20 Insomnia Cookies Ranked Worst To Best

Insomnia Cookies has been delighting taste buds and indulging late-night cravings since it was founded by Seth Berkowitz in 2003. Berkowitz was a student at the University of Pennsylvania when he began the cookie delivery business out of his dorm room. Since then the company has outgrown the dorm room, though its stores still tend to pop up around college campuses, and has spread to over 100 locations. Cookies can be picked up or delivered fresh and warm to your door. And if you are not lucky enough to live near an Insomnia Cookies location, you can order from the brand's website. The company now offers cookies, brownies, and ice cream, all of which can be delivered or picked up until three o'clock in the morning. No one will ever have to go to bed without milk and cookies again!

Insomnia Cookies offers a wide range of flavors from the classic standbys of chocolate chip and snickerdoodle to seasonal flavors, such as berries and cream, to vegan and gluten-free offerings. With all these choices it can be hard to know where to start. Luckily we have you covered. Here we will rank all the Insomnia Cookies from worst to best so that you find the perfect cookie to satisfy your late-night sweet tooth.

How do you make a snickerdoodle boring? The people at Insomnia Cookies have done it. Their Snickerdoodle cookie is incredibly flat and thin. We are not entirely sure why, as it seemed much thinner than their other cookies. The cookies are covered in a cinnamon-sugar mixture, which seems light on the cinnamon. And that is not the only place the flavor took a surprising turn.

There is a weird tangy aftertaste that is not pleasant. We suspect it is supposed to be reminiscent of the tang snickerdoodles typically get from cream of tartar, an ingredient in the classic snickerdoodle. Unfortunately, this flavor is more powerful than the cinnamon sugar on top, which is a real shame. For a cookie known for being spicy, sweet, and mildly tangy, it really only accomplishes one out of three. Overall this just is not one of Insomnia Cookies' better offerings. It is boring and uninspired.

Coming in as the lowest ranking vegan offering is the Vegan Birthday Cake cookie. We appreciate Insomnia Cookies' dedication to vegan options, of which they have four regularly appearing flavors, but the Vegan Birthday Cake is not the best. It seems they just took a vegan vanilla cookie and threw some sprinkles in it and called it a day. According to their ingredient list, the cookie does include "natural cake batter flavor" but, quite honestly, we are not entirely sure what that is supposed to taste like. Additionally, the cookie itself was dry and crumbly, not what we would expect from a birthday cake cookie. This cookie does not rise to the level of their non-vegan confetti cookie, which closely resembles the Vegan Birthday Cake with the sprinkles but also has the addition of white chocolate chunks.

Overall, while we are glad to see decent vegan cookie offerings from a national chain, especially ones that are not charged at a surplus, this cookie is just decent.

Following ever so slightly ahead of the Deluxe Chocolate Chunk is another Deluxe pick, the Salted Caramel. This cookie starts with the sugar cookie base and includes caramel bits and Heath toffee bits to jazz it up. Due to the toffee bits in it, this cookie does contain nut products. The company website pitches the Salted Caramel cookie as "indulgent" and, while this is true, we think "sticky" might have been a better word.

This is definitely a sweet cookie, with two types of gummy sugar bits in it. And it may act like glue on your teeth a little bit. We do not recommend it for those who have braces on their teeth. Thankfully, there is a slight hint of salt in the mixture, which helps to keep it from becoming cloying while you try to get all of the caramel and toffee out of your teeth. Overall, while we liked this cookie, we did not love its stickiness and felt that it could have been a bit more salted.

The classic. What cookie company worth their salt could get away with not having a chocolate chunk offering? Insomnia Cookies' Chocolate Chunk cookie features a butter cookie base and milk chocolate chunks. We will not sugarcoat this: it is not an extraordinary chocolate chip cookie. That is not to say it is bad but we were really hoping for a bit more from this classic creation.

The chunks are plentiful but because they opted to use a milk chocolate instead of a richer dark chocolate, the cookie ends up being very mildly flavored and sweet. One commenter from Trip Advisor went so far as to call it "bland." That being said, if we were offered this cookie, we would not turn it down. It does offer a crunchy outside and chewy inside, which is exactly what we want from our chocolate chunk cookies. It is sweet and, while mild, it is not an unpleasant cookie.

This is a sweet, big cookie. The Confetti Deluxe uses the sugar cookie base, which we are not super fond of, but decks it out in all sorts of ways to give it the deluxe feel. It includes festive rainbow sprinkles and white chocolate chips. Whatever party is happening, it is dressed for the occasion. But does the taste deliver?

Overall, we would say yes. It is sweet, possibly too sweet, but you know going into this kind of cookie you are here for a sugar blast. The sugar cookie base works well dolled up with the creamy white chocolate chunks and the sprinkles add fun pops of color. It looks similar to the Vegan Birthday Cake but is so much better. Our main complaint is that they did not do anything to the dough. It is just their typical sugar cookie and, while it works here, an additional flavor would have helped land it in the top 10 of this list

But of course, just because we could not ask for a better cookie does not mean there are not any. What could make a peanut butter cookie even better? Chocolate, of course. From the Deluxe cookie menu, Insomnia Cookies brings us the Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup. This delicious confection combines a rich peanut butter cookie and broken pieces of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups into a decadent and luxurious cookie.

This cookie is truly fantastic. But you do not have to take just our word for it. Reviewers on Trip Advisor locations in Wisconsin and New York rave about the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie. As a member of the Deluxe cookie offerings, this cookie is also quite big, making it all the better for holding those hefty chunks of peanut butter cup without them totally overtaking the delicious base of the cookie. This cookie is sure to be a favorite among those who try it.

This was another cookie that came from behind and surprised us. Oatmeal cookies are not always good, but this one really is. The Oatmeal Chocolate Walnut cookie features chunks of milk chocolate and walnuts. Once again, they include ample amounts of each add in but do not make the chunks too big. It is still possible to take reasonable bites of this deluxe sized cookie and get pieces of both chocolate and walnut.

The real star of this cookie is the oatmeal base, though. It is a smidge on the dryer side, which happens sometimes with oatmeal cookies, but it has a little cinnamon kick to it which really brightens the flavor of the whole cookie. The cinnamon, while not overpowering, is very present and noticeable. It is too bad the cinnamon could not be that present in Insomnia's Snickerdoodle cookie, but at least we have this cookie for our cinnamony needs.

Oatmeal Raisin cookies often get some flack. They are not chocolate chip cookies and if you are reaching for chocolate chip and get oatmeal raisin, of course, you are going to be disappointed. Anyone would be. But if, on the other hand, you want an oatmeal raisin, you do not want to bite into a dry, crumbly cookie. You want an oatmeal cookie that means business, an oatmeal cookie that knows what it is doing and does it well. This is that cookie.

This Oatmeal Raisin cookie features that delicious slightly cinnamony oatmeal base that was in that Oatmeal Chocolate Walnut cookie. It might have to do with this cookie being smaller, but we found the base of this cookie actually stayed chewier than the Oatmeal Chocolate Walnut, which got a bit dry and crumbly. The molasses in the dough adds a nice, rounded sweetness and the raisins are chewy (not at all tough or leathery, as too-dry raisins can be) and pair nicely with the dough.

Insomnia seems to have fun with their seasonal cookies. One of its latest flavors, which makes its appearance in the spring, is the Berries N' Cream. This cookie features the sugar cookie base which is not our favorite from Insomnia Cookies. The stars of this show are the three dried berries added to the mixture. Dried pieces of strawberries, cranberries, as well as raspberry flakes are scattered throughout the dough, giving a pop of berry flavor to each bite. And that is not all. Chunks of what Insomnia Cookies is calling "cream cheese chunks" (which we think taste suspiciously like white chocolate chunks) can be found throughout it as well, fulfilling both parts of the Berries and Cream dynamic duo of flavors. 

Each bite of this cookie gives you a punch of berry goodness and a bit of creamy deliciousness. Honestly, it tastes a bit like the berry Special K, but we will not hold that against them.

Yes, it is true: the best cookie that Insomnia Cookies has to offer is from its line of vegan cookies. As much as we loved the classic Double Chocolate Chunk, the vegan version manages to improve even that. The cookie gets rave reviews on abillion.

To start, the chocolate chunks in the Vegan Double Chocolate Chunk are not milk chocolate, so we get more of a deep, rich, chocolatey flavor. Unlike the Vegan Chocolate Chunk cookie, the dough from this cookie did not spread too much. In fact, quite the opposite. We found it held its shape even better than the non-vegan Double Chocolate Chunk cookie. It was a little thicker than the non-vegan version of the cookie, which led to an absolutely perfect consistency. Biting into this cookie, you get a generous helping of luxurious chocolate flavor. It tastes like the best parts of a cookie and brownie put together into one glorious creation. This cookie tops the charts on flavor and texture. We will never not want to eat it.