It can vary greatly based on the type, recipe, and / or brand. Crackers are usually crunchy, fairly dry, with a good snap or bite to them. Cookies are generally slightly moister and softer, with a sweeter taste to them and often with added ingredients or different flavors.
Biscuits should be light and fluffy, soft and moist, slightly layered looking and almost flakey. It should look like a combonation of a pancake and pie crust.
Sugar cookies are crunchy because of the crunchy texture of the flour.
Milk is used for improved flavor, and gives cookies their tender, crisp texture.
Yes, it will do.
When cookies are baked the liquid in the batter is evaporated causing the cookie to have the harder texture
When you use cake batter, the cookies spread out farther so you have to leave lots of room between them. They would have a cake-like texture.
Shortening is the lesser of two evils as an ingredient in cookies. It is an acceptable, but not desirable, substitute. Taste and texture are sub-optimum. Lard tends to give cookies an unusual texture, too flaky. Even cutting lard with shortening will not help greatly. However, butter is by far the ideal ingredient to supply the fat in cookies.
The texture and consistency would turn out different.
No. Oatmeal raisin cookies have varieties of texture and density throughout each cookie.
It changes the taste and texture of the cookie. Without Sugar the cookie is not sweet.
The sugar in cookies and cakes tends to make most people thirsty. The creamy taste and texture of milk combines particularly well with both cookies and cake, so the pleasant memory of that combination triggers the urge to have it again.
Yes. It makes the cake taste better. Gives it a richer flavor and texture.
Oatmeal adds a certain flavor to food. The closest item you can substitute for the taste and texture of oatmeal is granola.