What are the main types of cookies? Only experienced pastry chefs can answer this question. As for ordinary housewives, most often they do not know such information. Therefore, we decided to devote this article to this topic.
Sweet Product Overview
Before you name all the existing types of cookies, it should be said what is this sweet and very tasty product.
A cookie is a small confectionery baked from dough. To prepare the basis for such a sweetness, various grains are sometimes added to it.
The dessert in question is usually formed in the form of small circles. Although it can often be found in the form of squares, tubes and stars. In some cases, cookies, including homemade ones, are made using toppings. As it is used chocolate, raisins, condensed milk or some kind of cream. By the way, very often such a filling is placed directly between two baked products.
All types of cookies (names)
In modern confectionery, there are many ways of how to independently make the treat in question. Depending on the recipe for this dessert, as well as the consistency of the selected test, all types of cookies are divided into the following:
- dry or lingering;
- sugar
- rich.
It should be noted that the latter can be flaky, oat, sand or whipped.
All these types of cookies can be easily prepared independently. To do this, there is no need to purchase overseas products, as they are made from completely affordable and simple ingredients.
Methods of industrial preparation of the basis for cookies
As mentioned above, all types of cookies differ in the method of preparation of their dough. Therefore, in the process of creating a particular treat, you should definitely pay attention to its basis.
So, to make sugar cookies, you need to knead the sugar dough. In the flow-mechanized production of this dessert, continuously operating kneading machines are usually used. A feature of this test is that about 10-13 different types of raw materials are used for its preparation.
In the process of continuous mixing of the base, all of them must be dosed into the automatic machine in the required ratio (according to the recipe).
Sugar cookies are very tasty and fragrant. It is characterized by significant porosity, brittleness and swelling. Usually on the front surface of such a treat there is a picture. It is ensured thanks to the special production of plastic dough, which has an easily tearing consistency.
What is remarkable and how is lingering cookies made? Such a treat has a layered structure. Moreover, it has less swelling and brittleness, and also contains less fat and sugar. This dessert is produced from an elastic-elastic base by means of highly mechanized production lines of high productivity.
What is the difference between long dough and sugar? As mentioned above, the first base has elastic properties. To obtain a dough with such a structure during its kneading, it is necessary to create conditions for complete and better swelling of gluten proteins. Such conditions are predetermined by the technological parameters of the preparation of the base and the recipe composition of raw materials. It should also be noted that in a protracted test, the sugar content is almost two times less than in sugar. At the same time, its humidity is almost 1.5 times higher.
As for butter biscuits, it is available in various forms. Such a delicacy is small. It is prepared from dough, which can have completely different properties and contain a large amount of fat, sugar and egg products.
Structure
Now you know what types of cookies exist. A photo of this treat is presented in this article.
In fact, cookies without any additional fillings of additives are practically no different from bread. It is made from dough, which is made using a small amount of eggs, sugar and butter.
Flour, which is the basis of cookies, contains a huge amount of vegetable proteins and carbohydrates. This dessert also includes fats and fiber.
There are practically no vitamins in the base after baking.
Almost everyone loves cookies. This is a delicious pastry. It does not represent such a concentrated sweetness as sweets, so it is great for any sweet table.
Varieties
In addition to types of cookies, which depend on the type of dough, experts classify it by grades. Among them, the following are especially popular: almond, bagels, oatmeal, brushwood, brownie, biscuit, krumkake, Madeleine, curabier, rosette, savoyardi, saber, pignoli, gingerbread man, polvoron, tayaki and others.