Best Cookies

RE: Best Cookies (Kenny)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:09:07 GMT

One of my favorites is the ranger cookie.
I've found them at Kroger, but the best ones came from my grandma's kitchen.

RE: Best Cookies (BelleReve)

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:23:34 GMT

tj - they were a favorite of mine too. The closest I've come to them is a cookie called Sultana Biscuits I found in an Oriental supermarket, made by the Khong Guan company, The look and taste is similar, Sunshine's may have been a little sweeter, and the raisins in the Sultana Biscuits are a little chewier and drier than I remember.

RE: Best Cookies (tjonesy3)

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:55:51 GMT

I am disappointed that my favorite snack is gone. The Sunshine golden Raisin Biscuit. A long flat raisin biscuit that was thin and chewy.

RE: Best Cookies (Elliejose)

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:56:02 GMT

I am looking for a cookie that was around in the late 50's (approximately). It was a small rectangular shaped cookie covered in butterscotch. Came in an aqua colored bag with a see thru cellophane window. I loved them!! No one, family or friends, seems to know what I am talking about. It was small 1/2 - 1 inch long; about 1/2 inch high and wide. Just a good bite or 2. PLEASE, someone tell me that you remember them and what they are. I have been trying to remember now for several years. Help!?

RE: Best Cookies (Judy65)

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:25:03 GMT

Have you found the Picadilly Jelly Cookies anywhere? I haven't been able to find them in any of the grocery stores. Do you remember who they were made by?

RE: Best Cookies (SassyGritsAL)

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:49:56 GMT

Mine would be the old fashioned tea cakes and I absolutely love the cutout decorated sugar cookes; especially at Christmas time. I also like the Mexician Wedding Cookies and pecan sandies.

RE: Best Cookies (fabulousoyster)

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:46:25 GMT

The best cookies I ever had were at a "Cookie Party" a few Decembers ago. Someone made "Marshmallow Clouds" which were a dark chocolate cookie with a melted marshmallow inside. I had to leave the party early and never got the recipe. I would love a good recipe, tried and true, not just off the internet.

RE: Best Cookies (billyboy)

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:31:07 GMT

I've always had a hard time with store bought "brand" cookies as they taste very processed to me (as usually evidenced by the laundry list of unpronouncable ingredients that would make a spelling bee champion break down and cry). I do like Dancing Deer Bakery though makes great Sugar Cane Lime and Chocolate Tangerine cookies. Their website is www.dancingdeer.com. Plus their company is local (Boston-based) and does good charity work.
I just went to the Union Square Greenmarket on Wed. and stopped at a bkaery tent whose name I have forgotten, but their molasses-ginger cookies were sublime! It brought me back to the cookies my sister and aunt made during the holidays. Like Christmas in August!! I also adore my cousin Pat's sugar cookies. Pillowy, soft, with a liberal duting of cinnamon sugar on top and a hint of lemon inside. No family reunion is complete without them. I usually prefer to bake my own cookies (Oatmeal Scotchies, Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies, and Baked Chocolate Truffle Cookies) so I know what is in them and I like them thin, crispy, yet chewy in the middle.

RE: Best Cookies (buffetbuster)

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:40:46 GMT

My favorite place to buy cookies in Pittsburgh is at Moio's, a wonderful little Italian bakery in the eastern suburb of Monroeville.
http://www.moios.com/cookies.htm

Another place which has fantastic cookies is Caffe Sicilia in Gloucester, MA. My cousin and I stopped here for breakfast before this year's Roadfood bus tour and bought a two pound box. We knew right then and there we were in for a great eating day!
http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=255

RE: Best Cookies (tophersl912)

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:04:55 GMT

The best tasting cookie I have had is the iced cut-out cookie from Linda's Kitchen, but all their cookies are soooooo delicious!!!!! This is a small homemade bakery near where i live. Their website is www.lindaskitcheninc.com check it out

RE: Best Cookies (ham-b-guy)

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:37:58 GMT

Nestle Toll House. If you bake them right, There are so chewy and delicous, Then after they cool, they don't harden like most cookies. However, Oreo Cookies aren't bad, but I live the "FRESH" chewy chocolate chip. I remember about a year ago, I used to buy the freshly baked cookies at a Burger king restaurant. So Burger King, bring it back, you have a satisfied customer.

RE: Best Cookies (bROOKE28)

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:23:03 GMT

I'm looking for the name of a cookie that was around in the 60's. I believe they came in a box. They were bar shaped, chocolate, chewy with a sort of crunchy texture. No peanut butter. We used to get them at a grocery store in central California.

RE: Best Cookies (ScreenBear)

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:49:13 GMT

Cookies are way up there for me insofar as what foods you'd take with you to a desert island...right up there with cake (which includes pastry), pizza, hot dogs, bread and steak.

I like almost every kind. However, I particularly enjoy foraging without compunction through those trays of fancy, homemade-style bakery cookies that are everywhere around Christmastime.
The Bear

RE: Best Cookies (Rev.Bucky)

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:38:58 GMT

The cookie is natures perfect food. The best cookie, the one thats close to me, with a nice cold glass of milk. To dunk or not to dunk. Better have more than one so I can do both!!!

RE: Best Cookies (Diner-Lover)

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:50:11 GMT

Well waddaya know! Thanks, to Wander and Marie for helping me to find Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Creme Patties. I'm off to do a search in our local grocery stores to find them!

RE: Best Cookies (mwisemiu)

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:04:44 GMT

Diner-Lover, Go to netgrocer.com and type in the search for nutter butter creme patties and it comes right up.

I also did something more exciting today. After doing an online search for the creme patties, I found them online at a few places. So, I thought I'd try an in person search at some grocers aside form the place I normally grocery shop. And guess what!? I found them at PUBLIX! I don't normally shop there. I had no idea they carried them. Heck, I dind't even know that Nabisco still made them until a couple days ago! LOL!! So, thanks to the discussions we've had here, I actually ate some yesterday! Still as good as I remember, but smaller than I remember. I'm not a kid anymore, I guess that's why.

They were about $3 for the package.

Thanks everyone!!

By the way, for some of my Christmas cookies this year, I made Kolaches. Anyone remember those? There was a lot of ethnic influence in the Cleveland, OH area when I was growing up. I think those cookies are maybe Polish or Ukranian. Boy, they sure are good! I made them with nut, poppy seed, raspberry and apricot filling. DELISH!!

--Marie

RE: Best Cookies (BrooklynBill)

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:33:20 GMT

Here is a brand, not a type b/c all that they make is outstanding!

Bill

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/mcduffiesbakery/index.html

RE: Best Cookies (Diner-Lover)

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:18:25 GMT

Mwisemiu, the link you posted takes me to Netgrocer's site but it's advertising Pork Roll Specials at the moment. Do you have another link?

RE: Best Cookies (mwisemiu)

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:31:38 GMT

Sure enough!! There they are!!
http://shop.netgrocer.com/shop.aspx?&sid=1637851&sid_guid=89fff021-5d0b-4822-a8de-1e79f1a23de5&strid=2D462&ns=1

It's refreshing to know that my mind wasn't off-kilter. I really did think they were Nutter Butters. Thanks for giving me a smile!
--Marie

RE: Best Cookies (mwisemiu)

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:27:57 GMT

Well!! I will most certainly go look those up! Thanks!

Originally posted by Wander

Mwisemiu, I recall the cookies that you're talking about. They were indeed Nutter Butter cookies, they used to make 2 varieties, the peanut shaped ones and the wafer cookie type. The ones you seek are called Nutter Butter Creme Patties, and the only place I found them online was at Netgrocer.com, via Amazon.

RE: Best Cookies (stephiegirl)

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:00:40 GMT

I love Monster Cookies. We used to make them only once in a while, but because the batch made so many cookies we were satisfied having them once a year. I also love Oatmeal Scotchies( with butterscotch chips) and for store bought I crave Picadilly Jellies. They were a small square-shaped soft cookie with marshmallow covered coconut and a little red jelly in the middle. I can't find them anymore, but they werer delicious!!

RE: Best Cookies (Wander)

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:48:42 GMT

Mwisemiu, I recall the cookies that you're talking about. They were indeed Nutter Butter cookies, they used to make 2 varieties, the peanut shaped ones and the wafer cookie type. The ones you seek are called Nutter Butter Creme Patties, and the only place I found them online was at Netgrocer.com, via Amazon.

RE: Best Cookies (mwisemiu)

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:39:53 GMT

Exactly! A row of ravioli! That sure is a good visual. There are so many store bought cookies that can be made better at home, shortbread and chocolate chip for instance. But who could make those wafers filled with sweet peanut butter? It just kills me that I can't remember what they were called. I, too, have gone through the lists of discontinued cookies, especially at Nabisco, but I didn't see anything that rang a bell with me. I won't give up though. Thanks for the thoughts!

RE: Best Cookies (Diner-Lover)

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:50:14 GMT

Mwisemiu, I remember those peanut butter cookies! My Mom would often buy those. The cookie part had the taste and texture of a sugar wafer-- kind of crackly when you bit into them, and the creamy PB was fairly generous in those pockets. I'd forgotten about them and just assumed they were still being made. I'll do a search, too, and see if I can remember their name-- I'm pretty sure they were made by Nabisco.
[Edited to add that I did a brief search at Hometown Favorites http://www.hometownfavorites.com/index_dyn.asp in their 'Boy they were good but...' list of discontinued items, but nothing rang a bell. As I was describing the cookies to Mr.D-L and drew a picture of how they looked, I realized that they were shaped almost like a strip of frozen raviolis.]

RE: Best Cookies (mwisemiu)

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:45:52 GMT

All these great cookie comments! I made 12 different Christmas Cookies this year and they are so much better than store bought. It's been great fun snatching cookies out of there!

I was having a conversation with my dad about a cookie that seems to have vanished from the stores. I thought at first it was Nutter Butter, but it's not. Nutter Butter is still in stores and it's a peanut shaped sandwich cookie. The one we were remembering came in a rectagular package. The package opened up with two layers of cookies inside. The top layer and bottom layers had to be broken into individual cookies, like a Hershey's candy bar. The cookies were, once broken apart, squares that held a creamy peanut butter filling. The bottom was flat and the top was a bumped up cup-like thing that was filled with the filling. I remember I used to break them apart and lick out all the filling and then eat the crunchy outside cookie part. If you've ever had a candy bar that's filled with fruit filling, that was the shape of those cookies, only bigger. Can't remember for the life of me what they were called. I've even tried doing online searches, but they seem to have disappeared over the years.

RE: Best Cookies (partyring)

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:05:24 GMT

Okay here is the thing. We have three genertions that are remembering a store bought cookie circa 1960's 1970's. Possibly imported (or not). It came square or round with a hard, coloured, glaze type icing. It often had pictures or alphabet letters in the icing. They were yummy. We are looking for a name. Anyone else remember these?

RE: Best Cookies (alb)

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:51:32 GMT

My grandmother made raisin-filled sugar cookies, with a raisin sauce in the middle. She showed me how to make them once when I was a teenager, but nobody in the entire extended family (which includes some mighty fine cooks) has been able to make them just right. There was only one grandma!

RE: Best Cookies (suzyH)

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:27:01 GMT

"Here's another store-bought cookie that was available about the same time that I always liked: It was round-- but flat, like a PB or choc. chip cookie-- with a hermit cookie flavor-- nice and mildly spicy, and the icing was smooth white with thin black stripes. Good dunked in milk because the cookie got soft, but the icing remained firm and crackled under your teeth with each bite. Anyone remember and/or know its name?"

Diner-Lover-- I was searching Google, looking for any links to a cookie that I had as a kid-- I loved it and think my son would like it as well. Anyway, this forum came up, and it's definitely the cookie you describe above. This was in the 60's, and I lived in a suburb of Philadelphia. Any chance it was regional?

RE: Best Cookies (checkplease)

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:36:48 GMT

Hey all,

First post and I am in the cookie biz - I love em all. I want to say that Archway and Mother's both have a pink and white iced cookie that is crunchy and amybe even a little spicey. It have been a long time since I have eaten them. Look in the "cheap" section of the grocery store cookie isle. Keebler has one called iced animal or circus cookies - they are simliar but not quite the same. I enjoyed the cheap "Iced Oatmeal" cookies -- too hard to eat without a tall glass of milk for dipping until they nearly fall apart.

RE: Best Cookies (Diner-Lover)

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:33:26 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by BelleReve

In my original post, really more of a nostalgia thing , I was looking for and trying to remember a thicker cookie that came either in pink or white icing with more of a spice taste as was suggested. The icing was denser, sort of like royal icing, but don't know what they were called, and I remember more of a licorice taste, but then again it could have have been clove or molasses, as this was many years ago.

I'm with you, Belle-- especially when you mentioned the thicker cookie, and dense, royal icing-type frosting. I asked my Mom who has similar food memories to mine, and she remembered these cookies that came in both white and pink icing in one package. We both think that they had more of a clove flavor. I feel like the cookie was kind of dry in texture, too. Not a very moist cookie, but not crunchy either.

Now if someone could only share my memory of the round, flat cookies with the shiny white icing and thin black stripes that had a spicy clove-y flavor, I would love it!