Cookies

Cookies are a cooked dish that can be eaten for energy and health, and they are one of the many recipes counted toward the Cooking achievements. Like other food items, they can also be used in some crafting and special interactions rather than only being eaten.

A Cookie has a few notable secondary uses. It is used in the sewing machine spool to create a Shirt, and it can be used as an orange dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley’s house. In addition, placing a Cookie on a table or long table during Winter 24, the eve of the Feast of the Winter Star, will cause it to be exchanged overnight for a Mystery Box. If multiple tables have Cookies on them, only one of them will be replaced.

Cookies are also subject to the normal food-buff rules: only one food buff can be active at a time, and eating another buff food replaces the current food buff. If a Cookie has no buff effect, it will not overwrite an existing food buff. Food buffs can still stack with drink buffs, since drinks are handled separately. If cooked with Qi Seasoning, Cookies will be upgraded to Gold quality like other cooked foods, which increases their health and energy restoration and raises their sell price.

A few cooking and inventory details matter when making or using Cookies:

• Recipes search for ingredients in a fixed order: first the player’s inventory, then the main refrigerator, then any Mini-Fridges.
• The game checks ingredient slots from the bottom right toward the top left, so item placement can affect which ingredients get consumed.
• Qi Seasoning in inventory, the refrigerator, or a Mini-Fridge is used automatically when cooking.
• During Qi’s Cuisine, freshly cooked items are marked with “Fresh” in their names and do not stack with versions cooked before the quest started.

Cookies also count as a cooked item for the Cooking achievements, which require 10, 25, and then every recipe in the game. Since the game has 81 dishes in total, completion of the full set contributes toward Gourmet Chef.