Marco is right. I can pretty much turn down most cake, but I’ll almost always go for a cookie.
Unless we are talking molten chocolate cake.
Comment by Supergenius — November 17, 2008 @ 10:52 am
I hate cake. Ice cream cake is tolerable, but I don’t see why it has to be an ice cream cake–why not just ice cream? Cookies are yummy, though ice cream edges them out too. Pie, also yummy.
Mmmm. . . Carrot cake with fresh orange juice in the cream cheese icing, White cake made with lots of butter and chopped almonds, Chocolate cake with a ganache filling and whipped cream chocolate frosting. I love cookies, but you can do things with a made-from-scratch cake that are sublime.
The problem with cake is that not many people do it well, they just open a box and add egg and water. That’s not good eats. And then there’s the problem with frosting…
Cookies are, generally speaking, harder to screw-up. And almost everyone has at least one cookie recipe that they make well. Such is not the case with cake.
Cake needs to be moist, so it’s hard to go wrong with Molten Chocolate or BTS cake.
Also some screwed-up cakes, but apples to apples, good cookies vs. good cake, I will take cake almost every time. I like me some good cookies, just not as much as some good cake. Speaking of which, I just made some good cookies and I need to eat them. (No cake in the house.)
Cookie dough beats them both, but a good home cooked cake is pretty great. It’s hard to screw up cake, if something goes wrong they just become like brownies, however cooking cookies for an extra two minutes makes them worthless to me.
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I like cake. A lot. But I just LOVE cookies. I just can’t resist a good cookie.
Comment by Marco — November 17, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Cake sucks. But pie trumps them both!
Comment by gabby — November 17, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Cake, but I’d take pie over either.
Comment by Brian V — November 17, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Marco is right. I can pretty much turn down most cake, but I’ll almost always go for a cookie.
Unless we are talking molten chocolate cake.
Comment by Supergenius — November 17, 2008 @ 10:52 am
I hate cake. Ice cream cake is tolerable, but I don’t see why it has to be an ice cream cake–why not just ice cream? Cookies are yummy, though ice cream edges them out too. Pie, also yummy.
Down with cakes!!
Comment by sister blah 2 — November 17, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Homemade cake trumps homemade cookie. One is much harder than the other and therefore much rarer. Scarcity increases value.
Commercial cookies beat commercial cakes because commercial cakes suck.
I prefer a good homemade cake to a good homemade pie (degree of difficulty once again).
Comment by John C. — November 17, 2008 @ 11:32 am
Good cake rules. But I am also a big fan of good frosted cookies — probably because they are sorta cake-like.
Comment by Geoff J — November 17, 2008 @ 11:33 am
Mmmm. . . Carrot cake with fresh orange juice in the cream cheese icing, White cake made with lots of butter and chopped almonds, Chocolate cake with a ganache filling and whipped cream chocolate frosting. I love cookies, but you can do things with a made-from-scratch cake that are sublime.
Comment by C Jones — November 17, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
The problem with cake is that not many people do it well, they just open a box and add egg and water. That’s not good eats. And then there’s the problem with frosting…
Cookies are, generally speaking, harder to screw-up. And almost everyone has at least one cookie recipe that they make well. Such is not the case with cake.
Cake needs to be moist, so it’s hard to go wrong with Molten Chocolate or BTS cake.
Comment by Tim J — November 17, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
I’ve eaten some very screwed-up cookies.
Also some screwed-up cakes, but apples to apples, good cookies vs. good cake, I will take cake almost every time. I like me some good cookies, just not as much as some good cake. Speaking of which, I just made some good cookies and I need to eat them. (No cake in the house.)
Comment by madhousewife — November 17, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Cookie dough beats them both, but a good home cooked cake is pretty great. It’s hard to screw up cake, if something goes wrong they just become like brownies, however cooking cookies for an extra two minutes makes them worthless to me.
Comment by jjohnsen — November 17, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Ice cream.
Comment by tracy m — November 17, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Depends on what kind of cake and what kind of cookie.
Comment by danithew — November 17, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Cookies. They’re portable - no plates or forks necessary.
Comment by David J — November 18, 2008 @ 8:54 am