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A cookie is a bak ed or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour , sugar , egg, and some type of oil , fat , or butter . It may include other ingredients such as raisins , oats , chocolate chips , nuts, etc. In most English-speaking countries except for the United States, crunchy cookies are called biscuits . Many Canadians also use this term. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. [3] Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars. Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits , such as custard creams , Jammie Dodgers , Bourbons and Oreos , with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with be...