 If you need a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie, turn to French Meadow Bakery. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.
July 2010
Last Updated July 2024
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Different Types Of Cookies
Page 2: Chocolate Chip Cookie, Cooler & Other Cookie Types Beginning With C
This page contains different types of cookies beginning with the letter C, including that all-American favorite, the chocolate chip cookie; plus cantucci, the “original” biscotti. You can also see the overview of the different types of cookies and the history of cookies—how baked delights came to be. See our many other informative food glossaries—especially the Cake Glossary and Pastry Glossary.
There are thousands of different cookies in the world. This glossary’s objective is to highlight those found in the U.S. Please use the Contact Us link to report any missing entries.
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CANTUCCI DI PRATO
After the fall of Rome, food was scarce; much of the culinary culture was lost. The Renaissance reclaimed lost cooking arts. Biscotti, a portable Roman biscuit for travelers, reappeared in a new form in the Tuscany region of Italy. Known as cantucci di Prato, the biscuits were flavored with almonds from the region’s almond groves. They became a staple in the cities of Florence and Prato and spread throughout the Italian peninsula. As the Roman Legions appreciated the long storage ability and lightweight portability, so did the soldiers, sailors, and fishermen of the Renaissance. But rather than the pallid, dry biscuits of nourishment served in Ancient Rome, Italian bakers put their culinary gifts to work. Biscotti became so popular that every province developed its own flavored version. See biscotti.
CHINESE ALMOND COOKIE
A large round cookie with a light, crisp texture, made with almond powder, almond extract, flour, and lard. A whole almond is pressed into the center.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
A drop cookie originally filled with semisweet chocolate chips. Today the chips can be white chocolate, milk chocolate, butterscotch, cherry, mint, or peanut butter, as shown in the photo; and the cookie can be chocolate-flavored as well. Read the history of the chocolate chip cookie.
CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIE
A chocolate chip cookie that uses larger, rectangular chocolate chunks instead of smaller, drop-shaped chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from Solomon’s Cookies. |
CHUBBY
A chubby is a hybrid of a cookie and a brownie. Delicious Chubby Wubby cookies are available from DamnGoodCookies.com.
CHRISTMAS COOKIE
One of a variety of specialty cookies made for the holidays, many festively decorated. Gingerbread was likely the first U.S.-made Christmas cookie. See our collection of Christmas butter cookie recipes.
CLOUD COOKIE
Some people call meringues filled with chocolate chips “cloud cookies.” Other cookies by this name have a standard flour, butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and baking powder recipe and produce a cookie with a cracked surface. Some are chocolate cookies, others have chocolate chips.
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Chocolate chubbies from Sarabeths.com. |
COOKIE
A cookie is a small, sweet, flat, dry cake: a single-serving finger food. It is generally flour-based but can be flourless—made from egg whites and/or almonds like macaroons, for example—or made from gluten-free flour, such as rice flour. Cookies can be soft, chewy, or crisp. They can be big or small, plain or fancy. They can be simple—butter and sugar—or complex, with a multitude of ingredients, or fashioned into cookie sandwiches—two cookies with a filling. Cookies started out long ago as an oven regulator to see if the temperature was ready to bake a cake. In The Netherlands, this test cake was called a koekje, “little cake” in Dutch (a cake is koek). The concept evolved to small, individual portions, which were baked to create the dry, hard-textured cookies we know today. With the moisture removed, cookies stayed fresh much longer than cake. According to The Oxford Companion to Food, the term “cookie” first appeared in print around 1703. Read the history of cookies.
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A cookie sundae. Photo courtesy Kodiak Cakes. |
COOKIE CRISPS
Not a cookie but a children’s breakfast cereal intended to taste like chocolate chip cookies with milk. Resist the pressure to serve your children cookies for breakfast.
COOKIE CUTTER
Dutch and German immigrants to the U.S. introduced cookie cutters, decorative molds, and festive holiday decorations.
COOKIE PRESS
See press cookie.
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This copper Christmas tree cookie cutter from Old River Road is available at Amazon.com. |
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A cookie salads is a Midwestern side dish that has dessert ingredients: crushed cookies and fruit folded into a mix of cream and pudding, and topped with whole cookies. Unlike its relatives, banana pudding and dirt cake, it is not a dessert (nor a salad) but is served with the main course at dinner.
The most popular cookie salad according to cookbook author Molly Yeh is a combination of fudge-striped shortbread cookies and mandarin segments blended into vanilla pudding and whipped topping. Molly says not to turn up your nose, but “don’t let it touch your hot dish and just try it. You will like it.” We admire her recipes, so here’s her cookie salad recipe—which is much more elegant than the typical home’s blend of supermarket cookies, canned mandarins, and frozen whipped topping. |
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Cookie salad (photo © Lisa Kaminski | Taste Of Home). |
COWBOY COOKIE
A dough similar to chocolate chip cookie dough with rolled oats, laden with semisweet chocolate chips and flaked coconut. Liz Lovely makes delicious cowboy cookies that are organic and vegan.
COOLER
A bite-size dome-shaped butter cookie made with, and dusted with powdered sugar. Key lime and lemon coolers are the most popular varieties. The recipe uses the zest of the citrus.
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Key Lime Coolers from Byrd’s Cookies, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. |
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Crunch bars. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. |
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