I did it. I’m sooooooo excited. I have been wanting to learn how to make homemade decorated sugar cookies since I started this website. But, I’ve been putting it off because they really intimidated me. The whole homemade dough thing. (As far as sugar cookies go, I grew up making the refrigerated Pillsbury kind. You know what I’m talking about.) Not to mention, I didn’t have a rolling pin. That’s right. Me. No rolling pin. Never owned one. Then, there’s the whole royal icing issue, in two consistencies, and making sure it doesn’t dry out. It just always seemed like too much. Then I came across the book, Cookie Craft
. And, wow, everything just seemed possible. My dreams of smooth sugar-coated cookies could come true. So, I bought the book and then, went a couple of stores over to Williams-Sonoma and bought my very own rolling pin… a silicone one… look how pretty it is. (Yes, I probably overpaid, but I was in the moment and had to have one.)
It worked wonderfully with some very helpful tips and tricks from the book.
Now, I don’t really own that many cookie cutters, so I used this set of Ateco daisy cutters that I had on hand to do most of my experimenting. Thought they would be a great way to practice flowers.
So far, so good. Guess this might not be so hard after all.
Now, skip ahead the several bowls of icing color, squeeze bottles, sugar crystals, and toothpicks that covered my kitchen table and ta-dah… beautiful sugary flowers.
I’m really excited about how they came out. Not too shabby for my first go at it. Especially since I have a really hard time piping. Now, all you veteran cookie bakers, cut me a little slack here. I know I can improve a lot on the look of these, but, oh how much fun it will be to practice getting better. Think of all the poor cookies I’ll have to sacrifice as test subjects. Yay!!!
I also made some teddy bears with this batch. They’re so cute. I think I’m in love with them.
And, after all that work, this is what makes it so worth while.
Thanks Cookie Craft, for giving me the guts to go for it. I love it when things work out like you hope. And, your recipe and directions were perfect. I guess it’s true, you never know what you’re capable of until you try.
Now, for the good news. I liked this book so much, I went and bought another one just for you.
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I have always wanted to be able to ice like this, mine always is too runny and drips of the edge – I NEED to know the secret please !XXX
any cookies made with white choc chips and pecans.
fudge strip cookies, they are great for making smores while camping.
My favorite home made cookie is the sugar cookie.
My favorite store bought cookie is pretty much anything from Pepperidge Farm. YUM.
My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip with Rice Krispies.
Favorite store bought: O R E O ! ! ! !
Favorite homemade is a WARM chocolate chip cookie – has to be warm.
Favorite store bought cooke is a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie!
Thanks!
Favorite homemade cookie? Grandma’s Orange Slice Cookies. Like gumdrop cookies only with pieces of orange slice candies instead. SO good!
Favorite store bought? Definitely Oreos. And I have absolutely no logical justification. :)
Margie
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Favorite Homemade – Chocolate Chip
Favorite Store Bought – Vanilla Wafers
My favorite homemade cookies have to be your classic chocolate chip cookie.
I fell in love with my favorite store bought cookie while living in Paris – I love madeleines!
My favorite homemade are “Melt In Your Mouth Cookies” my grandma used to make and that I now do. They are made with cornstarch and have no egg. Then there is frosting for the top. To die for!
My favorite store bought are the Soft Batch chocolate chip ones. I can eat mass quantities with some milk!
Right now, my favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. And my favorite store bought cookies are the Cakesters. (What can I say, I love anything that is cake-like!)
My favorite all time cookies are called harvest cookies..they have white chocolate and dried cranberries in them…..Fresh market calls them “home made”
Store or manufactured with out a doubt is the chesapeakes from hilshire farm. YUMMO..but really is there such a thing as a bad cookie?? By the way your sugar cookies look fantabulous!
Great looking cookies for a first timer!
I love homemade double chocolate crackle cookies (rolled in powdered sugar before baking to get the crackle look).
My fav store bought would have to be chocolate chip cookies from Double Tree Hotel. Oh sooooo good. Ok, they aren’t store-bought, but hotel bought. haha
My favorite homemade cookie is the Laura Bush’s Cowboy Cookie. My favorite store bought cookie is Oreo’s.
My favorite homemade cookies are a chewy ginger cookie from Martha Stewart. My favorite store bought cookies are double stuf Oreos
homemade favorite is sugar cookies with frosting — love!! I make a bunch and then freeze them and pull them out as the urge hits :)
store bought favorite are the chewy chips ahoy. a thousand chips delicious!
I would love love love this book!!
My favorite homemade cookie is an oatmeal raisin with white chocolate chips sprinkled in the dough.
My favorite store bought cookies are HANDS DOWN the Milano cookies (with a glass of skim milk!). I have wonderful memories of sharing them with my grandmother. I just love how they soak up just the right amount of milk! That’s right, I’m admiting it…I’m a dunker! :o)
Your flowers look lovely!
My favorite home made cookie is a sugar cookie. Yours look TASTY!
My favorite store bought cookie is a mint Milano!
Favorite homemade…chocolate chip. Store bought…Oreo.
For sure, Oatmeal Chocolate Chip! From the store, its got to be Milanos.
Homemade – my awesome sugar cutout cookies with frosting, SO good!
Storebought – toffee coconut cookies from the farmers market in my town. Oooh, or pepperridge farm milano cookies!
Favorite homemade is my own oatmeal with white chocolate chips and my favorite store bought is (currently) fudge covered mint oreos.
Favorite homemade cookie? Oatmeal raisin are fantastic still warm from the oven.
Favorite store bought cookie?
Mallomars! I have single-handedly polished off a whole box in one sitting. Hey! There only out once a year.
Your cookies looks amazing!
My favorite homemade cookies are snickerdoodles.
My favorite store bought are Soft Batch Chocolate Chip cookies.
My favorite homemade cookies is the classic chocolate chip!
My favorite store bought cookie isn’t really store bought, it’s the Girl Scout Thin Mints – Yummo!!
Homemade-Classic chocolate chip
Store bought- E.L. Fudge
My favorite homeade cookies are a chewy choclate chip that I make. But after reading this last post, I really want to make some sugar cookies, they look so good! I normally don’t but cookies, but if I do, I really like Albertson’s bakery cookies. The Cowboy cookies are my favorites. They make them inside their bakery and they are always fresh and yummy. And of course there’s always the good ol’ oreos!
I love your cookies! they look extremely yummy! My favorite homemade cookies is from a recipe my aunt gave me for – whouldn’t you know – SUGAR COOKIES. The frosting has almond flavoring, so yummy. As for my favorite store bought cookie – OREOs!!
Thanks for all the yummy posts!
– Mandy
My favorite store bought cookies are the Pillsbury Take & Bake Chocolate Chip cookies. And boring as I may be, chocolate chip espresso cookies are my favorite homemade cookie too. I love them very soon out of the oven when they're still warm and gooey in the center……YUM!
like you, i’ve always had a fear of these kinds of cookies. yours are perfectly lovely! and a thumbs up from a very official looking tester. :) what more can a baker want? how about a copy of that divine looking book! are you accepting bribes by chance? i make a mean snickerdoodle. and it’s my favorite homemade cookie. favorite store bought variety? oreo double stuff, please.
My favorite homemade cookie has got to be lemon white chocolate chip cookie with my favorite store bought cookie as the Biscoff crisp European cookie! thanks,
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My favorite homemade cookie has to be the Chocolate chip cookie! But sugar frosted cookies right up there too!
Store bought are oreos! Gotta love them!
Just wanted to come by and say hello!
Hugs,
Robyn
Snickerdoodles for homemade, chocolate chip or milano for store bought.
My favorite homemade cookies are peanut butter where you use a fork to make the crosscut design.
Favorite store bought packaged ones are Chips Ahoy Chewy because they taste like homemade (almost!).
My favorite homemade cookie would have to be a soft chewy brownie cookie!!!
My favorite store bought cookie would be the Girlscout Samoas!!! Ok maybe you cant buy them in the store and that is probably a good thing!!!
My favorite homemade would probably have to be oatmeal raisin, or my Grandmother’s gingersnaps!
My favorite store bought cookie is probably fudgestripes!
My favorite storebought : Girl Scout Samoas!!
Homemade: Chocolate Chip!
My favorite homemade cookie is a difficult one to answer. It would have to be either chocolate chip or peanut butter blossoms. Unfortunately I can’t make the blossoms anymore as my sons have peanut allergies. :(
For store bought I’d have to go with Pepperidge Farm Milanos. Any flavor works for me!
Favorite homemade – chocolate chip
Favorite store bought – Trader Joe’s butter cookies with chocolate dollops
Homemade: Kansas City Sugar Cookies
Storebought: Oreo double stuff
Fave homemade are almond lace wafers…if they are considered a cookie. If they’re not really a cookie, the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate chip (with butter flavor Crisco instead of butter).
Fave store bought – GS Thin Mints.
My fav homemade is Martha Stewart’s Sugar Cookies, and store bought Cookies by Design sugar cookies.
Wow, I can’t believe how many people comment on your blog. I was recently introduced to it by a friend. I think your sugar cookies look incredible!
My favorite homemade cookies are chocolate chip coconut oatmeal cookies.
My favorite store bought cookies are Mint Milanos from Pepperidge Farms
What’s your favorite homemade cookie?
I love homemade peanut butter cookies.
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie?
This has god to be pepridge famrs milanos =D
I think you did really good with the cookies, they really look like the professional ones to me.
Fav store bought is Oreos.
Fav homeade is pumpkin cookies
My favorite homemade cookie is peanut butter cookies crisscrossed with a fork and dusted with sugar.
My favorite store bought cookie is Archway Iced Lemon cookies. I could eat the whole package….
My favorite homemade cookies are Molasses and Ginger! Store bought cookies are harder to pin down because I love almost everything that pepperidge farm puts out. I guess Milano cookies are what I would go for.
My favorite homemade cookies are peanut butter.
My favorite store bought cookies are the pink iced sugar cookies from wal-mart or kroger.
And my all time favorite cookies EVER are from a local bakery called Campbell’s. Old Fashioned Iced Tea Cakes!!!!!!
Fav homemade: krumkake (grandmas norweigan rolled cookie) or no-fail sugar cookies
fav store bought: double stuff OREOS!
Uhmm… hard question.
Homemade: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Store – Bought: Palmeritas, you probably don’t know them as I’m from Chile and I’m pretty sure that there aren’t palmeritas in the u.s.a…
Anyway, your cookies look amazing!
I’d have to say my favorite homemade cookie are mexican wedding cookies. They’re so adorable and SO tasty!
My favorite store-bought…oreos. Hands down. Although…I made homemade oreos last weekend, and now I think MINE are better!
My favorite homemade is my own recipe for a chocolate chip toffee oatmeal.
Store bought….if I HAVE to buy….Pepperidge Farm Sausalito! Milk Chocolate and Macadamia …YUM YUM.
My favorite homemade is walnut chocolate chip with a good cup of black coffee.
Favorite store bought cookie is Grasshoppers.
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My favorite homemade cookie is these amazing chocolate chip cookies with vanilla pudding in them to keep them soft and chewy for days!
My favorite store bought cookies are definitely Double Stuffed Oreos!
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I’m a sucker for cookies but…
Favorite cookie: soft sugar cookie with home made frosting and sprinkles and favorite store bought cookie: Lorna Doone shortbread!!!
They turned out so good!! My favorite home made cookie is probably Oatmeal cookies, and store bought is the sugar cookies that usually come in a pack of 8 – 10. I love cookies!
My favorite homemade cookie is definitely chocolate chip. My fav store bought cookie is Oreos. Yum!
BTW, I love your flower cookies. So beautiful!
Love my mom’s Applesauce Cookies. Store bought cookies would have to be Fudge Stripes.
Favorite homemade cookie: secret family recipe for Christmas-time sugar cookies with frosting
Favorite store-bought cookie: Trader Joe’s Joe-Joe cookies – like Oreos but even better!
Favoratist home made cookie – austrian chocolate cookies (the recipe came from my soon to be mother-in-law)
Favoratist store bought cookie – milanos with orange flavoring
i’m so impressed with your first attempt at sugar cookies! i’ve tried repeatedly now and they keep bombing!
My favorite homemade cookies are potato chip cookies. Love them!!!
My favorite store bought cookies are Chips Ahoy. There is just something about them.
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From novice to pro in one batch…oh Bakerella! You truly are the awesomest. I hope I win! Here goes:
My favorite homemade cookie: Sugar cookies!
My favorite store-bought cookie: Bite Me cookies (I know, they have an awful name, but they taste so good! Here are the cookies: http://www.bitemeinc.cc/ )
My favorite homemade cookie is oateal chocolate chip with nuts.
My favorite store bought cookies are Oreos or Keebler’s caramel filled ones.
My Favorite storebought is the oreo. Favorite homemade are white chocolate oatmeal pecan cookies.
my favorite homemade cookies have got to be chocolate chip! yummy, specially still warm!
favorite store bought have to be animal crackers. not so much for the flavor, but there’s something appealing in having a cookie jar filled with animals! :P
My favorite cookie is my brother, Sam’s home made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies! He made it totally from scratch…I wish I could bake like him.
My favorite store brought cookies would be chocolate chip cookies from Freeport bakery (a local small grandma type of bakery). They’re yummy! I used to have one every morning walking to school.
My favorite cookie is my brother, Sam’s home made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies! He made it totally from scratch…I wish I could bake like him.
My favorite store brought cookies would be chocolate chip cookies from Freeport bakery (a local small grandma type of bakery). They’re yummy! I used to have one every morning walking to school.
Homemade cookie: oatmeal cranberry
Favorite store bought are gingersnaps.
Yummy!
My favorite homemade is cookie chip and my favorite store bought are Milanos. ps I’m glad you doing cookies. I love to back cookies and I think yours turned out beautiful
Your cookies look great!!!
My favorite homemade cookies are lacy oatmeal cookies with cranberries. For storebought I would say FudgeO.
My favorite homemade cookie is chocolae chip and my favorite store bought cookies are Double Stuff Oreos.
Heather
kings2001@aol.com
Homemade: shortbread w/simple lemon icing
Storebought: Trader Joe’s Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough. Sometimes I even back the cookies (I love the raw dough, sue me).
my favorite homemade cookie will always be chocolate chips. and my favorite store bought cookie would be Pepperidge Farm’s Milano (minty) cookie! yuuummmm!
What’s your favorite homemade cookie? Sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles.
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie? The chunky, crunchy Chips-A-Hoy. They hit my chocolate craving spot.
Chocolate Crinkles top the list as my favorite homemade cookie.
And who can beat Famous Amos for store bought cookies.
I think your flowers came out great!! I too have always been intimidated by the sugar cookie.
My favorite home-made are Snickerdoodles. The first cookie I made with my daughter and I have pictures of her on the counter with her feet covered in flour because she “helped” me.
My favorite store bought.. Peppridge Farm Sausalito’s
And as a bonus – My favorite girl scout cookie – Peanut Butter Patties (the ones covered in chocolate) I think they changed the name to Tagalongs.
Sugarplum’s Mom
Fave homemade: Christmas cookies – the candy cane looking ones. I could eat the dough and a dozen of them baked. In.One.Sitting.
Fave store bought – do the sugar cookies at Paradise Bakery count?
Homemade is my friend’s Oatmeal with Butterscotch Chips. Store bought: Mint Oreos.
I don´t have a rolling pin either. I use a champagne bottle. =) Hi from Sweden! Love your blog. I´m sorry to say mine is in swedish but there´s some nice pictures of cinnamon rolle somewhere. Take care.
My favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip.
My favorite store bought..don’t laugh, those pink and white circus cookies from Mothers
Great Job!!!
Homemade=pumpkin chocolate chip
Store bought=Oreos
Homemade: Molasses… Martha Stewart’s recipe.
Store-Bought: Oreos. Double-stuf!
Your cookies are beautiful! I have been making decoreted sugar cookies like that for a while and I love them. Have you seen the Sugarbakers’ Cookbook…it has the best icing recipes! My favorite sugar cookie recipe is Martha Stewarts.
Favorite homemade cookie: iced sugar cookies :)
Favorite store bought: Nutter Butter
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My favorite home made cookie
chocolate chip cookies
My favorite store bought cookies. Oreos with double stuff.
Favorite homemade–chocolate chip
Favorite store bought–oreos
Thanks!
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My favorite homemade cookie is Sour Cream Cut-outs.
Favorite store bought cookies….oreos. :)
Lisa
What’s your favorite homemade cookie?
White Chocolate Chip. Mmmmm.
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie?
Oreos. OMG love.
I love your cookies!
Our favorite homemade cookies are Cowboy cookies! They are a soft oatmeal chocolate chip cookie… yummy!
My favorite store bought cookie would have to be Milanos… hate to join the crowd, but they win, hands down!
My favorite homemade cookies are Nestle Toll House chocolate chip. Just made some the other day!
My favorite store bought cookies are Oreos – America’s favorite cookie!
Hey Bakerella!!! You are always oh-so inspiring with such fab pics of your beautiful creations! Love it. Ok, so my favorite homemade cookie is called Sandy’s Cookies- I would love to share the recipe if you want it because really, they are amazing. They have white choc. chips, choc. chips, toffee chips, and oatmeal. Everywhere I take them they get gobbled up and people become addicted. ;-) (My German Chocolate Cookies would be a close 2nd though!) As for store-boughten… I really never buy them. But if I had to buy some for some reason, it would probably be a sugar cookie with lots of frosting!!
Kim in Gilbert, AZ!
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My favorite homemade cookies are these cocoa ones that I got the recipe for from good old Martha.
My favorite store bought (well, ok, outside-the-store bought) are Girl Scout Thin Mints.
I love your site! I love cookies! and I love to bake! I have my mom’s cutout cookie recipe from 40 years ago and that’s my fav.
I love those little Russian teacakes…yum.
My favorite store bought cookies are Oreos.
You did so great decorating those cookies! I would LOVE to learn to do that! Even if I don’t win, that book is going on my wish list. It’s great to hear that it was easy to follow. As for my favorite cookies: I make these cookies called Peanut Butter Munchies. They have a chocolate outside with a yummy soft peanut butter inside. They take a little bit of extra time, but are so worth it! Everyone who has ever eaten them is in love with them. I got the recipe from some home decorating magazine, if you can believe that. And my favorite store bought cookies- which I hardly ever buy because I can eat them all in one sitting- are the Sandies Shortbread cookies. Yummy!
Fav Homemade: Mom’s Sugar Cookies
Fav Store Bought: Anything edible!
My favorite homemade cookie right now is an oatmeal with white chocolate and semi sweet chips.
My favorite store bought are the Pepperidge farm peppermint Lido’s.
I hope this doesn’t come up twice…
My favorite homemade cookie is a tea cake/sugar cookie.
My favorite store-bought cookie is the soft chocolate chip cookies.
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Wow, I’m very impressed with those!
My favorite homemade cookie is ice sugar–I would have eaten every one in your picture! And my fave store bought is oreo-double stuffed. Yeah, baby.
What a cool give away you’re doing. I love looking at the things you bake. I’ve printed some off, but haven’t made them yet. I will though!
My favorite cookie is chewy chocolate chip cookies.
And oreos are my favorite store bought ones.
my fave homemade cookie is sugar cookies and my fave storebought cookies are oreos. Can’t make it through the day without them!
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My favorite homemade cookie has to be pbutter with a hershery kiss in the middle.
My favorite store bought cookies are Oreos. I just can’t seem to make those at home, I’ve tried several times.
my favorite homemade cookie are sugar cookies! and my favorite store bought cookies are the white chocolate macadamia cookies!
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My favorite homemade are oatmeal raisin. Favorite storebought are Carol’s Cookies – any flavor. They’re huge!
I love your cookies. Like you I’m totally afraid of doing it, but maybe the book will help. Even if I don’t win it I’ll probably buy it.
My favorite homemade cookies are my oatmeal made with quaker oats
My favorite store bought are Malomars. YUM!!!
Your cookies are so cute!!!
My favorite homemade cookies are key lime white chocolate chip.
My favorite storebought cookies are those soft sugar ones they have at walmart with really thick icing.
homemade favorite is prune nut –
(dense, sweet soft cookie w/pecans)50 some odd year old family pass down recipe.
i love the 99 cent/walmart brand of the old fashioned iced oatmeal
Thanks for posting about these! I have decided to make sugar cookies for favors for my wedding and this will save me a TON of trouble!
My favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip. Especially if you take them right out of the oven and put ice cream on top! Pazookie’s!
My favorite store bought cookies are the ones that you can get from most grocery store bakeries. The sugar cookies with really light fluffy icing on top!
My favorite homemade would have to be chocolate chip.
My favorite store-bought would be Oreos!
Peanut Butter Blossoms for homemade and Nutter Butters for store bought.
Favorite homemade: chocolate chip oatmeal.
Favorite store bought: snickerdoodles from the Mennonite store in the middle of nowhere. I dunno if they really count as store bought, though!
What’s your favorite homemade cookie? Definitely peanut butter and chocolate chip. Can’t go wrong with those two ingredients.
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie? Subway’s macadamia nut cookie, or if those don’t count as storebought, Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies.
My favorite Homemade cookie…definitely my sugar cookies w/homemade buttercream icing.
Favorite store bought cookies..OREOS! Hands down!
My favorite homemade cookies are either my chocolate chip cookies or the Chocolate Chunkers from Dorie’s recipe.
My favorite store bought would probably be Milanos–although if bakery cookies count, Crumbs black and white buttercream cookies would be my favorite.
I can’t reist chocolate chip cookies hot outta the oven. Store boughts arechippers from PB!!yumm
I’m SO glad that you did this post…I’m getting that book for my mother for Christmas – she loves to bake with my daughter and we are always trying to figure out how they decorate those sugar cookies so cute! Thanks!
My Favorite Homemade Cookie: Devils Food Cookies
My Favorite Store Bought Cookies:
Those soft cake cookies in the bakery’s of grocery stores with the icing with sprinkles
Don’t guess you have a recipe for those tucked away somewhere do you?
My favorite homemade cookies are chocolate chip & my favorite store bought cookies are Knotts Berry Farm Raspberry Shortbread cookies!
Good work on the cookies! They look fab! I was planning on doing the cookies w/ royal icing during the holidays. It will be my first time too. I hope they turn out as good as yours!
My favorite homemade cookie is Rolo Cookies – YUMMY!!
My Favorite store bought cookie is anything by Lofthouse.
Home-made: Oatmeal w/walnuts
Store bought: Circus Animals, Nutter butter and Oreo’s. I have a problem. I know. lol.
Love the blog!!
My favorite homemade cookies are chewy oatmeal cookies.
And store bought cookies are Tim Tams.
I have tried the very intidimating sugar cookie decorating and inevitably fail every time! Yours look so yummy and professional!!
My favorite cookie is Mrs. Fields chocolate chip.
My favorite store bought cookies are oreos.
Not too shabby? Those are spectacularly gorgeous cookies! If that book can make me able to make those cookies well then please give it to me!
My favorite homemade cookies are snickerdoodles.
Store bought — probably those Keebler fudge stripes you can wear on all your fingers. YUM!
your cookies came out so perfect!
my fave homemade cookie is peanut butter cookies
storebought is choco chip.
Your cookies are fab!! And I am in love with those teddy bears, beautiful =)
My favorite homemade cookies is the Neiman Marcus recipe that floats around on the web. I love to make those, oats, chips, nuts, candy bar, sooo yummy!!!
I guess my fave store bought would be the frosted animal crackers with sprinkles, can’t always find them tho-. They are so pink and colorful, very cheery.
my favorite homemade cookies would be chocolate chip and favorite store bought is soft batch cookies heat in microwave for about 10 second. yum!
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My favorite home made cookie is peanut butter with white and dark chocolate chips.
And store bought EL Fudge from keebler
Ohhh… yet another Bakerella give away. Yipee :)
Your cookies look so delicious by the way.
My favorite homemade are: Peanut butter kiss cookies.
Store bought: Molasses with a coffee from Starbucks!
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I’m not sure how to post it any other way but…
I forgot to post my email address! its: VNSOCAL9@yahoo.com
Thank you!
-Lindsay
Well I thing you did a great job!! So cute, and a big thumbs up from your neice!! Cute! My favorite homemade cookies are my Dad’s snickerdoodles. Store bought…any break and bake choc. chip…most of the time they don’t make it to the oven…oops!
What's your favorite homemade cookie?
-My Great Aunt's snickerdoodles were the best, she had a way of baking love into everything she made! I will always miss her, and I still try to recreate her snickerdoodle, but I know its HER recipe. So I need to find my own cookie! I hopefully the book can help me find it! :)
What's your favorite store-bought cookie?
– It's a tie between Pepperidge Farms Chunky Chocolate Chip & E.L. Fudge sandwhich cookies by Keebler!
My favorite Homemade cookie:
Oatmeal (no raisins or cinnamon)
My favorite “store bought” cookie:
Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies (with Samoas being a very close second)
My favorite homemade cookies are my mom’s chocolate chip cookies. Yum
My favorite store bought cookies are pepperidge farm mint milano cookies. I love those things.
Chocolate chip cookies (with little chocolate chips)
Cold Mint Milanos
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Mmmm…..Cookies. My favorite homemade is the ole classic – chocolate chip. Store bought would have to be Pepperidge Farms Milanos.
Q.) What’s your favorite homemade cookie?
A.) My favorite cookies are your recipe for the peanut butter cookies dipped in chocolate and dipped in chopped peanuts!!! Thanks so much! Everyone loves them, I gave you credit though! :)
Q.) What’s your favorite store-bought cookie?
A.) Well, I am from Fresno, California and theres this place called “Hungry Bear Cookies.” It’s a very charming little place and they have WONDERFUL cookies!( I am always in search a great one!) This place is great! I love their chocolate chip especially! I hope I win!! :D
-Lindsay
I love my homemade ginger molasses cookies, they stay soft and they are so good. My mom won blue ribbon in the county fair for the recipe!
Gorgeous! I also have never attempted the homemade sugar cookie–it’s way too daunting.
Favorite homemade cookie: oatmeal chocolate chip
Favorite store cookie: The oreo (of course!)
My favorite homemade are Betty Crocker’s Chocolate Chip Cookie. Followed closely by peanut butter blossoms with a hersheys kiss in the center.
Hmmm…store bought? I guess Nutter Butters….(I don’t typically buy cookies..unless they come in ice-cream!
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My favorite homemade cookie has to be 7 layer. I make these around the holidays and I get rave and beggars who beg me for more, more, more! I will post recipe when it’s closer to the holidays, but anyway my favorite storebought cookie would be the Little Debbie gingerbread men! I snatch them up the minute they get into the stores (which is only around Christmas time) The kids love them especially with hot cocoa in the winter! Love your stuff, take care, ciao bella!
I love homemade oreos.
My favorite store bought is chunky chips ahoy.
GORGEOUS cookies! Congrats! You did a wonderful job decorating them!!
Fave homemade cookie: chocolate chip – love the dough and the baked cookies!!
Fave store-bought: Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment pack. Yum!!
Favorite homemade cookies are chocolate chip!
Favorite store bought are these iced sugar cookies from this bakery where my SIL lives! She is sweet and brings them to us when she is coming our way!
I love to make sugar cookies with 1/2 wheat flour and 1/2 white flour, so I don’t feel as guilty when I eat them all. Only 1/2 guilty ;). My favorite store bought cookie has to be Granny B’s Pink Frosted Sugar Cookie– D…licious
My favorite homemade cookies are either oatmeal, pecan chocolate chip or my grandmas cream cheese cookies (that she only makes at christmas to my dismay)
and my favorite store bought cookie has to be the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from Fry’s – so so good.
Holy. Smokes. After only one day since I first saw this, and I’m comment #663?! haha, great work!
My favourite homemade cookie is a super soft and chewy gingerbread.
Store-bought choice is always the cut and bake Pillsbury sugar cookies :)
My favorite homemade cookies are definitely chocolate chip, warm out of the oven. They’re best warm, but if you eat them cooled, they must be dunked in milk.
My favorite store bought cookies are those butter sugar cookies you get at the gas station (I swear, I can only find them at gas stations and hospital gift shops, of all places). They’re pure butter and have a thick pink frosting on them, with sprinkles. I can feel my arteries clogging every time I eat one, but they’re still so good!
For homemade, it’s always gingerbread – get a bunch of friends together, have a decorating party. Loads of fun.
Store bought? Definitely oreos. yum!
My favorite kind of homemade cookies are Snickerdoodles!
My favorite store bought cookie (or bought from an organization)is Thin Mints sold by the Girl Scouts. I could eat a whole roll of those in one sitting!
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My favorite homemade cookies are Triple Chocolate Cherry cookies, made with cocoa, chocolate chunks, white chocolate chips, and dried cherries. YUM!
My favorite storebought cookies are Back to Nature’s Peanut Butter sandwich cookies.
Your cookies are beautiful!
My fave homemade: oatmeal raisin.
My fave store bought: Girl Scout Samoas (that’s considered store bought, right?)
My favorite homemade is the chocolate chip.
My favorite store bought is the double stuff oreo.
My favorite homeade cookie is definitely a good sugar cookie!
…and you can’t beat the grocery store bakery’s No Bake cookies with PB, chocolate, and oatmeal. Yummy!
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Your cookies look fantastic! I want to eat one too.
My favorite home made cookie – Classic Chocolate Chip
Favorite store bought – Chips A hoy. I know… original, eh?
What’s your favorite homemade cookie?
Oatmeal hands down!
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie?
Chips Ahoy cookies with the rainbow candies in them…can’t stop at just one!
Those cookies are gorgeous!!! I would never have guessed that you haven’t been doing this for years!
My favorite homemade cookies are Halloween sugar cookies decorated with cream cheese frosting.
My favorite store-bought cookies are Mother’s Circus Animal Cookies. :-)
My favorite store bought dough is sugar cookie dough, I haven’t really found a good homemade sugar cookie.
My favorite cookie recipe is the Chocolate chip cookie recipe on the back of the Hershey’s chocolate chips bag.
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I Love your blog!!!
My favorite homemade cookie is my moms sour cream sugar cookies!!! We make them every holiday and they are soooo good!!!
My fav store bought would probably have to be Milano cookies!!!
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Favorite homemade…got to be Karen Palmer’s Sugar Cookies (really…they’re killer. If you’re feeling up for it, shoot me an e-mail and I’ll send you the recipe)
Favorite storebought – I’m a sucker for those huge, soft sugar cookies, covered in neon icing. y.u.m.m.y!
I’m a purist…My favorite homemade cookies are plain old milk chocolate chip. No nuts, oatmeal, and DEFINATELY no raisins! Chewy not crispy.
Favorite store bought cookies would have to be Oreos…with a glass of cold milk to dunk them in!
Those are beautiful cookies! I’m intimidated by sugar cookies, too, so I’d love that book! My favorite homemade cookies are gingersnaps (no decorating needed!), and my favorite storebought ones are, dare I say, Little Debbie Oatmeal Pies. Such a horrible indulgance!
I’m another one voting for Oreos as the storeboughts :D… but homemade.. gotta love oatmeal raisin with walnuts… YUMMMY!!!
And hey, cut YOURSELF some slack.. those are awesome for a first try!! You should have seen my first ones… BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
My favorite homemade cookie is the peanut butter Snickers surprise cookies I make every Christmas – peanut butter cookies wrapped around a Snickers mini.
My favorite store bought are the Kashi Oatmeal Dark Chocolate cookies.
Homemade: choc chip coconut!
store bought: milano double choc!
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Favorite homemade cookie- chewy chocolate chip
Favorite store bought- Pecan sandies
Your cookies are so pretty – love the decorative icing!! You’ve inspired me to go into the kitchen and bake some of my own!
My favorite homemade cookies are chocolate snickerdoodles.
My favorite store bought cookies are oreos.
homemade: oatmeal chocolate chip
storebought: tie between Oreos and Lorna Doon
Thanks! that book looks fabulous!
I do not own a rolling pin either (and I bake all the time) and I have been afraid to attempt making sugar cookies for the EXACT same reasons. Yours look like pro. :)
My fave homemade cookies are red, white and blue cookies (dried blueberries, cranberries, and white choc chips).
My fave store bought cookies are Milanos.
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Fav Homemade Cookies:
Choc cookies with Reeses pieces in them. I think the recipe is on the bag of pieces in the baking aisle. Been a long time since I made them …since I eat them all!
Fav Store Bought Cookies: Choc. Chip from Safeway…
and yes I eat all of those too!
I think they look fantastic! I’ve been too chicken to try those types, too. But if I win the book…. :)
Fave homemade: chocolate chip. One of the ultimate comfort foods.
Fave storebought: Twix. I can’t find them here, but I LOVE them.
Julie jjumpup2@comcast.net
Bakarella,
You did an outstanding job as usual. Anything you touch, turns to sugar!
I love the book; great ideas!
My favorite homemade cookie is my mom’s frosted sugar cookies. They’re thick and yummy. My favorite store bought cookie has got to be grocery store peanut butter cookies. They always seem to get them perfectly chewy.
I love homemade peanut butter cookies and Martha’s Outrageous Chocolate cookies. But when I’m out to buy, Oreos or if I’m feeling gourmet, almond paste from the bakery. :)
Fav. homemade– sugar cookies w/butter and powdered sugar frosting. Hands down!
Fav. store bought– Hmmm, probably oreos (or choc. chip from Paradise Bakery).
I need this book– we make sugar cookies each year for our boys’ birthday parties and they taste great, but I need help in the decorating dept. Thanks!
My favorite homemade cookies are the chocolate chip ones baked by my american host mother when I was an exchange student in the US about ten years ago. Those are the cookies that made me fall in love with baking and bring a little bit from this passion americans have for it all the way to Brazil.
My favorite store bought cookies are the Starbucks cookies, since those are the closest I can get to the real home baked ones.:)
I always visit your website trying to get tips to improve my baking skills and I find it very very useful! Congratulations!
Favorite homemade cookies are oatmeal chocolate chip with ground up oatmeal so there aren’t any flakes. Plus kids can’t tell they have oatmeal!
Favorite store bought cookies are those fluffy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies in the deli section or oreos!
My favorite homemade cookies are my mother’s ginger cookies. They are soft and warm and spicy and mmm…
My favorite store bought cookies are chocolate creme Oreos. The only possible way to make an Oreo better is to fill ’em with chocolate.
You did such a great job!
Favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip cookies
Favorite store bought are Pecan Sandies & Double Stuffed Oreos
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My favorite homemade cookie is oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip.
My favorite store bought cookie is the Lofthouse sugar cookies with yellow frosting!
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My favorite homemade cookies are the Nestle Toll House recipe without the chocolate chips! I was never a big fan of solid chocolate when I was a kid (go figure) so my mother would make two batches — one with chips and one without. Still my favorite — especially when my mother makes them!
My favorite store bought cookies are the frosted oatmeal. My grandmother was a diabetic so she didn’t bake much but she always had these in the cookie jar for me.
fav. homemade is oatmeal raisin with choc chips
fav. storebought–gotta be oreos!
What’s your favorite homemade cookie? Peanut Butter
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie? Double Stuffed Oreos.
Cookies are beautiful!
Fav store bought-Oreo
Homemeade-Peanut Butter
Love the flower power cookies!
My fav homemade cookie would have to be butter cookies with coloured icing. My fav store bought are Costco's M&M chocolate chip, which gets a store taste test before we make it to the cash!)
Favorite homemade cookie, oatmeal butterscotch.
Favorite storebought cookies…mm, Grandma’s Animal Cookies, in white and pink with sprinkles!
[crosses fingers] I hope I win!
So Cute!
My favorite homemade are these butter cookies called Spitzboobens…so much work we only make them once each year.
Favorite store bought would definitely be Sunshine(?) Lemon Coolers, which I can’t find in my area anymore… :(
Ahhh…coookies! My favorite homemade cookie is an almond sugar cookie that my aunt always made only at Christmas time (she always hid some for me, because I could never get enough!). I finally got her recipe and make them year round myself as I live in another state. As far as store bought, I guess I’d have to say good ol’ Oreos…with lots of milk to wash them down!
Thanks for all the inspiration! I think I’ll try making some decorated sugar cookies next weekend. I work at the library, so I have lots of people to help me ‘test’ recipes! :)
Stephanie
Wow! Your cookies turned out so pretty!
What’s your favorite homemade cookie? I’d say chocolate chip :)
What’s your favorite store-bought cookie? Oreos!
I LOVE homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookes right out of the oven with a cold glass of milk. OR soft and chewy snickerdoodles (also with milk).
Store bought…I have to go with several other peoples comments. My husband and I have a guilty pleasure for oreos. I don’t know if girl scout cookies count but can’t go wrong with samoas and thin mints as well.
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My favorite homemade is gooey chocolate cookies and favorite storebought is the chocolate peanut butter no bakes in the deli section at Kroger.
My favourite homemade cookie is any type of chocolate chip cookies baked with a variety of different types of ‘chips’! White chocolate, peanut butter, cinnamon etc… Mix them all together, and you have the best cookies ever!
My favourite store bought cookies are Peek Freans Lifestyle Lime Coconut Cookies!! Refreshing and delicious!
I love those pictures of your daughter… (well I guess its your daughter I guess I don’t really know for sure)… they are precious and she is beautiful! But anyway my FAVORITE favorite homemade cookies are pumpkin-chocolate chip… my step-mom always make them on the holidays! And my favorite store bought is the classic Pillsbury chocolate chip! Me and my husband actually just made some halloween ones last night… they had orange chocolate chips! YUM!
My favorite homemade cookies are Mexican Wedding cookies. Yum.
My favorite store bought cookies are Pepperidge Farm’s Bourdeaux cookies.
I wanna win that book!
Your cookies are super cute!! My first try definitely did NOT turn out as well as yours. Great job!
Favorite homemade cookies: Biscotti of any kind. Yummm!!!
Store bought cookies: None. Yuck! I much prefer the homemade variety. :-)
Your first attempt is about 100% better than any of my attempts!
Favorite homemade cookies are peacan tassies or oatmeal scotchies.
Favorite store bought are actually girl bought…Thin Mints!
– Katie (Brent is my hubby!)
My fav. homemade cookie: Peanut Butter!
My fav. store bought cookie: Chips Ahoy!!
Those were great sugar cookies!
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By far…my favorite is homeade chocolate chip cookies WITHOUT the chocolate chips WITH walnuts. i prefer walnuts to chocolate chips. SO GOOD.
My favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip cookie with oatmeal and cinnamon, sometimes instead of oatmeal I like to add some nuts… They are sooo good!!:)
I love to buy the toll house ice cream sandwich!! I LOOOOVE IT!!!
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My favorite homemade cookie is oatmeal chip.
my favorite store bough cookie — milano cookies – the mint ones…mmmm =)
Those cookies look great that you made!
Love the cookies!!! So cute.
My favorite homemade cookies are the buttercream frosted sugar cookies we make every christmas. Im now 30 and cant remember a year that I havent made them with my dad, mom amd sister. I cant wait to pass the tradition on to my son!
And for store bought i have to agree with the every popular Oreo.
Maybe dipped in chocolate!!
Shanille21@msn.com
My favorite homemade cookie are chocolate toffee cookies and my favorite store bought cookies are oreos.
Oh, and I love your cookies!!!! Anyone who nit-picks any mistakes you made should be pelted with stale rock-hard cookies! Bad commenters! ;-)
My favorite homemade cookie would have to be White Chocolate Macadamia nut with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
My favorite store bought would be the circus cookies ( ya know the ones covered in frosting with sprinkles), i know i know but hey I still have a bit of kid in me and those were my favorite when I was a kid!!