Cookies are our generation’s honey of the gods. Hardly anyone can resist the homebaked scent of crumbling cookies cascading with warm chocolate, nor fail to be smitten by the sugar dusting which sprinkles down upon every cranny of the kitchen.
Our playlist of songs about cookies is coated with the ambience of festive evenings of family baking and sweetness, while delving into some obscure cookie-inspired recipes for love, dancing and more!
Songs About Cookies
1. The Ellas – Bakin’ Cookies
Vintage inspired girl group, The Ellas, give us a cookie song sprinkled with snow and seasonal joy. Bakin’ Cookies captures the essence of a cosy Christmas kitchen filled with the scent of cookie batter and the seeping warmth of the oven’s fire.
The Ellas infuse their song with a strong sentiment of family and the innate childish joy of cooking, conjuring images familiar to everybody’s years of youth and parenting:
“We’re messing up the kitchen, oven timer ticking, sneaking chocolate chips while the kids are all covered in flour … mixing up the batter with a little dash of laughter.”
Bakin’ Cookies is a treat for anyone who loves baking just as much as they love a glamorous 1950’s style Christmas!
2. Red Velvet – Cookie Jar
K-Pop group Red Velvet’s colourful song Cookie Jar is like a sugar rush of bubbly energy. Their song is about feeling subdued in loneliness and wishing for sweeter things, which eventually leads you to open up.
Cookie Jar asks a guy to reach into your heart (your cookie jar) to discover the addictive honeyed taste of love together.
Their song is sickly sweet yet unashamed, while being underscored by their shimmering message to a dark world, “cuteness is justice.”
Red Velvet decorate their track with cute candied lyrics which melt you as smooth as milk chocolate, such as, “like a marshmallow, I’m feeling fluffy,” and “like a sweet and sour candy pop, let’s colour up the world.”
3. Lizzo ft. Sophia Eris – Batches & Cookies
Lizzo’s debut single, Batches & Cookies, isn’t the sugar-dusted cookie song you’d expect.
Swarming with loud and boisterous energy, her hypnotic track is anchored by its title lyrics, “I got my batches and cookies,” and scattered with a dozen sweet references such as “I’m dripping sugar sweet, cinnamon on skin.”
We might be reaching, but this song, accompanied by its empowering LGBT+ music video, could be hinting at bisexuality’s treat of enjoying every cookie in the batch.
4. Slowthai – T N Biscuits
Slowthai’s T N’ Biscuits hasn’t got much to do with biscuits (the cookies of England), but it deserves a spot on this list nonetheless for its insatiably authentic approach to rap.
Slowthai is renowned for his quirky, captivating rhythms that drive skewers into the beating heart of grime music; his offbeat timing and disoriented rhyme schemes creating an atmosphere like no other.
It’s hard to say with certainty where his ‘tea and biscuits’ metaphor slinks into his lyrics, which otherwise give us a compelling fly-on-the-wall insight into a drug dealer’s day to day life.
Slowthai’s track is a must-listen for anyone seeking a fresh rap sound from a down-to-earth artist.
5. George Strait – Christmas
George Strait’s Christmas Cookies is an adorably country take on his wife’s festive baking.
He details the rainbow of icing upon her cookies cut to every seasonal shape and size, how “those sprinkly things just make it worse because it makes them taste better than they did at first,” matched with the heart-warming irresistibility of his wife’s cooking.
George splatters his song with cheeky humour, mentioning how his kids “just stand there waiting” for the few cookies that are left after he’s finished ravishing the better part of the batch.
Our favourite lyrics from this song have got to be: “Now there’s a benefit to all of this, one you might have overlooked or missed. Every time she sticks another batch in the oven, there’s 15 minutes for some kissing and a hugging, that’s why I eat Christmas cookies all year long.”
6. Stevie Ray Vaughn & Lonnie Mack – Oreo Cookie Blues
Legends Stevie Ray and Lonnie Mack did the Lord’s work by dedicating an entire song to Oreo cookies, specifically.
Every verse is double-stuffed with chocolatey flavours as they detail an addiction that could resonate with anyone; “I hide ‘em in a cabinet, I keep ‘em in a jar, for emergencies, you know I keep ‘em in the glove compartment of my car.
I can’t live without ‘em, they get me higher than I can get on booze.” Oreo Cookie Blues soon starts leaving behind a trail of breadcrumbs which causes you to wonder what on Earth made the duo’s cookie song turn out so bluesy and melancholic.
The culprit is revealed to be the worst enemy of anyone suffering from a sweet tooth: diabetes, “Doctor says I’m crazy, ‘you better give ‘em up quick, or you’ll be pushing up daisies because boy, you’re definitely sick,’ but I couldn’t quit if I wanted to.”
7. NewJeans – Cookie
Cookie is a wavy pop track from K-Pop girl group, NewJeans. Lush jazzy harmony is iced with lyrics that make your mouth water, such as, “Made a little cookie for you, softer than a brownie.”
Their goal is to steal the heart of a boy and “ruin his appetite” with their love and cookies, getting their crush so addicted that he’ll never want to leave their side and miss out on his newfound treats.
NewJeans craftily match their own delicate sweetness to that of a cookie, “You cant stop at one bite with me… You’ll lose your mind till you won’t want other tastes,” while mischievously telling him, “I’ll bake your favourites daily, but don’t try to blame me – cavity’s your problem.”
8. Chip Chocolate – Cookie Dance
This is another strange one. Chip Chocolate loads his hip-hop track Cookie Dance with jarfuls of cookie references, dishing out his lyrics from his throne-like bathtub filled to the brim with milk.
Chip Chocolate confirms his intense love for everything cookie related, confirming that he’s “all about my chips and all about my doughs,” while mixing the stoner notion of waking and baking into his song’s batter.
The cookie dance is a simple feat: “Put the cookie in the milk, twirl it all around, hands up, hands down.”
According to Chip’s interview with Entertainment Weekly, he’s been doing the cookie dance since he was a little kid, inventing it at a young age under the sweet inspiration of his own cookie obsession.