Last night Ben and I headed to Downtown Disney to meet up with my fam.
It was Matt’s birthday and he chose to have his birthday dinner at Rainforest café (I think it’s the 4th year in a row now!). 
Unfortunately, that place was PACKED and there was a problem with getting seated that resulted in a longer wait than was quoted. We messed around in the store for a long time waiting and waiting and waiting.
Fortunately, the manager realized the error and sent two HUGE appetizer plates for us to share when we finally got a table! The service completely made up for the error 
Apparently we can be bought with mozzarella sticks – any takers?
Ben and I sat across from the birthday boy and his friend. It made for some less than stellar pictures, but fun conversation.Eleven year olds have a lot of opinions on black holes, aliens and airplanes! I learned a lot!
Michael and Heather joined in the fun My brother’s ‘stache isn’t this creeptastic in person. Swear.
Ben wanted in on the creeper pic too I guess…
I ordered the macadamia nut crusted tilapia with coconut shrimp. I’m not a big fan of shrimp so I shared those with Ben. But the tilapia was AMAZING.
I also jacked some of Ben’s fajitas. They were adequate, but we didn’t expect much considering the place.
When someone orders a Volcano cake the waiters bring it out screaming, “VOLCANOOOOOO!!!!” The entire time we were eating Matt stopped what he was doing hoping it was his volcano when it came out of the kitchen. Who am I kidding? So did I.
Finally his birthday volcano arrived! I ate it. Not all of it, but I put a BIG dent. Trust. Everyone else (besides me and Matt) was too full from their dinner to help us attack it. Party poopers. More for me.
I got home way past my bed time and had to force myself out of bed for boot camp. I headed home for French Toast after 
I recently announced it will be my life’s work to find the world’s best Chocolate Chip Cookie! Well, Mason Jar Cookie Company recently let me try and make my own. You can go to their website and create the cookie combinations of your dreams!
This is what my dreams are made of…
My mix has an oatmeal cookie base, toffee bits, almonds and dark chocolate chips. I named it “ChOatmeal Toffee Cookies”. 
Um, I am super excited about this! If you want to make your own combination to bake and send to me you can use the code TENOFF to get 10% off your order. 
The Mason Jar Cookie company is letting one lucky RER reader make their own combo for free! To enter: Leave a comment with your favorite cookie.
Contest open to US residents only. Ends TODAY at 6pm PST. I will announce the winner tonight.
My current favorite (because it changes) is oatmeal chocolate chip with dried cranberries . . . the best of all possible worlds!
Recently made these, and they were fabulous: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/mexican-chocolate-cookies-10000001687654/
So unique with ground red and black pepper and melted chocolate. Rather than be spicy, the peppers make the chocolate chocolatey-er. It’s my new favorite! Plus, who doesn’t want a cookie you can eat with red wine!
My favorite cookies are oatmeal cookies! The deli right by my work makes the best ones ever.
Cookies are my weakness…I like making them AND eating them so I don’t know if I can pick just one. Lately my favorite is pumpkin snickerdoodles.
My favorite are snickerdoodles! 🙂
Peanut butter all the way.
White chocolate macadamia nut!
Oatmeal chocolate chip!
My favorite is plain ‘ol gooey chocolate chip!
Chocolate chips with pecans
ummm YUM! I’m obsessed with cranberry walnut oatmeal cookies…no, I don’t make these from scratch. my local grocery store has ’em in break and bake, SCORE!
fav cookie: peanut butter buckeye cookies
Chocolate chip with walnuts. Yum!
My favorite cookie is Molasses!
White chocolate macademia nut cookies.
Chocolate chip cookies ROCK!!
Peanut butte cookies!!
Love me a snickerdoodle!
right now I’m totally on a molasses cookie kick! but c’mon, all cookies are my favourite.
White chocolate chip gingerbread cookies…yum!
My favorite cookies are chocolate chips (specifically, the recipe from joy of cooking).
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip cookies with toffee pieces!!
Seriously unoriginal but I have to go with Chocolate Chip. Not too chewy though.
white chip chocolate cookies!
My favorite cookie right now is probably peanut butter… which I can’t seem to successfully make!
I have two favorites. My Moms chocolate chip cookies and my friends sugar drop cookies. Both must be laces with something because they are addicting! Both are to die for!
ginger molasses with pumpkin!
oatmeal and currents with some lemon, delicious!
Hard to pick just one…but probably a big chewy oatmeal raisin. Yum!
My favorite cookies are ones with “the works” – pretty much anything I can find to mix in! Chocolate chips (white, dark, peanut butter, butterscotch), raisins and dried fruit, toffee, cookies, candies… Kitchen sink cookies!
My favorite cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip. I LOVE that dough!
Ive only been to the Elephant Bar a few times, but i love the atmosphere inside!
My favorite cookie??! a soft peanut butter cookie with butterscotch, chocolate, and white chocolate chips! Go big or go home!
I love oatmeal raisin cookies! But no chocolate or nuts in them!
Wow…its hard to pinpoint a favorite. Would either be classic chocolate chip or ginger snaps.
I love anything with chocolate!! I love making oatmeal chocolate chip cherry…
Peanut butter chocolate chip walnut oatmeal with a twist of toffee (:
Chocolate chip cookies all the way.
I’d get chocolate cookie with peanut butter chips, coconut, and macadamia nuts!
chocolate chip cookies hands down!
Oatmeal Raisin with dark chocolate chips!! mmmmm 🙂
Favorite cookie? Peanut butter cup bites – peanut butter cookie dough that you smoosh a peanut butter cup into as soon as they come out of the oven.
I like Mrs Fields chocolate chip cookies. Boring, I know, but they taste like each one is made with an entire stick of butter so they are soooo good.
I have been eating cookies like crazy lately, but I think my favorite goes between a ginger cookie that is extra thick and gooey and a great chocolate chip!
i love any kind of peanut butter cookie (or oatmeal!) with dried fruit. YUM!
Favorite cookie – soft ewwy gooey chocolate chip with some milk, of course. 🙂 mmmm… cookies!
I love my mom’s sugar cookies at Christmas time but just plain ol’ chocolate chip is my favorite all the time!
Oatmeal….I just made some with dried blueberries instead of raisins….so I am telling myself I can eat as many as I want cause they are full of antioxidants.
Chocolate chip Cranberry are the BEST!!!
wow how cool! My favorite cookies are chocolate with chocolate mint chips, and coated in powdered sugar..I don’t have a recipe for these..but I have a local restaurant that makes them… 🙂
I am an oatmeal lover!!! Soo delicious!
chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are my fave. plain chocolate chip will do as well 🙂
I am such a sucker for Oatmeal Scotchies! Love, love, love them!!
Thanks, now I want mozzarella sticks 🙂
I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like, but Oatmeal Pecan Chocolate Chip are my favorite.
Chocolate chip!!!
I make some amazing coconut chocolate chip cookies – delicious!
I love cookies. But hands down.. Paula Deen’s monster cookies are the BEST. Oatmeal base, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and m&ms. To die.
Hands DOWN my favorite is oatmeal chocolate chip… and WARM! Oh soooo good!
That is a tough one. I absolutely love double chocolate cookies. I probably a few too many of them when I worked at Subway 🙂
Anything peanut butter!!! But from this site, I envision an oatmeal, cashew, dark chocolate & raisin cookie. Mmmmm
That is a really cute picture of you and Ben (the first, non-creeper one)! My favorite cookies are Monster cookies because they have everything in them 🙂
My favorite cookie is definitely oatmeal chocolate chip!
probably nothing beats chocolate chip..they are ALWAYS good. i also love ginger molasses cookies…they smell and taste amaaaaazing.
Double chocolate chip cookies are the best!
chocolate chip no contest!
Peanut butter with a chocolate kiss!
definitely oatmeal…even without any chocolate or anything inside. love the chew!
Peanut Butter Cup cookies ARE the best.
I’d love to win! My faves are peanut butter chocolate chip 🙂
my favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin! i know i’m weird, but i think they’re so delicious!
I love snicker doodles and oatmeal cookies! Yum!
Mnnnn..Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with white and milk chips!
my favorite cookie is any kind of cookie. i like cookies.
My favorite cookies are white chocolate macadamia – but there isn’t a cookie in existence I would turn down!
I have an obsession with “Monster Cookies”. Peanut Butter (crunchy please!), oatmeal, and M&M’s. No flour in this recipe, so I tell myself they are slightly healthier! 😉
My all time favorite cookies are soft molassas cookies. Yum!
My favorite cookie is anything to do with peanut butter! yum!
cinnamon oatmeal – RIGHT out of the oven 🙂
I’m definitely a fan of snicker doodles…..oh my god sooo good!
pumpkin chocolate chip!
Oatmeal raisin is my favorite cookie!!
I like oatmeal raisin cookies with some coconut tossed in!
Tina from CNC got a cookie mix from this company that has butterscotch chips, dark chocolate chips, and pistachios… and I have not gotten it out of my head since. I would LOVE to get these for free!!! 🙂
snickerdoodles are my all time favorite
I wanna win this!! Love me some Chocolate P.B. Cookies!!
Choosing a favorite cookie is hard, but pb, oatmeal choc chip are delicious!
pb cookie base w/ raisinets, oreos, and pecans. And maybe extra raisins? Oh my word I am weird!
oatmeal dark chocolate and raisinets! delicious 🙂
i actually made my own version of this for my work holiday Christmas exchange!
one of my favorite cookies is a family recipe tradition at Christmas: sugar twists!
Definitely sugar cookie. Nothing beats a delicious sugar cookie…well, shortbread coming in a close second 😉
My favorite is cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip! Yummy!
Oatmeal raisin are my favorite cookie, it makes me feel like a weirdo sometimes because almost everyone I know hates raisins. Oh well, more for me!
I like ummm …oh who am I kidding I don’t think I’ve met a cookie I didn’t like..they are all so yummy & delish!
My favorite cookies are those PB ones with Hershey Kisses in the center. Classic! I love that volcano cake, I shared one with a friend once right before heading to college.
You can’t beat no bake cookies…the melted chocolate and oats does me in every time!
Cookies!! I love aatmeal with chocolate and peanut butter chips!
white chocolate macadamia all day!
I like a chocolate chip cookie with shredded coconut and almonds. Kind of like an.almond joy!
Monster cookies! Peanut butter, oatmeal, choc chips, and m&m’s!! 🙂
My ultimate favorite is simple snickerdoodles but the occasional chocolate chip is good too.
I’d have to say chocolate/peanut butter chip cookies are my absolute favorite!!
My favorite cookie is white chocolate macadamia nut! So good.
Our little brothers are birthday twins. 🙂
Okay, and I am now officially jealous after seeing these Mason Jar Cookie Company goodies for the umpteenth time today. They all look and sound SOOO good!
Favorite cookie? I have no idea how in the world to choose. I’ll have to go with my Heath Bar Crunch cookies. You can never go wrong with Heath bars, right? 🙂
Call me boring but there is nothing better than a soft chewy chocolate chipped cookie! I make mine with dark brown sugar to keep them extra chewy!! Yum!
Pb chocolate chip oatmeal or no bake cookies.
I love triple chocolate cookies! Caramel and Toffee bits are greatly appreciated
Oatmeal with chocolate chips are my all-time favourite!
A chewy chocolate chip cookie is my favorite!
snickerdoodle, oatmeal raisin, or good old fashioned sugar. i heart cookies.
Oatmeal!!!! With lots of raisins!
My favorite cookie is chocolate chip with macadamia nuts! Yum!
Anything with peanut butter! Especially the ones with the Hersey’s kisses in the middle. Yum!
Oatmeal chocolate chip!! Yummmm!!
I love the Rainforest Cafe. I’ve visited the one in San Francisco and I felt in love. I feel like such a kid when I go there. Wait, I always feel like a kid at heart. 🙂 My favorite cookie is peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal, with toffee bits if I’m feeling crazy.
ummmm..CHOATMEAL toffee!! :))
Just call me the cookie monster! I have met very few cookies I don’t like but there are some from a local bakery that get sent to our work on occasion that have chocolate chunks and caramel in them and they are out of this world!
My favorite cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip.
Funny – my friend got engaged last night by the tree at disneyland. Did you happen to see any engagements? lol
I’m always a sucker for a chocolate chip or M&M cookie. Oh and sugar cookies. Okay, just about any cookie. 🙂
Lofthouse cookies- apparently one can be bought by mozzarella sticks or storebought cookies! 🙂
My real and true favorite though is a monster cookie my mother-in-law makes only at Christmas- hershey’s bar chunks, chocolate chips, nuts, oats… lots of butter and brown sugar… we calculated one year: each cookie is 350 calories… with a glass of milk it’s our favorite holiday lunch! 🙂
My fav cookie is oatmeal raisin. Free food rocks! Waiting doesn’t.
I love monster cookies…everything wonderful in one cookie!
Mine would have to be some sort of peanut butter base with peanut butter chips, toffee chips, choc chips. Something like that.
The Kidless Kronicles
1. Your brother Matt is too cute. Happy belated birthday to him!!!
2. I love me some oatmeal raisin cookies!!!
I’m not good at making my own, (I fail at Mongolian BBQ every time) so I would have someone else do it for me. I like mint and chocolate or peanut butter/chocolate combos.
Anything with coconut works for me! 🙂
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip! The oatmeal helps me pretend it’s ‘healthy-ish’!
I’m totally boring but I love a classic oatmeal raisin cookie fresh out of the oven!
ooo I love chocolate chocolate chip with chocolate icing 🙂
homemade chocolate chip
i think you just described my new favorite cookie! that sounds amazing!
Oatmeal banana chocolate chip. Nom. 😀
I love flourless peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips! They taste like fudge! 🙂
Peanut butter chocolate chip…hands down.
Chocolate chip always!
i love any spice cookies like ginger! but also love oatmeal ones with lots o’ mix ins!
I love any cookie with tons of chocolatey chips! 😀
awesome! I looove cookies with toffee in them!
oatmeal chocolate chip…FTW.
peanut butter & chocolate chip!
Those cookies sound amaze and all that food does too. I love the R.F. Cafe but the wait is always long here too. 🙂 You look super cute with your side braid. Jessica
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Favorite cookie: Oatmeal chocolate chip
Favorite cookie has to be anything with chocolate!
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip.
Loooove oatmeal butterscotch cookies! They’re good any time – including breakfast (it has oatmeal!).
I love chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies!
Any cookie with big chocolate chunks is a winner in my book.
The classic chocolate chip cookie wins me over time and time again. Any cookie will do so long as there are no raisins in it.
I’m in love with this idea! I might make some jars of my own for my friends 🙂 I love ANY cookie with an oatmeal base, and add a few milk chocolate chips and mac nuts and I’m in heaven!
Anything with chocolate! I think my most favorite have to be monster cookies though – oats, butterscotch chips, mms, sometimes even pretzels – so good!
fav cookie? anything with chocolate and peanut butter.. YUMMM!
Any kind of cookie involving M&Ms tends to be a favorite. 🙂
Or guava cookies from Kauai. So amazing.
Chocolate chip cookies!
I love cookies. 🙂 My favorite has to be white chocolate macadamia nut with cranberries. 🙂
Peanut Butter cookies for sure! 🙂
Peanut Butter!
My favorite cookie is a snickerdoodle. 🙂
I am just as obsessed with cookies as you are! My favorite has always been white chocolate macadamia nut!! 🙂
i have a new favorite cookie – the compost cookie! (found here if you are cookie obsessed: http://www.oprah.com/food/Compost-Cookies-Recipe)
A great big soft sugar cookie with lots of frosting! Yum.
mmm a delicious smores cookie: oamteal base, marshmallow, dark chocolate and graham crackers
It’s a toss up between choc chip and white choc macadamia nut cookies
I’m a fan of the classic chocolate chip cookie too!
Cookies are kind of my thing, so it’s hard to pick just one favorite. If you’re going to make me pick, I’d probably have to go with plain, old chocolate chip.
My favorite cookie would be double fudge white chocolate chip!
white chocolate macadamia nut!!
fave cookie? easy. peanut butter. or maybe snickdoodles. or sugar cookies? hmmm… 🙂
Your mix sounds so good!
My favorite cookie is a carrot cake oatmeal cookie with cream cheese frosting. Yumm
Your mix sounds fantastic! Hopefully they’ll come out amazing.
Now I always use real butter in my chocolate chip cookies (the fake stuff just doesn’t taste the same) and double the vanilla. Always makes for a great cookie!
ahhh lucky i miss disneyland.. we use to go every year but haven’t the last few…. and my fav cookie is peanut butter.. but also choco chip so i think i would want to try to combine the two!!
Gotta go with oatmeal raisin or white choc macadamia
My favorite is white choc chip, cranberry, & macadamia nut.
Peanut butter with nutella are my fav!
Oatmeal chocolate chip!
My favorite cookie is white chocolate macadmia nut! 🙂
Mmmm I love white chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies. They are a holiday favorite <3
Favorite cookie ever is snickerdoodle!
My favorite cookie is a classic sugar cookie with lots of sprinkles!
If I can only pick one cookie, I guess I’d go with oatmeal coconut chocolate chip lemon date raisin pumpkin pecan cranberry almond sugar-coated sugar cookies.
Dark chocolate cherry chip. Delicious. SO SO DELICIOUS.
you should make these if you haven’t already! http://www.marthastewart.com/337684/dark-chocolate-cookies-with-sour-cherrie
These Dark Chocolate Sour Cherry cookies are my absolute favorite homemade cookies! http://www.marthastewart.com/337684/dark-chocolate-cookies-with-sour-cherrie
They are perfectly chewy and chocolate-y without being too sweet! The tart cherries are awesome!!
White chocolate macadamia nut cookies- as long as somebody else is making them for me.
Cant go wrong with chocolate chip cookies.
My favorite are chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven.
My FAVORITE cookie is the snickerdoodle! I can’t go to Noodles and Company without purchasing one (or 2) with my meal. YUMMY! 🙂
Oooh, cute! I’ve been wanting to make oatmeal cookies for a while (plain white chocolate is my fav), and though I could probably do this myself, I’d like to see how the pros do it!
plain ol chocolate chip!
i love peanut butter cookies with m and ms!
Looks like you all had a great time. I think it is so awesome that you’re so close to your little brother despite the age difference. My brother is 6.5 years older and I feel we never got to know each other until we got much older.
And Choatmeal Toffee sounds like a winner!
Oatmeal chocolate chip!!! Now I’m craving cookies. I might need to do some baking this weekend…….
Cranberry coconut chews are delicious!
Favorite cookie: MONSTER COOKIES! I love those jars!
I love peanut butter cookies, especially warm with ice cream on top!
Chocolate cholate chip with raisins & nuts. And butterscotch chips. And PB chips.
Oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies for me please!!!
Soft baked Choc chip oatmeal cookies…nice and simple!
It’s so tough to pick a favorite cookie! If I had to I’d probably say mint chocolate chip. mmmm!
I love plain old chocolate chip cookies.
That cookie company is adorable! As far as my favorite cookie, it’s between oatmeal raisin, coffee toffee bars (family recipe…mmmmm) and my grandmother’s “gramma cookies” which are chocolate chip walnut oatmeal. Who can really pick one favorite cookie type?!
choc chip are my fave, but when im REALLY looking to add a few inches to my waistline, i bust out a batch of no-bakes. mm
My favorite cookies are M&M!!! YUM!
My fav cookie … hmmm… why is it so hard to just pick one? I guess I’d have to say oatmeal raisin.
I pretty much love ANY cookie with chocolate in it, but my absolute favorite type of cookies are half-moons!
i just made my own of those so dont pick me. obviously im too cool.
you wanna go for a walk tomorrow? coffee walk? colk?
Looks like Matt had a great birthday dinner!
I love peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!
Your little brother is too cute! I also love this cookie company. It’d totally make a oatmeal, chocolate chip, and butterscotch chip cookie mix. YUMMY!
I make these brownie cookies that are unbelievable. So easy, too.
Happy Birthday to Matt! His birthday dinner looked like fun. I’m a simple oatmeal raisin girl…oh who am I kidding I just saw white chocolate macadamia in the comments. Those are to die for!
mmm… Give me peanut butter/chocolate anything!
I love all cookies but my favorites are white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies or chocolate chip cookies….but they must be soft/gooey! Crunchy cookies are blasphemous.
I made these pumpkin chocolate chip oatmeal cookies once that were amazing!!
Love the classic chocolate chip cookies 😉
I love a good sugar cookie, homemade of course. I have yet to find a store-bought cookie I like.
My favorite cookie is a class peanut butter with a hershey kiss on top. Reminds me of my childhood!
peanut butter dark chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies!
I absolutely love sugar cookies and snicker doodles!
Long-time reader, first-timer commenter! LOVE myself a good chocolate chip cookie, or maybe a few. Even if they are not that great, I tend to keep ‘sampling’.
Yum, your choatmeal toffee cookie sounds right up my alley! Oatmeal is the best base for cookies!
Hi Monica! Love you blog!
My mom use to have this Rainforest Cafe club member card that gave us the power to cut the line and we never have to wait! I’m not sure if the card is available anymore, but it was definitely worth it!