How The Cookie Crumbles

Europe

Norway

Krumkake are traditional Norwegian wafer cookies, The batter is prepared with eggs, sugar, vanilla, flour, baking powder, cardamon, and butter. Then the batter is cooked on a special griddle imprinting the wafers with an attractive design. When ready the wafer cookies are rolled, filled with whipped cream, and dusted with powdered sugar. They are particularly popular during the Christmas season.

Denmark

Kammerjunker are popular double-baked cookies. These cookies are made with wheat flour and butter and the dough is rolled into a log and baked. It is then sliced and baked again until crispy. The cookies are small in size and flavored with cardamon, vanilla, and lemon zest.

England

Shrewsbury Cakes are classic English shortbread biscuits. The recorded recipe dates back to 1621 when these biscuits were flavored with nutmeg and rosewater. Today people flavor them with lemon, cinnamon, or even caraway seeds.

Rock cakes are traditional cookies that are crumbly and light in consistency. They are served as a part of afternoon tea. The cookies are made with flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, and dried fruit like raisins or sultanas. The dough comes out thick and lumpy and is place on a baking tray and baked till golden brown, They are best eaten when still warm.

Scotland

Petticoat tails got their name because the cookies resemble pieces of fabric that was used to create 16th century petticoats. These are sweet, butter, shortbread biscuits.

Scottish oatmeal cookies are prepared with butter, caster sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, and oatmeal, The mixture is shaped into small, slightly flattened balls that are coated with rolled oats or desiccated coconut and garnished with glace cherries or other candied fruit before they're baked.

France

Canistrelli are traditional shortbread cookies originating in Corsica. They are made with flour, sugar, white wine, and flavorings like anise or lemon zest. Canistrelli are double baked to make them incredibly crispy. They are usually enjoy for breakfast with hot beverages and can be eaten as a snack with white wine.

Netherlands

Kletskop are traditional Dutch cookies that are made with flour, butter, sugar, salt, and almonds or peanuts. The cookies are flavored with cinnamon and have a delicate, crispy texture.

Taai-taai are popular Dutch cookies with a hard, chewy texture. These cookies are prepared with flour, sugar, baking powder, and eggs, The cookies are flavored with aniseed and honey. They are particularly popular during the Sinterklaas season when they're shaped into hearts, animals, or even Sinterklaas himself.

Germany

Pabernodder cookies are most popular during the Christmas season. They're light brown in color, small in size, crispy and seasoned with spices like cardamon, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clove, and white pepper.

Aachener Printen are firm, brown gingerbread cooking that have been baked in Aachen since the 1820s. The term printe refers to the use of carved wooden molds into which the dough is pressed. These cookies can only be produced in Aachen. The dough is made with flour, sugar, and exotic spices like cinnamon, aniseed, or ginger.

Switzerland

Basler läckerli are hard, spiced Swiss biscuits consisting of hazelnuts, almonds, candied peel, honey, and Kirsch. These cookies are a specialty of Basel. After they're baked the biscuits are cut into rectangular pieces and topped with sugar glaze. They are particularly enjoyed at Christmas.

Czech Republic

Štramberské uši is a baked product made with flour, sugar, eggs, water, baking powder, honey or caramel, and spices like cloves, aniseed, cinnamon, and star anise. After baking, the dough is twisted into a cone shape, making it look like a human ear (uši means ears in Czech). The cookies are light brown, firm, and have a delicate taste.

Slovenia

Laskonky are popular Slovak and Czech cookies consisting of two crispy meringues combined with various buttercream fillings. The meringues occasionally contains ground walnuts or coconut and are baked into thin, oval shapes. Traditionally, caramel buttercream is used as a filling, but there are many other varieties today and include coffee or chocolate. These are crispy sweet treats.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gurabija are round, flat shortbread cookies. These cookies are made with flour, sugar, oil, eggs, baking powder, butter or margarine and dairy products like mileram cream, yogurt, or milk. They are flavored with vanilla powder or vanilla sugar, lemon zest, nuts, and dried fruits.

Italy

Rococo are traditional Christmas cookies originating from Naples. These cookies are made with flour, almonds, sugar, candied fruit and pisto – a mixture of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and coriander.

Baci di Alassio are delectable chocolate-hazelnut cookies that originate from the Liguria town of Alassio. The cookies are called baci, meaning kisses. These consist of two small hazelnut cookies with a rich chocolate ganache sandwiched between so they look similar to lips sending a kiss.These cookies are chewy and soft and have a texture similar to the popular French macaroons.

Rame di Napoli are soft, chocolate-covered cookies originating from the Sicilian city of Catania. They are made with sugar, milk, flour, crumbles of biscuits or cookies, eggs, cocoa powder, butter, baking powder, honey, orange marmalade, cinnamon , cloves, and orange rind. After they are baked the cookies are covered with a mix of melted dark chocolate and butter and garnished with pistachios or other nuts like hazelnuts.

Spain

Pastissets are powdered sugar cookies, They are prepared with lard, butter, sugar, egg yolks, flour, cinnamon, and grated lemon peel, The dough is rolled and cut into shapes and baked until golden. When done the cookies are cooled and sprinkled with icing sugar.

Portugal

Cavacas de Margaride also called Bolos de gma have a soft egg-based batter flavored with lemon zest and cinnamon. After they are baked they're coated with a thick lemon-flavored glaze.

Asia

Israel

Kichel are light and airy cookies, which gave them the nickname of nothings. They are made with eggs, flour, sugar, salt, oil, and sometimes baking powder. Even though they are sweet they're often eaten with savory dips or chopped herring in South Africa.

Iran

Koloocheh are cookies which are usually round-shaped and consist of a crunchy shell and a sweet, soft interior. The shell is made with plain butter and flour dough and intricately decorated with a traditional stamp pattern. The most common filling is a mix of ground walnuts and suger but dates and grated coconut can be used, The cookies are spices with saffron, rose water, cardamon, cinnamon, or citrus zest.

Philippines

Silvanas are frozen cookie sandwiches that are made with two cashew-meringue waters held together with a thick layer of buttercream and coated with cashew crumbs. They come in flavors like chocolate, strawberry, mocha, or mango. They are best served well-chilled or frozen.

South Korea

Hodu gwaja are walnut cookies that are a winter staple. These cookies consist of a walnut shell prepared with a thin walnut-based batter and a filling that is a combination of walnut pieces and sweet bean paste.

Africa

Morocco

Fekka are traditional twice-baked cookies that come in both sweet and savory versions, They are made with shortbread or yeasted dough and usually enriched with orange blossom water, aniseed, or citrus zest as well as toasted nuts and dried fruit.

Kaab El Ghazal are crescent shaped cookies associated with Morocco. Their name translates as gazelle ankles, but are better known as gazelle horns. These cookies consist of a thin pastry shell that is wrapped around a sweet cinnamon-flavored almond filling. Both the filling and the pastry dough are enriched with orange blossom water, The cookies can be coated with crushed nuts or dipped in orange blossom water and dusted with sugar.

Australia

Iced VoVos are classic biscuits made with wheat flour and topped with a strip of raspberry jam and two strips of pink fondant. When done they are sprinkled with coconut. These biscuits have been trademarked by Arnott's biscuit company since 1906.

New Zealand

Krispies are popular toasted biscuits consisting of wheat flour, sugar, and coconut. It is commercially produced by Griffin's Foods, a company that also makes another variety of the biscuits that are coated in chocolate. Krispies have a crunchy texture and are characterized by a toasted coconut flavor.