Ten Most Popular Homemade Cookie Flavors

This delicious, buttery and oh-so-sweet cookie is the most popular for a good reason. Its melt in your mouth goodness has just the right amount of chocolate and cookie.

Whether frozen or warm, soft or crisp baked, chocolate chip cookies will forever reign as the perfect cookie for all ages. Not to mention, easy to make for all ages as well.

Some people love the peanut butter cookie, and some can do without it. But its fan base has kept it going throughout all the years of happy baking. Perhaps it's the criss-crossed fork marks on top that leave an indelible stamp in our minds or just that they look great in gift baskets. But the peanut yumminess is a classic American taste.

When it comes to the general consensus, I've found that you either love the oatmeal raisin, or you hate it. For the oatmeal raisin lover, this cookie brings joy with its delicious oat texture and chewy raisins.

Some home bakers even add nuts to the mix making it a delightful combination of tastes and a delightful little treat to the unsuspecting.

The sugar cookie still endures after all these years because of its sweet simplicity. Everyone loves rolled out sugar cookies spread with thick, colorful frosting and sprinkles.

The sheer versatility of this cookie makes it a blank canvas for home bakers to create masterpieces on. Frosting, sprinkles and food coloring are certainly optional, however.

For some, the macadamia nut is the ultimate in luxury and often times spotted in Christmas gift baskets.

Add white chocolate to it and you've got a delicacy of a cookie that is far from the everyday ordinary snack. Those who love it pine for its chunks of nuttiness.

The chocolate sandwich cookie is the poor man's Oreo. No one can replicate the taste of the original Oreo, but home cooks have certainly come close.

With homemade cream filling, this sandwich cookie is a year round favorite for many households.

Because there's no baking involved, these gourmet cookies almost seem like magic when they're made.

Coconut lovers around the world now have an exotic cookie to call their own. It spans generations as a sweet treat that's light and oh so edible.

Oh and did I mention that there's no baking involved?

Whenever shortbread comes out, you'll find that hands from all over come grabbing. It's simple but just so right for tea time.

Even lovers of more complicated cookies fall for the pure golden delight of a shortbread square. And what's not to love about shortbread? It tastes great with anything.

Is it that it comes out once a year that makes the homemade gingerbread cookie so fascinating? Maybe it's the shape or the decorations.

Whatever the reason, the gingerbread man and woman live on as symbols of holiday cookies and good cheer. Not to mention, they're worth waiting for.

Those daring bakers who take on the task of baking animal cookies have the hearts of children throughout the neighborhood. And then some adults as well.

Who can say no to a crisp baked circus animal freshly cut from dough so lovingly prepared?