Cookie Quiz

The main ingredient in most cookies is...

• flour

• baking soda

• eggs

This basic baking ingredient adds sweetness and tenderness. It also caramelizes and browns the cookies.

• eggs

• sugar

• salt

As cookies bake, they produce steam as moisture escapes and creating bubbles, helping the cookies to rise.

• starch

• gluten

• steam

These kinds of cookies are made by pushing soft cookie dough off of a spoon or scoop and dropping them on to a baking sheet.

• spoon cookie

• rolled cookie

• drop cookie

This type of cookie is made by spreading or pouring the soft dough/batter into a pan for baking. The are cut into shapes (usually squares or rectangles) after baking.

• pressed cookie

• bar cookie

• pan cookie

Cookies that are made from a stiff dough, rolled thin on a floured surface, cut into various shapes using a cookie cutter, then baked are called...

• rolled cookie

• shape cookie

• molded cookie

These types of cookies require chilling of stiffer dough that has been shaped into long rolls. The chilled dough is then sliced from the roll and baked.

• rolled cookies

• refrigerator cookies

• molded cookies

Cookies made from a stiff dough that is molded with your hands or fingers to make a shape or imprinted with a detailed pan or fork are called...

• molded cookies

• hand cookies

• refrigerator cookies

When baking, a cookie press is filled with soft, rich dough and the dough is squeezed out onto a baking sheet.

• drop cookie

• refrigerator cookie

• pressed cookie

The chocolate chip cookies that we made in class are considered to be

• drop cookie

• refrigerator cookie

• bar cookie