Cookies - Definition and Overview

This page is about edible cookies. For other uses, see Cookie (disambiguation)

A plate with chocolate chip cookies

In the United States of America and Canada, a cookie is a small, flat baked cake (British English biscuit). Its name comes from the Dutch word koekje which means "little cake". Cookies were first made from little pieces of cake batter that were cooked separately in order to test oven temperature. The ancestor of the cookie is said to have come from Persia according to many sources. (example) (http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm) 2 (http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/cookies.htm)

They can be baked until crisp or only long enough that they stay soft, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies are made in a vast variety of styles, using an array of possible ingredients including sugars, spices, chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts or dried fruits. Some types of cookies are:

• Chocolate chip cookies
• Newtons fruit chewy cookies
• Ginger snaps
• Oreo sandwich cookies
• Snickerdoodles are soft cinammon-dusted cookies of New England origin.
• Peanut butter cookies
• shortbread
• Anzac biscuit
• sugar cookie
• wafer
• fortune cookie
• biscotti
• Spritzgeback
• Oatmeal Raisin
• Gingerbread

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