Popular cookies and interesting facts about them.
Interesting facts about popular cookies in the world
The sweet smell of freshly baked cookies in the kitchen can't be compared to anything. Baking cookies (and then arguing about who can eat raw biscuit dough or lick a spoon) is a fun family event. They also make great presents! If you are thinking about baking cookies for fun, here are ten popular cookies from around the world and interesting facts about them!
Macaroni
Pasta gets its name from "maccherone", which is Italian for "fine dough". The stuffless version of pasta first appeared in Italy in 1533. However, in its modern colorful, light and creamy form it became popular in Paris. These are sweet cookies with crispy crust on the outside and chewing filling in the middle.
Fact: Pasta was first made at the wedding of the Duke of Orleans, who later became King Henry II of France. According to food historians, Pierre Desfontaine is credited with adding a creamy filling in the middle to make cookies stick properly.
Chocolate cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most popular cookies from America. They are fairly balanced chewing cookies with small piles of semi-sweet chocolate chips that melt in your mouth! They can be perfectly combined with a hot cup of coffee or tea or a high glass of milk.
Fact: Chocolate chip cookies were discovered by chance when the famous baker Ruth Wakefield ran out of chocolate and added small pieces of semi-sweet chocolate that her friend Andrew Nestle gave her. The chocolate did not melt as she had expected, and these favorite cookies were born!
Honeybunny
Snickerdoodles are a kind of drip cookies (in which the dough falls directly on a bucket tray) covered with sugar and cinnamon. Usually they are baked on holidays and eaten at room temperature or warmed by a glass of milk. This cookie has a sweet and oily taste with a crispy crust outside.
Fact: These cookies have their name from Schneckenudeln, a German word for sweet buns sprinkled with cinnamon.
Ginger snails
These delicious cookies are a perfect combination of sweetness and spiciness. Made of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and treacle, these spicy delicacies have become popular around the world. Mostly they are baked at Christmas time.
Fact: July 1 is the national ginger day. These cookies also have great health benefits.
Pies
This delicious sweet biscuit consists of two soft sponge cakes that are glued to a viscous marshmallow filling. Originally from Maine, they're popular everywhere, especially with children.
Fact: Traditionally, chocolate flavoured biscuits have been used to make these cakes, but now they have expanded to include many flavours such as pumpkin and red velvet.
Nanhatai
Nanhatai is a popular Indian category of crumbly, tender cookies. These crispy, sweet and slightly salty cookies are made from universal flour, ghee and sugar. They are seasoned with nutmeg and cardamom. Nanhatai is best with a hot cup of tea masala.
Fact: Nanhatai has traditionally been sold as sand bread in India. However, when the Dutchman left the original recipe with a local worker, he started selling stale and dried bread, which became popular as today's Nanhatai we know and love.
Amaretti
Amaretti is a delicious biscotti with almond flavour, which can be a bit strong as it usually uses apricot kernels and bitter almonds. Amaretti means "bitter" in Italian. They can be made in two ways - chewy and soft or dry and crisp, depending on the taste.
Fact: In Italy there are many popular versions of Amaretti: one with sweet and bitter almonds, the other with sweet almonds and apricot kernels in soft dough and the other with hazelnuts instead of almonds.
