National Cookie Day
National Cookie Day:
National Cookie day is celebrated on December 4.
Year | Date | Day | Where |
2021 | 4th December | Saturday | United States |
2022 | 4th December | Sunday | United States |
2023 | 4th December | Monday | United States |
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Related: Other National Days Celebrated on December 4th:
Why National Cookie Day?
Imagine a life without tasty and mouth-watering cookies! These lifeless but indispensable delicious cookies deserve a special thanks for making our special days more ecstatic. Thank god we have a day to celebrate the existence of these scrumptious delightful cookies. From soft plushy pudding or the crunchy waffles, cooky love is celebrated almost everywhere. Even though you feel that guilt in your stomach after having some nibbles from your favorite cookie. However, cookies have some great health benefits. You’ll be amazed to know that Godfrey Keebler opened his own bakery in 1853. Cookies are being appreciated since ancient times. In 1963, Chips Ahoy debuted their first cookie brand. The most loved oreo cookies date back to the 1900s. They were first prepared as a knockoff. Whether it be the perfect date evening or your heart-wrenching breakup night, be it the birth of your baby or wedding, cookies have always been the savior. Cookie day is celebrated to pay tribute to these little munchkins who have always been there with us in our ups and downs. Thus, this day into being. Guilt and binge eating have their own flex. You would be glad to know cookies have amazing nutritional values. From carbohydrates, starch to proteins to improve your bone health, your favorite biscotto is not so bad!
How Can We Celebrate National Cookie Day:
Celebrating Cookie Day is the best thing that would ever happen to anyone. While there can never be enough ways to celebrate this day, we’ve come with a list of ways that you can rely on to enjoy your dessert.
- Order your favorite cookie:
While nothing compares to trying your own hands on the recipe, if you are a total mess in the kitchen, don’t hesitate to order your favorite cookies to celebrate this day. There’s no hard and fast rule to order extravagant ones, just a cookie, grab a glass of beer, and enjoy your favorite TV show. Easy?
- Visit your favorite cookie shop.
If you’re a core cookie lover, you ought to have one! Don’t miss visiting that favorite corner on this day. Nowadays, cookie shops have beautifully decorated corners for you to enjoy your dessert in an epic environment. Don’t hesitate to treat yourself this day. Thank the cookie bakers of the shop for blessing you with such awesome flavors in your highs and lows. They really need one!
- Show some love
All the Instagram lovers, decorate your Instagram wall by posting lovely pictures of your time with cookies! People post beautiful pictures of their baking experience, favorite cookies, cookie shops, facts about cookies, and a lot more to add sparkle to this day. Don’t forget to add some famous tags like #NationalCookieDay #Homemade #CookieLove #Decorateddiaries #Cookiemonster #FoodPhotography #CookiesAreLife and much exciting ones!
Interesting facts about National Cookie Day:
Grab some pretzels while nibbling some of the tasty factoids here!
- About 50% of Americans prefer homemade cookies.
- In America, 33% of both men and women eat cookies twice a week. (NationalToday.com)
- World’s biggest chocolate cookie weighed around 40,000 pounds!
- The word cookie comes from the Dutch word koekje.
- Oreos are America’s top-selling cookie brand.
- The ancient English women ate gingerbread “husbands” to increase their chances of finding their better half.
- July 9th is celebrated as National Sugar Cookie day.
- Christmas cookies were first made during the medieval period.
- The US is the world leader in baking cookies.
- Us spends around $550 million on preparing oreo cookies.
- Americans can’t contain their love for cookies. A shred of pellucid evidence for this is the National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum located in Joplin, Missouri.
- Hydrox cookies came much before Oreos.
- Unlike Americans, the Japanese don’t love the orthodox combination of milk and oreo.
- Graham crackers were invented to curb the carnal urge.
- Animal crackers were first designed to be hung on the Christmas tree.
History of National Cookie Day:
Although cookies were and are a major part of Americans’ lives, much later did they bother to set aside a day for these delicious mouth-watering number cookies. Let’s narrate the missive of your favorite appetizers- cookies! In a super delicious manner, of course.
Cookies didn’t gather much attention till the year 1976, when they were first featured in Sesame Street’s calendar. At that time, the date decided was November 26. It was not until 1987 when Matt Nadar, who is one of the founders of Blue Chip Cookie Company, declared that cookie day would be celebrated on December 4 every year. It is the massive love for cookies till now the day is celebrated with the same vigor and enthusiasm in the USA and other parts of the world. If you’re one of the cookie lovers, don’t forget to add reminders to celebrate it in the coming years.
Cookies have a very inquisitive history. The cookies Innated in Persia around the 7th century, where sugar became a popular resource and was consumed widely. Cookies then traveled to Europe, where they were consumed widely during the fifteenth century. By the end of the seventeenth century, these scrumptious cookies had made their way into America, where the housewives grasped these easy-to-make recipes of toothsome treats. Earlier, these cookies are more or less simple and made up of fewer ingredients. Now, you will find a copious variety of these cookies contoured with an array of ingredients like raisins, nuts, chocolate, and a lot more. Millions of cookbooks allure the cookie lovers with a wide variety of molded ones, rolled ones, and whatnot. Just beware of not visiting your dentist!
The word cookie is derived from the Dutch word koekje, which means a little cake. Although there are many different days celebrated in the name of cookie day, however, this day is observed on December 4 in the USA.