Cookie types and the Mixing Methods Utilized to Produce Them

During the early part of the 18th century, North Americans began to use the word 'cookie' to define a small, sweet, flat or slightly raised confection. The word 'cookie' appears to come from the Dutch word "koekje or koekie" and refers to a small cake. Cookies are eaten any time of the day: coffee breaks, as a snack, for dessert, sometimes even given as a welcoming gift. Cookies are one of the fastest and easiest things to make. Generally, they are a simple combination of all-purpose flour, unsalted butter, granulated and/or brown sugar, eggs, baking powder/soda and flavorings. They come in many different shapes, sizes, textures and flavors.

The arrival of immigrants from all over the world has had an enormous impact on the variety of cookies now made and enjoyed in the United States. The most famous of which, is the chocolate chip cookie. Invention around 1930 by Ruth Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. She decided to cut up chunks of Nestlé’s Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate bar and add it to a rich butter cookie dough. The Nestlé Company discovered her delicious cookie and made a deal for the rights to her recipe. By 1939, Nestlé had invented chocolate morsels and packaged them in a Yellow Label bag and, upon buying the Toll House name, printed Ruth Wakefield's recipe for "The Famous Toll House Cookie" on the back.