If you had to choose only one cookie for the rest of your life and only that cookie, forever, which would it be?

I know, that’s just plain mean. But if I absolutely had to choose, my desert island cookie would be ginger molasses. Even over my favorite chocolate chip. (Yes, shocking). I admit that our proximity to Christmas might make me slightly biased in this choice, but truly—-a chewy, slightly tangy ginger-forward cookie doesn’t get old for me. It very rarely risks being too sweet, or too dry or too meh—which frankly a lot of cookies of the world can be.

A good molasses cookie is a memory. It’s a feeling—a whole mood.

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