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Pressed cookies are made from a soft dough that is extruded from a cookie press into various decorative shapes before baking. Spritzgebäck is an example of a pressed cookie. Refrigerator cookies (also known as icebox cookies) are made from a stiff dough that is refrigerated to make the raw dough even stiffer before cutting and baking. The ...
This is a list of notable cookies (American English), also called biscuits (British English). Cookies are typically made with flour, egg, sugar, and some type of shortening such as butter or cooking oil, and baked into a small, flat shape.
HTTP cookies share their name with a popular baked treat.. The term cookie was coined by web-browser programmer Lou Montulli.It was derived from the term magic cookie, which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.
Box of black-and-white cookies from a New York City bakery. The black-and-white cookie is commonly traced to Glaser's Bake Shop in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, founded in 1902 by Bavarian immigrants. [note 1] The black-and-white cookie was among the original recipes used by Glaser's Bake Shop. [5]
In modern Italian, the word biscotto refers to any biscuit or cookie. The biscuit known to English-speakers as biscotti is usually called cantuccio , a word that means 'corner' but in the past meant the crust or heel of a loaf of bread.
The cookie has been part of yuletide celebrations since the 1850s. [12] The name literally means 'peppernuts', and does not mean it contains nuts. The cookies are roughly the size of nuts and can be eaten by the handful, which may account for the name. [13] [14] They are named for the pinch of pepper added to the dough before baking. [15]
The terms biscuit and cookie are used interchangeably, depending on the region and the speaker, with biscuits usually referring to hard, sweet biscuits (such as digestives, Nice, Bourbon creams, etc.) and cookies often specifically for chocolate chip cookies. [7] The British meaning is at the root of the name of the United States' most ...
A sugar cookie, or sugar biscuit, is a cookie with the main ingredients being sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda. [1] Sugar cookies may be formed by hand, dropped , or rolled and cut into shapes.