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.

Cookie Catan!

Off to make some hexacookies. Who wants one?

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.

Fuck reading instructions. Amirite???

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.