
I'm having a tough time choosing between the following two, so I'm dividing things into categories.
Favourite mass market cookie: Pirate cookies! It was almost Dad's Goodie Rings, but Pirate cookies win the day.
Favourite bakery cookie: Sunterra Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies. Sadly, they're big enough to be about 12 points, so I don't eat them nearly as often as I used to.
And that leads me to my all time favourite, beating out everything else: Peanut Butter cookies! Especially when Bruce makes them. But he doesn't bake nearly as often as I do, so I have to do with my 97.3% as good version most of the time.
As you may have guessed, I love peanut butter. I'll often spread some between two Ritz crackers. Quite a bit more than two, actually.
Note: Unless it's my birthday, don't buy me cookies; they'll just get in my mouth.
It's a complex question that doesn't have a straight answer. First, what is a cookie anyway. Is it a small baked treat? Is a Nanimo Bar a cookie? How about a two-bite brownie? Any definition of a cookie likely includes those, but I think most people would agree that those are not cookies. Is it as simple as definitions of cookie-like things getting spawned off the bite-sized baked treat platonic ideal?
Ok, enough waffling. Second runner up: My own chocolate chip cookies. They're delicious, and I love making them, but the reason I make them is because I love eating the raw dough, and if the question were what's you favourite cookie dough, this would be the hand's-down winner.
First runner up: Costco makes chocolate/caramel macadamia things that are roughly cookie shaped, but aren't marketed as cookies. These things are like crack to me, so I only buy them once a year. However, they're more of a chocolate than a cookie. This is why I was wondering about definitions above.
I'm having a tough time choosing between the following two, so I'm dividing things into categories.
Favourite mass market cookie: Pirate cookies! It was almost Dad's Goodie Rings, but Pirate cookies win the day.
Favourite bakery cookie: Sunterra Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies. Sadly, they're big enough to be about 12 points, so I don't eat them nearly as often as I used to.
And that leads me to my all time favourite, beating out everything else: Peanut Butter cookies! Especially when Bruce makes them. But he doesn't bake nearly as often as I do, so I have to do with my 97.3% as good version most of the time.
As you may have guessed, I love peanut butter. I'll often spread some between two Ritz crackers. Quite a bit more than two, actually.
Note: Unless it's my birthday, don't buy me cookies; they'll just get in my mouth.
