Americans prefer chocolate chip nearly three to one over other cookie types.
When I am out and order cookies, I almost always select chocolate chip or some variant of it. But my favorite cookie of all time is Patti’s home-made oatmeal cookies. I love oatmeal cookies, and so I don’t enjoy them when they’re not made perfectly to my liking, and NEVER do purchased-oatmeal cookies taste like Patti’s home-made ones.
Speaking of yummy chocolate chip cookies, my favorite ones can be found in NYC: the best traditional chocolate chip cookie (in my personal opinion, due to my particular tastes) is found at City Bakery near Union Square in Manhattan. I like the chocolate chips to be numerous, melted, large, and I like the dough to be lightly crispy on the outside, but chewy (not to be confused with soft!) on the inside.
A chocolate chip “cookie” that is also very very good is found at Levain Bakery on the Upper West Side. The bakery is very difficult to find unless you know it’s there: it’s in a basement and it’s tiny. There is enough room for about 5 people to sit/stand comfortably, because it’s basically a kitchen with a table and a counter. The people who work there are covered in flour and you can see metal stacked trays of delicious baked goods behind them. Their chocolate chip “cookie” I place in quotation marks because it’s more of a scone than a cookie. It’s this huge round lumpy scone filled with chocolate chunks and walnuts (which I usually don’t like, but they’re delicious in these cookies). They have the same texture as scones, but the good kind, that are warm and soft in the center without being wet. I can’t really describe them as being anything other than really really good chocolate chip nut scones, so you’ll have to go there and try them for yourself.
Here is a photo of the famed “chocolate chip walnut”:
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