Gourmet Cookies are higher quality and more rare then regular cookies such as chocolate chip, peanut butter, or butter cookies. Gourmet Cookies use higher quality ingredients such as higher quality chocolate, dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa in place of semi-sweet, replace raisins with dried cherries or blueberries, or include macadamia nuts in place of peanuts. Light batters can be used, like meringues, and hand rolled are typical Gourmet cookies styles. Gourmet Cookies can be found at New York City Bakeshops. Gourmet Cookies are often hand decorated for holidays, events and birthdays. Gourmet cookies can be decorated in sparkly sanding sugar or coarse sugar crystals for shimmery finish. Cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar or a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa powder for crackle-style cookies. Melted dark, milk or white chocolate can be a decoration used in gourmet cookies with a chocolate drizzle. Many gourmet cookie makers use glazes, royal icing or butter cream in place of chocolate as a cookie decoration and typically offer interesting flavor combinations. They may use techniques such as orange zest and white chocolate in double chocolate cookie recipes or dark chocolate with blueberries for a different flavor.