It’s World Cookie Day and we can’t be keeping calm about our forever beloved addiction- munching on countless cookies with tea or coffee or just about anything- or even nothing- for evening or morning or Christmas or New Year or yet again, for anything and nothing! Such is our love for those crusty bites or for those chewy indulgences that we had to come up with a day to celebrate our forever friend and also munch on a whole lot of them! The world indeed is blessed to have such variety of exotic cookies that you don’t even know about. Here’s expanding our love for our forever constant cookie with some names to remember from around the world so that your cookie indulgent soul does not miss out on some of the most delightful crumbs of cookie delight!
Madeleine
Little cake like cookies from France
Source: Cooking classes in Dallas Plano
Vanillekipferl
Small crescent shaped biscuits made of either walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts and dusted with vanilla sugar
Source: Aline Made
Melomakarona
Traditional Greek honey cookies that are a Christmas specialty
Source: Aglaia Kremezi
Mbatata
Soft and cakey sweet potato cookies from Malawi
Hausfreunde
Classic German cookies made from crisp pastries slathered with apricot jam and sweet almond paste and dipped in rich dark chocolate
Source: Backfee
Vanilice
Serbian tiny vanilla cookies served specially during Christmas
Source: MyTastyPot
Amaretti
Italian almond flavoured biscuits crisp on the outside and chewy in the middle
Source: King Arthur Flour
Kourabiedes
Celebratory Greek butter cookies, served during weddings and/ or Christmas
Source: Bob’s Red Mill
Naan Berenji
Persian rice flour cookies baked especially during the Persian New Year
Source: Fix Feast Flair
Nankhatai
Indian shortbread biscuits that feel crunchy but give way to a melt in the mouth texture
Source: Tasha’s Artisan Foods
Ghraybeh
Melt in your mouth Lebanese butter cookies
Amerikaner
American soft cookies developed by Germans iced half with vanilla icing and the other half with chocolate
Reshteh khoshkar
Deep fried traditional Ramadan cookies from Iran
Brunkager
Danish brown cookies that are another very gorgeous Christmas treat
Cuccidati
Fig stuffed cookies, either Italian or Sicilian, topped with rainbow sprinkles and typically served during Christmas
Zimtsterne
German cinnamon star cookies that are an all time Christmas favorite
Source: The Healthy Tart
Lebkuchen
Gingerbread- like German baked cookie, another Christmas specialty
Source: BBC
Stroopwafels
Wafer cookies with a thin layer of caramel like syrup sandwiched between two cookies from the Netherlands
Alfajores
Dulche de Leche sandwich cookies originating in the Iberian peninsula
Paprenjak
Traditional Croatian biscuits with a unique mix of honey and black pepper
