Cookie

Cookies were small bite-sized sweet handfoods often available from taverns, bakeries, and street vendors across the Realms and favored by the sweet-toothed hin. "In Al Qahara at the desert's edge, they make a concoction out of flour, chicken's eggs, sugar, and cow’s butter, which they mix together into a sort of paste. Then they add small pieces of chocolate, which they bring on camel-back from ancient Okoth. They bake small circles of this paste on an ungreased pan. They call this a "cookie," I've been told. Because you cook it, I suppose. Things you boil, perhaps they are called "boilies" in that language."

- Gaspar-shen

Description
Cookies were usually backed in small clumps of dough or batter that spread and flattened whilst in the oven. They often were made with chocolate, oats, butterscotch, cinnamon, or just plain butter and sugar.

Availability

 * Al Qahara, an elven town in Raurin had a cookie recipe with chocolate chips imported from Okoth, the Empire of the Shimmering Sun.
 * Athkatla's tavern called Harfin Draether served delectable sugar cookies that were meant to make the rest of the repulsive meals served there more palatable.
 * In Baldur's Gate, one could purchase delicious cinnamon cookies, along with many other confections beloved by many.
 * Melcher, a tiny village in the Veilstone Peaks, held a secret recipe for restorative magical cookies. Xamine, who resided there sometime in the early- to mid–14 century DR, was making black cookies out of herbs and minerals that had a potent effect similar to the neutralize poison spell, and green cookies imbued with magics similar to the effects of a potion of extra healing.
 * Spellhold's caretaker, Lonk the Sane, considered cookie-baking to be one of his fortes.
 * Some of Waterdeep's residents knew how to make cookies, favored by children and hin.

Trivia

 * Khelben Arunsun was partial to good cookies.
 * Jarlaxle liked them as well.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Nightmare Keep (adventure) &bull; Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus


 * Novels
 * The Best of the Realms: Empty Joys


 * Once Around the Realms &bull; Road of the Patriarch &bull; The Rose of Sarifal


 * Video Games


 * Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (game)


 * Gamebooks


 * Knight of the Living Dead &bull; To Catch a Thief