Results: Very Best Cookies -- The Good, the Sweet, and the Addictive
Published on 12/08/2019
Sweet and delicious, cookies go well with milk, possibly the most satisfying food combination.
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Choose your favourite cookies:
1. Biscotti -- Italian almond cookies. They are supposed to be hard, dry and crunchy. Biscotti means twice-baked.
14%
316 votes
2. Black and white cookie -- A New York delicacy that is half chocolate and half vanilla.
10%
240 votes
3. Blondies -- Basically, a chocolate-free version of brownies.
10%
235 votes
4. Brownies -- Thick chocolate cookie, crackly on the outside and fudgy in the middle.
36%
830 votes
5. Butter cookie -- Soft and crispy. Danish butter cookies are a classic Christmas cookie.
23%
538 votes
6. Chocolate chip cookie -- Ruth Wakefield developed this tasty treat of semisweet chocolate chips at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930s.
44%
1025 votes
7. Crack cookie -- Crunchy, chocolatey-sweet and legally addictive cookie made with crackers.
5%
105 votes
8. Fig Newton -- Soft, and chewy fruit inside.
15%
346 votes
9. Fortune cookie -- Vanilla fortune teller. A few words on a small piece of paper inside the cookie convey an inspiring, philosophical or humorous message.
9%
206 votes
10. Gingerbread cookie -- Soft and chewy, perfectly flavoured with the right amount of dark molasses, ginger, and spices.
17%
393 votes
11. Macaron -- Macarons come in fruit and chocolate flavours.
8%
177 votes
12. Macaroon -- Chewy, coconut-flavoured cookies.
19%
433 votes
13. Oatmeal cookie -- Sometimes made with mix-ins like raisins, chocolate chips or butterscotch.
27%
627 votes
14. Peanut butter cookie -- Can be made gluten-free by combining only peanut butter, eggs, and sugar. It works!
29%
662 votes
15. Shortbread -- Buttery, crumbly, sweet confection.
25%
584 votes
16. Snickerdoodle -- Sugar cookie with strong cinnamon-sugar flavour.
16%
377 votes
17. Sugar cookie -- A holiday favourite. Rich and buttery, easy to make.
23%
533 votes
18. Thin mint -- Mint-flavoured chocolate wafer dipped in chocolate.
18%
414 votes
19. Vanilla wafer -- Small, crisp cookie with buttery sweet vanilla flavour. Perfect on its own or used in banana pudding.
12%
280 votes
20. Wafer -- Very thin cookies layered with flavoured cream.
10%
233 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
41 votes
Not Applicable
8%
178 votes
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Which do you prefer, crispy or chewy?
Crispy
20%
472 votes
Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside
39%
905 votes
Chewy
44%
1015 votes
Not Applicable
8%
188 votes
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Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It debuted in 1912 by Nabisco. Is Oreo your favourite brand of cookies? (If not, what is your favourite brand of cookie?)
Yes
34%
777 votes
No
52%
1209 votes
Not Applicable
14%
330 votes
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Cookie recipes may contain both brown and white sugar and there is a good reason: White sugar makes a crispier cookie, while brown sugar absorbs moisture after baking which ensures chewiness. During the holidays, do you bake cookies to give away as a gift?
Yes, I give homemade cookies away
24%
564 votes
I PURCHASE cookies to give or send as a gift
9%
198 votes
No, I don't give cookies as gifts
49%
1139 votes
Not Applicable
18%
415 votes
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Ooh, what's in this cookie! Researchers at the University of Bordeaux (2013) say the combination of ingredients in the average chocolate chip cookie trigger the same addictive response in the brain as cocaine or marijuana. Do you have cookies in your home right now?
Yes
53%
1225 votes
No
37%
866 votes
Undecided
10%
225 votes
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