Cookies - Crunchy or Soft?

[crokett]

I like them soft. The best cookies are just cool enough out of the oven to eat. The chocolate chips are still melted.

[Ed62]

I have to agree with you, David.

Ed

[Richard in Smithville]

When daughter #1 is not in the shop with me she is spending time baking cookies. I have been known to be the first one to hover over the cookie sheet when they come out of the oven. She had better spend more time in the shop else I will be putting on too many pounds.

[shoottx]

Very limited choices! Cold or Warm? Milk, coffee, pop or tea? Nuts or no nuts? Chocolate, sugar, or oatmeal?

My answer is the last in each of the questions!

[Popeye]

Gotta be soft and chewey. My DIL just paid for the labor on her two new classroom bookcases with a couple of dozen oatmeal raisin cookies. Ohhhhh boy howdy . Pat

[Uncle Cracker]

Soft. I have sensitive teeth... (Plus, I just like 'em that way... )

[Woodshark]

I have to vote yes. My wife is known for her chocolate chip cookies and I agree, right out of the oven there is nothing better than a warm soft cookie with the chips on verge of melting away. Heaven. But, at room temp, I prefer a nice crunch. A soft cookie at room temp makes me think of old stale crackers. Fortunately for me, once her cookies reach room temp they set to nice firm crunch; just the way I like'm. It's a win win.

[JeffG78]

I vote for raw chocolate chip cookie dough. I have been known to make a batch and not bake any of them.

[bthorne]

I gotta agree with Woodshark. Soft if they're still warm, otherwise crunchy (unless meant to be soft, like coconut macaroons). If chocolate chip, they go well with a glass of milk.

[dbhost]

I guess I am one of the odd ones here. I like them slightly crispy, dunked in milk...

Of course it all depends on WHAT cookies we are talking about. Oatmeal cookies, Macaroons etc... should be soft, Chocolate Chip, Turtles etc... should be crispy...

LOML disagrees on that, and likes her chocolate chip cookies gooey...

[BearPipes-1]

Soft.

That said, I don't get soft cookies that often. Although I as yet have no food allergies, there are chocolate and dairy allergies in my family. Which means cookies tend to be made with margarine, and without chips. Margariney cookies seem to give up

Hey, I love a good golden raisin oatmeal cookie or twelve, but a thick, buttery chocolate chip cookie, with the semi-sweet chips still gooey ...

*drool*
/homer

-Mike.

[Alex Franke]

Dude -- I was actually considering asking this very same question a few days ago!! (We were making some at the time.)

Flat, crunchy on the outside, and chewy in the middle. Mmmm.

I use the Toll House recipe, pre-softening the butter, measuring the flour by lightly spooning it in, measuring the brown sugar by packing it, and baking for about one minute less than specified.

[gsmittle]

I vote for raw chocolate chip cookie dough. I have been known to make a batch and not bake any of them.

When I was in college my housemates and I would make a quadruple batch of chocolate chip cookie dough, one double batch to eat while the other double batch was baking.

Later we wised up and skipped the baking.

I just plain like cookies, soft, crunchy, or inbetween.

g.

[Tom Slick]

I don't usually make it to the baking stage. I guess that is chewy?

j/k I'm the baker in the house and I prefer chewy, In fact I'll pass on crunchy cookies.

[Sawatzky]

This is not a good thread to read when hungry! I love my cookies soft, but also eat more cookie dough than cookies. We make cookie dough just to eat it.