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- Bestselling Cookie: Oreos
- Origin: Persia, during the 5th Century
- 1930: Ruth Wakefield invents chocolate chip cookies
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Cookies are beloved the world over in their countless flavors, shapes and forms. Though there are infinite ways to make what we call a cookie, most recipes usually include flour, sugar, and fat.
The several main types of cookies are: drop cookies, such as chocolate chip, rolled cookies, such as such as gingerbread, refrigerator cookies, molded cookies, and bar cookies.
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Types of Cookies
- Drop Cookies
- Refrigerator Cookies
- Molded Cookies
- Rolled Cookies
- Pressed Cookies
- Bar Cookies
- Sandwich Cookies
- Fried Cookies
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Recipe of the Week
Thanksgiving Handprint Turkey Cookies
Cookie Ingredients:
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup sour cream
Glaze:
5 cups confectioners' sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons water
2-1/4 teaspoons light corn syrup
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Red, yellow, orange, green and brown gel food coloring
3-3/4-inch hand-shaped cookie cutter or scissors, pencil and a piece of cardboard for tracing a child's handprint
Directions:
In a large bowl, cream the shortening, butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg: add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.
Use a floured hand-shaped cookie cutter or trace a child's hand onto a piece of cardboard with pencil and cut out for a pattern.
On a well-floured surface, roll out dough to a 1/2-in. thickness. Either use a sharp knife to cut around the cardboard hand pattern in dough or use cookie cutter to cut out hand shapes. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 425° for 7-9 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
In a small bowl, combine the glaze ingredients and beat until smooth. Set aside 1 teaspoon of white glaze for eyes. Place 1/4 cup of glaze into each of four bowls. Tint one red, one yellow, one orange and one green. Place 1 tablespoon of glaze in another bowl and tint dark brown. Tint the remaining glaze light brown.
Frost the palm and thumb of each cookie light brown. Frost each finger a different color, using red, yellow, orange and green.
Place the remaining yellow glaze in a pastry or plastic bag. Cut a small hole in the corner of bag. Pipe a beak on each thumb.
Repeat with dark brown glaze to pipe a pupil in the center of each eye and to pipe wings in the center of each cookie.
Use remaining red glaze to pipe wattles on each thumb. Let dry completely. Yield: about 3 dozen.
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Cookies Questions
Do u eat cookie dough-raw? 3 AnswersDefinitely. You aren't supposed to because of the raw egg...but it is sooo good. I think I will mostly be sticking to cookie dough I make myself from now on, ... read more
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Almost home from all my errands. Then it's time to clean, clean, clean. Maybe even bake some cookies-slice and bake but baked none the less
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Mmm chinese food and fortune cookies :D
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I just added my first Item on Etsy!!!! More to came. Brazilian Butter Cookies by brazilianyummy on Etsy http://bit.ly/6kZdLC
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I would give ANYTHING for a KitchenAid right now. Four batches of cookies with just a whisk - this is remarkably challenging.
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@Panama_K I always want cookies :D
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