Cookies Word Search
Cookies spread while they bake because the butter melts before the dough sets, which is why chilled dough holds a rounder shape. The words mix familiar kinds of cookie with the terms bakers use.
Cookies word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- chips
- dough
- ginger
- macaroon
- oatmeal
- oven
- peanut
- shortbread
- sprinkles
- sugar
Cookies word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- biscotti
- chips
- dough
- ginger
- icebox
- macaroon
- oatmeal
- oven
- peanut
- sandwich
- shortbread
- snickerdoodle
- sprinkles
- sugar
- wafer
Cookies word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- biscotti
- chips
- cookie sheet
- cutter
- dough
- ginger
- gingerbread
- icebox
- macaroon
- molasses
- oatmeal
- oven
- peanut
- sandwich
- shortbread
- snickerdoodle
- sprinkles
- sugar
- thumbprint
- wafer
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Words in the Cookies word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- sugar
- The sweetener that helps cookies brown and spread
- dough
- The soft flour mixture cookies are shaped from
- oven
- The heated box where cookies bake and set
- chips
- Small chocolate pieces that hold their shape while baking
- oatmeal
- Rolled oats give these cookies a chewy texture
- peanut
- Peanut butter cookies are often marked with fork lines
- ginger
- A warm spicy root used in many holiday cookies
- shortbread
- A crumbly Scottish cookie made mostly of butter
- macaroon
- A chewy cookie built from coconut or ground almonds
- sprinkles
- Tiny colored sugar bits pressed onto cookie tops
- snickerdoodle
- A soft cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking
- biscotti
- An Italian cookie baked twice so it turns crisp
- wafer
- A very thin crisp cookie, often layered with cream
- sandwich
- Two cookies joined by a filling in the middle
- icebox
- Dough chilled in a log, then sliced and baked
- thumbprint
- A cookie with a jam filled dent pressed by thumb
- gingerbread
- A spiced cookie often cut into people or houses
- molasses
- Thick dark syrup that keeps spice cookies soft
- cookie sheet
- A flat rimless pan made for baking cookies
- cutter
- A shaped metal or plastic form that cuts rolled dough
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