Creative Biscuit

When peoples from Europe began to emigrate to the United States, the two words and their "same but different" meanings began to clash. After the American War of Independence against the British, the word cookie became the word of choice to mean a hard, twice-baked product.
Further confusion has been added by the adoption of the word biscuit for a small leavened bread popular in the United States.
Today, according to American English dictionary Merriam-Webster:
• A cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake".