New Game: What's your favorite single FLAVOR in a cookie?

7 years ago

Rules:

1. Must be in a cookie, but you can argue for cookie adjacent

2. Must be ONE flavor, not a combination.

3. Not a kind of cookie, just a flavor.

Examples, chocolate chip is a kind of cookie, so that's out, but chocolate is okay, meaning chocolate in cookies, not necessarily a chocolate cookie, though that's included too. Oatmeal is probably out unless you're just wild for the flavor of oats. "Spice" is out, even if you buy a blend, but cinnamon is a good answer.

I was making Moravian ginger cookies and thinking about my very favorite cookie flavor component.

Molasses.

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Lars

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

Here's my recipe for butter cookies. I do add Amaretto to the cookies, but the dominant flavor is still the butter:

Lars’ Danish Butter Cookies

1-1/4 cups unsalted butter, softened
1 to 1-1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 egg yolks, beaten
2-1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1-1/2 teaspoons Amaretto

Cream butter and sugar. Beat egg yolks in, one at a time. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Chill dough. Roll dough into small balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press dough with any press or glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 325 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Remove immediately from cookie sheet and cool.

Yield: about 30 cookies

Variations: You can substitute other flavorings for the Amaretto, such as a bit of grated lemon rind or vanilla or coconut.

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Compumom
7 years ago
Hands down-- CHOCOLATE, strong, rich and dark!
lovemrmewey
7 years ago
CHOCOLATE!
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Lars
7 years ago
Butter
colleenoz
7 years ago
I cannot lie- chocolate!
nancyofnc
7 years ago
Lemon for me.
Olychick
7 years ago
Vanilla
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
7 years ago
Ginger!

Sorry, chocolate is not a flavor. It is an ingredient. :-) :-) :-).

dcarch
writersblock (9b/10a)
7 years ago
I'm with Lars--butter.
chloebud
7 years ago
Good vanilla. Also gotta agree with butter when it comes to flavor.
chloebud
7 years ago
plllog, I'm just sharing this favorite with molasses. The recipe came from the Silver Palate girls. The cookies are chewy. Depending on preference, a bit longer baking will crisp them up. In the photo I added dots of royal icing for Christmas.

Molasses Cookies
(Makes 24 large flat cookies)

12 T. butter
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda

Preheat oven to 350.

Melt butter, add sugar and molasses, and mix thoroughly. Lightly beat egg and add to butter mixture; blend well.

Sift flour with spices, salt and baking soda, and add to first mixture; mix. Batter will be very wet. (At this point I like to chill it for easier handling. Form the chilled dough into balls for baking.)

Lay a sheet of nonstick foil on a cookie sheet. Drop tablespoons of cookie batter on foil, leaving 3 inches between the cookies. They will spread during baking.

Bake until cookies start to darken, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven while still soft. Let cool on foil.
plllog thanked chloebud
User
7 years ago
Almond. I have a sugar cookie recipe that I can't use anymore. It contains almond flavoring, butter and cream cheese. I have a grandson that is allergic to all three. I found another that is very good, but I sure miss the almond one.
Cookie8
7 years ago
Anise. I love it in a good biscotti.
LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
7 years ago
Is Macadamia nut a flavor?
jerzeegirl (FL zone 9B)
7 years ago
Lemon.
bragu_DSM 5
7 years ago
vanilla ... the good kind, not the imitation
rob333 (zone 7b)
7 years ago
So far, I'm like, butter! Yes, butter! Almond! Ooo almond!!! Chocolate. MMMmmm chocolate. I obviously can't pick.
Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
7 years ago
Caramel
chloebud
7 years ago
Ohhhh...yes...caramel's pretty darn good!
l pinkmountain
7 years ago
Ginger.
agmss15
7 years ago
Now I want cookies - lots and lots of cookies. Different flavors for different days. Right now maybe peanut as in peanut butter cookies.
marcopolo5
7 years ago
Almond for me.
TXSkeeter
7 years ago
Got to add on to the pile for molasses although ginger might come in as a close second.
colleenoz
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I do like aniseed biscotti. They’re not easy to find here. My mother told me she used to give them to me as a teething rusk :-)
plllog
Original Author
7 years ago
Thanks for playing everybody! This is fun! So interesting to see the spread of favorites. We used to make lots of different kinds of cookies, but recently, with so many people cutting back, it's just been the famous chocolate chips, and they don't even get all 'et up anymore. I make the ginger (molasses) cookies to have cut shapes, but I think I'm the only one who likes them better than chocolate chip. Not that I don't like chocolate and brown sugar, but molasses is so much better than molassesy sugar. :)

Chloebud, I was thinking how much I miss the molasses cookies a local bakery used to make. Yours look like a cousin to them. Thanks for the recipe.

Lars, thanks for your recipe, too. I 've never made butter cookies. I'll have to try it.
arkansas girl
7 years ago
Favorite would be vanilla and least favorite(added because I felt like it) would have to be ANISE! To me, the anise spice ruins everything they put it in.
amylou321
7 years ago
The LOOOOOOOOVE, of course!
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Anglophilia
7 years ago
Hands down, almond for me!
caflowerluver
7 years ago
Molasses is my favorite.
seagrass_gw Cape Cod
7 years ago
Lemon for me!
fawnridge (Ricky)
7 years ago
Chocolate. But, is Marzipan a flavor? Is so, that's my favorite.
Cookie8
7 years ago
colleenoz - these are the ones I used to make. I hadn't had them in years and are now off limits for me. My favourite cookie ever.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9793/anise-biscotti/
plllog
Original Author
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I'd call marzipan boozy almond flavor. :) Sure it's a flavor. Nothing else tastes like marzipan. That's the rose water, but it doesn't really taste of rose water--the rose water changes it from just being almond to being marzipan.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
7 years ago
I have more than one favorite.

Butter indeed - and nutmeg.
ci_lantro
7 years ago
Dark chocolate.
escolat
7 years ago
Peanut butter..nothing better with ice cold milk on the side!
bcskye
7 years ago
Chocolate, no, anise, no, chocolate....
annie1992
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Molasses, definitely, although it's barely a winner over maple. I love maple but it's the molasses that makes me take a bite of something and smile. Both butter and lemon made me stop and think for a minute, though...

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