Top 11 Cookies

CJ Tiernan
Sep 22
3 min read

Updated: 5 days ago

By CJ Tiernan

The smell of a freshly baked cookie makes the mouth water and the mind wander. It can take you back to Grandma's kitchen, as a child so small you held the cookie with both hands. Maybe you buried it up to your knuckles in milk. Maybe you even helped make the batter or spoon the batter onto a tray.

A cookie is the perfect vessel for a shot of sugar or a batch of butter. It warms the heart and slaps a smile on your face. Here are my top 11 favorite cookies.

1. Sugar Cookie

Nothing beats a sugar cookie for me. I picture the little criss cross pattern on the top of a homemade sugar cookie, with a little extra sprinkle of sugar on top to earn the name. It is buttery and melts in your mouth. It's simple to bake and yet we cherish the recipes handed down to us from generations on high. Simply perfection.

2. Monster Cookie

This is a hard left turn from the Sugar Cookie. So many flavors at once. M&Ms, peanut butter, chocolate chips, vanilla. The texture of the oatmeal. When I bake one of these bad boys, I intentionally undercook it to leave the middle soft and gooey. These are perfect blend of salty and sweet.

3. Chocolate Chip

This is the classic. When someone asks you to close your eyes and picture a cookie, this is what you picture. I don't make the rules, it's just what you do. Aromatic, soft, and gooey. I love a chocolate chip cookie.

4. Peanut Butter Blossom

I believe this one goes by several names. It is the peanut butter cookie that you place a Hersey's kiss on top of right after you pull it from the oven. Another cookie that is soft and gooey. It is a fun wrinkle on the classic combination of chococlate and peanut butter

5. Snickerdoodle Cookie

This is a real buttery cookie. You have to pace yourself on these. Eat more than a dozen or so and your day can really get away from you. I like to bake these because you roll the dough into a ball and then let it frolic through a cinnamon sugar wonderland. Again, I prefer these cookies soft and warm.

6. Kringla

Uff da! I hit you with a curveball. This is a Scandinavian cookie that is more like a sweet bread. You roll it out in to a long thin strand and then shape it like a soft pretzel before baking. It is flour-heavy and rises alot during a pretty short baking session. As a youth, I baked these with my Grandfather and we created a delicious mess every time. It's a fun seasonal treat and a trip down memory lane.

7. Shortbread Cookie

This is the first cookie on here you can order from a sash-wearing child or their overly supportive parents. That's right. My favorite Girl Scout Cookie is Shortbread. Delicious, buttery, crispy. I'm sure no one has any strong opinions on their favorite Girl Scout Cookie and we can all just calmly move along.

8. Oatmeal Cookies

I prefer mine without raisins, but that's more a texture thing. Another cookie that no one ever has any strong opinions on. I also prefer it soft and unfrosted. That's what you get from a guy that puts Sugar Cookie as his number 1 cookie (sorry for the spoiler if you were reading this list upside down)

9. White Chocolate Macadamia Nut

Now this one has some different textures going on but, when you get a good one, the sweetness and the crunch are just perfect. I've been know to gravitate toward these and not just when you're at a graduation and all the other cookie flavors have been picked over already.

10. Sandwich Cookie

Um, the Oreo. Ever heard of it? It's kind of awesome. I am a sucker for a whole bunch of different flavors and I believe I had to dip into the stash of mental health days when they invented the double stuf, but I love the O.G. most of all. In the imortal words of Ferris Bueller, it is so choice! If you have the means, I highly recommend it.

11. Butter Cookie

Very similar to the Shortbread Cookie in almost every way, these cookies are slightly sweeter than a Shortbread Cookie. They are the ones you get in a tin that have various shapes. Another cookie with a snap or a crunch when you bite it.

Cookies come in many shapes and sizes but, the thing about cookies is, they're all good. Sugar! Sugar, sugar, sugar.