Bake Cookies Day
Make a batch of your favorite biscuits, experiment with imaginative cookie cutter shapes or organize a bake sale for charity.
Bake Cookies Day occurs in the middle of the holiday season, and is a great excuse to bake some delicious cookies to help you get through the cold, winter days!
Why not try some cinnamon flavored cookies (such as the snickerdoodle) to get your kitchen smelling of winter festivities?
Or there’s always the classic ‘sugar cookie’ with brightly colored royal icing, silver candy balls and sprinkles, cut into a myriad of seasonal shapes.
Bake Cookies Day is a perfect excuse to indulge in the art (and eating) of cookies of every stripe and measure, especially those that remind you of the season.
How to Celebrate Bake Cookies Day
The most obvious way of celebrating is to bake up a batch or seven of your favorite cookies· Whether it’s one dozen or twelve, Bake Cookies Day is the day to get everything together and fill your house with the joy of the holidays!
Support a Charity with Cookies
Now, if you’re looking to do more, than you can organize a charity bake-off where people pay a small fee to come in and sample all the cookies and vote on them, and the prize goes to a charity of the winners choice·
Get Creative with Cookies
Cookies come in all different shapes and sizes – and flavours. Think of a gingerbread man, or woman, that’s a cookie! So is a macaroon, that light, layered, yummy, coconut-y biscuit.
When it comes to making cookies the imagination is the limit. Some of the best well known have been invented by creative bakers with an interest in breaking the mold.
The chocolate chip cookie, for instance, was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938, whilst they owned a popular inn in Massachusetts. Their inn featured home baking and they wanted to try something new. Aren’t we all glad they did.
Experimenting with the cookie cutter, and with your ingredients is a fun way to generate interest in your cookies and get people sharing. But how easy is it to do?
After all classic hits like the chocolate chip cookie don’t emerge from the oven every day. Truthfully, inventing cookies is an arduous business, at least it was for Ruth and Sue, who didn’t have the benefit of so many tried and tested formulas. They had to rely on trial and error.
Luckily you don’t have to waste tons of ingredients experimenting with yours. Simply choose a cookie recipe from an easy to use cookbook and follow it.
The trick here is to tweak the recipe to your liking, or wherever your adventurous mind wants to go; as long as you get the basics of your recipe right, your experimental cookie will turn out A-ok!
Give the Gift Of Cookies
Cookies are made to be shared. No-one wants to eat a whole batch of cookies on their own like a blue furry monster with a big appetite.
It’s so good when a friend or stranger takes a bite of a cookie we’ve made, and loves it! Even better if said cookie was invented by our own ideas.
Share the love. Neighbours will remember the warm-hearted gesture if you deliver a box of homemade cookies to them on Bake Cookies Day. If you can’t share cookies today, then when can you?
Host a Cookie Party
Bake Cookies Day is the perfect excuse to have a gathering. Invite your friends and family around to help you bake up a few batches of a traditional recipe, or an invented one.
Stay out of the cold and warm yourself up with hot chocolate and pumpkin spice lattes.
Get Inspired with Cookies
Remember Bake Cookies Day doesn’t have to be only one day of the year. Use it as a springboard to inspire your baking imagination at other times of the year as well. After all, different seasons require different cookies!
History of Bake Cookies Day
Cookies arrived in America in the 17th century, although the word arrived much later with the Dutch in its original form of “koekje”, meaning “little cake”.
This was soon shortened to “cooky” or “cookie”, although cookies themselves seem to date back as far as 7th century Persia! Since then they’ve become a global phenomena that come in more varieties, flavors, and styles than you can possibly imagine.
From fruit filled cookies to the simple but delectable sugar cookie (Yep, got a sugar cookie fixation, tis the season!), these “little cakes” are simply the most amazing thing to come out of an oven since bread·
Every year people get together to celebrate Bake Cookies Day by baking dozens of cookies for charity drives, orphanages, and generally bringing joy to family and friends everywhere.
Bake Cookies Day was founded with a purpose that is written write in the name: encouraging people all over the world to enjoy baking (and eating!) cookies.
Bake Cookies Day FAQs
What’s the connection between cookies and space exploration?
In 2019, astronauts baked the first cookies in space aboard the International Space Station, using a special zero-gravity oven. The experiment aimed to study the impact of baking in microgravity.
How did cookies become a Christmas tradition?
The cookie tradition during Christmas traces back to medieval Europe, where spices like cinnamon and nutmeg were used in celebratory treats.
These were often shaped into stars or animals to symbolize the season.
What are some unique cookie traditions around the world?
In Sweden, “fika” is a daily social coffee break accompanied by cookies like “småkakor.” In Mexico, “polvorones” are enjoyed during weddings and holidays, symbolizing warmth and togetherness.
Is it true that fortune cookies originated in China?
Contrary to popular belief, fortune cookies were invented in California by Japanese immigrants in the early 20th century, not in China.
What is the significance of the chocolate chip cookie in Massachusetts?
In 1997, Massachusetts designated the chocolate chip cookie as its official state cookie, honoring its creation at the Toll House Inn in the 1930s.
How do Australians incorporate cookies into their traditions?
Australians enjoy Anzac biscuits, named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
These cookies, made with oats and golden syrup, are traditionally baked to commemorate Anzac Day on April 25th.
What is the story behind the invention of chocolate chip cookies?
In 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides of the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts created the first chocolate chip cookie by adding chopped Nestlé chocolate into cookie dough, expecting it to melt.
Instead, the chocolate held its shape, leading to the beloved treat.
Are there any myths associated with cookies?
A common myth is that graham crackers were invented solely to curb carnal urges.
In reality, they were part of a diet proposed by Sylvester Graham to promote temperance and curb various unhealthy habits.
What’s the world’s most expensive cookie?
A New York bakery crafted the “Golden Empire Cookie” with truffle dough, gold leaf, and a diamond center. It cost $1,000 per piece.
What is the largest cookie ever made?
In 2003, the Immaculate Baking Company in North Carolina baked a chocolate chip cookie weighing over 40,000 pounds, setting a world record.
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