The art of making a good cookie has only befallen a few in the supermarket and retail industry. There is nothing worse than buying cookies and getting a rock hard, biscuit like texture with no chocolate bits,  or whatever the flavour that you have purchased. Below is a guide for British consumers on the advantages and disadvantages of cookies from each store.

Tesco

Tesco have 2 types of cookies, “Finest Choice” and standard. With Finest Choice cookies you usually get 4 to a pack for about £1.20. These cookies are fairly chunky and usually always come with adequate fillings. The common choice consists of milk, white, and dark chocolate in the one cookie. The cookie itself is soft and almost a brownlie like texture. The size is ok considering it has a little depth to it. Along with the big chunks of chocolate make this a tasty cookie. I would give Tesco’s Finest Choice Cookies 8/10.

The standard cookie from Tesco comes in packs of 5 for 99p. They are small and quite thin, soft and usually quite goey. Can’t go wrong for 99p but nothing special. 6/10

Marks And Spencer

Cookies from Marks and Spencer have only really been around for the last 3 years when they started introducing In-Store bakeries. Much like the supermarkets every so often cookies will be cooked during the day and put into packets. If you time it right you can get freshly cooked, warm cookies which are fantastic. M and S only do one type of cookie in 3 different flavours; Milk Chocoloate, Double Chocolate and White Chocolate. The cookie itself is thin and soft, ofset with lots of chunks of smooth velvety chocolate, making an irresitable cookie. M and S cookies are however slightly more expensive and they have been inflating the price every year. They originally started out at £1.20 for 5 and it is now up at £1.84 for 5. Despite the price these are some of the nicest cookies on the market. 9/10

Asda

Asda only really have one type of cookie from their bakery. Once again it’s similar to the other Supermarkets cheaper options. 5 for 99p, soft goey average sized cookies. Coming in Double Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate varieties. Very similar to Tesco’s cheaper options. 6/10

Morrisons

Morrisons up until recently have only offered one type. However they have recently introduced “Best of” range which contain 4 cookies in a packet and at the moment only come in Milk Chocolate variety. The price is about £1.29. The cookies themselves are almost a little too crumbly, shortbread esk but not as crunchy. The chunks of chocolate are average but on the whole the cookie is quite nice, albeit slightly different from the norm. I would give this cookie 7/10.

Morrisons standard cookie is similar to Asdas and Tescos standard variety. 6/10

Sainsburys

Sainsburys offer 5 American style cookies, soft but often with crunchy edges, smallish in size but 5 for 99p can’t go wrong. 6/10

Millies Cookies

Millies Cookies is a strange shop. For only selling cookies and sweets the cookies aren’t that great. Firstly the size of them is pitaful and they rarely have decent amounts of chunks or filling. The prices arent that great either. You often think you are getting a great deal 8 for £2.50 and the like, but if you went along to Morrisons, Sainsburys, Tesco e.t.c. you could get 10 slightly bigger cookies for £2. Millies have also released a range called Super Gourmet, which are really what you would expect their normal cookies to be but for a grossly inflated price.

On the other hand, you do get one thing that you dont get anywhere else, and that’s choice. They have a great variety of different flavours some often very weird. I would rate Millies Cookies 5/10 based on the price for a below average cookie.

Somerfield

Occasionally a supermarket that you don’t often visit can yield results. There isn’t actually a Somerfield near me but when visiting my mothers I often have a look. It is a small Somerfield that only has the bakery selection of single items, rather than a collection in a packet. However the cookies are quite good but a little more pricey. They are a cross between Tesco and Asda and as they are single the size is quite good too. 7/10

There you have it, the low down on where to get your cookies. Most of the styles above resemble the typical “Amercian Style” cookie, but this is a good thing. Soft, chewy, goey cookies are the best. If you like a little crunch in your cookie, buy biscuits, or short bread instead.

There is no doubt about it though, Marks and Spencers’ still make the best cookie because they are not frozen before hand and are made freshly in store. Go and buy some, mmm, cookies.

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