Today happens to be National Doughnut Day. Here at Cookie Athlete that means one thing—time to eat more cookies to compensate for all the heightened doughnut consumption. This morning I saw a longer-than-usual line outside the local doughnut shop.

Doughnut vs. Cookie

So here you have a list of the top ten reasons cookies are better than doughnuts, or in other words, ten more reasons to eat more cookies (as if you needed anymore reasons.)

10. Have you ever heard of a Chocolate Chip Doughnut? Well even if they exist they can’t taste as good as a cookie.

9. Cookies are more portable than Doughnuts.

8. Cookie Jars are cool. Doughnut Jars…that sounds messy.

7. Cookie Monster, the ultimate spokesperson

6. Fortune Cookies are mystic. Fortune Doughnuts are impossible.

5. Doughnut Athlete? I don’t think so.

4. Chocolate Chips Cookies are baked not fried.

3. There’s only one way to spell cookie—delicious.

2. Oatmeal Raisin Doughnuts are just wrong.

1. There’s no hole in the middle of a cookie.

Hopefully you had a good laugh over that top ten list. But seriously, I give you permission to indulge in some doughnuts on this National Doughnut Day, if you must. But when you’re done, don’t forget to work off those extra cookie calories–because that’s what Cookie Athletes do. Go Cookie Athlete!