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Also Known As	sweet biscuit

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Rows of black-and-white cookies on display in a bakery, each round shortbread cookie topped with half vanilla and half chocolate fondant icing.

Assorted Christmas gingerbread cookies decorated with white and colored icing, including a gingerbread man, houses, a tree, and a snowflake, arranged on a wooden surface.

Commercially manufactured foods, including cookies, doughnuts, and muffins, often contain trans fats.

The video thumbnail image shows a collage of Queen Elizabeth I holding up a gingerbread man, surrounded by ginger cake, a gingerbread pig, gingerbread house, and heart-shaped gingerbread cookies.

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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

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Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food

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Donuts, muffins, and cookies

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Slices of lemon pie topped with meringue.

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Chocolate wrapped in foil

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Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)

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