New Year is just days away, and one of the most popular New Year gifts on sale every year is the box of New Year cookies. Today let's learn the names of each cookie shape.
If you walk through a department store or supermarket during the New Year season, one product you will almost certainly see near the entrance is New Year cookies, stacked high on the shelves, especially the famous red-box cookies that so many people recognize and have surely tasted.
If you have ever received or bought a box of New Year cookies, you will know that each brand's box contains cookies in several different shapes, usually 4–5 of them, and each shape has its own name:
Harvest Moon
A round cookie shaped like a full moon. It has a crisp coconut flavor with a slightly savory note.
Vanilla Ring
A vanilla-flavored butter cookie with a distinctive swirled shape like a bouquet of flowers.
Pretzel
A heart-like butter cookie with three openings, inspired by the shape of the pretzel cake that is a Danish specialty. This cookie is sprinkled with sugar on the outside.
Currant Crunch
A round butter cookie similar to the Harvest Moon, but with a more pronounced buttery flavor and currants sprinkled on top.
Sugar Slide
A square or rectangular cookie with sugar sprinkled on top.
Besides their different shapes, these 5 cookies also differ in flavor and ingredients. But all of them are Danish-style butter cookies, which go perfectly with tea, coffee or milk. That makes them a New Year gift the whole family can enjoy, children and adults alike.
New Year cookies are a classic gift that you are sure to see every New Year season. In fact, they are sold on regular shelves all year round; they just are not displayed as prominently as they are during the holidays. Today, many manufacturers besides the red-box brand are competing in the New Year cookie market.
