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CHIP, CHIP, HOORAY! BE A SMART COOKIE BY LEARNING EVERYTHING ABOUT NATIONAL COOKIE DAY
Nothing quite compares to the scent of cookies baking in the oven. We can barely wait for them to cool off before indulging in a warm cookie (or two!). We love cookies so much that we don’t mind getting our hands caught in the cookie jar, cookie tin, or cookie box.
Whether you’re a milk and cookies snack person, an eat cookies for breakfast kind of person, or a dunk-your-cookies-into-milk or coffee cookie connoisseur, we have the best batches of cookies.
National Cookie Day is December 4. Here’s everything you need to know to celebrate COOKIES!
When is National Cookie Day?
National Cookie Day is celebrated annually on December 4. It’s a food holiday that celebrates these iconic handheld treats baked with flour, sugar, and fat. Cookies can be chewy, crispy, or soft. The average American eats 200 cookies each year.
History of National Cookie Day
National Cookie Day was first declared by none other than Sesame Street‘s Cookie Monster in 1976. The blue Muppet put it on the calendar on November 26, 1976 and reconfirmed the holiday in a 1980s children’s book.
Matt Nader of San Francisco’s Blue Chip Cookie Company, which claims to have baked the first white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, began celebrating #NationalCookieDay on December 4, 1987 and the rest is delicious history.
Cookies have been around for centuries. The English word for “cookie” comes from the Dutch “koekje” (“little cake”), but it was the Persians that first baked cookies in the seventh century.
Additional cookie holidays to put on your calendar include:
- March 6: National Oreo Cookie Day
- April 30: National Oatmeal Cookie Day
- May 9: National Cookie Dough Day
- June 12: National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
- July 9: National Sugar Cookie Day
- August 4: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
- October 1: National Homemade Cookies Day
- November 21: National Gingerbread Cookie Day
Where Can You Get Free Cookies on National Cookie Day?
You can get free cookies on National Cookie Day at many places, including national cookie chains like Great American Cookies, Chip City, and Insomnia Cookies. Oftentimes, the cookies are given free with any in-store purchase or to reward program members for their loyalty.
How to Celebrate National Cookie Day
There are many ways to celebrate the most a-dough-able food holiday, National Cookie Day. Of course, you can eat cookies or bake a batch of cookies. You can also host a cookie swap or charity bake sale at work or school. It’s also a perfect opportunity to support local cookie shops and bakeries or try a new flavor or type of cookie.
Famous Cookie Bakeries Across America
Don’t delete these cookies. Bake your day with cookies from America’s most famous cookie bakeries.
Levain Bakery – New York City
In 1995, Levain Bakery founders Pam Weekes and Connie MacDonald desired to bake bread, but it was a decision to bake a batch of giant chocolate chip walnut cookies and serve them warm that put them on the map.
For decades, New Yorkers and cookie lovers world-wide have queued for Levain Bakery’s massive 6 oz. cookies. Each rich cookie is perfectly crisp on the outside, satisfyingly soft on the inside, and packed with chocolate morsels.
Big Fat Cookie – Chicago
Costume jeweler Linda Friend opened big.fat.cookie to bring her creativity to the kitchen in the form of colossal cookies. Each cookie is crunchy on the outside, melty on the inside, and flavorful to the last crumb.
As its name suggests, the Chicago cookie shop bakes batches of big, fat cookies in flavors like:
- Chocolate Pumpkin with a pumpkin chip cookie base with white and semi-sweet chocolate chips slathered in cinnamon sugar
- Oreo Cookie Surprise with an Oreo and chocolate chip cookie base and a sprinkle surprise
- Vanilla & Cookie Surprise with a vanilla bean and Oreo cookie base, rainbow sprinkles, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and rainbow M&M’s
Cookie Good – Los Angeles
Los Angeles’ Cookie Good has been baking up some of the best cookies ever since 2008. Founded by Melanie and Ross Canter, this family-run cookie shop makes their cookies with the finest ingredients like Callebaut & Van Leer chocolate, Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla, and AA sweet creamery butter.
We betcha never tasted cookie flavors like:
- Caramel-Pretzel Chocolate Chunk: a salty-sweet cookie with chocolate chips, dark chocolate chunks, caramel, pretzels, and a sprinkling of crunchy pretzel salt
- Chocolate Glazed Donut: a nutmeg-spiked donut cookie with chocolate glaze and colorful sprinkles
- Goldbelly Sugar: a sugar cookie with light vanilla glaze, gold sprinkles, and sparkly, gold sanding sugar
Chip City Cookies – New York
What started as a 2017 cookie bake-off between two friends, Peter Phillips and Theodore Gailas, has turned into a cookie-bakery sensation. Since opening their first shop in Astoria, Queens, Chip City has quickly grown into a multi-state cookie company.
Each 4-in. cookie is a hefty 6 ounces. These buttery, ooey-gooey cookies come in classic and fun flavors like Chocolate Chip, Confetti, and Oatmeal Apple Pie.
Read More: Meet the Maker: Theodore Gailas, Chip City Cookies
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