Cookies are bakery products characterized by high sugar and fat
contents and low in moisture. Sugar-snap cookies are obtained
from a dough which mainly consists of wheat flour, sugar and fat.
Wheat flour is the major ingredient but the quantities of fat and
sugar solution present in the system create a plastic and cohesive
dough with minimal formation of gluten network and thus a lack of
elasticity. In this type of products, there is no continuous protein
matrix, as moisture content is rather low (Manley, 2000a), and
sugar and fat contents are elevated. Sugar delivers sweetness and
influences the structural and textural properties of cookies. It plays
a leading role in cookie spread, since during baking, the undissolved
sugar progressively dissolves resulting in higher quantities
of solvent phase, and, as a consequence, in higher spread rates
(Hoseney, 1994; Pareyt et al., 2009). Moreover, it has an influence
on cookie hardness, crispness, color, and volume. Fat is the