@hingehead,
Hmmm.
I guess to identify the general shape and concept, a patty of some sort.
Like a hamburger would be a ground beef patty.
We have a thing called a patty melt that instead of on a bun, it's served on buttered grilled bread.
Those sausage meat cookies I pictured would be called breakfast sausage patties, as oppposed to breakfast sausage links.
So funny, they are the same thing in a different shape, but most everyone has a preference for one or the other.
Well, except for wives who do the grocery shopping. They just buy whatever their husbands prefer.
This is a particularly fine looking patty melt....