Who Loves Cookies?
Posted by Samantha Hunter in Samantha Hunter, tags: Blaze, Books, cookies, Fun, new release
Is there anyone who doesn’t love cookies, or who doesn’t have a special cookie in their life? Maybe one your mom made, or one your family loves? Or decadent ones at the store that you only let yourself buy for a special treat?
In my spankin’ new release, MAKE YOUR MOVE, Jodie Patterson owns a Chicago bakery, and the frosting on her special “Passionate Hearts” cookies is very popular. With the help of a special formula created by her best friend and business partner, Dan, a scientific genius, the frosting provides a little erotic kick to female pheromones, helping women who eat them get any man they desire.
Now, I have never had a cookie that did that, exactly, but a few that come close. One family recipe for a cookie we often make is my husband’s favorite, and when I make them, he certainly gets a spark in his eye — a rich cookie wrapped around a mix of fudge and nuts, dusted with powdered sugar. I brought some to the Toronto Harlequin offices on my last visit, and I don’t know if they sparked any libidos, but I did get notes from people who seemed to like them just as much as my friends and family do. My own personal favorite is a simple but delicate sugar cookie I make (and I do shape them into hearts and frost them) and they really melt in your mouth. I grew up making cookies, especially all kinds of ethnic, Italian and Ukrainian recipes that I learned from my mom and her friends, and they are a regular fixture at Christmas and holidays.
However, I love store cookies, too. Pepperidge Farms make the most sinful ones, I think, especially their Amaretto Milanos, though Brussels are my absolutely favorites. On a more everyday level, I won’t pass up an Oreo, and love Nutter-Butter cookies, too! I will say one cookie I never did enjoy was a Fig Newton, but I know several people who love them.
So what is your favorite cookie? Does your family have special cookie recipes you always use, or that everyone loves? Share, and one commenter will win a copy of MAKE YOUR MOVE along with these gorgeous Harry and David cookies (US shipping only), and two others will win signed copies of MAKE YOUR MOVE (all eligible).
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My four food groups are: Coffee, Chocolate, Cheese & Cookies–The 4 Cees!
Always buy two rolls of slice and bake cookie dough so that you can eat half the dough before it ever hits the oven!
Cookies & Cream ice cream–especially coffee ice cream with Oreos–yummy!
My Gran was the greatest cook ever! She always baked something good for me to have with milk after to school. My friends wanted to adopt her!
Monster Cookies:
1/2 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup of granulated sugar
3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 1/s teaspoons of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour
1/2 cup of butterscotch chips
1 1/4 cups of plain M&Ms
1 cup of Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 375°F. In extra large mixing bowl, beat the butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugars and beat at medium speed until well incorporated and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat for about 2 minutes on medium speed. Add the baking soda and beat for 30 seconds. Be sure to scrape down the sides and bottom to ensure all the butter is well incorporated. Add the flour and salt, a bit at a time until incorporated but do not overmix. Stir in chips and nuts just until coated. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and scoop on rounded spoonfuls of dough and bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden bown. Be sure to let them cool on the baking sheet before you move them.
Oh a recipe! Awesome! Thanks Virginia.
can never have enough cookie recipes. 
Love your four food groups! LOL
Sam
I don’t bake that many cookies, but I do enjoy them. I think my favorite are pecan sandies, I love any cookie with pecans. I also like oreos and Pepperidge Farms makes one with chunks of white chocolate on them and for the life of me I can’t think of the name of them, but I like those too. Everytime I buy them though I wish the package was bigger. I guess it’s a good thing for my waistline that it doesn’t hold any more.
Hi Linda
Thanks for stopping by. 
I love Pecan Sandies, and any kind of shortbread cookie, too. I have met few cookies I didn’t like. Also, sugar wafers… can’t miss those. 
Sam
My first thought (when you asked if there was anyone who didn’t like cookies) was, “A LOT of computer web sites require cookies, but I’m not willing to turn my cookies on for them!” It’s pretty sad when I automatically thought of computer cookies instead of edible cookies!
I used to bake cookies quite a bit, and plain old peanut butter cookies were my family’s favourite. Now I instead bake brownies at least once every single week, as that seems to be the drug of choice these days. I have found that my family prefers store-bought brownie mixes, though, so I combine a cheapie brand from Walmart (Great Value) and another brand (usually Duncan Hines, any type, although we prefer Milk Chocolate) on sale, pour the two mixes into a 9×13 tray, and bake for 38.5 minutes (rather than 30 minutes as recommended for one mix). I never ice them, as they are quite rich without it (plus they don’t last long enough to bother with the icing).
I wish I had a chance to win your Harry and David Cookies (as I’ve never heard of them, and what better excuse does a person need to try them?), but alas, I am outside the US. Still, I have MAKE YOUR MOVE on my “to buy” list, so I would LOVE to win it instead! Can’t blame a girl for trying!
LOL Laney on the computer cookies. Yeah, those are not nearly as fun.
Sorry on the intn’l shipping, but the cost for H&D to ship out of the US is prohibitive, however, we’ll see what numbers dh picks tonight! 
I use mix brownies, too, and thanks for the mixing recipe — one of the few mixes I do use, because for brownies they just seem to come out better. We like the Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate, and I put walnuts in them. Sometimes I frost them as well, because I am a frosting freak — a friend of mine reminded me recently that frosting seems to come up in several of my books in sexy ways, LOL… Hmmm.
Thanks for coming by!
Sam
Delicious cover!!
I love chocolate chip cookies(no nuts, please) straight out of the oven. They will melt in your mouth. I love to bake cookies, but find myself often buying the Nestle pre-made cookies in the dairy section of the grocery. Chocolate chip cookies are simple to make and I enjoy it. I think I may have to make some soon.
Have a great day!! You’ve put some yummy thoughts in my head.
Hey runner — thanks for coming by, and yes, it’s a lovely cover isn’t it? The Art Dept did such a wonderful job.
Chocolate chips are the classic… I have to keep myself from baking them too often because with the two of us, it’s far too easy to polish off the plate, however, I have found if we freeze them and just take out a few here and there, so that we don’t over-indulge, that works pretty well.
Sam
I would never turn down a cookie, particularly one with chocolate. My favorites are my mom’s german chocolate crinkle cookies or the oatmeal with Hershey squares.
My personal favorite is chocolate chip, but I also love peanut butter and the ones with M&Ms. I like sugar cookies minus the icing, I’m not a frosting/icing kind of girl. At Christmas I always make chocolate chip and sugar cookies. For the chocolate chips I either add green and red sprinkles or food dye into the batter to make them more festive. Then I try to pick out a couple of new holiday cookies to try. I bought a little magazine that’s full of holiday cookies and bars so I go to that to find new recipes.
Don’t put me in the drawing I already bought my copy of Make Your Move.
Hi Samantha,
Cookies – I LOVE COOKIES. Cookie Monster has a song “C is for Cookie and that’s good enough for me” I can’t think of a cookie I do not like. I even love Fig Newtons and Oreos too.
So, here I sit conflicted. Because I own your book alreadyand I won a book from you and I won Jillians’ book that week – So don’t enter me in your drawing
But, the evil part of me says Harry and David cookies, I have to have them, so do enter me
But, good has to win out, so really do not enter me!
Tammy, you crack me up, LOL — thank you so much for picking up the book, or having come by before — and I can enter you in for the cookies and give the book to someone else, that’s fine, as long as you are w/ US shipping.
Nicole, I love a good, sticky peanut butter cookie too!
Katie, I’m with you — hard to turn down any cookie.
Another I love, and make every now and then, are Biscotti. I’ll make different flavors at Christmas for gifts, and send them out, but also, they keep nicely in the freezer for months, so you can take a few out with coffee. 
Sam
Sam,
I could write for days about all the cookies I love. I have so many favorites. And, you have convinced me – I live in the US, so just enter me for the cookies and not the book. (but, only because I have this book already) and I want to see someone else win this book. But, I want to see me win the cookies ( are you seeing why I relate to Cookie Monster so much!) Hubby gave me a stuffed Cookie Monster as a joke. You tickled him and he said, “Me want, cookies!!” and then he laughed. It was so cute, I still have it!
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip cookies. But, I don’t think there is any cookie I would turn down if offered.
I do cookies by request at Christmas by baking for family and for my mom’s office (2 different types of cookies every day for a week). But the two that stand out the most are:
Snickerdoodles. Such an old fashioned cookie, but I’d never had them before. The first time I made them and my mom came through the door, the first words out of her mouth were, “OMG, you’re making snickerdoodles. You can smell them all the way up to the house… my mom used to make those for me when I was a kid!” So I make them for her every Christmas and on her birthday.
The other one I personally love (and which everybody finds a mystery of flavor of the Yum! variety) are Chocolate Chai Latte Cookies with a cinnamon flavored drizzle of icing that totally makes the cookie. It uses a chocolate cake mix for the base of the cookie dough and includes a couple tablespoons of instant chai tea latte mix (which you can find in the coffee/tea section of the grocery store). It’s just a rich, chocolately, oddly warm spiced cookie with a taste you love but can’t quite put your finger on.
If you can’t find the instant chai tea latte mix, the recipe provides a substitution spice blend to create the same basic flavor at the bottom of the recipe.
They’re fabulous with coffee and the recipe makes about 6 dozen. Takes about an hour to make them and 9 minutes to bake.
Cookie Ingredients:
1 (18.25-ounce) package butter recipe chocolate cake mix
3 tablespoons instant chai tea latte mix*
1/2 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Glaze Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 to 5 teaspoons water
Heat oven to 350°F. Combine all cookie ingredients except chocolate chips in large bowl; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Stir in chocolate chips.
Shape dough into 3/4-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until tops are set and cracked. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
Combine all drizzle ingredients except water in small bowl. Add enough water for desired drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cooled cookies. Store between sheets of waxed paper in container with tight-fitting lid.
*Substitute 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground cardamom, 1 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves.
Recipe Tip
Cookies can be sprinkled with mixture of 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/4 cup powdered sugar instead of drizzling them.
My personal cookie favorite will forever be Toll House cookies. Not chocolate chip but Toll House. It’s always amazed me that the two recipes taste remarkably different even though many of the incredients are the same.
As for the cookies in the Blaze books? If but Harry and David could make those. And if they could be delivered by the man on Sam’s cover!
Hmmm cookies… I am a sucker for fudge stripes, but love love love Black & Whites from the bakery!
Cookies are probably my favorite food group, particularly if it’s chocolate chip straight out of the oven. Sadly, I don’t have a U.S. address, so just enter me for the book, I’m another one who loves that cover.
My mother use to make us chocolate chip and raisin cookies with pecan pieces scattered over the top. I don’t have the recipe but sure wish I did or maybe its better I don’t. Now I settle for Oreos as my favorite cookie.
I don’t think there is a cookie that I don’t like!!! I take after my dad that way…
(FWIW, I don’t think fig newtons count as cookies. Yuck.) 
My family loves to bake cookies. Around the winter holidays each year, my mom’s family takes a full day and just bakes cookies. Hundreds of dozens every year!
That cover is yummy!! Mmm.
Now I want cookies. I don’t have any in the house, dang it. I may have to do a little baking this evening.
Thanks for the fun topic, Sam!
Hi Sam! I loved the book! I finished it yesterday and absolutly loved it! As for favorite cookies, mine are chocolate chip and sugar cookies. I love to bake them but I usually just use a mix. I know lazy of me, but what can I say, lol! But of course I would never turn down an extra thick oreo cookie shake or pretty much anything else with cookies, lol!
Have a great day!!
Hey, Sam! Your new book looks fabulous – I can’t wait to read it!
I love cookies – eating and baking them *g* Some of my favorites are bar cookies like Blondies and these caramel/toffee ones that are so good, I had them for my birthday last year instead of cake
I’ll have to dig out the recipe!
Love cookies, esp. with a mug of hot tea, Earl Grey preferably. Love frosted shortbread cookies with said tea. As for making cookies, I can’t stand the ones you have to roll out, cut, etc. I am the ‘drop cookie kid’, color me lazy!
Enter me for the books only, Canada here!
Lately, I’ve been craving the white chocolate macadamia cookies from the store. I am not reading the nutrition panel.
I have to say we are a Chips Ahoy and Oreo family. This is because my husband works for the company and we never lack them in the house. But, we love to sit on a Saturday night watching a movie as a family and eating popcorn and eaing our cookies. It has been a tradition since our oldest…who is 8…since he was 1 and our other son is 5 also. Love these specail time together!!
Yum, I am a cookie lover that also likes to bake cookies. I much prefer home baked cookies over store bought. I make them from scratch, always!
My two favorite are chololate chip or oatmeal chocolate chip & brownies. I have a really good brownie recipe that is as easy as a mix in my humble opinion. Sometimes I add chocolate chips or another kind of chip to just give them a different taste. My oldest grandson(now 21) loves me to make cookies for him which I do fairly often. I don’t bake in the summer because it is just to darn hot! Baking is for cooler weather. When it heats up I turn to ice cream!! 
Sam, I have Make Your Move on my TBR pile. I am reading a library book now, True Compass by Ted Kennedy which is long. When I am done I will want something much lighter!!
it is good reading, sort of like a long history lesson of things I remember!
I love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I like it when they’re still gooey. I’m also a big lover of Oreo cookies. They go well with ice cream or milk.
I have two kinds of cookies that I can always be bribed with. At Christmas, my mom always make spritz cookies in fun holiday shapes and colors. It’s a tradition to make them and it doesn’t feel quite like the holiday until we’re eating them. My other favorite is snickerdoodles which are a sugar cookie with cinnamon in it too. I’m getting hungry just thinking about these goodies.
Hi!
My favorite cookie is the one we have in the house that I can eat. 
Ultimately, always prefer those cookies in the house to be chocolate chip. And well, no recipes for you given that I don’t bake, so the only way I go and get them is by leaving the house. LOL 
Now, it would be even better if I had cookies with that frosting and that guy on the cover. Ah, heaven. 
Lois
cookies, lets see..
Monster cookies
Potato chip cookies
Choc-peanut butter no-bake cookies
Plain old chocolate chunk, dark choc instead of chips, sooo much better
peanut butter cookies
cookie bars
cookie pizza
i love cookies
and your books, lol
cool post
jody
Love shortbread. Out supermarket has a bakery that makes ones that melt in one’s mouth- (and go DIRECTLY) to the hips- but they sure taste good… especially with a cup of tea and a good book!
Yummy recipes! Harry & David cookies… never tried!
My favorite cookies have Toll House chocolate chips in them but I’ve adapted the original recipe so that there is less butter and brown sugar. Everybody love s these cookies!!
I also make Spritz butter cookies at X-mas time and Molasses cookies in the fall!
Molasses Sugar Cookies
¾ cup of shortening; melt and add to it: 1 cup of sugar ¼ cup dark molasses 1 egg; beat all these together Sift together: 2 cups flour ½ tsp cloves ½ tsp ginger ½ tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp soda
Add dry ingredients and mix well. Chill. Form into balls about one inch in diameter. Roll in granulated sugar. Place on greased cookie sheet, flattening slightly if desired.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
These are super easy to make and delicious too….
Chocolate Mint Wafers
Ingredients
* 4 ounces dark chocolate candy coating, * 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract, * 18 to 24 vanilla wafers
Directions
* Place candy coating and extract in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 30-60 seconds or until smooth, stirring every 15 seconds.
* Dip vanilla wafers in coating; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 1-1/2 dozen. These taste like GS Thin Mints.
I also took the advice from someone who said to use a fork to dip the wafer and then tap the side of the bowl. It worked perfectly. You can substitute flavors of chocolate, add a mint pattie between the layers, or peanut butter.
Next my daughter’s favorite bar/cookie:
OLD FASHIONED PEANUT BUTTER SQUARES
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups crushed graham crackers ( do an extra 1/4 to 1/2 cup for extra crunch) 2 cups powdered sugar 2 cups peanut butter 1 cup melted margarine or butter 1 Lg. Package of Choc. Chips
Mix first four ingredients in a greased 9 X 13 pan. Melt choc. chips and spread over the top of the mixture. Refrigerate. Cut into squares.
I’d love to win Make Your Move!
Hey folks — sorry I didn’t get back in here later yesterday — working on writing, and then life caught up.
But I love all of the cookie posts, and definitely copied and pasted these recipes!
So, as to the winners! I always have Dh choose random numbers between 1- however many posts we have, and he chose #21 for the cookies/signed book and that is:
DONNA M!!! Congrats, Donna.
Just email me at samhunter@samanthahunter.com, and I will get those out to you. I notice you mentioned that you already have MAKE YOUR MOVE and I am happy send you the signed copy with your cookies, but if you want me to give the book away to another winner here, just let me know and I’ll pick another winner later on.
As for the other two books we have: #1, Virginia C, and #11, Barb Wallace!
Thanks for coming by and sharing your cookie thoughts and recipes.
If you read the book, I hope very much that you enjoy it. I am blogging at Romance Bandits on Wed, May 5, and giving away some goodies there, too, so feel free to come by and chat. 
Sam
Congrats Donna, Virginia & Barb! Enjoy!
Wow–thank you! I have emailed my info. Congrats to Donna & Barb
Thanks Sam.
I emailed you my information. I am looking forward to trying those cookies.
Congratulations to the other winners. I told Sam to give the book to someone else as I already have it.
Thanks to all of you that shared recipes. It is always fun to try new ones.
Congrats to the winners! Enjoy those books and cookies.
Donna M has given up her book for someone else (thanks Donna!) and so bcurry, you’re the lucky winner of that book.
Just drop me emails at samhunter@samanthahunter.com and all will be sent out this week. 
Sam
Congrats to bcurry!
Well, I love cookies, too, though I never make them. Danish Wedding cookies, their cousins Pecan Sandies and Pfeffernusse, and the humble but wonderful Nilla Wafer and Ginger Snap.
The real reason I came here was because of your name. I have a sister named Samantha Hunter, and she, the snotty twit, would be horrified to find a romance author sharing her name. She’d rather be named Rachel Carson or Eleanor Roosevelt, I guess. But Samantha Hunter is a great name, and romance is a wonderful genre, and cookies are proof of goodness in the universe, so rock on, Samantha!
Lyn, how funny, to come across people with the same name. LOL on your sister being a romance snob — maybe it would make her feel better to know I have a couple of graduate degrees, one in Environmental Geography.
People form a lot of stereotypes about romance writers, but don’t realize most of us are professionals in various areas as well as being professional writers. I’m a full time writer now, which I love, and romance is a great genre to write. 
Maybe you need to buy her a few Blaze and broaden her horizons. 
As for cookies, Nilla Wafers played a small part in my first book, Virtually Perfect, by the way, LOL. So I love them, too.
Thanks for coming by!
Sam