American Cookies
The American cookie is a chocolate-chip on a Toll House box. A snickerdoodle a child can make. A peanut-butter cookie with a fork-cross. The cookie is universal because it is small and it is reliable.
Featured american cookies recipes
- Chocolate chip, the Toll House note — Iris · Whitman, MA · A 1938 inn recipe that ate the country. Aged dough, sea salt, brown butter if you must.
- Snickerdoodle, cinnamon-sugar — Iris · Pennsylvania Dutch country · Cream of tartar, cinnamon-sugar roll, a crackled top. The cookie a child can make.
- Peanut butter cookie, fork-pressed — Iris · Salem, MA · Three ingredients if you skip the flour. The fork mark is so the cookies bake even.
- Oatmeal raisin, oats not flakes — Iris · Iowa · Old-fashioned oats, golden raisins, brown sugar. The cookie nobody admits to wanting until the plate is empty.
- Molasses spice, soft-baked — Iris · Vermont · Crinkled in sugar, baked under-done. A New England Christmas cookie.
- Rugelach, jam and walnut — Iris · New York, NY · A cream-cheese dough rolled around jam, walnut, cinnamon. A Brooklyn Hanukkah staple.
- Sugar cookie, the cut-out kind — Iris · Pennsylvania · Soft, pale, sweet. Royal icing or no icing. A platform for the holiday tin.
- Whoopie pie, two cakes a sandwich — Iris · Maine · A New England creation. Two cakey discs, a marshmallow filling. A cookie pretending to be a cake.
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