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.

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.

Cookie Catan!

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

Sing the song!

🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons

Columnar basalt cookies

This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.

Replace em with bears and you'll get many hexbears

Voronoi cookies!

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

me after discovering the voronoi node:

I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

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

turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake

Annnnd now I’m baking cookies

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

That pan can fit 21 cookies

Voronoi cookies!

Hexagons are a internal function of the universe