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.[7][2]
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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.
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— Gaspar-shen[5]
Description[]
Cookies were usually baked in small clumps of dough or batter that spread and flattened whilst in the oven. They often were made with chocolate, oats, butterscotch,[7] cinnamon,[3] or just plain butter and sugar.[1] During the baking process they could be cut into particular shapes using a molding tool that was referred to as a "cookie cutter".[8][9]
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Happy Boo and a stolen cookie.
- Al Qahara, an elven town in Raurin had a cookie recipe with chocolate chips imported from Okoth, the Empire of the Shimmering Sun.[5]
- 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.[1]
- In Baldur's Gate, one could purchase delicious cinnamon cookies, along with many other confections beloved by many.[3]
- 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–14th 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.[4]
- In Neverwinter, during its annual celebration of Liar's Night, grand festival called Masquerade of Liars, decadent dark underdark cookies were among many treats served.[10]
- Spellhold's caretaker, Lonk the Sane, considered cookie-baking to be one of his fortes.[6]
- In Ten Towns, Lonelywood's Speaker, Nimsy Huddle, baked halfling-shaped cookies for the Council of Speakers as well for helpful adventurers.[11]
- Some of Waterdeep's residents knew how to make cookies, favored by children and hin.[2]
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- Khelben Arunsun was partial to good cookies.[12]
- Jarlaxle liked them as well.[13]
Gallery[]
A scant serving of cookies for a halfling.
Appearances[]
Adventures
Novels & Short Stories
The Best of the Realms: "Empty Joys"
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ed Greenwood (July 2000). Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II. Edited by Duane Maxwell, David Noonan. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 18. ISBN 0-7869-1626-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Matt Forbeck (2018-08-07). To Catch a Thief. (Candlewick Entertainment), p. 2. ISBN 978-1536200669.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Adam Lee, et al. (September 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Edited by Michele Carter, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 179. ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rick Swan (1991). Nightmare Keep. (TSR, Inc), p. 11. ISBN 1-5607-6147-4.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Paulina Claiborne (May 2012). The Rose of Sarifal. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 14, p. ?. ISBN 0786930268.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 BioWare (September 2000). Designed by James Ohlen, Kevin Martens. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. Black Isle Studios.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Michael Witwer (October 2020). Heroes' Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook. (Ten Speed Press), p. 135. ISBN 978-1-9848-5890-0.
- ↑ Dave Schnur (March 1995). How Long Can You Tread Water?. Living City (RPGA), pp. 12, 24.
- ↑ Certificates included in Jean Rabe (June 1997). Aethalynmur's Wings. Living City (RPGA).
- ↑ Liquid Entertainment (2011). Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter. Facebook.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins (September 2020). Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. Edited by Kim Mohan. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0786966981.
- ↑ Brian Thomsen (1995). Once Around the Realms. (TSR, Inc), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-0119-5.
- ↑ R.A. Salvatore (November 2003). “Empty Joys”. In Philip Athans ed. The Best of the Realms (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-3024-1.