This article is about the food. For the computer term see HTTP cookie. For other uses see Cookie .
Chocolate chip cookie
In the United States and Canada a cookie is a small flat-baked treat containing milk flour eggs and sugar etc. In most English-speaking countries outside North America the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used while in others the two words have different meaningsa cookie is a plain bun in Scotland 1 while in the United States a biscuit is a kind of quick bread similar to a scone.
