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7 Cookies quizzes and 70 Cookies trivia questions.
1.
  Well Butter My Biscuit   best quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
I'll give you a description of a type of popular biscuit for you to match with its common name. Some of these may be UK specific.
Average, 10 Qns, rossian, Nov 14 23
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rossian editor
Nov 14 23
301 plays
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  Name That Cookie!   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The cookie is a lovable treat many people have come to savor. Many recipes have been shared and treasured throughout the years and are often recognizable. I'll give a few key ingredients or clues, and you name the cookie! Note: US recipes.
Easier, 10 Qns, kkoala87, Aug 20 16
Easier
kkoala87
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  A Nice Cup of Tea and a Biscuit   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Nothing is more quintessentially English than a nice cup of tea and a biscuit? Do you know your classic tea-time biscuits. Apologies to our American cousins who I believe may refer to a biscuit as a "cookie".
Average, 10 Qns, Simon_Templar, Sep 03 22
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Simon_Templar
Sep 03 22
6129 plays
4.
  Cookies and Cakes and Other Sweet Bakes   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I just found my mother's old cookbook, so I'm tying on my apron, preheating the oven and getting ready for a baking binge. Are you ready to join me?
Average, 10 Qns, beergirllaura, Apr 19 10
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beergirllaura
4091 plays
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  COOKIES!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Cookies are a favorite snack of many people all over the place. So here's a quiz to test your knowledge of this delicious snack.
Easier, 10 Qns, iris_rose_9, Jul 23 18
Easier
iris_rose_9
Jul 23 18
1658 plays
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  Cookies and Milk    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Who doesn't love dunking their freshly-baked cookies into a glass of milk? I know I do. Let's see if you know how to make cookies as well as eat them.
Average, 10 Qns, brownrose, May 03 16
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brownrose
547 plays
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  Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Christmas time brings good food and cheer. It is interesting to see where these traditions began.
Tough, 10 Qns, chefbuster, Jan 06 17
Tough
chefbuster
1571 plays

Cookies Trivia Questions
1. This cookie is a butter cookie with half chocolate fondant and half vanilla fondant. What type of cookie is it?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: black and white cookie

It may also be called a half moon cookie or a half and half cookie.

2. Feeling very domestic, I flip through the tattered pages of my mother's old cookbook until a recipe catches my eye. The title intrigues me and I scan the list of ingredients. What is the main ingredient in the filling of shoofly pie?

From Quiz Cookies and Cakes and Other Sweet Bakes

Answer: molasses

Popular in the northeastern USA, shoofly pie is almost more a coffee cake than a traditional pie. It can have either a 'dry bottom' or a 'wet bottom' and is usually served with whipped cream. The name is a bit more puzzling, although popular theory is that because of the sweet ingredients, when the pie was cooling the baker had to 'shoo' the flies away.

3. Which cookie includes butter, sugar, eggs and semi-sweet morsels of chocolate?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies in 1937.

4. Which traditional German cookie dates back to the early 14th century?

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Lebkuchen

In the 14th century when honey was the everyday sweetener, (not sugar) the Lebkuchen was created and is still made with honey to this day.

5. When baking, sometimes you don't have all the ingredients. If your cookie recipe calls for buttermilk what can be used as a substitute?

From Quiz Cookies and Milk

Answer: milk with a tablespoon of vinegar

There are many buttermilk substitutes out there. You can also use milk and a tablespoon of lemon juice, water and sour cream, watered-down plain yogurt, or plain kefir. However baking soda and vinegar is not a buttermilk substitute, it is actually a homemade cleaning solution.

6. What type of cookie is often given out at Chinese restaurants and buffets?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: fortune cookie

Funny enough fortune cookies did not originate in China, rather California in the early 20th century. National Fortune Cookie Day is celebrated on July 20th.

7. The cake section in my mother's cookbook is full of enticing recipes. I'm out of vegetable oil, but I do have a pound of butter. Which cake recipe should I choose?

From Quiz Cookies and Cakes and Other Sweet Bakes

Answer: pound cake

Traditional pound cake recipes call for a pound each of flour, butter, eggs and sugar, but any equal ratio will work depending on the size of the pan. The traditional pound cake is very popular in the southern USA. There are also variations of the recipe that add such diverse ingredients as sour cream, raisins, vanilla and baking powder among others. The three other cakes are all butter-less recipes and contain eggs as their main ingredient.

8. Which cookie's ingredients include flour, salt, cream of tartar...and is then rolled in cinnamon-sugar?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Snickerdoodles

The Snickerdoodle was invented in the 19th century in New England.

9. The Symbol Cookies are a traditional cutout cookie of which holiday?

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Hanukkah

The Hanukkah Symbol Cookie depicts parts of the Hebrew Heritage such as the Lion of Judah and the Menorah.

10. Everybody loves cookies, especially kids. An easy recipe for baking with kids is a thumbprint (or fingerprint) cookie. What is the most well-known ingredient in this cookie?

From Quiz Cookies and Milk

Answer: jelly/jam

To make thumbprint cookies: mix together the needed ingredients (flour, sugar, vanilla, butter, etc.) roll into a ball about one inch big, make an indent with your fingertip, fill the indent with jam or jelly, then put them in the oven. Some people also use Hershey kisses in the center instead of jelly.

11. What cookie is often flavored with ginger, cinnamon, molasses, and nutmeg?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: ginger snap

Alternative names are ginger biscuit or ginger nut.

12. Suddenly I'm craving chocolate, but there are so many recipes to choose from. This red velvet cake sounds interesting, but it calls for a very unusual ingredient. What odd cake-ingredient am I going to have to find?

From Quiz Cookies and Cakes and Other Sweet Bakes

Answer: beets

Grated cooked beets were used in the 1940s to deepen the color of the cake. Red food coloring is more commonly used these days, but the older recipes are equally functional. There are also red velvet cake recipes that do not contain any chocolate. And, while cinnamon hearts and maraschino cherries are fairly common additions in certain cakes, tomato soup is a surprisingly good 'secret' ingredient in a number of spice cake recipes.

13. Mid-morning break arrives and I retire to the office canteen to enjoy a nice cup of tea and another biscuit. This time it's a McVitie's chocolate digestive. What quaint term do the English use for this mid-morning tea break?

From Quiz A Nice Cup of Tea and a Biscuit

Answer: Elevenses

In the United Kingdom "elevenses" is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but is eaten in the morning. It will typically consist of some cake or biscuits with a cup of tea or coffee. The name refers to the time of day that it is taken i.e. around 11 a.m. Paddington Bear often took "elevenses" at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr Gruber in the Michael Bond novels. Well, if the continentals can enjoy a 12 hour siesta who can bemoan the British a 10 minute tea and biscuit break?!

14. Which cookie needs some "JIF" or "Skippy" to make?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Peanut Butter Cookies

This was introduced in the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Half of America's peanut production now goes to making peanut butter.

15. Which classic French rolled shortbread cookie originated in Normandy?.

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Sables

Sable means sand, indicative of the cookies crumbly, delicate texture.

16. Take some of a horse's favorite food and combine it with some dancing dried fruit grown in California to make what cookies?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Oats were first manufactured by the Quaker Oats company and was the first packaged product. After it started being produced in the late 1800s, the cookies became popular in America, and people added nuts, dried fruit, or what is now considered the most popular--raisins.

17. Biscochitos have a distinct flavor, what is it?

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Anise

The Biscochitos cookies are a great favorite of New Mexico. It is crisp and tender and will remind you of black licorice.

18. What cookie is used in desserts such as tiramisu?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: ladyfingers

Ladyfingers are sponge cakes that are shaped somewhat like a large finger. They are often soaked in sugar syrup or liqueur.

19. This kind of pastry can be made a bunch of different ways--fudge, chocolate chunk, double chocolate...as long as there's chocolate involved, you're good. Which one am I talking about?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Brownies

Many think this first appeared in a catalogue in 1897 and there are many variations of the recipe in circulation today.

20. A Scandanavian Cookie that is put through a cookie press and usually made in Christmas colors (green and red). What is that cookie?

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Spritz

Only a small amount of liquid goes into this rich, buttery cookies. As in a Spritz of fruit juice.

21. This cookie is a sugar cookie that is rolled in cinnamon sugar. What kind of cookie is it?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: snickerdoodle

The oldest snickerdoodle recipe is from 1889. Around 1889 they were popular in New England and Pennsylvania. Some believe they are of German origin.

22. Times weren't always so easy, and my mother often had to make do with what she had. I remember her making dozens of small date nut breads, but she didn't put them in bread pans. What different type of container was often used for bread baking?

From Quiz Cookies and Cakes and Other Sweet Bakes

Answer: an empty soup can

Back in the 1940s and 1950s, domestic frugality was normal, especially for those who had lived through the Depression. Reusing empty soup cans was just one strategy for saving money. After cooling, the loaves could be removed, wrapped in wax paper and refrigerated to 'age'. And the cans could be reused.

23. Which cookie shares a name with a movie star from Gilligan's Island?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Gingersnap

Similar to the recipe used to make "Gingerbread men," you can add pepper or crystallized ginger to make these cookies even spicier.

24. It is said that two are better than one. Which type of cookie is actually two cookies with a layer of jam in between?

From Quiz Cookies and Milk

Answer: Linzer cookie

Linzer cookies look just as good as they taste, having a powered sugar top and a little heart or circle cutout to see the jam. The cookie is usually almond flavored with raspberry jam but any flavor of jam can be used.

25. What cookie sometimes has a filling of real maple syrup?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: maple leaf cookie

Maple leaf cookies are also called maple leaf cream cookies or just maple cremes. They are of Canadian origin and very popular there. They are also becoming very popular in the US as well.

26. Which cookie's distinctive ingredient comes from a product extracted from a cane?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Sugar Cookies

These cookies are ideal for using cookie cutters or developing other designs as they hold their shape well.

27. What Christmas specialty from the Rhineland is also a favorite in Holland?

From Quiz Which Christmas Cookies Began Where?

Answer: Spekulatius

They are given to children on December 6th, the feast of St. Nicholas.

28. Holidays are a great time for baking. Speculaas are thin, crunchy, shortbread cookies traditionally baked for which holiday?

From Quiz Cookies and Milk

Answer: Christmas

Speculaas are baked around Christmas time in Germany and are not usually found the rest of the year. They are also baked for St. Nicholas's feast in early December in Belgium and the Netherlands.

29. This cookie is an Italian waffle cookie. What is it called?

From Quiz COOKIES!

Answer: pizzelle

Pizzelle are usually flavored with anise, vanilla, or lemon zest. They are popular around Christmas and Easter and Italian weddings.

30. A small young girl in Paris who lived in a house covered with vines, may come to your mind while making these cookies flavored with lemon or orange flower water. Which cookies are these?

From Quiz Name That Cookie!

Answer: Madeleines

These usually look like shells, and date back to the 18th century France.

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