then carefully piped or molded for
baking. Examples are ladyfingers and
madeleines.
Bar cookies, shaped after baking, not
before. They’re cut from the thin cake-
like mass produced when the batter is
baked in a shallow pan. Date and nut bars
and brownies are examples.
Icebox cookies, formed by slicing cross-
sections from a premade cylinder of
dough kept in the refrigerator for use
when needed. Many cookie doughs can
be treated this way.Thanks to their small size, thinness, and high
sugar content, cookies quickly brown at oven
temperatures. Their bottoms and edges may
get too dark while the centers finish cooking,
a problem that can be minimized by lowering
the oven temperature and using light baking
sheets that reflect radiant heat, rather than
dark ones that absorb it. Slight underbaking