Interesting Cookies
Cookie Baking
Cookie Science
Cookie Culture
Linguisticookie
100

A spiced cookie that is traditionally baked during winter holidays and shaped like people or houses.

What is a Gingerbread Cookie?

100

This sugar adds moisture, acidity, and chewiness to cookies because it contains molasses.

What is Brown Sugar?

100

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?

100

This blue muppet character is known for his affinity for cookies in the PBS show Sesame Street.

Who is Cookie Monster?

100

This term can refer to both an unbaked cookie and money.

What is dough?
200
Originally from France, this coconut-based cookie is a popular treat for Jews during passover

What is a macaroon?

200

This liquid sweetener increases chewiness and browning while reducing spread due to its hygroscopic nature.

What is honey?

200

Butter spreads more than shortening in cookies because it contains about 20% of this component.

What is water?

200

This animated movie series features a worrywart gingerbread man who is tortured by being dunk into a milk

What is Shrek?

200

This expression refers to somebody witty or sharp.

What is "smart cookie"?

300

Popular in Italian-American bakeries, this cookie often feature colors representing the Italian flag.

What are Italian Rainbow Cookies?

300

Softening this ingredient before mixing allows sugar to trap air, affecting both texture and rise.

What is butter?

300

The browning that gives cookies their “baked” flavor comes largely from this reaction between amino acids and sugars.

What is the Maillard reaction?

300

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?

300

This phrase both describes an idea that's not fully thought out and a cookie that you shouldn't eat.

What is "half-baked"?

400

A sandwich cookie with dulce de leche filling that comes from South and Central America.

What is an Alfajor?

400

This baking surface lining promotes even browning while preventing sticking.

What is parchment paper?

400

In computing, HTTP cookies were famously popularized to support this online shopping feature

What is the shopping cart?

400

This 2013 web browser game involves producing as many cookies as possible by endlessly upgrading your means of production.

What is Cookie Clicker?

400

This expression describes both something generic and unoriginal, as well as a tool used for shaping cookies.

What is "cookie-cutter"?

500

This traditional Korean cookie is deep-fried, soaked in honey or syrup, and flavored with ginger and sesame oil.

What is Yakgwa/Gwajul?

500

Bakers use this action to distribute leavening agents evenly without overworking the dough.

What is whisking?

500

Most of a cookie’s internal cooking occurs through this mode of heat transfer.

What is conduction?

500

In Minecraft, 8 Cookies can be crafted by combining these ingredients in this order.

What is Wheat + Cocoa Beans + Wheat?

500

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"?