Each week, my Meal of the Week feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.
This week’s Meal of the Week focuses on a treat near and dear to my heart: cookies.
Cookies are not a sophisticated dessert, but there’s nothing like a warm cookie from the oven served with a cold glass of milk. I’ve enjoyed cookies ever since I started eating solids and one of my favorite things about Christmas is the special cookies that accompany it.
It’s also one of my favorite things about flying domestically. American and United offers cookies onboard select flights for dessert in first class. Quite honestly, I’d rather have a cookie than cake or ice cream or any other dessert. Over the years I’ve had hundreds of cookies on United and quite a few on American as well.
My most recent cookie was on American flight from New York to Los Angeles late last year. Unfortunately, I’ve been flying mostly lonhghaul and shorthaul this year and cookies tend to be available on flights that are not too long (which have a more extensive dessert menu) but also not too short (which have no dessert or meal service at all).
You can read the full review of my AA flight here.
My Best Cookie Was On Saudia
But it might surprise you that the best airline cookies I have ever had came on a flight from…Saudi Arabia. You might recall my 2016 trip with Ben (Lucky) from One Mile at a Time that included China Eastern, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Pakistan International Airlines, and JetBlue.
We were flying from Jeddah to Manchester and a light supper service was offered after takeoff. I ordered cookies and received two warm and delicious chocolate chip cookies with a glass of milk. It made for a perfect midnight snack.
CONCLUSION
I think the best thing about aboard cookies is that the smell that wafts through the cabin as they are baking. I’m a simple guy when it comes to dessert. Give me a warm cookie and I’ll heap praises upon the dessert service.
Do you enjoy a warm airline cookie?
Midwest Express, RIP
When I saw ‘cookies’ in the title, Midwest Airlines came to mind 😀
I always have hope for my boxed, take-away cookie from Jet Blue Mint, but it’s ALWAYS a disgusting “Birthday Cake” multicolored sprinkle cookie from Mix Bar. Terrible.
United still has a nice warm oatmeal every now and then. But I’m having mine with a Coffee & Bailey’s, not milk. 😉
Delta bakes chocolate chips cookies mid flight on Delta One from/to US/Europe. They are served right out of the oven and the entire cabin smells delicious.
Didn’t expect Saudia! Great weekly review as always. Just a small note, you have a grammatical error. My most recent cookie was on ‘an’ American flight.
Midwest Express flight attendants baked chocolate chip cookies onboard every flight. Just the smell of cookies baking made everybody happy. Every passenger received one.
For many years they served very good food on China plates with a glass of wine.
Comfortable leather seats.
They were the best
When I flew for Northwest Airlines we served warm chocolate chip cookies up front. That kind of cookie is about my all-time favorite food. Period. So of course I always hoped there would be leftovers – and there usually were. Odd thing though; while soft and chewy right out of the oven, if left for just 30 minutes or so those cookies hardened to the point where they could break a tooth…
I think chocolate chip cookies are popular everywhere these days. In January they were served in the middle of the night in business class on my Air France flight from Paris to Johannesburg.
I remember warm chocolate chip cookies on Northwest Airlines too. What year was that?
I flew Alaska Airlines yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to be served a warm chocolate chip cookie. The surprise part is it was one of the best cc cookies I’ve ever had. Not too sweet, two different types of chocolate, a solid entry into the cc cookie battle. I was bumped to a later flight and you would not believe how much good will that cookie bought them. Please try it sometime and I’m sure you will be pleasantly surprised as well.
Was this in Coach or First Class?