What Is Or Was Your Favorite Cookie?

Oreo

Who remembers Gauchos?

Home made Toll House chocolate chips.

Samoas which are now called purple stripe cookies. Thanks, Obama!

Commercial:

Hydrox's chocolate sandwich cookie with the white filling. They predated Nabisco's Oreos.

The flat, shiny, golden pastry-type cookie with the raisin filling. A Hydrox item, IIRC.

Burry's round, plain, crisp chocolate cookie, the one that had a few concentric ridges and a hole in the center.

Homemade: My mom's oatmeal cookies, which included raisins and a small amount of moist coconut( the type that was packed in cans, and has seemingly disappeared from the market) Occasionally the raisins were swapped out for chocolate chips.

All measurably improved by being paired with a glass of very cold milk.

Hydrox (fifty years ago, I have no idea how they are now or even if available).

Dark chocolate-covered Hobnobs. When I lived in London I could eat a pack of them every day. Hard to find in the US, though.

We never ate brand cookies, but I looooved the thick, flakey. sugar cookies with white icing that my grandmother used to make.

ginger almond, they usually came in the shape of a wind mill.

[quote]Burry's round, plain, crisp chocolate cookie, the one that had a few concentric ridges and a hole in the center.

r5 I don't remember a plain chocolate cookie by Burry's, Bronzie, but I sure did like their Fudgetown cookie.

I used to love going to a Mrs. Fields retail store and getting a warm, fresh butter toffee cookie. That's obviously not possible and hasn't been for like 15 years.

White chocolate macadamia

I now love Tate's cookies, especially their White Chocolate Macadamia Nut. I just had a whole bag of them for lunch.

I don't remember what they were called, but they were like Mallomars without the chocolate. Sort of like two vanilla wafers with marshmallow in between.

Also (I don't remember the names of these either) but they were flat and chewy and had raisin mush in between the top and bottom.

Great American Cookies' sugar cookie has been my go-to sweet for years. It's got the best flavor to me and I always have to have two of them. The cookie cake isn't bad either. That seemed like what all my childhood friends had at their birthday parties.

COVID has reintroduced me to Archway cookies. My waist might be mad at me, but I forgot how good they were. They were always something lying around at my grandparent's house. The oatmeal and lemon ones are my favorite.

Commercial-Archway iced oatmeal, mint Oreos, vanilla or strawberry sugar wafer cookies

Homemade-oatmeal chocolate chip, frosted sugar cookies (preferably my mother's recipe), warm snickerdoodles

All with milk.

J'adored Oreos soaked in a glass of cold mile until they were so soggy I had to eat them with a spoon.

Chips Ahoy, Oreos and iced oatmeal.

Homemade linzer and chocolate chip.

.... cookie?

Homemade: a good (sorry) chocolate chip cookie with texture that is combo soft and crispy.

Commercial: Biscoff (airline) cookies, Fig Newmans.

Brand name: Oreos.

Homemade: my mom's chocolate chip cookies (Nestlé tollhouse recipe).

From the supermarket, Malamars, from the bakery, Black and Whites.

My mother would buy sugar wafer cookies to enjoy with her coffee, and hide them from us. We were little assholes bent on destroying any bit of joy she tried to squeeze out of life, so we would find her stash and finish them off.

When I was little I thought they tasted like sweet Styrofoam, but that didn't stop me.

Now they are a bit of a comfort food, and I buy them for my mother to make up for the childhood thievery.

Double dark chocolate Milano, Pepperidge Farm.

You guys are talking about Sunshine Golden Fruit biscuits? Those were so delicious. They’re called “garibaldis” in other countries and there are also recipes to make them at home.

I’ve tried and they’re just not the same.

Maurice Lennell's small Almond crescent cookies. Besides the almond taste, I loved the powdered sugar on each cookie. They were sold in supermarkets, I haven't seen them in years.

I also miss Stella Doro's, Chinese almond cookies and their delicious pastry-like apricot and apple cookies.

Stella Doro's move from the Bronx to Lord knows where, really ruined the quality of their cookies. Stella Doro cookies now taste like cardboard. What was important to corporate America, play their current non-union workers less and use sub-par ingredients.

Not mention, how they put their longtime workers of out jobs, some people worked at Stella Doro over 25-30 years!

Mallomars were also good as were the plain marshmallow cookies.

Who can forget Moon Pies. I found a Korean version at Costco. Orion's Choco-Pie. I wish they were more chocolatety, they're fine otherwise. The huge box of 48 was only $6.59. That's usually the price of a 1 lb bag of cookies at my local supermarket.

I want to try the new Lady Gaga Oreos that just hit the stores. Apparently they taste better than the original.

I loved homemade oatmeal cookies and peanut butter cookies.

growing up commercial cookie i liked Keeblers Chip Deluxe. Duncan Hines had a soft chocolate chip cookie in the 80's like soft batch cookies, they were so good.

i like Tate's now.

R6, Hydrox cookies are now made by Leaf and are sold by Amazon. They taste just like the original.

Keebler fudge stripped cookies were my absolute favorite as a kid.

Some people have mentioned TATES as their favorite cookie. I like Tates too. My favorite is their oatmeal raisin cookie. One day I looked at the ingredients and the first ingredient on the oatmeal cookies is not flour or sugar- it's BUTTER. I've never heard of a cookie having butter as the first ingredient, maybe that's why their oatmeal raisin cookie is so good.

Iced Lemon cookies, so delicious!

I used to love the Royal Dansk butter cookies that came in a blue tin.

Voortman's Strawberry Turnovers if brand name, but prefer homemade cookies, specifically white chocolate and macadamia nut with cardamom.

R36-,Those look GOOD. In December I bought a big blue tin of butter cookies at Whole Foods. They were good too.

Toll House cookies, gingerbread men, black and white cookies

R27, they’re no good anymore. I used to love the anisette toast and the breakfast treats with the glossy egg wash on top and the delicate almond flavor.

R27, R40- When I would be driving on the Major Deegan I could smell the cookies baking at the Stella Dora Factory which was right next to the highway.

If memory serves the last sole heir to the Stella D’Oro company was a single male in his twenties who was killed by an overpass during a San Francisco earthquake in the 80’s. That might explain the poorer quality I.e. no family to supervise. I always wondered if the heir was gay, not that it matters.

R13- You're a FAT WHORE.

Danish Butter Cookies; Double Decker Oeros; Fig Newtons (even though the cookie causes stomach issues); Chocolate Chip and Raisin (with cinnamon) chewy oatmeal.

Allied Biscuit

As a kid, I loved the idea of pizelles. A neighbor gave me one and I thought it was a one-off miracle. When I finally saw them for sale, I put them through the addiction cycle for about a month.

When I learned to drink coffee, I understood why everyone loved Pfeffernusse. These are rock hard powdered-sugar turds until you dunk them into black coffee and then you get magic.

Black & Whites from William Greenberg bakery

This isn't a COOKIE per say but when I was a kid watching episodes of The Little Rascals after school I enjoyed dipping graham crackers in my milk until they were quite soggy and then eat them.

I loved Soft Batch as a kid. Our dad worked 2nd (and sometimes 3rd) shift at a hospital, and sometimes he'd stop at a convenience store on the way home and buy Soft Batch cookies for us to have for breakfast before school (we had some white-trash/LMC leanings in our household, but this is a fond memory).

I was dying for Archway cookies, but my parents insisted we could not afford them. In my mind, they were the Grey Poupon of store-bought cookies, reserved for the Sir-Neville-Marriner-and-the-Academy-of-St.-Martin-in-the-Fields types of this world.

I love a soft cookie. I don't like dry, crunchy or a lot of crumbs. Chips Ahoy is the WORST.

SnackWells Devils Food.

I was the gayest kid who ever gayed.

Store cookies: Gaucho, Chips Ahoy, Mallomars, Pillsbury slice and bake chocolate chip

[quote] This isn't a COOKIE per say

It's per se, R48, means "by definition."

R49- I don't think Archway was high end for a supermarket cookie. I would say that Pepperidge Farm cookies were upscale for a supermarket.

I recall in the 1970s -1980s Fudge Town cookies which were amazing.

Mallowmars. 100% Still so good.

It's a tie between Sunshine Lemon Coolers and these ...

I prefer my cookies...tough.

R56 Wow, blast from the past. I recognize the cookies brand and those unique shapes.

Yeah, grew up poor in a ghetto. Grandma always had Archway oatmeal cookies.

[quote]If memory serves the last sole heir to the Stella D’Oro company was a single male in his twenties who was killed by an overpass during a San Francisco earthquake in the 80’s. That might explain the poorer quality I.e. no family to supervise. I always wondered if the heir was gay, not that it matters.

He was a rich single guy hanging out beneath Bay area overpasses in the 80s; I think odds are pretty good that if he'd lived the company would have been inherited either by a personal assistant/gigolo or some pampered froofy lapdogs.

My favorite cookies as a kid were these Archway soft lemon cookies that looked like giant Nilla wafers. I haven't seen any in decades though. I guess these days I'd pick Pepperidge Farm pirouettes, though cookies really aren't my thing.

Store bought: I guess the Oreo

Otherwise: cookies from an Italian pastry shop

Someone up thread mentioned iced lemon Archway cookies, have not seen this deliciousness in years.

Carr's ginger lemon creme cookies has changed! These used to be in my top 3 favorite commercially-made cookies. I wouldn't buy them again.

Reformulated products are always a let down

Windmill Cookies. Shaped like a Danish windmill. Haven't seen them in ages but they were my favorite as a kid many years ago. They had a hint of ginger and vanilla.

^^^^ I think they also had slivers of almonds in them as well.

I was only 14 in 1980 but I had a job in a gift shop. The owner sold Famous Amos Cookies. I spent a lot of time in the basement of the store sweeping etc and I would open the famous amos package take out a cookie than reclose it. Those cookies were SO GOOD back then. Now they are dollar store quality.

IMO, Famous Amos cookies were always too hard, like rocks. I guess it's a preferred texture, for some people.

Archway Fudge Almond

My favorite fresh-baked cookie is white chocolate macadamia. For a commercial packaged one, I love Keebler's E.L.Fudge cookies.

There was a local bakery that made the best sugar cookies. They had more of a chewy texture rather than a cakey one. And there was a notable saltiness that enhanced the sweetness of them. But alas, that bakery closed several years ago. I miss those cookies.

My favorite cookie jar

r65 Trader Joe's had small packages of imported windmill cookies in November and December.

r26 The Vermont Country Store sells Garibaldis, but they are quite dry and not worth the calories.

Had forgotten about snickerdoodles, a hat-tip to the up threader who mentioned them. Bar none, THE best cookie for eating warm from the oven. The texture, aroma and mouthfeel all change(bringing the quality down a notch or two) once the cookie has cooled to room temperature, still worth eating though.

My local supermarket has whole display of Lorna Doones.

It's nice to see they're still around, but who in the year 2021 buys Lorna Doones?

r73 Moi. I love 'em when I eat Baskin Robbins Pralines 'n Cream.

They sell them in 4 packs,10(or is it 12?) packs to a box.

Lots of fat typing on this thread.

Truthfully never liked cookies. But my mom made good oatmeal cookies.

R74 The last few weeks have been green leafy vegetables, lean meat and fish.

Please don't lead me astray.

R68- By 1985 the he sold the entire company to some Wall street group. They cheapened the ingredients. I DOUBT you ate Famous Amos ca. 1980 or earlier when they were still HIGH quality.

As a child I LOVED Nabisco Chocolate Pinwheels, huge dark chocolate covered pinwheels of marshmallow filling on some kind of shortbread base. Whenever I went to see my Grandma, she always had a new bag waiting for me.

I thought they had been discontinued years ago but Googling suggests they are now made in Mexico, aren't nearly as good as the originals and hard to find.

Ah, well. I can live without the Pinwheels but I still miss Grandma.