Ways to use this list
- Cookie swap: each guest spins a different cookie, bakes two dozen and goes home with a mixed box of everyone else's.
- Bake sale: spin four from Easy to make so the table has variety without anyone attempting macarons the night before.
- Winter decorating party: tap Winter baking, bake the shapes the day before, and let children ice and sprinkle them.
- Tea break test: spin British biscuits and time which one survives longest when dunked in a mug of tea.
- Cookie of the month club: bake one new type each month and tick it off with Remove the winner until the list is done.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (51 entries)
- Chocolate chip
- Double chocolate
- Oatmeal raisin
- Oatmeal chocolate chip
- Peanut butter
- Sugar cookies
- Snickerdoodles
- Shortbread
- Gingerbread
- Ginger snaps (ginger nuts)
- Molasses cookies
- White chocolate macadamia
- Butter cookies
- Thumbprint cookies
- Jam drops
- Linzer cookies
- Biscotti
- Macarons
- Coconut macaroons
- Madeleines
- Amaretti
- Florentines
- Pizzelle
- Spritz cookies
- Snowball cookies
- Crinkle cookies
- Black and white cookies
- Fortune cookies
- Anzac biscuits
- Melting moments
- Custard creams
- Bourbon biscuits
- Digestives
- Rich tea
- Garibaldi
- Nankhatai
- Alfajores
- Polvorones
- Speculoos
- Stroopwafels
- Lebkuchen
- Pfeffernüsse
- No-bake cookies
- Monster cookies
- Cowboy cookies
- Lemon cookies
- Red velvet cookies
- Sablés
- Langues de chat
- Pinwheel cookies
- Brownie cookies
Questions people ask
What is the difference between a macaron and a macaroon?
A macaron is a French sandwich of two smooth almond-meringue shells around a filling such as ganache or buttercream. A macaroon is a chewy mound of shredded coconut and egg white, often dipped in chocolate. One extra "o", and a completely different cookie.
What are the main types of cookies?
Bakers group them by how the dough is shaped: drop cookies spooned onto the tray, rolled and cut-out cookies, moulded cookies shaped by hand, pressed cookies piped through a press, icebox cookies sliced from a chilled log, bar cookies baked in a tin, and no-bake cookies.
Is a cookie the same as a biscuit?
Mostly. What Americans call cookies, the British call biscuits, and in the UK a "cookie" usually means the big, soft chocolate chip kind. In the US a biscuit is something else entirely: a soft, scone-like bread roll served warm.
What is a snickerdoodle?
A soft sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. Cream of tartar in the dough gives it a gentle tang, a chewy middle and a crackled top, and it is one of the easiest cookies for a first-time baker.
Which types of cookies start with O?
Oatmeal raisin and oatmeal chocolate chip are the classics, and both are on the wheel. Orange shortbread and oat and honey cookies are easy extras to add to the list if you are playing an A to Z baking game.