Yoshi Cookie

Yoshi Cookies are the favorite snack of the Yoshis. They are featured as a special item in various Mario titles and also come in a variety of shapes including flowers, hearts, squares, circles and even Yoshi's face. Some cookies have jelly in their centers or carry a checkerboard design.

Yoshi's Cookie
In their debut title Yoshi's Cookie, a puzzle game, Yoshi Cookies enter from either the top or side of the screen as Mario, dressed as a baker, pulls a lever. The plot of the game, in a fashion similar to Tetris or Dr. Mario, is to clear them out as Mario continues to fill the screen with more cookies. This done by pressing the A button and shifting an entire row of cookies. Once a row is, either horizontally or vertically, filled with the same kind of cookie, it is cleared from the screen. The cookie shaped like a Yoshi head acted like any kind of cookie.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Mario and Yoshi are required to bring Yoshi Cookies to Boshi in exchange for a race. Yoshi Cookies can also be used in battle where they summon Yoshi to eat an enemy and defeat it completely. Sometimes it awards Mario an item as well. However, some enemies and bosses can not be eaten by Yoshi; if so, Yoshi gives Mario a Yoshi Candy or returns another Yoshi Cookie back.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Yoshi Cookies were originally going to appear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii but were scrapped for unknown reasons. They had similar effects in the game as a Berry.

Super Mario Galaxy 2
The checked Yoshi Cookies make a cameo in Super Mario Galaxy 2 in Sweet Mystery Galaxy. They can be revealed from inside some of the chocolate box platforms when using a Bulb Berry with Yoshi.

Super Mario 3D Land
In this game, they make a very small cameo. In World 3-5, checkered Yoshi cookies appear as platforms.

Paper Mario series
In Paper Mario, if Mario gives Tayce T. a Melon and a Cake Mix, she will make a single Yoshi Cookie. This item restores fifteen HP and fifteen FP. The Yellow Yoshi in Yoshi's Village has a Melon if Mario brings him any type of food made with Cake Mix. This item can be sold for twenty coins. Another type of Yoshi Cookie named Big Cookie was also appeared in the game. The Sweet Cookie Snack from Super Paper Mario and the Zess Cookie from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, as well as the Big Cookie from Paper Mario somewhat resembles Yoshi Cookies.

''Game & Watch Gallery 4
In Game & Watch Gallery 4, the modern version of Mario's Cement Factory replaces cement making with cookie making. The cookies are from Yoshi's Cookie. If Yoshi gets the Yoshi Cookies from the top sent by Mario, he will instead eat the Yoshi Cookies instead of packaging them. If the Yoshi Cookies are sent to Toad at the right side, he will package them. Interestedly, the Yoshi Cookies fit in the packages whole.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, the battle arena Cookie Land is shaped like a cookie and has a variety of Yoshi Cookies in the background. This stage reappears in Mario Kart Wii as a Retro Arena.

''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time in Yoshi's Island of the past, Kamek searches for cookies for Baby Bowser. When Kamek gives them to him, Baby Bowser eats too fast, chokes and drinks some milk. Luigi takes four Yoshi Cookies that Kamek dropped and gives one to Baby Luigi immediately. Later, he gives two cookies to Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to calm them down after entering Yoob's Belly. Luigi gave Baby Luigi the last cookie at the very end of the game, in exchange for Baby Luigi's Hammer.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Checkered Yoshi Cookies make a small cameo appearance in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. They are one of the various sweets that fall from the sky during Luigi's Snack Basket move. Luigi has to collect these snacks in order to do more damage.

''Tetris DS
In Tetris DS, Yoshi Cookies appear in the Puzzle Mode, which is based of the NES version of Yoshi's Cookie. They appear in the glass tube that forms the bottom and right edges, where they are constantly moving. They also appear on the Touch Screen of the same mode, forming a certain pattern in the background, and also in the foreground, where Yoshi is seen eating a heap of Yoshi cookies in the middle.