What Brits call a biscuit (6)

I believe the answer is:

(Other definitions for cookie that I've seen before include "Piece of text that a website puts into a computer" , "Computing identifier; biscuit (American)" , "Identifying data; biscuit" , "Something for coffee break" , "US biscuit, Scottish bun" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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