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Cookies are most commonly baked until crisp or just long enough that they remain soft, but some kinds of cookies are not baked at all. Cookies are made in a wide variety of styles, using an array of ingredients including sugars, spices, chocolate, butter, honey, peanut butter, nuts, or dried fruits. The softness of the cookie may depend on how long it is baked.
A general theory of cookies may be formulated this way. Despite its descent from cakes and other sweetened breads, the cookie in almost all its forms has abandoned water as a medium for cohesion. Water in cakes serves to make the base (in the case of cakes called "batter") as thin as possible, which allows the bubbles – responsible for a cake's fluffiness – to better form. In the cookie, the agent of cohesion has become some form of oil. Oils, whether they be in the form of butter, vegetable oils, or lard, are much more viscous than water and evaporate freely at a much higher temperature than water. Thus a cake made with butter or eggs instead of water is far denser after removal from the oven. Drop cookies  are made from a relatively soft dough that is dropped by spoonfuls onto the baking sheet. During baking, the mounds of dough spread and flatten.  Chocolate chip cookies  (Toll House cookies),  oatmeal  (or oatmeal raisin) cookies, and  rock cakes  are popular examples of drop cookies. This may also include  thumbprint cookies , for which a small central depression is created with a thumb or small spoon before baking to contain a filling, such as  jam  or a  chocolate chip .In the UK, the term "cookie" often refers only to this particular type of product. Filled cookies  are made from a rolled cookie dough filled with a fruit or confectionery filling before baking.  Hamantashen are a filled cookie. Molded cookies  are also made from a stiffer dough that is molded into balls or cookie shapes by hand before baking.  Snickerdoodles  and  peanut butter cookies  are examples of molded cookies. Some cookies, such as hermits or  biscotti , are molded into large flattened loaves that are later cut into smaller cookies. No-bake cookies  are made by mixing a filler, such as cereal or nuts, into a melted confectionery binder, shaping into cookies or bars, and allowing to cool or harden.  Oatmeal clusters  and  Rum balls  are no-bake cookies. Pressed cookies  are made from a soft dough that is extruded from a  cookie press  into various decorative shapes before baking.  Spritzgebäck  are an example of a pressed cookie. Refrigerator cookies  (also known as  icebox cookies ) are made from a stiff dough that is refrigerated to make the raw dough even stiffer before cutting and baking. The dough is typically shaped into cylinders which are sliced into round cookies before baking.  Pinwheel cookies  and those made by  Pillsbury  are representative. Rolled cookies  are made from a stiffer dough that is rolled out and cut into shapes with a  cookie cutter .  Gingerbread men are an example. Sandwich cookies  are rolled or pressed cookies that are assembled as a  sandwich  with a sweet filling. Fillings include  marshmallow ,  jam , and  icing . The  Oreo  cookie, made of two chocolate cookies with a  vanilla  icing filling, is an example. Cookies also may be decorated with an icing, especially  chocolate , and closely resemble a type of  confectionery . Follow all rules of Nexus.  Happy Fun ************************************************************************* No Limit of Wallpapers ************************************************************************ No SPAM! No SPAM and please read Nexus rules. If anyone is caught on Spamming they will be banned from the group and reported to Nexus. Thank you Judy