cookies study tool

Bagged

Make bagged cookies by forcing soft dough through a pastry bag. varieties include lady fingers, macaroons, and tea cookies.

Bar

Make bar cookies by cookies by baking three or four bars of dough the length of the baking pan, and then slicing them into small bars. One variety is biscotti.

Dropped

Make dropped cookies, such as chocolate chip and oatmeal, from a soft dough and drop them from a spoon or scoop onto the cookie sheet.

Icebox

Make icebox cookies by rolling dough into a log, chilling it, and then slicing it just before baking. Butterscotch icebox cookies and chocolate icebox cookies are examples.

Molded

Mold stiff dough by hand into any shape to make molded cookies. Peanut butter cookies are example.

Sheet

Pour the batter into the entire baking pan and then slice it into individual squares or rectangles after baking. Brownies are usually made this way. Other types of sheet cookies include butterscotch brownies or blondies.

Rolled

Rolled cookies are made more often at home than in commercial kitchens because they take a lot of work. Cut these cookies from a stiff dough that has been rolled out on a baking board. Varieties include decorated sugar cookies and shortbread.

Convection Oven

The air is pulled in by a fan, then gently pushed out through the holes, so it creates a gentler environment for baked goods that tend to burn quickly because of their high sugar content.

Spreading of dough in oven

The creaming of the dough determines the texture of the cookie and how much it will spread in the pan during baking.

Conventional Oven

Cooks food by surrounding it with hot air.