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.
Cake sucks. But pie trumps them both!
Cake, but I’d take pie over either.
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.
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!!
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).
Good cake rules. But I am also a big fan of good frosted cookies — probably because they are sorta cake-like.
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.
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.)
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.
Ice cream.
Depends on what kind of cake and what kind of cookie.
Cookies. They’re portable – no plates or forks necessary.