The Great Cookie Debate: A Journey of Flavors and Preferences

As we sat down to begin our cookie-eating adventure, I couldn't help but think about how we were going to approach this challenge. With so many delicious options to choose from, it was impossible to know exactly which way the conversation would go. But as we dug in, one thing became clear: we were in for a wild ride.

Our first stop was the world of chocolate chip cookies. We ordered a few different types, including a classic chocolate chip and a white chocolate chip cookie. As we waited for our food to arrive, we couldn't help but chat about our expectations. "I'm thinking you know we barely need to even try these," I said, referring to the fact that we had tried each type before. But my companion quickly corrected me, saying "we could want to try them yeah." And with that, our conversation was off and running.

The arrival of our first round of cookies brought a sense of excitement and anticipation. We took turns trying new flavors and discussing their merits. The white chocolate chip cookie, while sweet, didn't quite cut it for me. "I have to say, if I were voting just for the chocolate half, I'd say unequivocally hands down winner," I said, highlighting the superiority of the chocolate chip. My companion nodded in agreement, saying "black and white one oh oh look at this." And so, the debate continued.

As we made our way through the next round, things started to get serious. We had entered the final four, and the competition was fierce. The chocolate chip cookie remained a clear frontrunner, but our companion insisted on trying another type: the Snickerdoodle. "I thought we were going one by one," I said, as my companion quickly downed their own Snickerdoodle. But I wasn't about to let that stop me. "Let me catch up to you," I said, and with a few quick bites, I was back in the game.

The chocolate chip cookie remained our top choice, but we were determined to give the other types a fair shake. Next up was the black and white cookie, which my companion declared was "just along for the ride." But I disagreed, saying it was "between us this just between us." And then, in a surprise move, we decided to try the S'mores cookie. The combination of chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker flavors was a game-changer.

But before we could even begin our S'mores cookie tasting, we had to make one final decision: which type of milk to order with it. "All right, can't think of when the last time I actually drank straight up milk was," my companion said, admitting that they hadn't had a glass of milk in ages. And so, we opted for warm milk, which proved to be the perfect complement to our S'mores cookie.

And then, it was on to the final round: the championship round. We were down to two types, and only one could emerge victorious. But as we deliberated, something unexpected happened. My companion pulled out a container of gingerbread cookies, saying "I have a terrible recipe for these." And with that, our debate took an unexpected turn.

The journey was filled with twists and turns, but in the end, it came down to one thing: which cookie reigned supreme? The chocolate chip cookie remained the clear favorite, with its perfect balance of flavors and textures. As we sat there, enjoying our final bites, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. It had been a wild ride, but in the end, we had found the ultimate winner.

As we wrapped up our journey, I couldn't help but reflect on what we had learned. We had discovered that cookie preferences can be highly subjective, and that even the most seemingly small details – like milk temperature or cookie texture – can make all the difference. And as for my companion's claim to be a terrible Puppeteer? Let's just say it was a minor victory in an otherwise epic battle of wills.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n hi I'm Chris Morocco oh and the me Cookie Monster today we're going to be tasting and judging eight different cookies to find out which type of cookie is the best love this game you think you can be cold analytical judgmental make some hard decisions judgmental yeah whatever you say in each matchup two cookies are going to face off against each other and one is going to advance until we get to the ultimate winner so at the end of all this we're going to determine which type of cookie is the absolute best super important mhm we got to pace ourselves here right because we've got a lot of cookies to get through you know have to cookies split we totally on same page you like a cookie me like a cookie they going to be cookies on the table we eat the cookie enough talk about cookies let's eat cookie or why don't why don't we at least try one and see how this goes small small bites no just one at first okay fine where where'd this come from all right Cookie Monster we've got chocolate chip and we have oatmeal raisin oh boy let's start with chocolate chippy Okay small bite let's just you know see where we're at small bite discuss move on to next cookie yeah okay here we go cookie I think you know what we're seeing is like the sort of brown sugar quotient with why your cookie still on plate just enough white sugar to kind of set up like that structure we were talking about a little like crisp around the the outside little bit squishier in the middle we got all that is that what you got too we got all of that and a lot faster no I couldn't help but notice but you kind of you kind of got into that cookie a little fast thank you thank you no for that I didn't necessarily mean it as a compliment well you know that's how we do it everybody's got their own thing I think we're bringing like rational analytical Cookie Monster to this exercise exactly you going to get another shot at this you're going to do it your way this time yeah oatmeal raisin here we go small small that additional kind of nutty character from The Oatmeal really shines through but we don't really have that balancing element of the chocolate no we get raisins you don't want to overwhelm with the raisins cuz it does disrupt the bite it's a little bit chewy mix them with the crunch it could be a little off-putting we have to choose a winner you have to you have to kind of play back both of those coldhearted very rational tasting sequences and decide which cookie really delivered of the two me going to say chocolate chippy I agree with you we on the same page yeah we're on the same page I think chocolate chip o love this they just hand us cookies yeah good day huh this a good day as you will note you've got Snicker doodle and then you've got a sugar cookie this is the Battle of the sugar and butter based cookies so the Snicker doodle you got like that nice coating of cinnamon and sugar you're usually going to find cream of tartar in there that acidifying element kind of gives you an additional kind of blast of acidity which reacts with your baking soda what is cream of tartar by the way cream of tartar is um it's tartaric acid right is it cream of tart tartar or cream of tartar Tartar and I don't actually know what tartar sauce you not know something sauce no wa don't we have that on camera Mr big shot don't tell Dan why don't we start with the Snicker doodle we love Snicker doodle just a just a small bite you really get that cinnamon that's where we're talking about you know that kind of like that retro nasal you really pick up that brightness though right you know from the cream of tartar mhm something just like little a little bit extra Nuance going on there wait a minute we tasting it it's not just monolithically sweet no and I like how you have the cinnamon kind of adds like that extra kind of something flavor wise you feel the cinnamon all these senses are going crazy well let's get into sugar cookie you just going to watch maybe going to learn what do you think no jump in there the head motion just a little sweet it's not enough no balance we have cookie oh yeah youve got cookie in your armpit there I think it's Snicker doodle by a mile by 100 miles yeah chewy crispy cinnamon cinnamony it's bright that word love it yeah okay moving on moving on bring in the cookies what do we have here oh me think know that the s'mores cookie and that the chocolate cookie with sprinkles double chocolate can something of too much chocolate no the more chocolate the better but what about balance what about know that's why you put the sprinkles on I don't know s'mores to me is always one of those things that's better in theory than it is in reality you're camping it's always cold no matter what time of year you know the marshmallow burns the stick sets on fire mosquitoes are mauling you I mean not to go camping with Chris you know it's interesting that they take usmore which is isn't really a cookie but they turned it into a cookie you turn something into a cookie because everybody has had a cookie and everybody can relate to it right so I think fair game turn everything into a cookie good cuz me working on a lasagna cookie yeah you want to try it maybe you could publish recipe in Bona PE magazine they will love it we'll we we'll put it through the ringer first in the test kitchen and get back to you but yeah I I love where this conversation is going let's keep it going we just we're just percolating with ideas here should we try the double chocolate why not all right so to me double chocolate is it's like a chocolate chip cookie but me listening keep talking yeah yeah yeah oh exactly yeah oh yeah yeah precisely yeah are you sure that there can't be too much chocolate in something though like where where's the balance coming from you're right we going to agree with you it's a little one no okay what next smells like s'mores I'm getting like I feel like me at campfire right now wow you really go to a place look at him work amazing excuse me N N N I got to say the marshmallow really added something that over-the-top vanilla you know kind of candy like aspect of a marshmallow which is just totally tempered and then balanced out by the toasting process me think sore cookie the winner this category to me is a little bit of a wild card there's nothing quite like gingerbread kind of occupies its own space and same thing with a black and white cookie you know sort of like icon of sort of New York Deli and you know what we love to do with gingerbread cookies what we like to do this excuse me we like to put l gingerbread puppe on come on Chris get down here hold up you gingerbread hi hi uh it's Christmas time and me so excited for Santa Claus how about you I'm super excited um I I do sometimes I fear that gingerbread cookies are I don't know old-fashioned like are they that good you know it's like you make them on like November 1st and they just kind of hang around getting kicked from one side of the house to the other now you're depressing me gingerbread man I'm sorry I oh okay me going back to play to get eaten now thank you for bringing me down okay Chris that end of puppet show sorry we tried let's try gingerbread okay that went down pretty easy it's pretty good yeah it's got not not great maybe me just depressed from your gingerbread story well look it doesn't have like that you know kind of mixed sort of set of textures that I feel like I personally really value in a cookie the flavor is nice but how much of this do you truly want to eat it's a cookie of the of the heart it bring it bring memories and not so much cookie of The Taste pellet well why don't we try the black and white oh yeah we have another cookie to eat I do feel sometimes that like a black and white cookie is more like cake than it's like a cookie it's like frosting on the cake and do you know how you eat cake with a knife and fork okay let's see how this goes is it got the medium rare is that the that to your liking sir it hey I have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n oh that yummy wow you know from now on we going to just eat them all at once that's how you get the balance the White and the black no it's still a chocolate for me chocolate the white it's too sweet I have to say if I were voting just for the chocolate half I'd say unequivocally hands down winner I'd say the vanilla side is kind of just along long for the ride if you can kind of live with that sort of judgment I'm saying it's black and white yeah me me agree black and white one oh oh look at this me ordered milk you a good pellet cleanser yeah okay I I mean all right can't think of when the last time I actually drank straight up milk was yeah it's good right yeah no it's yeah it's good and it's warm which makes it even better it is so warm so warm to you should asked for cold milk maybe next time okay so this is round two and things are getting serious the final four so we've got chocolate chip yeah and we've got Snicker doodle right and I'm thinking you know we barely need to even try these maybe we don't even need to try them at all right because we can remember what they taste like we forgot what they taste like oh you want to just get need a little refresher big a little taste again a little refresher um oh wait you ate the snker doodle too oh I thought we were going one by one we just wanted to get it over with and choose me let me let me catch up to you I feel like it's the chocolate chip yeahum me too it just pulls those like that flavor Spectrum in both directions like that deep you're there you're there you're here you're there you're there yeah exactly do you feel like the Snicker doodle is missing something that the chocolate chip cookie has chocolate chippies chocolate chip how about Snicker doodle with chocolate chippies how about that we want another chocolate chippy right now let's move on to the next round ooh okay we remember these spores black and white we don't have to try them we don't have to a we don't have to I mean we could we could want to try them yeah I mean you could want we could want to sure and you know what we want to Black and White I'm thinking it's the s'mores personally like when we talk about like flavors that like really expand in multiple directions textures you got like the pop of the chocolate you've got the toasted marshmallow yeah the crisp Edge the gooey center it's like a campfire in the cookie the black and white cookie it's not that good it's just it's just between us this just between us so then s'mores me guess it has to be s'mores has to be s'mores okay it's s'mores moving on this is it this is the championship round our finalists are coming in okay the grand finale oh here it is what do you want to start with the final round you know we started with chocolate chippy when do we end with chocolate chippy so let's do S'mores S'mores first and chocolate chip that's nice it's really nice yeah a lot of brown sugar in there wait do do you do you bake cookies I do uh what's your secret recipe hand chopped chocolate lot of vanilla extract really oh yeah and then super high proportion of dark brown sugar yeah which is really important because it reacts due to the Molasses content with the baking soda which is our leaver in there yeah and then brown butter It Like Music to meet years it like it like Beethoven tell me more about this chocolate chip cookie where did your s'mores cookie go yeah that me finished that 15 minutes ago so now what so we going to eat the chocolate chippy ready me ready with me decision oh yeah you're you're good me good you got your stay on the count of three okay one two three chocolate chip CH chipp yes I knew it yes yes high five high five ultimate imbalance it's all there it was all there the entire time yeah it was right before our eyes the entire time it's so hard to compete with the balance of flavors that is Manifest in like every chocolate chip cookie yeah me tearing up a little bit I know it's been a journey it's been a journey yeah be so happy to do it with You Chris it's so much fun so many cookies this been a great day it was a great day thank you yo thank you me pleasure we also learned that you a terrible Puppeteer that gingerbread terribleI have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n hi I'm Chris Morocco oh and the me Cookie Monster today we're going to be tasting and judging eight different cookies to find out which type of cookie is the best love this game you think you can be cold analytical judgmental make some hard decisions judgmental yeah whatever you say in each matchup two cookies are going to face off against each other and one is going to advance until we get to the ultimate winner so at the end of all this we're going to determine which type of cookie is the absolute best super important mhm we got to pace ourselves here right because we've got a lot of cookies to get through you know have to cookies split we totally on same page you like a cookie me like a cookie they going to be cookies on the table we eat the cookie enough talk about cookies let's eat cookie or why don't why don't we at least try one and see how this goes small small bites no just one at first okay fine where where'd this come from all right Cookie Monster we've got chocolate chip and we have oatmeal raisin oh boy let's start with chocolate chippy Okay small bite let's just you know see where we're at small bite discuss move on to next cookie yeah okay here we go cookie I think you know what we're seeing is like the sort of brown sugar quotient with why your cookie still on plate just enough white sugar to kind of set up like that structure we were talking about a little like crisp around the the outside little bit squishier in the middle we got all that is that what you got too we got all of that and a lot faster no I couldn't help but notice but you kind of you kind of got into that cookie a little fast thank you thank you no for that I didn't necessarily mean it as a compliment well you know that's how we do it everybody's got their own thing I think we're bringing like rational analytical Cookie Monster to this exercise exactly you going to get another shot at this you're going to do it your way this time yeah oatmeal raisin here we go small small that additional kind of nutty character from The Oatmeal really shines through but we don't really have that balancing element of the chocolate no we get raisins you don't want to overwhelm with the raisins cuz it does disrupt the bite it's a little bit chewy mix them with the crunch it could be a little off-putting we have to choose a winner you have to you have to kind of play back both of those coldhearted very rational tasting sequences and decide which cookie really delivered of the two me going to say chocolate chippy I agree with you we on the same page yeah we're on the same page I think chocolate chip o love this they just hand us cookies yeah good day huh this a good day as you will note you've got Snicker doodle and then you've got a sugar cookie this is the Battle of the sugar and butter based cookies so the Snicker doodle you got like that nice coating of cinnamon and sugar you're usually going to find cream of tartar in there that acidifying element kind of gives you an additional kind of blast of acidity which reacts with your baking soda what is cream of tartar by the way cream of tartar is um it's tartaric acid right is it cream of tart tartar or cream of tartar Tartar and I don't actually know what tartar sauce you not know something sauce no wa don't we have that on camera Mr big shot don't tell Dan why don't we start with the Snicker doodle we love Snicker doodle just a just a small bite you really get that cinnamon that's where we're talking about you know that kind of like that retro nasal you really pick up that brightness though right you know from the cream of tartar mhm something just like little a little bit extra Nuance going on there wait a minute we tasting it it's not just monolithically sweet no and I like how you have the cinnamon kind of adds like that extra kind of something flavor wise you feel the cinnamon all these senses are going crazy well let's get into sugar cookie you just going to watch maybe going to learn what do you think no jump in there the head motion just a little sweet it's not enough no balance we have cookie oh yeah youve got cookie in your armpit there I think it's Snicker doodle by a mile by 100 miles yeah chewy crispy cinnamon cinnamony it's bright that word love it yeah okay moving on moving on bring in the cookies what do we have here oh me think know that the s'mores cookie and that the chocolate cookie with sprinkles double chocolate can something of too much chocolate no the more chocolate the better but what about balance what about know that's why you put the sprinkles on I don't know s'mores to me is always one of those things that's better in theory than it is in reality you're camping it's always cold no matter what time of year you know the marshmallow burns the stick sets on fire mosquitoes are mauling you I mean not to go camping with Chris you know it's interesting that they take usmore which is isn't really a cookie but they turned it into a cookie you turn something into a cookie because everybody has had a cookie and everybody can relate to it right so I think fair game turn everything into a cookie good cuz me working on a lasagna cookie yeah you want to try it maybe you could publish recipe in Bona PE magazine they will love it we'll we we'll put it through the ringer first in the test kitchen and get back to you but yeah I I love where this conversation is going let's keep it going we just we're just percolating with ideas here should we try the double chocolate why not all right so to me double chocolate is it's like a chocolate chip cookie but me listening keep talking yeah yeah yeah oh exactly yeah oh yeah yeah precisely yeah are you sure that there can't be too much chocolate in something though like where where's the balance coming from you're right we going to agree with you it's a little one no okay what next smells like s'mores I'm getting like I feel like me at campfire right now wow you really go to a place look at him work amazing excuse me N N N I got to say the marshmallow really added something that over-the-top vanilla you know kind of candy like aspect of a marshmallow which is just totally tempered and then balanced out by the toasting process me think sore cookie the winner this category to me is a little bit of a wild card there's nothing quite like gingerbread kind of occupies its own space and same thing with a black and white cookie you know sort of like icon of sort of New York Deli and you know what we love to do with gingerbread cookies what we like to do this excuse me we like to put l gingerbread puppe on come on Chris get down here hold up you gingerbread hi hi uh it's Christmas time and me so excited for Santa Claus how about you I'm super excited um I I do sometimes I fear that gingerbread cookies are I don't know old-fashioned like are they that good you know it's like you make them on like November 1st and they just kind of hang around getting kicked from one side of the house to the other now you're depressing me gingerbread man I'm sorry I oh okay me going back to play to get eaten now thank you for bringing me down okay Chris that end of puppet show sorry we tried let's try gingerbread okay that went down pretty easy it's pretty good yeah it's got not not great maybe me just depressed from your gingerbread story well look it doesn't have like that you know kind of mixed sort of set of textures that I feel like I personally really value in a cookie the flavor is nice but how much of this do you truly want to eat it's a cookie of the of the heart it bring it bring memories and not so much cookie of The Taste pellet well why don't we try the black and white oh yeah we have another cookie to eat I do feel sometimes that like a black and white cookie is more like cake than it's like a cookie it's like frosting on the cake and do you know how you eat cake with a knife and fork okay let's see how this goes is it got the medium rare is that the that to your liking sir it hey I have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n oh that yummy wow you know from now on we going to just eat them all at once that's how you get the balance the White and the black no it's still a chocolate for me chocolate the white it's too sweet I have to say if I were voting just for the chocolate half I'd say unequivocally hands down winner I'd say the vanilla side is kind of just along long for the ride if you can kind of live with that sort of judgment I'm saying it's black and white yeah me me agree black and white one oh oh look at this me ordered milk you a good pellet cleanser yeah okay I I mean all right can't think of when the last time I actually drank straight up milk was yeah it's good right yeah no it's yeah it's good and it's warm which makes it even better it is so warm so warm to you should asked for cold milk maybe next time okay so this is round two and things are getting serious the final four so we've got chocolate chip yeah and we've got Snicker doodle right and I'm thinking you know we barely need to even try these maybe we don't even need to try them at all right because we can remember what they taste like we forgot what they taste like oh you want to just get need a little refresher big a little taste again a little refresher um oh wait you ate the snker doodle too oh I thought we were going one by one we just wanted to get it over with and choose me let me let me catch up to you I feel like it's the chocolate chip yeahum me too it just pulls those like that flavor Spectrum in both directions like that deep you're there you're there you're here you're there you're there yeah exactly do you feel like the Snicker doodle is missing something that the chocolate chip cookie has chocolate chippies chocolate chip how about Snicker doodle with chocolate chippies how about that we want another chocolate chippy right now let's move on to the next round ooh okay we remember these spores black and white we don't have to try them we don't have to a we don't have to I mean we could we could want to try them yeah I mean you could want we could want to sure and you know what we want to Black and White I'm thinking it's the s'mores personally like when we talk about like flavors that like really expand in multiple directions textures you got like the pop of the chocolate you've got the toasted marshmallow yeah the crisp Edge the gooey center it's like a campfire in the cookie the black and white cookie it's not that good it's just it's just between us this just between us so then s'mores me guess it has to be s'mores has to be s'mores okay it's s'mores moving on this is it this is the championship round our finalists are coming in okay the grand finale oh here it is what do you want to start with the final round you know we started with chocolate chippy when do we end with chocolate chippy so let's do S'mores S'mores first and chocolate chip that's nice it's really nice yeah a lot of brown sugar in there wait do do you do you bake cookies I do uh what's your secret recipe hand chopped chocolate lot of vanilla extract really oh yeah and then super high proportion of dark brown sugar yeah which is really important because it reacts due to the Molasses content with the baking soda which is our leaver in there yeah and then brown butter It Like Music to meet years it like it like Beethoven tell me more about this chocolate chip cookie where did your s'mores cookie go yeah that me finished that 15 minutes ago so now what so we going to eat the chocolate chippy ready me ready with me decision oh yeah you're you're good me good you got your stay on the count of three okay one two three chocolate chip CH chipp yes I knew it yes yes high five high five ultimate imbalance it's all there it was all there the entire time yeah it was right before our eyes the entire time it's so hard to compete with the balance of flavors that is Manifest in like every chocolate chip cookie yeah me tearing up a little bit I know it's been a journey it's been a journey yeah be so happy to do it with You Chris it's so much fun so many cookies this been a great day it was a great day thank you yo thank you me pleasure we also learned that you a terrible Puppeteer that gingerbread terribleI have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n hi I'm Chris Morocco oh and the me Cookie Monster today we're going to be tasting and judging eight different cookies to find out which type of cookie is the best love this game you think you can be cold analytical judgmental make some hard decisions judgmental yeah whatever you say in each matchup two cookies are going to face off against each other and one is going to advance until we get to the ultimate winner so at the end of all this we're going to determine which type of cookie is the absolute best super important mhm we got to pace ourselves here right because we've got a lot of cookies to get through you know have to cookies split we totally on same page you like a cookie me like a cookie they going to be cookies on the table we eat the cookie enough talk about cookies let's eat cookie or why don't why don't we at least try one and see how this goes small small bites no just one at first okay fine where where'd this come from all right Cookie Monster we've got chocolate chip and we have oatmeal raisin oh boy let's start with chocolate chippy Okay small bite let's just you know see where we're at small bite discuss move on to next cookie yeah okay here we go cookie I think you know what we're seeing is like the sort of brown sugar quotient with why your cookie still on plate just enough white sugar to kind of set up like that structure we were talking about a little like crisp around the the outside little bit squishier in the middle we got all that is that what you got too we got all of that and a lot faster no I couldn't help but notice but you kind of you kind of got into that cookie a little fast thank you thank you no for that I didn't necessarily mean it as a compliment well you know that's how we do it everybody's got their own thing I think we're bringing like rational analytical Cookie Monster to this exercise exactly you going to get another shot at this you're going to do it your way this time yeah oatmeal raisin here we go small small that additional kind of nutty character from The Oatmeal really shines through but we don't really have that balancing element of the chocolate no we get raisins you don't want to overwhelm with the raisins cuz it does disrupt the bite it's a little bit chewy mix them with the crunch it could be a little off-putting we have to choose a winner you have to you have to kind of play back both of those coldhearted very rational tasting sequences and decide which cookie really delivered of the two me going to say chocolate chippy I agree with you we on the same page yeah we're on the same page I think chocolate chip o love this they just hand us cookies yeah good day huh this a good day as you will note you've got Snicker doodle and then you've got a sugar cookie this is the Battle of the sugar and butter based cookies so the Snicker doodle you got like that nice coating of cinnamon and sugar you're usually going to find cream of tartar in there that acidifying element kind of gives you an additional kind of blast of acidity which reacts with your baking soda what is cream of tartar by the way cream of tartar is um it's tartaric acid right is it cream of tart tartar or cream of tartar Tartar and I don't actually know what tartar sauce you not know something sauce no wa don't we have that on camera Mr big shot don't tell Dan why don't we start with the Snicker doodle we love Snicker doodle just a just a small bite you really get that cinnamon that's where we're talking about you know that kind of like that retro nasal you really pick up that brightness though right you know from the cream of tartar mhm something just like little a little bit extra Nuance going on there wait a minute we tasting it it's not just monolithically sweet no and I like how you have the cinnamon kind of adds like that extra kind of something flavor wise you feel the cinnamon all these senses are going crazy well let's get into sugar cookie you just going to watch maybe going to learn what do you think no jump in there the head motion just a little sweet it's not enough no balance we have cookie oh yeah youve got cookie in your armpit there I think it's Snicker doodle by a mile by 100 miles yeah chewy crispy cinnamon cinnamony it's bright that word love it yeah okay moving on moving on bring in the cookies what do we have here oh me think know that the s'mores cookie and that the chocolate cookie with sprinkles double chocolate can something of too much chocolate no the more chocolate the better but what about balance what about know that's why you put the sprinkles on I don't know s'mores to me is always one of those things that's better in theory than it is in reality you're camping it's always cold no matter what time of year you know the marshmallow burns the stick sets on fire mosquitoes are mauling you I mean not to go camping with Chris you know it's interesting that they take usmore which is isn't really a cookie but they turned it into a cookie you turn something into a cookie because everybody has had a cookie and everybody can relate to it right so I think fair game turn everything into a cookie good cuz me working on a lasagna cookie yeah you want to try it maybe you could publish recipe in Bona PE magazine they will love it we'll we we'll put it through the ringer first in the test kitchen and get back to you but yeah I I love where this conversation is going let's keep it going we just we're just percolating with ideas here should we try the double chocolate why not all right so to me double chocolate is it's like a chocolate chip cookie but me listening keep talking yeah yeah yeah oh exactly yeah oh yeah yeah precisely yeah are you sure that there can't be too much chocolate in something though like where where's the balance coming from you're right we going to agree with you it's a little one no okay what next smells like s'mores I'm getting like I feel like me at campfire right now wow you really go to a place look at him work amazing excuse me N N N I got to say the marshmallow really added something that over-the-top vanilla you know kind of candy like aspect of a marshmallow which is just totally tempered and then balanced out by the toasting process me think sore cookie the winner this category to me is a little bit of a wild card there's nothing quite like gingerbread kind of occupies its own space and same thing with a black and white cookie you know sort of like icon of sort of New York Deli and you know what we love to do with gingerbread cookies what we like to do this excuse me we like to put l gingerbread puppe on come on Chris get down here hold up you gingerbread hi hi uh it's Christmas time and me so excited for Santa Claus how about you I'm super excited um I I do sometimes I fear that gingerbread cookies are I don't know old-fashioned like are they that good you know it's like you make them on like November 1st and they just kind of hang around getting kicked from one side of the house to the other now you're depressing me gingerbread man I'm sorry I oh okay me going back to play to get eaten now thank you for bringing me down okay Chris that end of puppet show sorry we tried let's try gingerbread okay that went down pretty easy it's pretty good yeah it's got not not great maybe me just depressed from your gingerbread story well look it doesn't have like that you know kind of mixed sort of set of textures that I feel like I personally really value in a cookie the flavor is nice but how much of this do you truly want to eat it's a cookie of the of the heart it bring it bring memories and not so much cookie of The Taste pellet well why don't we try the black and white oh yeah we have another cookie to eat I do feel sometimes that like a black and white cookie is more like cake than it's like a cookie it's like frosting on the cake and do you know how you eat cake with a knife and fork okay let's see how this goes is it got the medium rare is that the that to your liking sir it hey I have to say the chocolate smells great here smell n oh that yummy wow you know from now on we going to just eat them all at once that's how you get the balance the White and the black no it's still a chocolate for me chocolate the white it's too sweet I have to say if I were voting just for the chocolate half I'd say unequivocally hands down winner I'd say the vanilla side is kind of just along long for the ride if you can kind of live with that sort of judgment I'm saying it's black and white yeah me me agree black and white one oh oh look at this me ordered milk you a good pellet cleanser yeah okay I I mean all right can't think of when the last time I actually drank straight up milk was yeah it's good right yeah no it's yeah it's good and it's warm which makes it even better it is so warm so warm to you should asked for cold milk maybe next time okay so this is round two and things are getting serious the final four so we've got chocolate chip yeah and we've got Snicker doodle right and I'm thinking you know we barely need to even try these maybe we don't even need to try them at all right because we can remember what they taste like we forgot what they taste like oh you want to just get need a little refresher big a little taste again a little refresher um oh wait you ate the snker doodle too oh I thought we were going one by one we just wanted to get it over with and choose me let me let me catch up to you I feel like it's the chocolate chip yeahum me too it just pulls those like that flavor Spectrum in both directions like that deep you're there you're there you're here you're there you're there yeah exactly do you feel like the Snicker doodle is missing something that the chocolate chip cookie has chocolate chippies chocolate chip how about Snicker doodle with chocolate chippies how about that we want another chocolate chippy right now let's move on to the next round ooh okay we remember these spores black and white we don't have to try them we don't have to a we don't have to I mean we could we could want to try them yeah I mean you could want we could want to sure and you know what we want to Black and White I'm thinking it's the s'mores personally like when we talk about like flavors that like really expand in multiple directions textures you got like the pop of the chocolate you've got the toasted marshmallow yeah the crisp Edge the gooey center it's like a campfire in the cookie the black and white cookie it's not that good it's just it's just between us this just between us so then s'mores me guess it has to be s'mores has to be s'mores okay it's s'mores moving on this is it this is the championship round our finalists are coming in okay the grand finale oh here it is what do you want to start with the final round you know we started with chocolate chippy when do we end with chocolate chippy so let's do S'mores S'mores first and chocolate chip that's nice it's really nice yeah a lot of brown sugar in there wait do do you do you bake cookies I do uh what's your secret recipe hand chopped chocolate lot of vanilla extract really oh yeah and then super high proportion of dark brown sugar yeah which is really important because it reacts due to the Molasses content with the baking soda which is our leaver in there yeah and then brown butter It Like Music to meet years it like it like Beethoven tell me more about this chocolate chip cookie where did your s'mores cookie go yeah that me finished that 15 minutes ago so now what so we going to eat the chocolate chippy ready me ready with me decision oh yeah you're you're good me good you got your stay on the count of three okay one two three chocolate chip CH chipp yes I knew it yes yes high five high five ultimate imbalance it's all there it was all there the entire time yeah it was right before our eyes the entire time it's so hard to compete with the balance of flavors that is Manifest in like every chocolate chip cookie yeah me tearing up a little bit I know it's been a journey it's been a journey yeah be so happy to do it with You Chris it's so much fun so many cookies this been a great day it was a great day thank you yo thank you me pleasure we also learned that you a terrible Puppeteer that gingerbread terrible\n"