Cookies

Cookies are cooked or baked food items. Typically, they are sweet, flat, and smaller in size. Usually, they contain sugar, flour, added flavours, fats, and oils. Some types of cookies also contain oats, chocolate chips, raisins or different types of nuts.

In most parts of the world, cookies are also known as biscuits. Some options may also be named by their shapes such as bars or date squares. Cookies and biscuits have variations including custard cream, bourbon, sandwich biscuits, or Oreos. You can also find them with jam fillings and marshmallows and at times dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. They are often served with milk, tea, or coffee. And based on the flavour and approach, they are also dunked in different beverages. With exclusive commercial make, you can find a variety at vending machines, grocery stores and online stores.

Types of cookies

Overall, there are eight basic types: drop, fried, no-bake, moulded, bar, refrigeration, sandwich, and rolled cookies. However, some are commonly used, while others are ideal for special occasions. Here we will talk about some of these types in detail. When choosing such snacks for a special occasion or guests, you should check different aspects like shape, size, colour, taste, and ingredients of the cookie. All the aspects vary based on the types and processes they are made with.

Bar, sesame seed and benne wafer cookies

Bar cookies are distinctive in their shape. At a time when mostly they are in round or square shape, bar cookies stand different in the crowd. They are made by pouring batter on rectangular pans. They are then baked and cut into smaller servings. At the same time, wafers and sesame seed biscuits are especially famous since colonial times. The sesame seed biscuits are also known as benne wafers. They are very thin and make with toasted sesame seeds. Plain benne wafers are also served with cocktails. At times they can also be made into sandwich biscuits.

Biscotti

Italians use the term biscotti to refer to any type of crunchy biscuits in square, round, or any shape of biscuits otherwise. The term biscotti came from ancient Romans and is referred to as dry, long, and hard twice-baked biscuits. At times they are also known as cantucci. Although initially, they were only available in almond flavour today, we can find a variety of tastes in biscotti. So, you can enjoy these crispy biscuits with amaretto and lemon flavoured dough. Or you can enjoy them with raisings and other dried fruits. They are also available as chocolate chips or a variety of nuts and butter cookies.

Breakfast cookies

Maybe while looking for an excuse to eat biscuts, someone created the granola cookies. These are made of wheat flour, molasses for sugar, and substituted honey. This combination is believed to be healthy for use at breakfast. However, with time, the recipe became much more elaborate, and now you can find a hint of cherry almond granola, chocolate chip granola, or orange pecan granola. Although many do not consider it a type of cookie, they still stand in the list of most basic types you can find around the globe.

Butterballs and butter cookies

Butterballs are meltaway shaped on small sized balls. At times chopped pecans are added, and they are known as pecan balls. At the same time, butter cookies are one of the simple types. They are made of basic ingredients: flour, sugar or butter. You can find several variations in butter made options. Some are crumbly shortbreads, while others come in light bread. You can also find them as powdered sugar-dusted tea cakes, and here they are known as meltaway or wedding cakes. Here fresh butter is the core ingredient.