Favorite cookie? Store bought and homemade:

[Flaxbee]

Store bought = fig newtons and the vanilla Oreos

Homemade = pumpkin walnut with maple frosting. Good stuff!

How about you? :hi:

[alphafemale]

1. Anything still hot from the oven goodeliciousness

Turns me into an instant seven-year-old. lol

[Flaxbee]

6. I'll try any cookie, especially right out of the oven!

:)

[MorningGlow]

2. Tough to choose

Store bought: Chips Ahoy. (I know they're just cookie-shaped dust, but there's something about them--if left to my own devices, I could eat the whole damned box in one sitting.) I also used to love Archway molasses cookies (the ones shaped like giant flowers) but did I hear something about them not being made anymore? :shrug: And when I'm in need of a week's worth of fat and calories in one snack, I go for a Little Debbie oatmeal creme pie.

Homemade: Toll House chocolate chip, pumpkin (but no walnuts), and these nifty fig bars that are actually comparatively low in calories without resorting to artificial sweeteners. Gosh, I haven't made those in years. Wonder where the recipe is...

[Flaxbee]

5. I like Chips Ahoy, too

And will occasionally choose them for a quick sugar pick-me-up.

I LOATHE any of the soft store-bought cookies - not like Fig Newtons, which are supposed to be soft, but the loaded-with-preservatives soft oatmeal or chocolate chip cookies. Disgusting sh*t.

If you find that fig bar recipes --- and feel like passing it along --- :)

[WinkyDink]

3. SB = PF Milano. HM = My mother's kiffles!

[Flaxbee]

4. what are kiffles?

:shrug: Sounds intriguing.

[Dr Morbius]

12. These are kiffles.

Similar to Polish kolacky cookies.

[grasswire]

13. are kiffles like kiflings?

Kiflings = ground almonds, flour, butter, powdered sugar. Kind of like a russian teacake only better.

[mopinko]

7. store bought

pepperidge farm pirouettes
home made- apricot klatchkes with real apricots
and ganache drops
and james beards chinese chews
and
well, i could go on. christmas cookies are a seasonal insanity with me.

[femmocrat]

8. Store: Pecan sandies. Home: Oatmeal or chocolate chip. n/t

[Dr Morbius]

9. Store bought: Matt's.

Matt's makes chocolate chip, peanut butter and oatmeal raisin. They are perhaps the best prepackaged cookies I've ever tried.

I also confess a marked weakness for ginger snaps. Once in a while, we buy some Betty Crocker gingerbread mix, which if properly prepared makes ginger snaps in one's own oven. Oh my oh my oh my. Wonderful.

I also like snickerdoodles. And homemade tollhouse cookies are arguably one of America's greatest culinary contributions to the world.

[nuxvomica]

10. Store bought: cocoanut Chips Ahoy. Homemade: molasses

But the greatest store-bought cookies in history no longer exist: little crumbly apple things made by some bakery that closed decades ago and Nabisco Ideal Bars.

[grasswire]

14. what were Ideal bars like?

I don't remember them.

I wonder if anyone remembers a commercial soft sugar cookie that had icing in either pink or white that was anise flavored.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I remember those frosted anise flavored cookies.

I have no idea what they were called, but they were great and I think that my grandmother had them... :9

[nuxvomica]

27. They had a peanut butter crunch inside, kinda like a Zagnut bar

And they were covered in dark chocolate that easily melted at room temperature. Even in their time, they were only available in the colder months. We always kept them in the fridge.

My Aunt Connie, rest her soul, made awesome anisette cookies -- old Sicilian recipe -- but I don't remember any commercial ones.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Amaretti from the Modern Pastry in the North End

http://www.yelp.com/map/modern-pastry-shop-boston

If you zoom in and swing around, you can see the store, right next to my favorite restaurant, Piccola Venezia.

For home made, I'd rather have my son's chipotle scones, though he makes wonderful crisp sugar cookies.

[ThomasQED]

16. I think you forgot to post the recipe for pumpkin walnut cookies with maple frosting

I'll start getting the ingredients out while you post...

[Beaverhausen]

17. Store bought: Peppermint Jo-Jos from Trader Joes. Homemade: Peanut Blossoms

those TJ's cookies are lethal!

[siligut]

22. TJ also has some amazing, chewy ginger cookies

I think they are made by The Ginger People, and last time I was at TJ I couldn't find them, but they are nirvana. I will have to look for the peppermint jo-jos next time I go.

[Beaverhausen]

25. Peppermint Jo Jo's are a holiday item, so they may not be there yet

then again if TJs is smart, they will carry them all year round. They are so f'ing yummy!!!

[siligut]

28. Thanks, I am going to look for them next time I go....

But if I don't see them, I will check again around Xmas.

[ChoralScholar]

18. Mine:

Store: Chewy Chips Ahoy in the Microwave

Homemade: Peanut Butter of any kind.

[travelingtypist]

19. store bought -- Braum's Snickerdoodle.

Homemade -- peanut butter.

[tigereye]

20. I like the chunky Chips Ahoy and Mint Milanos from Pepperidge Farm

and for home-made, chocolate chip cookies made by husband and son and my mom's Congo Bars- chocolate chip nut bars.

[Heidi]

21. My homemade "Exquisite Orange Cookies." Recipe here:

Exquisite Orange Cookies
(Makes about 4 dozen small cookies)

(Preheat oven to 325 F)

Ingredients
- 1 Cup butter, softened at room temperature (2 sticks)
- 1-1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar (you can use normal white sugar)
- 2 Cups of white flour
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-3 Tablespoons grated orange rind (use the finest section of your grater or buy the pre-grated orange zest in the grocery store. Fresh is juicier, though, and less bitter.)
- 1 egg, unbeaten
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Directions
1. Use your mixer to cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add your vanilla, orange rind and egg. Mix well.
3. Add the sifted dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cream of tartar)
4. Scoop the dough up by small teaspoonsful and drop onto un-greased cookie sheet (I line the cookie sheet with baking paper; makes cleanup easier). OR, scoop by small teaspoonsful and roll into ball with your hands and place on cookie sheet. Sometimes it helps to refrigerate the dough for about 20 minutes or so.
5. Bake for 7-9 minutes, or until golden brown on the bottom.
6. Cool, then sprinkle with powdered sugar.

NOTE: If you to add a little "variety" since they're very "plain-looking," you can melt some white chocolate in the microwave, and dip half of each cookie into white chocolate. Yummy and very pretty. Sometimes, I dip half the cookies in white chocolate, and half the cookies in dark chocolate -- but normally I just serve them plain, since we don't have a microwave and I'm usually too lazy to melt chocolate in a double-boiler.

[MrScorpio]

23. Oatmeal Raisin and Fig Newtons

[applegrove]

24. My grandmother used to make bran cookies. They looked like hamburgers but were delicious right out

of the oven.

[AngryAmish]

26. S-N-I-C-K-E-R-D-O-O-D-L-E-S

[CreekDog]

29. Mothers Taffy Cookies

with milk...that's crack right there. :P

[laundry_queen]

30. mmm

For storebought - although not sure if this qualifies but what the heck - Subway cookies. I like 'em all but the white chocolate chunk is soooo goood.

Homemade cookies - I'd have to say it's a tie between my icing decorated sugar cookies, or my chocolate chip cookies that I sometimes put Skor bits in. I always undercook them so they are soft and chewy.