Cookies are something we’ve been eating since our childhoods. Despite the variety out there, the only kind you’re most likely going to see is chocolate chip. What even is special about chocolate chip cookies anyways? The only notable thing in them is the chocolate chips. No other colours. Just the 2 shades of brown that you see on the cookie itself.

Chocolate chip cookies came about when Ruth Graves Wakefield used bits of a chocolate bar in her cookies. There’s a myth out there saying that she attempted to make fully chocolate cookies but ended up creating the cookie we know today instead. This myth was debunked by her, saying that the chocolate chip cookie we know is what she attempted.

Cookies have a bunch of varieties when it comes to what’s in them. Some notable ones that I’ve tried include M&Ms, peanut butter, and raisin.

M&M cookies are a nice variation of chocolate chip cookies. Since the outer shell prevents them from melting as easily(if at all just by looking at them), you get most of the chocolate content that was already there, rather than going through the melted chocolate phase when you eat freshly baked cookies.

Next is peanut butter. As a child, I attempted to make peanut butter cookies by putting blobs of peanut butter on a tray and cooking them in a toaster over. It didn’t work because they burned for obvious reasons. When I got to try real peanut butter cookies, they were pretty much heaven. It didn’t need any special chunks to make them good. All they needed was some of the peanut butter magic.

Finally, there are raisins. As children, we generally stay away from fruits and vegetables, especially in our desserts. When eating oatmeal raisin cookies as an adult, you soon realize what you’ve been missing out on. It’s the perfect amount of sweetness that belongs in a cookie, dare I say better than chocolate chips.

We will be eating cookies for the rest of our lives. No matter what’s in your cookies, they will always be a treat you will cherish.