Every Monday we go out to lunch and after lunch we find a dessert place. Cookies are part of our rotation of dessert. Aaron says he know which is the best cookie and I thought they all tasted the same until today…
The four of us decided to drive the valley, pick up a chocolate chip cookie from each location and have a taste test.
Then, Bryan said he wanted to have a sugar cookie taste.
Mom and I said we would get a specialty cookie from each store. How many cookies did we end up wtih? A lot! 🙂
We started at 1:00pm. First stop: Twisted Sugar.
This is the specialty cookie.
The chocolate chip cookie looked like unbaked cookie dough. Tasted like it as well. The sugar cookie was good, but the icing was a little bland.
Bryan’s favorite chocolate chip cookie was twisted sugar and mom said it was in her top two and couldn’t decide between the two.
Who liked the sugar cookie? This was moms 2nd favorite.
They had a large selection of specialty cookies and was hard to choose just one. We will definitely be back to pick up another specialty cookie.
Second stop: Goodly Cookies.
They didn’t have any sugar cookies or specialty cookies to choose from.
No one liked the goodly cookie. Maybe we need to heat this one up?
Third stop: Suss.
Who liked the chocolate chip cookie? No one! This was mom and Aaron’s last choice and this one was at the bottom of the list for me as well.
Who liked the sugar cookie? No one! This was all of our least liked cookie. It also looks terrible.
Fourth stop: Cookie Crave.
We had to have the skookie here. There are a couple places to get a skookie in the valley and hands down the Cookie Crave wins on this one. Two milk chocolate cookies and ice cream. Can’t go wrong with this.
With all of us loving the warm skooie we are all surprised this one came in as our least favorite. I think we need to heat this one as well.
The sugar cookie: This was moms third choice and Aaron’s second choice.
We picked up the chocolate chip cookie and sugar cookie. No specialty cookie here.
Fifth stop: Chip
Picked up a chocolate chip cooke.
Who liked the chocolate chip: I was the only one. This was one of my favorites.
The left picture above is the sugar cookie display. Looks good, right? The one on the right is the cookie they gave us. Totally not the same. Chip lost me on that one for the sugar cookie section.
Who liked the sugar cookie: This was Aarons third choice.
I can’t get these pictures to line up. 🙂 They look great on edit, but preview just won’t work. Whatever, moving on….
Sixth stop: Sodalicious. See, it’s getting darker out 🙂 We have been at this for a while.
Who liked the chocolate chip: No one. This was my least favorite. Paul said it tasted like soap. Which is funny. Because I have had many of these cookies and they are not bad. But when you put it next to a REALLY good cookie, this one is terrible.
We picked up a chocolate chip cookie and a sugar cookie. They didn’t have specialty cookies here either.
Seventh stop: Crumbl cookies.
Picked up a chocolate chip cookie and a sugar cookie
Who liked either ? No one. Didn’t make the list.
Eight and last stop.
I asked my IT guy for some help with lining up these pictures, he said I’m on my own. So, I will just have to live with misalignment. 🙂
We picked up a chocolate chip cookie and a sugar cookie.
Who liked the chocoatel chip: moms second, arron and my first.
Who liked the sugar: This one was pretty good. Hard to compare. It is a good cookie. Mom and Aaron’s number one. I have to say I liked this one from all the others as well.
Brought all the cookies home and set them out. The chocolate chip cookies. For the category of looks, Batch totally won on this. It is tall, lots of chocolate chips and it looks like it just came out of the oven.
The sugar cookies. Lots of variation.
We cut them up.
And had a taste of each.
Dad stopped after two of them. He said they all taste the same. Interesting. When we get a cookie every other week or so from each of these places, they all taste really good. And when I tasted them all at once there is a cookie that I thought was pretty good, but next to the winner, it was the worst cookie I have eaten.
Conclusion?
Chocolate chip cookie: Twisted sugar and batch was our top choices.
Sugar cookie: Batch was our top choice
Suss was our least with chocolate chip and sugar. We are definitely taking this one our of our dessert rotation.
6:05 pm. A lot of driving, but a lot of fun.
What’s next? I’m thinking we need to do our top 3 and see who wins. Pizza? That would be filling. Brownies? Oh, yeah, that would be good!