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Cookies
Originating in Persia, cookies have been a famous treat for children and adults alike for many years. Ask your quesitons about cookies of all kinds here.
1,529 Questions
What do 2 eggs do for the chocolate chip cookie?
Most baking recipes equire eggs as an ingredient because they act like a glue and hold the flour/sugar/etc. together. Vegan recipes have no eggs, and will often call for suitable egg substitutes such as ground flax seed and water.
Why do you chill cookie dough?
It's the help with the sticky-ness factor! When dough is chilled it is much easier to manage.
It actually prevents the dough from spreading too much. It is usually not that necessary when making drop cookies (depending on how you like your cookies) , but crucial for rolled (i.e. sugar cookies) and stenciled cookies
Hermit Cookies are usually just referred to as "Hermits."
The name "Hermit" is used for two different types of cookie.
Both are rich spiced cookies with raisins, and often, nuts in them. But one is a drop cookie, very similar to Boston Cookies, while the other is a rolled out or flat version made as "bars."
The base for both is butter, flour and either white or brown sugar. Some versions use molasses as well as sugar.
The flavouring is cinnamon and nutmeg; some versions call for some lemon or orange zest to be added.
Some versions use coffee as the liquid.
When made as a drop cookie, more liquid is used.
When made as bars, they come out soft and chewy, about 1/4 inch (1/2 cm) thick, with raisins and nuts. To make them, they are extruded from a cookie press in strips about 3 inches (7 1/2 cm) wide, and cut into 2 inches (5 cm) lengths.
In America, it's becoming the norm to make them in strips. Sometimes in Chicago people used to spread the finished bars with maple icing.
In Canada, the drop-version is still made.
Sometimes a recipe would make a stiffer dough, that you rolled out and cut with a cookie cutter.
Are Stella d'oro products sold in Colorado?
For a while I was able to get my local King Supers to carry the product. They will get what you want if you stay on top of it. It is almost easier to go mail order and get it in a week. It is a shame, a way of life back east requires rumping through hoops out here.
Does the temperature of the oven affect the weight of the cookie?
It would change a little bit because you will lose moisture in the baking.
Why is cold water used when baking cookies?
Because if the fat in the pastry melts or softens, when it is cooked the edges will shrink down. if you want to use normal water then just make sure you refrigerate the pastry for a little longer.
What kind of cookies do british people eat with tea?
British people eat a verity of snacks with tea.
This can range from home made cakes and scones, to packaged biscuits and chocolate bars. It is also a custom for some people to dunk biscuits into their tea.
In addition, it is not uncommon for British people to drink tea along with their normal meals. In some places dinner is refered to as "tea time".
Why do you use baking soda in cookies?
Only if the recipe calls for it. Some recipes only call for Baking Powder. It is as simple as reading the recipe you have in front of you.
Where did the name cookies come from?
The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. These little test cakes were called "koekje", meaning "little cake" in Dutch.
Originally called "little cakes," cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year, or 300 cookies for each person annually. Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow. History The word cookie originally came from the Dutch keokje, meaning "little cake." In addition, the Dutch first popularized cookies in the United States. The British took a liking to them in the 19th century, incorporating them into their daily tea service and calling them biscuits or sweet buns, as they do in Scotland. Sometime in the 1930s, so the story goes, a Massachusetts innkeeper ran out of nuts while making cookies. Therefore, she substituted a bar of baking chocolate, breaking it into pieces and adding the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter and brown sugar dough. The Toll House Cookie, so named after the inn in which it was served, was a hit. Historians credit the innkeeper, Ruth Wakefield, with inventing what has since become an American classic - the chocolate chip cookie. The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to seventh-century Persia, one of the first countries to cultivate sugar. There are six basic cookie styles, any of which can range from tender-crisp to soft. A drop cookie is made by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet. Bar cookies are created when a batter or soft dough is spooned into a shallow pan, then baked, cooled and cut into bars. Hand-formed (or molded) cookies are made by shaping dough by hand into small balls, logs, crescents and other shapes. Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a COOKIE PRESS (or PASTRY BAG) to form fancy shapes and designs. Refrigerator (or icebox) cookies are made by shaping the dough into a log, which is refrigerated until firm, then sliced and baked. Rolled cookies begin by using a rolling pin to roll the dough out flat; then it is cut into decorative shapes with COOKIE CUTTERS or a pointed knife. Other cookies, such as the German SPRINGERLE, are formed by imprinting designs on the dough, either by rolling a special decoratively carved rolling pin over it or by pressing the dough into a carved COOKIE MOLD. In England, cookies are called biscuits , in Spain they're galletas , Germans call them keks, in Italy they're biscotti and so on.
The first American cookie was originally brought to this country by the English, Scots, and Dutch immigrants. Our simple "butter cookies" strongly resemble the English tea cakes and the Scotch shortbread. The Southern colonial housewife took great pride in her cookies, almost always called simply "tea cakes." These were often flavored with nothing more than the finest butter, sometimes with the addition of a few drops of rose water. In earlier American cookbooks, cookies were given no space of their own but were listed at the end of the cake chapter. They were called by such names as "Jumbles," "Plunkets," and "Cry Babies." The names were extremely puzzling and whimsical. There are hundreds upon hundreds of cookie recipes in the United States. No one book could hold the recipes for all the various types of cookies.
What is the easiest cookie recipe?
This is one of the best cookie Recipes
It came from my family
Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies
Serves: 5-6 Dozen
Ingredients
2 1/4 cups of flour
1 tsp. of Baking Soda
1 cup (or) 2 sticks of butter
1/4 cup of Sugar
3/4 cups of Brown Sugar
1 tsp. of Vanilla
2 eggs
3.4 Box of Instant Pudding(any flavor you want)
Method: Mix flour and baking soda together then set aside. Mix the flour and baking soda together with the other ingrediants. ADD 12oz. BAG OF CHOCOLATE CHIPS!! Mix all together.
Notes: Bake at 325 degrees on an ungreased pan for 8 minutes.!
ENJOY YOUR COOKIES!!
Who discovered chips ahoy cookies?
The Chips Ahoy cookie got its name from a nautical story written by Charles Dickens. The story was about a shipwright named Chips and a rat that predicts the sinking of their ship and says Chips Ahoy.
What is the most bought thing in the world?
i think it might be coats or food i am pretty sure it is food
What are the ingredients in gingerbread cookies?
The ingredients in gingerbread cookies is:
1 C. sugar
3/4 C. Shortening
1 egg
1 t. ginger
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. cloves
4 T. Molasses
2 C. flour
1 1/2 t. soda
1/2 t. salt
Roll into small golfball size, dip in sugar, and put on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 350 8 to 10 min.
Good luck! We call these gingersnaps!
How do you get cookies on the computer?
Enabling cookies depends on your browser. As Chrome is the most popular browser, the instructions for doing it on this browser are as follows: go to settings, then advanced settings. Click privacy, then content. You should see a button for cookies. Click that button, then click to allow them by default.
What stores in Houston Texas sell Archway windmill cookies?
Go into any store....your choice, ask them to carry the brand that you like.....with in 2 weeks I bet they will have it in stock. Safeway I guess is the best store...maybe try Wal Mart........which ever is closest!
What do you put on a pizzelle waffle cookie?
I like them best plain as a cookie (anise flavor my favorite) but you could put ice cream or peanut butter & jelly or honey or whipped cream on them. You could roll them when they are hot in a shape of an ice cream cone and fill it with ice cream or sundae toppings.
Is it all right to refrigerate fresh cookie dough?
Yes, if it is not a requirement in the preparation process. Some doughs need to relax as well as firm up before the dough is rolled out and cut to required shape. Most often this dough has a high fat content like butter and becomes very soft to the touch. Then one would put the cookie dough into a fridge completely wrapped in cling film to avoid moisture loss.
When can you get salmonella from eating cookie dough?
Well, a little bit cant kill you, but it is not good for you.
It is possible to contract a salmonella infection from eating cookie dough if there are raw eggs in it. Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces. Most persons infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment. However, in some persons, the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. So you are better off not eating the cookie dough. Just put it in the oven and wait a few minutes to cook. You're intestines will thank you.
Do you mix cookie dough with a mixer?
No, not really. It would become a nasty mass in the blender. You need the open area of a mixing bowl in order to incorporate all the ingredients properly. You'll be disappointed with the results if you try a blender for cookie dough.
Can you die from not eating a cookie a week?
Wrong. The only way to live is to eat edible cookies. Try Archway Rocky Roads!
What is the best - selling cookie in America?
Nabisco is the brand that produces the best selling cookie the Oreo. The Oreo has been around since 1912. There are all kinds of shapes, sizes, and fillings in Oreo cookies now.
What we call "cookies" in the United States are referred to as "biscuits", both in Great Britain and Australia (and, I believe, in New Zealand, as well). Biscuit is French for twice-cooked
How much would you sell a regular sized cookie at a bake sale?
Do the math for the cost of ingredients for making a dozen of cookies. That's your food cost. Per restaurant management recommendations, multiply that times three and you get what you should charge for the cookies. Can you figure out how much it will cost you to make a dozen of cookies? That sounds like a math-class problem... have fun.
