Cookies
is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It
usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may
include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts.
In most English-speaking countries except for the United States and
Canada, crisp cookies are called biscuits. Chewier biscuits are
sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may
also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
are drop cookies that originated in the United States and features
chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient.
Circa 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield added chopped up bits from a NestlΓ©
semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.