Cookie

A tray of assorted cookies

A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a small, sweet baked snack typically made from flour, sugar, butter, and eggs, with additional ingredients like chocolate chips, nuts, or raisins.

Quotes

• We need what we need. Judging ourselves doesn’t change it. Sometimes a hug and a cookie right now mean more than a grand gesture at some indeterminate point in the future.
  • Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life (2019). Reprinted in Neil Clarke (ed.), The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 5, p. 136

• When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.
  • Homaro Cantu, "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Made Tableside". HuffPost (April 4, 2013).

• C is for cookie, that's good enough for me
  • Cookie Monster, "C Is For Cookie", 1971

• There is no aroma quite so inviting as that of cookies baking, whether ginger or chocolate or caramel. And there is no snack quite so satisfying as two or three fresh-from-the-oven cookies with a cool glass of milk. Nor is there a gift quite so welcome as a lovingly wrapped package from home, brimming with cookies.
  • Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. Golden Press. 1963. p. 3. 

• Say "cookie?" to a small child (or a middle-aged man for that matter) and for your efforts you will receive (a) an instant sigh of pleasure followed by (b) an outstretched palm. A petition I have learned over the years: to reward at once with something sweet and crunchy or take the consequences. For nothing in the culinary lexicon with the exception of vanilla ice cream elicits such an immediate response or such an audible demand as a cookie. Whether the question is posed in English, French, Greek, German, or Swahili!
  • Sharon Tyler Herbst, The Joy of Cookies. Barron's. 1987. p. 7. ISBN 9780812058390. 

• Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.
  • The Oracle, The Matrix (1999)

• Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.
  • Dylan Moran, "This much I know". The Guardian (March 7, 2004).

• "Kids and cookies are inseparable," my Granny Rom used to say. Like my mom, who often repeated that phrase, I certainly agree. Based on a lifetime of baking cookies—not to mention eating cookies—I would also like to add that cookies bring out the kid in all of us.
  • Irma S. Rombauer, Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies. Scribner. 2002. p. 6. ISBN 9780743216807. 

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Cookie on Wikipedia
• Cookbook:Cookie on Wikibooks
• The dictionary definition of cookie on Wiktionary
• Works related to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Biscuit on Wikisource