I wonder if this relates to them having six legs somehow. Like, they're able to measure where the next hex should be based on leg length and direction or something.

Cookie Catan!

I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn't enought to get a hex shape.

In the picture, cookies are tiled such that those in the center are surrounded by 6 other cookies and have a hex shape. Others are surrounded by 2 to 4 cookies and are not hex. So it probably has to do with the tiling.

Bestagon cookies!

ONE. That's how many cookies fit on that tray.

If you're feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.

Someone hexed those cookies

This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.

Columnar basalt cookies

This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.

Voronoi cookies!

I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

me after discovering the voronoi node:

LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating as it should

Annnnd now I’m baking cookies

Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.

Voronoi cookies!

That pan can fit 21 cookies

Off to make some hexacookies. Who wants one?

I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The two tricks are using a little more flour and baking soda than the recipe says, so they're a little fluffier and don't spread out so much, and consistent ball size.

Shame about all the pentagons there.

No they don't (necessarily))??

Notice how they didn't spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would've resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.

Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.

Fuck reading instructions. Amirite???