Pour the mixture onto the crumb base and place the tin on a cookie sheet.
Remove the cookie sheet from the freezer and cover each ice cream-topped cake with the meringue.
Place the cookie sheet in the freezer while making the meringue.
Mold dough in balls size of walnut and press slightly on cookie sheet.
1703, American English, from Dutch koekje "little cake," diminutive of koek "cake," from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). Slang application to persons attested since 1920. Phrase that's the way the cookie crumbles "that's the way things happen" is from 1957.
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gripe one's ass, that's the way the ball bounces, tough cookie