TEA COOKIES

Tea cookies refer to any variety of small cookies served with afternoon tea.

 

THUMBPRINT COOKIE

A thumbprint cookie is a buttery, shortbread-style cookie that has a well in the center, originally made with one’s thumb. The well is filled with jam. The cookies can also be rolled in nuts.

The thumbprint is an Americanized version of

TEA COOKIES Tea cookies refer to any variety of small cookies served with afternoon tea.   THUMBPRINT COOKIE A thumbprint cookie is a buttery, shortbread-style cookie that has a well in the center, originally made with one’s thumb. The well is filled with jam. The cookies can also be rolled in nuts. The thumbprint is an Americanized version of a Swedish favorite, called hallongrotta, (“raspberry”), referencing the original jam flavor used. Modern thumbprints can use any jams, jellies and marmalades (the difference), or any sweet filling from lemon curd to Nutella.

 

TIGER EYE COOKIE

Another name for a thumbprint cookie.

 

TOLL HOUSE COOKIE

America’s favorite cookie, the Toll House cookie is the original chocolate chip cookie. It is a drop cookie made with white and brown sugar and filled with chocolate morsels. Many recipes also use chopped nuts. The Toll House cookie was accidentally invented by Cape Cod innkeeper Ruth Wakefield in 1937. See the history of the Toll House cookie. See special recipes for Washington’s Birthday and July 4th variations.

TUILE

From the French word for tile, a tuile is a very thin, light, crisp cookie. It can be made in any shape and size; some tuiles are made as food garnishes, rising from ice cream or other dishes like a plume. They can be flavored with just about anything; sliced almond tuiles are a popular inclusion. Tuiles are often molded into cups or other shapes right after they emerge from the oven. They can be sweet or savory. See recipes for Charlie Trotter’s goat cheese ice cream with sweet tuiles, a blue cheese ice cream with poached pears in a sweet tuile cup and Ferran Adrià’s Parmesan ice cream sandwiches in savory Parmesan tuiles.

WAFER COOKIE

Most American children know what a wafer cookie is: a waffle-patterned finger-shaped sandwich cookie. They are made in vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and other flavors. Some are plain, some are filled to make cookie sandwiches. But wafer cookies can also be round, unfilled and savory as well as sweet. See also rolled wafer cookie.

 

WAFFLE COOKIE

See stroopwafel.

 

WHOOPIE PIE

A sandwich cookie made from cakelike layers and filled with cream. The cream is traditionally made from shortening, but the recent popularity of gourmet whoopie pies has vastly improved the genre with fine buttercream. Here’s a whoopie pie recipe.

ZWIEBACK

See rusk.

 

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