Readers, help me out. I’ve noticed Foxship Bakery puts this letter in their cookie packages encouraging you to eat them heated up, but warm cookies do not appeal to me!
I like room temperature cookies. We’ve made cookies twice in the last week, and both times we ate some warm and, eh, I liked them better the next day. Steven said vegan cookies are annoying to eat warm because they are so crumbly and messy when they’re hot/have just come out of the oven, but I don’t think I’d prefer any cookie warm.
Who prefers warm cookies? Take my poll!
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Oh! And don’t get me wrong – if the options are warm cookie or NO cookie I’ll take the warm cookie!
You left out raw, LOL. Still my favorite way but I know I’m tempting fate and one of these days I’ll regret it.
OMG you are right! Should I edit the poll to add that?!
Raw is sometimes better than cooked. But it’s hard to stop at one!
Warm with a cold cup of milk for dipping is the fave in this house.
Ooo! I have never tried that!
Also, what is Khali’s preferred? She looks like she has opinions, on things, and stuff.
So this is going to come as a bit of a shock, but cookies are one of the only foods Khali does NOT like. I gave her pieces of one at room temperature and she chewed it then left it on the floor.
Or was that her way of telling me she wanted it warmed?!
Depends on the cookie. Some are really nice warm, some better cold, some great room temperature. And sometimes it depends on the mood. Too many factors for this survey to be so straightforward.
Good point! I would have asked your favorite cookie and its ideal temperature, but I suppose that is very situational as well 😉
I agree with Kapgar – totally depends on the cookie
Since my favorite cookies usually have chocolate, warming them makes the chocolate ooey gooey and there’s no way I can’t have that.
That was the problem with the chocolate cookies we made two weekends ago! It melted all over the plate! What a mess!
I love warm cookies! But I have noticed that it doesn’t work as well with vegan cookies so I’m learning to love those room temperature 🙂
Yeah, I haven’t made any at home that are not crumbly! These ones from Foxship might actually hold up, but I obviously did not try, ha!
Kim, I must vehemently disagree with you on this point. WARM COOKIES ALL THE WAY! It makes the cookie so soft and the chocolate gooey, and it is honestly the best thing in the whole world. Period. End of story. 🙂
LOL! But do tell me, how do we do with this gooey chocolate mess?!
I voted on this days ago but haven’t had time to comment until now – I think it depends on the cookie. Chocolate chip cookies, or other cookies that have melting qualities, are definitely best served warm. Chocolate is always better melty than solid (all chocolate is good, of course, but melty is better). If it’s something without chocolate, though – snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter – I don’t have a strong preference on warm vs. room temp. I wouldn’t want them straight up cold or definitely not frozen, though – they would be too hard to bite into, then, I would think!
I follow your logic, but it’s so messy! How am I supposed to deal with the melty chocolate? It was all over the plate!
You can eat thin mints straight out of the freezer 😉 But yeah, not sure if you can with many other cookies!
I think I’m in the warm camp. Does that make me “basic”? Actually, when I think about it, I like warm because it melts the chocolate, but it bothers me to have messy hands. Room temperature cookies seem neater to me. (And like you, I don’t think I care enough to say no to a cookie at a suboptimal temperature.)
No, it doesn’t! I didn’t know it was so popular though! And I really don’t get the melted chocolate thing, like you said, cause it’s messy.