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| animal cracker |
a small cookie or cracker baked in any of various animal shapes. |
| cooky |
variant of cookie. |
| drop cookie |
a cookie made by dropping dough from a spoon onto the baking sheet, rather than by shaping or rolling it. |
| fortune cookie |
a hollow Chinese cookie made from a folded circle of thin dough, containing a slip of paper with a proverb, prediction, or the like. |
| gingerbread |
a type of cake or cookie flavored with ginger and sweetened with molasses. [1/3 definitions] |
| gingersnap |
a small, round, crisp cookie made with ginger and molasses. |
| hermit |
a spiced molasses cookie, often made with nuts and raisins. [1/2 definitions] |
| kiss |
a light cookie made of sugar and egg whites. [1/8 definitions] |
| lebkuchen |
(sometimes cap.) a type of hard or chewy cookie containing citron, nuts, and honey. |
| macaroon |
a soft, chewy cookie made of sugar, egg whites, and ground almonds or coconut. |
| shortbread |
a rich cake or cookie that contains much shortening, esp. butter. |
| tollhouse cookie |
a crisp chocolate-chip cookie sometimes containing chopped nuts. |
| wafer |
a small thin crisp cracker or cookie. [1/6 definitions] |
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