Store Bought vs Homemade Cookies (substitute, healthier, cupcakes, cream)

[Wilson513]

Check the prices on the cookies you buy out. If there are 20 cookies for $2.99 you can bet they don't have much butter in them. Those cookkies you see at the checkout of your butcher's or the small deli that are made by some cottage industry named Aunt Betty, or whatnot, and that are 4 cookies for $2 will have about 1/2 oz of butter per cookie. They will taste good but you may have to have bypass surgery.

[Ron.]

Some store bought cookies taste better. All is not bad with store bought food. Especially cookies!

[Caligula1]

I love homemade cookies, they are just so darn time consuming and it really is a thankless task.
You sit there baking your butt off for what seems like hours only to notice that everyone is eating them as fast as your baking them

I love Pepridge Farm Macadamia white chocolate cookies, i'm the only one who eats them so for them it's more cost efective to just buy em..

[TKramar]

A freshly made cookie is going to taste better.

Let those same cookies sit out on a plate for a week and try them again. They won't taste the same, they'll have become stale.

The store bought stuff has preservatives to minimize this, but they can also go stale. If they last that long.

[Dennis P]

There are a couple of store-bought brands of cookies that I'll buy, but homemade from scratch blows them out of the water. Sure, they're more time-consuming to make, but the end result is far better, so it's worth it.

[Wilson513]

I agree with Caligula. you bake the cookies and no one appreciates them. Then they want Pepperidge Farm in a bag.

[chicagojlo]

I do love the giant tub of Toll House dough from Costco.

I like to make my own cookies but they never taste right. Same goes for cakes. I think my taste buds are just so conditioned to preferring the mixes sadly. I do make my own brownies and cookies from scratch but I'm often left feeling disappointed. I don't know if it's the ingredients or just bad luck, because I do use quality and real ingredients.

[Newdaawn]

I don't like the ones where you buy the ready made dough but Betty Crocker has a dry mix in an envelope in the cake mix section that is very good. You add your own oil or butter. They come in peanut butter, sugar, choc chip and I think chocolate. My favorite is the peanut butter. They are as close to totally home made as anything I have had and you don't need to do the sugar and shortening blending as you do from scratch. I usually make them a little bit larger than they recommend.

[txsizzler]

Homemade all the way! I love the taste of the NATURAL ingredients vs. the store bought more chemically produced stuff.

Chocolate Chip is my personal favorite, but I like peanut butter, and sugar cookies too!


Ian

[formercalifornian]

Can't stand the idea of all that plastic packaging headed for the landfill, because it's generally non-recyclable. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth no matter how good the cookie.

And my family knows better than to bring home a package of Chips Ahoy (gag!).