List of cookies

Aachener Printen

Germany (Aachen)

Aachener Printen are a type of Lebkuchen. The term is a protected designation of origin and so all manufacturers can be found in or near Aachen. Printen are made from a variety of ingredients including cinnamon, aniseed, clove, cardamom, coriander, allspice and also ginger.

Abernethy

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Invented by Scottish doctor John Abernethy in the 18th century as a digestive. An adaptation of the plain captain's biscuit or hardtack, with the added ingredients of sugar (for energy), and caraway seeds.

Acıbadem kurabiyesi

Turkey

Traditional Turkish biscuit ("kurabiye") made of almonds, sugar and egg whites.

Afghan biscuits

New Zealand

Traditional New Zealand biscuit and is made from cocoa powder, butter, flour and cornflakes. It is then topped with chocolate icing and half a walnut. The origin of the recipe seems to be New Zealand but the name, while unknown, is likely derived from a 1920s colour description 'Afghan/Afghanistan Brown. The recipe has appeared in many editions of cookbooks sold in New Zealand.

Alfajor

South America, Philippines

Basic form consists of two round sweet biscuits joined with dulce de leche or jam and covered with powdered sugar. In most alfajores there are two layers of cake, and a filling in between.

Amaretti di Saronno

Italy (Saronno)

Italian biscuit similar to macaroons with a bitter ("amaro") aftertaste

Animal cracker

England

Small cracker or cookie baked in a shape of an animal, especially a lion, tiger, bear, or elephant.

ANZAC biscuit

AustraliaNew Zealand

ANZAC Biscuits are a sweet biscuit made using rolled oats, flour, coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water. Named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC)

Aparon

Philippines

Filipino wafers drizzled with caramelized sugar and optionally, sesame seeds.

Apas

Philippines

Apas are oblong-shaped biscuits that are topped with sugar. Apas is a Tagalog term for wafer. They are a popular part of Filipino cuisine.

Apple cider cookie

A cookie that is prepared and flavored with apple cider.

Baci di dama

Northern Italy

Northern Italian sandwich cookie

Ballokume (from Turkish bal-lokum)

Albania (Elbasan)

Traditional Albanian dessert made of cornflour, butter and vanilla. This dessert is eaten on Spring Day (14 March).

Barquillo

Spain

A crispy rolled or folded wafer pastry originating from Spain. It was spread to Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines, from there entering the cuisines of neighboring Asian countries as "biscuit rolls", "egg rolls", or "love letters".

Barquiron

Philippines

Variant of barquillos filled with polvoron from the Philippines.

Basler LäckerliLeckerli, Läggerli

Switzerland (Basel)

Swiss traditional hard spice biscuit made of honey, almonds, candied peel, and Kirsch. The dough is cut into rectangles while it is still hot and a sugar glaze is then added on top.

Bath Oliver

United Kingdom (Bath, England)

Hard dry biscuit made from flour, butter, yeast and milk and often eaten with cheese. It was invented by Dr William Oliver of Bath, around the year of 1750.

Berger Cookie

Germany

Buttery vanilla wafer topped with thick creamy fudge. The recipe is derived from Germany and are an iconic cultural icon of Baltimore. The recipe was first brought to the US from Germany by George and Henry Berger in 1835.

Berner Haselnusslebkuchen

Switzerland (Bern)

Traditional Christmas cake from Bern in Switzerland, made from ground hazelnuts. It is sometimes confused with another Bernese speciality, Berner Honiglebkuchen, due to its similar appearance.

Berner Honiglebkuchen

Switzerland (Bern)

Traditional Christmas cookies made with honey. It is distinguished from Berner Haselnusslebkuchen as it often has more elaborate sugar decorations.

Biscocho

Philippines

Twice-baked bread from the Philippines with numerous variations.

Biscotti

Italy

A type of hard almond-flavored biscuits traditionally served with vin santo.

Biscuit

Unknown

In the US: small soft leavened bread (scone)In the British Commonwealth: a small and hard, often sweet, baked product with different types of decorations, flavors and toppings. (cookie)

Biscuit rollegg roll (鸡蛋卷), love letters, kueh belandah, crispy biscuit roll, crisp biscuit roll or cookie roll

Spain

Derivative of barquillos. Biscuit snack commonly found in Asia. It is crunchy and can be easily broken into pieces. Made of wheat flour, butter, egg, sugar and vanilla flavor. The traditional Chinese characters (蛋卷) are same for "egg roll".

Bizcochitobiscochito

United States (New Mexico)

Crispy butter cookie flavored with anise and cinnamon. It is served during special celebrations, such as wedding receptions, baptisms, and religious holidays. It is usually eaten with morning coffee or milk.

Black and white cookieHalf-Moon cookie

United States (New York City; Utica, New York)

Iced on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate as to resemble a half moon.

Boortsogboorsoq, or bawyrsak

Central Asia

Made by deep-frying small pieces of a flattened dough. Often eaten as a dessert, with sugar, butter, or honey. Mongolians sometimes dip boortsog in tea.

Bourbon biscuitBourbon cream or Bourbon

United Kingdom (London, England)

Sandwich biscuit consisting of two thin oblong dark chocolate biscuits with a chocolate fondant filling. The biscuit was introduced in 1910, originally under the name "Creola" by the Bermondsey biscuit company in London.

BredelaBredele, Bredle or Winachtsbredele

France (Alsace)

Many varieties can include anisbredela (cake with egg white and aniseed) butterbredle, schwowebredle (orange and cinnamon), spritzbredle, small pain d'épices and spice cakes that are made with sugar rather than honey.

Broas

Philippines

Filipino ladyfinger biscuits

Butter cookie

Denmark

Danish cookies consisting of butter, flour and sugar. They are often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to their texture, which is a result of specific quantities of flour and sugar being used. They are often flavored with vanilla, chocolate and coconut.

Butter pecan

United States

Cookie made with roasted pecans, butter, and vanilla flavor

Camachile cookie

Philippines

Filipino ladyfinger cookies that are characteristically shaped like the fruits of the camachile tree (Pithecellobium dulce).

Caramel shortbreadMillionaire's Shortbread

Australia

Rectangular shortbread based biscuit that consists of layers of caramel and chocolate. It is commonly known as caramel shortcake, caramel squares, caramel slice, or millionaires' shortbread. The term Millionaire originated in Scotland where it is also popular.

Carrot cake cookie

Prepared with ingredients that provide a flavor and texture similar to carrot cake.

Cat's tongue cookie(langues de chat, kue lidah kucing, lengua de gato)

Europe, Indonesia, Philippines

A sweet and crunchy cookie prepared in the shape of a cat's tongue.

Cavallucci

Italy

Chewy anise biscuit that contains almonds, candied fruits, coriander, flour and uses Tuscan millefiori honey. The version of these cookies sold today is similar to a pastry which was originally served to servants who worked in the stables of rich Italian aristocrats.

Caycay

Philippines

A Filipino crunchy layered cookie coated in syrup (latik) or honey and rolled in coarsely ground toasted peanuts.

Charcoal biscuit

United Kingdom (England)

Biscuit based on a powdered willow charcoal or activated carbon mixed with ordinary flour, and made into dough with butter, sugar and eggs. They were originally made to cure stomach trouble and are nowadays enjoyed with cheeses.

Chinese almond biscuit

China

Small biscuits with no filling by default, with a crunchy texture, but sometimes crumbling on first bite. When they are sold in different countries, they are usually imported from Macau, where it is one of the most popular specialty products.

Chinese walnut cookie

China

Traditionally served at Chinese New Year.

Chocolate biscuit

United Kingdom

One of several types of biscuit not containing chocolate, such as a Digestive biscuit or Shortbread, coated with chocolate on one side or sometimes entirely encased in chocolate. They can be round, rectangular or finger-shaped. These differ from biscuits such as the Bourbon biscuit and the Chocolate chip cookie which contain chocolate in the biscuit itself.

Chocolate chip cookie

United States (Whitman, Massachusetts)

A drop cookie which features chocolate chips as its distinguishing ingredient, also containing flour, shortening, eggs, and sugar. Variations include recipes with other types of chocolate or additional ingredients, such as nuts or oatmeal.

Chocolate-coated marshmallow treatsChocolate Teacake

Scotland

Tunnock's teacake is made with a shortbread base topped with marshmallow and coated in chocolate. There are regional variations.

Chocolate crinkle

United States (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

A chocolate cookie covered in white powdered sugar.

Christmas cookies

Europe

Sugar biscuits and cookies from various types of doughs. They all have in common that they are shaped and decorated in a way that has something to do with Christmas and its traditions. See also Gingerbread, Pfeffernüsse, Springerle and sugar cookies.

Cowboy cookies

United States

Drop cookies made with oats, chocolate chips, pecans and coconuts.

Cuchuflís or Cubanitos

Chile, Peru

Variant of barquillos filled with dulce de leche or chocolate from Chile and Peru

Coconut macaroon

Europe

Cookies that consist of a paste of egg whites with coconut that is placed on a wafer and then baked. Its main ingredients are egg whites, sugar and shredded dried coconut. It is closer to a soft cookie than its meringue cousin, and is equally as sweet.

Cornish fairings

United Kingdom (Cornwall)

Soft, chewy biscuits flavored with ginger

Coyotas

Mexico

Large flat cookies usually made with brown sugar.

Cream cracker

Ireland

A flat, usually square savoury biscuit often eaten with cheese

Cuccidati

Italy (Sicily)

Fig-stuffed cookie traditionally served around Christmas time

Custard cream

United Kingdom

Vanilla fondant sandwiched between two plain biscuits.

Digestive biscuit

United Kingdom

Semi-sweet biscuit that typically contains coarse brown wheat flour (which gives it its distinctive texture and flavor), sugar, malt extract, vegetable oil, wholemeal, raising agents and salt. Usually consumed for tea. Sometimes sold under the name Hovis biscuit.

Drabbelkoek

Sneek, Netherlands

Crispy and airy cookie made out of wheat flour, butter, milk or buttermilk, cinnamon and sugar. Made by pouring dripping liquid dough into hot butter.

Dutch letter

Netherlands

Typically prepared using flour, eggs and butter or puff pastry as its base and filled with almond paste, dusted with sugar and shaped in an "S" or other letter shape.

Empire biscuit

United Kingdom

Typical Empire Biscuit has a layer of jam in between two biscuits. The top is covered with white water icing, usually decorated with a glace cherry in the centre.

Fig bar / Fig roll

Various

A biscuit filled with fig paste that dates back to ancient Egypt.[citation needed]

Finskepinner

Norway / Sweden

A biscuit characterized by its long shape, almond extract, and slivered almonds or pearled sugar on top.

Florentine Biscuit

Italy (Florence)

Chocolate base topped with candied fruit and nuts.

Flour kurabiye (Un kurabiyesi)

Turkey

Butter and flour base topped with an almond or other nuts.

Fortune cookie

Japan

Folded sheet sweet cookie with a "fortune" (an aphorism or a vague prophecy) written on a paper slip inside.

Fudge cookie

A cookie prepared with fudge or that has the flavor, consistency or texture of fudge.

Galletas de bato (Rosquillos)

Philippines

Flat disc-shaped cookies from the Philippines. One of the two notable variants of a Rosquillo.

Galletas de patatas

Philippines

Square shaped biscuits from the Philippines

Galletas del Carmen

Philippines

Crenelated disc-shaped cookies from the Philippines. One of the two notable variants of a Rosquillo.

Galletas pesquera

Philippines

Thin disc-shaped crackers from the Philippines.

Garibaldi biscuit

United Kingdom

Currants sandwiched between two oblong biscuits

Gazelle ankles

Algeria

Crescent shaped cookies made of flour, butter and egg, filled with ground almonds, sugar, cinnamon and orange blossom water. Known as Kaab el Ghazal in Arabic and Cornes de Gazelles in French.

Ghorabiye

Iran

Made of almond flour, sugar, egg white, vanilla, margarine and pistachio.

Ghoriba

Maghreb, Middle East

Made with flour, sugar, butter, and often almonds

Gingerbread

Europe

Commonly a soft dough cookie that is made with potassium carbonate and/or baker's ammonia instead of yeast, flavored with ginger and other ingredients such as nuts and succade.

Gingerbread man

Europe

Made of gingerbread and shaped like flat humanoid figures.

Ginger snaps

Europe

Hard twice-baked biscuits that are flavored with powdered ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and other spices, but predominantly ginger. They are also known as Ginger biscuits, Ginger thins or "Ginger Nuts" (a term popular for them in the United Kingdom). They are called "brunkage" in Danish (literally meaning "brown biscuits"), pepparkakor in Swedish, piparkakut in Finnish, piparkūkas in Latvian, piparkoogid in Estonian and pepperkaker in Norwegian (literally, pepper cookies). They may be rectangular or disc-shaped in shape (when they are called "ginger nuts", they are normally circular in shape).

Half-moon cookie

Philippines

Filipino semicircle or crescent-shaped butter cookies. Not to be confused with the black and white cookie.

Hallongrotta

Sweden

Similar to shortbread and are filled most often with raspberry jam.

Hamantash

Jewish (Ashkenazi)

Triangular cookie featured in holiday of Purim. Shape is associated with Haman, a biblical villain, and his ears or hat. Fruit, cheese, poppyseed or other sweets are used as a filling.

Jacobina

Philippines

Thick square biscuits from the Philippines

Jammie Dodgers

United Kingdom

Jam sandwiched between two biscuits, with a heart in the middle.

Janhagel

Netherlands

Rectangular, brittle cookie, seasoned with cinnamon, covered with granulated sugar and usually almond shavings

Joe Frogger

Massachusetts, United States

Invented by a former black slave sometime in the late 1700s, but still a popular recipe today. Recipe is a rolled cookie containing molasses, rum, crushed cloves, allspice, and cinnamon.

Jodenkoek

Netherlands

Large, flat, round shortbread cookies.

Jumble

England, possible roots in Italy

Cookie-like pastries whose simple recipe comprises nuts, flour, eggs, and sugar, with vanilla, anise, or caraway seed used for flavoring.

Kaasstengels

Netherlands and Indonesia

In Indonesia, Kaasstengels usually eaten on Christmas and Lebaran celebrations.

Kahk

Egypt

Small round cookies filled with ‘agameya (عجمية, a mixture of honey, nuts, and ghee), lokum, nuts, or dates and dusted with powdered sugar. Traditionally eaten on Eid al-Fitr and Easter.

Khapse

Tibet

Simple cookies made of flour, butter, eggs and sugar that come in various shapes with various decorations.

Kiâm-piánn

Taiwan (Penghu)

Taiwanese salty biscuits with crispy texture, made with low-gluten flour, scallions and sesame seed toppings.

Kichel

Eastern Europe

Jewish sweet cracker or cookie commonly made with egg and sugar rolled out flat and cut into large diamond shapes. They are typically eaten with a savory dip or topping.

Kleicha

Iraq, Saudi Arabia

National cookie of Iraq that contains a filling of dried fruit (usually dates) and is flavored with cardamom and sometimes rose water.

Koulourakia

Greece

Butter-based pastry that is traditionally hand-shaped in a ring form, glazed with egg and sprinkled with sesame. It is usually made at Easter to be eaten after Holy Saturday.

Kourabiedes

Greece

Butter cookies (biscuits) that resemble light and airy shortbread, but are typically made with the addition of almonds. They may be flavored with vanilla, rose water, or liquors such as metaxa.

Krumiri

Italy

Made without water from wheat flour, sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla, in the form of a slightly bent, rough-surfaced cylinder.

Krumkake

Norway

Cookie batter is cooked on a special iron.

Kue gapit

Indonesia (Cirebon)

An Indonesian cookie made from Rice flour, Wheat flour, Chicken egg, Coconut water, salt, sugar, and cinnamon.

Kue satu

Indonesia

Kue satu or Kue koya is a popular traditional cookie of white-colored sweet mung beans that is crumbled when being bitten.

Lady Finger (cookie)

Europe

Light, sweet sponge cakes that are shaped like fingers and are commonly used to prepare desserts such as tiramisu, trifle and charlotte.

Lebkuchen

Germany

Gingerbread with many regional varieties and specialities.

Lincoln biscuit

United Kingdom

Short dough biscuit and a kind of shortcake biscuits. It has a pattern of dots on the top in concentric circles and was brought to America by British expats.

Linga

Philippines

Flat cookies with sesame seeds from the Davao del Sur in the Philippines.

Linzer cookie

Austria

Linzer cookies (German: Linzer Augen, "Linzer eyes") or Linzer tarts are a sandwich cookie version of the Linzer Torte, topped with a layer of dough with a characteristic circle shaped cut-out exposing the fruit preserves, and dusted with confectioner's sugar.

Ma'amoul

Arab world

Ma'amoul is an ancient Arab filled pastry or cookie made with dates, nuts such as pistachios or walnuts and occasionally almonds, or figs.

Macaroon

Europe

Consists of a paste of egg whites with other ingredients such as almond, hazelnut and/or coconut that is placed on a wafer and then baked.

Macaron

France

A macaron (/ˌmækəˈrɒn/ mak-ə-RON; French: [ma.ka.ʁɔ̃])is a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and food colouring. The macaron is traditionally held to have been introduced in France by the Italian chef of queen Catherine de Medici during the Renaissance. Since the 19th century, a typical Parisian-style macaron is presented with a ganache, buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two such cookies, akin to a sandwich cookie. The confection is characterized by a smooth squared top, a ruffled circumference—referred to as the "crown" or "foot" (or "pied")—and a flat base. It is mildly moist and easily melts in the mouth. Macarons can be found in a wide variety of flavours that range from traditional (raspberry, chocolate) to unusual (foie gras, matcha).

Malted milk (biscuit)

Uttoxeter, England

First produced by Elkes Biscuits of Uttoxeter (now owned by Fox's Biscuits) in 1924. They are named after their malt flavouring and milk content.

Mamón tostado

Philippines

Twice-baked crunchy sponge cupcakes from the Philippines

Mandelbrot

Eastern Europe

A type of cookie found in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.

Maple leaf cream cookies

Canada

Sandwich cookie with a maple-flavored cream filling.

Marie biscuit

United Kingdom

Rich cookie made with wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil and vanilla flavoring. It is usually eaten for tea and dunked in tea or coffee.

Masa podrida

Philippines

Dry crumbly shortbread cookie from the Philippines made from flour, salt, sugar, shortening and eggs

Moravian spice cookies

United States

Very thin cookie that contains various spices and molasses.

Nice biscuit

United Kingdom

Coconut flavored, this is otherwise a plain biscuit which does not contain cream or jam.

Nocciolini di Canzo

Italy (Canzo, Lombardy)

Small biscuits similar to dry Amaretto, with hazelnut flour. Typical of the town of Canzo.

Oat crisps

Unknown

Small, round and flat baked biscuits made from oat, sugar and butter and sometimes flour with additional flavoring such as ginger and syrup.

Oatmeal raisin

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Oatmeal cookies are the descendants of oat cakes made by the Scots, going back to the time when the Romans attempted to conquer Scotland. Oat cakes first appeared when they began harvesting oats as far back as 1,000 B.C. It isn't known how or when raisins were added to the mix, but raisins and nuts have been used since the Middle Ages. The first recorded oatmeal raisin cookie recipe was written by Fannie Merritt Farmer in 1896, and billed as a “health food”.

Otap

Philippines

Oval-shaped puff pastry cookie from the Philippines

Paciencia

Philippines

Filipino meringue eggdrop cookies

Paborita

Philippines

Filipino disc-shaped biscuits with a flaky texture.

Panellets

Spain

Small cakes or cookies in different shapes, mostly round, made mainly of marzipan (almond paste). They are often decorated with pine nuts and varnished in egg white.

Paprenjak

Croatia

Typical Croatian cookie that is known for containing pepper beside sugar syrup or honey, butter, various nuts and other spices.

Party ring

United Kingdom

Commercial circular cookie with a central hole that comes in various colour combinations. Each biscuit is topped with a layer of hard icing with "wiggly" lines in a different colour.

Peanut butter cookie

United States

Features peanut butter as a main ingredient.

Peanut butter blossom cookie

United States

Features peanut butter as a main ingredient and is topped with a piece of chocolate candy.

Petit-Beurre

Nantes, France

A type of butter cookie

Pepernoten

Netherlands

Baked traditionally during Sinterklaas, a feast on December 5

Pignolo (macaroon)

Italy (Sicily)

Moist, soft and chewy cookie that is of a light golden color, made from almond paste and studded with golden pine nuts (also called pignoli). (At the left in the picture.)

Picnic biscuit

Turkey and Romania

A type of biscuit that is small and rectangular.

Piñata cookie

Multicolored hollow cookies that are filled with various candies.

Polvorón

Spain

Very soft shortbread. Crumbles at the first bite

Pineapple tart

Southeast Asia

A shortbread cookie topped or filled with pineapple jam, commonly found in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Pizzelle

Italy

Waffle or wafer cookies made from flour, eggs, sugar, butter or vegetable oil, and flavoring (often vanilla, anise, or lemon zest) that can be hard and crisp or soft and chewy depending on the ingredients and method of preparation.

Puto seco

Philippines

A dry powdery cookie made from cornstarch and flour

Putri salju

Indonesia

A kind of Indonesian cookie which is crescent-shaped and coated with powdered sugar covered like snow. In Indonesian language, Putri salju means "snow princess"

Qurabiya

Turkey

Shortbread-like cookies found in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire. Versions are found in most Arab, Balkan and Ottoman cuisines, with various different forms and recipes.

Rainbow cookie

United States

Small cake with layers of almond-based sponge cake in different colours, apricot and/or raspberry jam, and a chocolate coating. A variation resembles the Italian flag and is called Italian Flag Cookie.

Reshteh Khoshkar

Iran

Made of rice, flour, sugar, walnut, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and spice that is slowly fried in hot oil or fat.

Ricciarelli

Italy (Siena)

Flavored with ground almonds and topped with icing sugar.

Rich tea

United Kingdom

Sweet biscuit whose ingredients generally include wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil, and malt extract. Due to its consistency it is ideal for being dunked into coffee or tea and is therefore usually consumed with tea (see Dunking (biscuit)).

Rosca or biscocho de rosca

Philippines

Philippine cookies shaped like an elbow

Rosette

Scandinavia

Thin, deep-fried wafers

Rosquillo

Philippines

Philippine cookies made from flour, eggs, shortening, sugar, and baking powder.

Rum ball

Unknown

Ground biscuits with rum and binders like chocolate

Russian tea cake

Russia[citation needed]

Jumble-like pastry that generally consists entirely of ground nuts, flour and water or, more commonly, butter. After baking, it is coated in powdered sugar while still hot, then again once the cookie has cooled.

Sablé

France (Sablé-sur-Sarthe)

A popular round shortbread cookie named because of its crumbly and fine texture ("Sablé" means "sandy" in French). Generally, the baker begins the process by rubbing cold butter into flour and sugar to form particles of dough until the texture resembles that of breadcrumbs or sand.

Sandie

United States

A type of sugar cookie or shortbread cookie. Pecans are often used as a main ingredient, and may be crushed and included in the batter, or else placed atop the cookie whole.

Semprong

Indonesia

Semprong, kue semprong, Sapit, Sepit, Kue belanda or Kapit is a traditional wafer snack (Kue or kuih) made by clasping egg batter using an iron mold.

Shortbread

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Very rich unleavened biscuit that is made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour. It is available in different shapes and flavors (e.g. lemon flavor). See List of shortbread biscuits and cookies for a list of varieties.

Silvana

Philippines

A frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs

Snickerdoodle

United States (New England)

Sugar cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour rolled in cinnamon sugar. Most distinctive feature is the cracked surface that can be crisp or soft depending on preparation.

Speculaas

NetherlandsBelgiumGermany

Very flat Christmas shortcrust biscuit that contains typical Christmas spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, white pepper, cardamom, ginger and cloves.

Speculoos

Belgium

A biscuit made from wheat flour, candy syrup, fat, and sometimes cinnamon. In Europe, Lotus Speculoos (branded as Lotus Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is the most recognized brand.

Springerle

Germany

Very hard anise cookie made from eggs, flour and sugar with an embossed design that is impressed before baking. It is a typical treat for Christmas.

Spritzgebäck

Germany

Christmas cookies that consist of a shortcrust pastry that is squirted onto the baking sheet in various shapes and then baked. The finished product is very fragile, crisp, dry and buttery and is sometimes partly coated with chocolate.

Square cookie

Taiwan (Chiayi)

Traditional Taiwanese cookie, originating from Chiayi County.

Stroopwafel

Netherlands

Waffle cookie made from two thin layers of baked batter with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle.

Sugar cookie

Europe

Very simple cookie made from sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda. They are often glazed with icing and decorated with chocolate or sprinkles and may be themed according to season (e.g. Halloween cookies or Christmas cookies).

Tahini cookie

Arab world

The traditional way to cook tahini cookies is to mix the flour, sugar and butter until there is crumbly mixture and then add the raw tahini and continuing to mix and put the mixture in a round position and add on the cookie almonds or pine nuts, and then it is cooked until it's finished.

Tareco

Brazil

Little tough disk-shaped biscuit that is made of wheat flour, eggs, and sugar.

Teiglach

Lithuania

Small, knotted Jewish pastries boiled in a honeyed syrup and often filled with nuts or raisins and topped with shredded coconut.

Tirggel

Switzerland

Very thin, hard and sweet Christmas biscuits that are made from flour and honey

Toruń gingerbread

Poland

Polish gingerbread that can be filled and is often glazed with chocolate or icing depending on variety

Ugoy-ugoy

Philippines

Filipino rectangular layered biscuits coated in granulated sugar

Uraró

Philippines

Filipino cookies made from arrowroot flour.

Vanillekipferl

Austria

Small, crescent shaped biscuits that are made from a pastry that contains hazelnut and/or almonds and vanilla sugar and are rolled in vanilla sugar after baking

Wafer

Unknown

Crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. Also used in religious celebrations, such as Western Rite celebrations of the Eucharist.

Wibele

Germany (Langenburg)

Small, sweet biscuits made from egg white, icing sugar, flour and vanilla sugar.