A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, or nuts.
1 Peanut Butter Blossoms
Dolloped with that famous kiss of chocolate, peanut butter blossoms are considered the penicillin of cookies. In other words, they were created by accident.
The legend goes that a Freda Smith of Ohio intended to make a batch of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies but realized she was out of chocolate chips — so, she reached for the chocolate kisses. In 1957, she entered her mistake into the Pillsbury Bake-Off competition and got second place. And the rest, as they say, is history.
This French cookie (pronounced mac-ah-ron) is a light, cakey treat that usually comes with a tiny bit of crunch on the top from an incredibly thin crust. Though sometimes confused with macaroons, macarons (which actually trace their origins to Italy) feature almond meal as their primary ingredient.
Immediately recognizable by their bright colors that symbolize their delicious flavor (such as pink for strawberry or blue for blueberry), these tinted beauties are typically baked and then sandwiched around a thin layer of jam, fruit curd, ganache, or buttercream.
Like macarons, macaroons (pronounced mac-uh-roon) originated in Italy. However, unlike macarons, macaroons are not quite as extravagantly colored or wildly flavored.
The main ingredient in macaroons is shredded coconut, and they’re characterized by their craggy surface, chewy interior, and moist texture (when made correctly). Due to the fact that they do not contain flour, they are traditionally eaten around Passover, when Jews are forbidden from eating foods that contain leavening.
Peanut butter cookies
Sweet, salty, and creamy, peanut butter cookies have been around since the early 1900s, during the time when George Washington Carver began advocating for peanut farming. The first documented mention of peanut butter cookies appears in his bulletin “How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption,” published in 1917.
The ingredient list for peanut butter cookies is simple: peanut butter, sugar, and an egg. The most notable feature of this cookie, though, might be its signature hashed, cross shape on top, created when the dough is pierced with a fork.
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