Interesting Cookies
A spiced cookie that is traditionally baked during winter holidays and shaped like people or houses.
What is a Gingerbread Cookie?
This sugar adds moisture, acidity, and chewiness to cookies because it contains molasses.
What is Brown Sugar?
Chocolate chips, M&Ms, and other chocolate candies often keep their shape in cookies because they are formulated to resist this physical change at baking temperatures.
What is melting?
This blue muppet character is known for his affinity for cookies in the PBS show Sesame Street.
Who is Cookie Monster?
This term can refer to both an unbaked cookie and money.
What is a macaroon?
This liquid sweetener increases chewiness and browning while reducing spread due to its hygroscopic nature.
What is honey?
Butter spreads more than shortening in cookies because it contains about 20% of this component.
What is water?
This animated movie series features a worrywart gingerbread man who is tortured by being dunk into a milk
What is Shrek?
This expression refers to somebody witty or sharp.
What is "smart cookie"?
Popular in Italian-American bakeries, this cookie often feature colors representing the Italian flag.
What are Italian Rainbow Cookies?
Softening this ingredient before mixing allows sugar to trap air, affecting both texture and rise.
What is butter?
The browning that gives cookies their “baked” flavor comes largely from this reaction between amino acids and sugars.
What is the Maillard reaction?
This American hotel chain is notable for its chocolate-chip cookies which have been given to all guests for over 30 years.
What is DoubleTree?
This phrase both describes an idea that's not fully thought out and a cookie that you shouldn't eat.
What is "half-baked"?
A sandwich cookie with dulce de leche filling that comes from South and Central America.
What is an Alfajor?
This baking surface lining promotes even browning while preventing sticking.
What is parchment paper?
In computing, HTTP cookies were famously popularized to support this online shopping feature
What is the shopping cart?
This 2013 web browser game involves producing as many cookies as possible by endlessly upgrading your means of production.
What is Cookie Clicker?
This expression describes both something generic and unoriginal, as well as a tool used for shaping cookies.
What is "cookie-cutter"?
This traditional Korean cookie is deep-fried, soaked in honey or syrup, and flavored with ginger and sesame oil.
What is Yakgwa/Gwajul?
Bakers use this action to distribute leavening agents evenly without overworking the dough.
What is whisking?
Most of a cookie’s internal cooking occurs through this mode of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
In Minecraft, 8 Cookies can be crafted by combining these ingredients in this order.
What is Wheat + Cocoa Beans + Wheat?
This phrase can express acceptance when an event hasn't transpired the way one may have hoped.
What is "that's the way the cookie crumbles"?