Cookie

The cookie is an edible item that requires Cocoa Beans to craft, which appear in dungeon chests or on Jungle trees from Cocoa Plants.

Cookies restore 2 Hunger points each. A stack of 32 cookies restores a total of 64 Hunger points or 32 shanks (the same amount of hunger points as 8 Cooked Porkchops).

Advantages

 * Cookies are made in stacks of 8 from just a single cocoa bean and two wheat.
 * Since cookies can be stacked into large stacks of 64, they can be used to quickly restore many hunger points.
 * Cookies recover .  Therefore, they can be eaten without any waste, before the player actually loses healing ability.  Thus players can constantly stay at a high enough hunger level to restore health.
 * Cocoa beans are easy to acquire hanging on jungle trees, and can be farmed on jungle-wood logs.
 * Cookies can be easily farmed and used to form a good constant food source, all you need is wheat and cocoa beans.
 * Per Wheat, cookies are actually a more efficient form of food than bread. In bread, 6 wheat recovers plus 6 saturation points, but six wheat used in cookies, because of the number produced, recovers x24 plus 9.6 saturation points, only requiring an additional three cocoa beans which are very easy to obtain.

Disadvantages

 * Cookies have a quite low saturation level compared to "meatier" foods, so their effects tend to be short-lived. As in real life, this is worst when you eat cookies instead of regular food, rather than as an occasional snack.
 * While a single cocoa bean's worth of cookies will restore the hunger meter as much as two cooked porkchops or steaks, it's far quicker to eat 2 items than 8. Also, stack for stack other foods provide far more effect for the inventory space, especially when "saturation" is considered.
 * Melons have a similar food restoration and saturation level, but unlike cookies, can be farmed automatically using a BUD switch. Melons can also be directly crafted into seeds, whereas cookies require wheat and cocoa beans.
 * As of right now in the Xbox 360 Edition cocoa beans are hard to find, appearing only in dungeons.

History
Since their introduction, cocoa beans were arguably the scarcest item in the game, making cookies a rare trophy. However, in version 1.3, the beans became farmable, making cookies a cheap small-change food. Especially with their increased food value, they seem likely to replace Melons in that role. Villagers will also give you cookies or vice versa.



Video
Note that this video was created before cocoa beans could be found in jungles, and before they could be farmed, making the information quite dated.