JAHS Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 According to the Taste of Home website Utah's favorite cookie is: Taste of Home favorite cookies for each state. IMHO. If it doesn't have chocolate chips in it, it's not a cookie. 1 Link to comment
ksfisher Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Just now, JAHS said: According to the Taste of Home website Utah's favorite cookie is: Taste of Home favorite cookies for each state. IMHO. If it doesn't have chocolate chips in it, it's not a cookie. I love pumpkin cookies, but I'd scrape off the frosting. Link to comment
Storm Rider Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 My favorite cookies will always have nuts in them: my wife's carrot cookies are my most favorite, then her chocolate chip with either walnuts or pecans, my one exception to my nut rule is her ginger snaps. Through the roof; each of them. 1 Link to comment
Calm Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) Weird. I have never made nor been given pumpkin cookies with or without that I can remember since being here (15 years next month). Never even heard of them (with that frosting), lol. Edited June 20, 2018 by Calm 2 Link to comment
bluebell Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 We've been here for almost 5 years and I've never had anyone bring pumpkin cookies to anything church related, or rave about them. I wonder how they came up with this 'utah's favorite cookie'? Link to comment
Stargazer Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 3 hours ago, JAHS said: IMHO. If it doesn't have chocolate chips in it, it's not a cookie. I don't think I'd go that far. But a cookie with raisins in it is an abomination, in my humble opinion. 2 Link to comment
JAHS Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 1 hour ago, Stargazer said: I don't think I'd go that far. But a cookie with raisins in it is an abomination, in my humble opinion. Yes! I hate biting into a raisin cookie that I thought looked like a chocolate chip cookie. IMPOSTOR !!! 1 Link to comment
Robert F. Smith Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Calm said: Weird. I have never made nor been given pumpkin cookies with or without that I can remember since being here (15 years next month). Never even heard of them (with that frosting), lol. Same here. Never had a pumpkin cookie, with or without frosting. First I've heard of such a thing. Link to comment
juliann Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 I've had them, it may be more of a CA Mormon thing. I would think snickerdoodles or sugar cookies would be more common in Utah. And chocolate chip is always going to win, probably in every state. Link to comment
bluebell Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 My friends in northern Utah are always going on and on about the wonders of scotcharoo cookie bars. I have never had one and had never heard of it until we moved here. Do other places have them? Link to comment
Storm Rider Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 1 hour ago, bluebell said: My friends in northern Utah are always going on and on about the wonders of scotcharoo cookie bars. I have never had one and had never heard of it until we moved here. Do other places have them? If they are the same scotcharoos that are made with Rice Krispies, Karo syrup, and peanut butter and then topped with 1/2 semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 butterscotch chips. We got 'em and we love 'em. They are atrociously addictive things. We started making them in about 1967 in Alaska and have never stopped. 2 Link to comment
bluebell Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Storm Rider said: If they are the same scotcharoos that are made with Rice Krispies, Karo syrup, and peanut butter and then topped with 1/2 semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 butterscotch chips. We got 'em and we love 'em. They are atrociously addictive things. We started making them in about 1967 in Alaska and have never stopped. They might be! I've never had them. Link to comment
Calm Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotcheroos I don't like butterscotch...make it caramel and leave out the chocolate (sniff 😪) and I might try them (they sound too sweet for my taste though). Link to comment
Storm Rider Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 25 minutes ago, Calm said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotcheroos I don't like butterscotch...make it caramel and leave out the chocolate (sniff 😪) and I might try them (they sound too sweet for my taste though). They are sweet and the butterscotch is tempered by the chocolate - I have seen people make them with milk chocolate chips and that is too sweet for my preference. Though we do make them year round, it is always a fun treat when the extended family gets together. It brings back memories from our much younger days and the grandchildren and children have become scotcheroo fiends also. 1 Link to comment
katherine the great Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 I would never live in a state that didn't vote for chocolate chip cookies by a landslide! (I think this list is fake.) 2 Link to comment
strappinglad Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 (edited) Fettuccine Alfredo is known in some parts as " heart attack on a plate " . Some of these cookie recipes sound like " diabetes on a plate ". We have a thread on sugar addiction in Utah. I wonder why. Edited June 21, 2018 by strappinglad Link to comment
Tacenda Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 I think the chocolate peanut butter no-bake cookies might be a Utah thing, not sure. But in our house my kids called them "Monkey Poo's", haha. I love the pumpkin cookies with frosting though. Link to comment
mnn727 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) Chocolate Chip is the only True cookie. Oh and P.S. Real cookies do NOT have frosting on them -- cakes have frosting. Edited July 5, 2018 by mnn727 Link to comment
JLHPROF Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 11 hours ago, mnn727 said: Chocolate Chip is the only True cookie. Oh and P.S. Real cookies do NOT have frosting on them -- cakes have frosting. Chocolate chip is the true AMERICAN cookie. Other countries have other just as good options. Link to comment
Okrahomer Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 One of the few “big” things in the town where I grew up was a VA hospital. In the days before there were any LDS Stakes in Oklahoma, my Dad served as Branch President. Because of that, sometimes my folks would welcome visiting members of the Church into our home whose spouses were being treated at the VA. I will always remember “Sister Carter” who stayed with us for a few weeks while her husband was being treated at the end of his life. Sister Carter was a kind grandmotherly Latter-day Saint, and we were kind of buddies. Sister Carter made Snickerdoodles, and I thought I had never tasted anything so good. Although I might have had a moment or two in the years since when I found chocolate-chipism extremely appealing; deep down, Sister Carter won me over forever. I am a true blue snickerdoodle-ite. 1 Link to comment
mnn727 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 11 hours ago, JLHPROF said: Chocolate chip is the true AMERICAN cookie. Other countries have other just as good options. Any country that doesn't hold the Chocolate Chip cookie as the one and only true cookie, are heathens. Link to comment
Tacenda Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 On 7/5/2018 at 9:55 PM, Okrahomer said: One of the few “big” things in the town where I grew up was a VA hospital. In the days before there were any LDS Stakes in Oklahoma, my Dad served as Branch President. Because of that, sometimes my folks would welcome visiting members of the Church into our home whose spouses were being treated at the VA. I will always remember “Sister Carter” who stayed with us for a few weeks while her husband was being treated at the end of his life. Sister Carter was a kind grandmotherly Latter-day Saint, and we were kind of buddies. Sister Carter made Snickerdoodles, and I thought I had never tasted anything so good. Although I might have had a moment or two in the years since when I found chocolate-chipism extremely appealing; deep down, Sister Carter won me over forever. I am a true blue snickerdoodle-ite. Love Snickerdoodles! Link to comment
Rain Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) I lived in Utah 30 some years and never saw those. A couple of times I've had pumpkin cookies made with just pumpkin and cake mix or something like that (some weight watchers kind of thing), but never like the recipe they showed and never with frosting. I'm not a big fan or chocolate chip unless it is the cook's illustrated recipe made with milk chocolate chips (the butter is browned). Most times I would rather a craisin oatmeal or a lemon cookie. Edited July 9, 2018 by Rain Link to comment
Calm Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) Almond coconut bars are my fav. (Old Betty Crocker cookbook recipe gently removed and placed in the updated edition I got several years ago to replace the wedding present that was falling apart). Edited July 8, 2018 by Calm 1 Link to comment
mnn727 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 15 hours ago, Rain said: Most times I would rather a craisin oatmeal or a lemon cookie. Blasphemy! Link to comment
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