Friday five: Cooookie

15 May

Okay, it’s Saturday. But yesterday I left work early with a 100.1 degree fever (my ‘norm’ is 97.5) and I spent the rest of the day/night tossing around in a boiling hot half-slumber.

I can only imagine how I mucked up the ads I scheduled yesterday.

Today? No fever, but I’m left with a mucky brain and an annoying non-productive cough. So we’re doing the Friday Five today. It’s about cookies, which is something I’m sort of familiar with.

1. What is absolutely the best cookie you’ve ever had?

The Nestle Toll House cookies at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. Yes, they’re an overpriced version of the garden-variety Nestle Chocolate Chip cookies…but the taste of them combined with the scent of the bakery and the fact that, hey, I’m in WDW! makes for the best cookie ever.

2. What is a cookie you really don’t care for?

Those star-shaped cookie press cookies with the goopy dried cherries in the middle. Keep yo’ dried fruit out of my cookies, please!

3. What are some other cookies you are rather fond of?

Snickerdoodles, lemon cookies, cookies with macadamia nuts, oatmeal raisin cookies, shortbread cookies…I can fill an entire page.

4. Grocery-store cookies are, of course, never as good as anything that comes out of someone’s kitchen, but what’s a packaged cookie that’s still pretty good?

Pepperidge farm Mint Milano cookies. The cookie part is so delicate and crispy and the chocolate filling is the perfect combination of minty and bitter. Unfortunately you only get 15 per high-priced bag and I can eat all 15 in one sitting. So I don’t buy them. Or, I won’t buy them until after John & Kristen’s wedding. Damn diets.

5. In general, do you think cookies should be chewy and gooey, or should they be crispy and crunchy?

This was a hard one. But if you put original Chips Ahoy and Chewy Chips Ahoy in front of me, I’ll grab the original every time. Plus, when baking, it’s easier to pass off a cookie as “naturally crispy and crunchy” instead over “overbaked.”