December 18#: Bake Cookies Day

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Bake Cookies Day is on December 18, just in time for Christmas.
Cookies are more than just a baked treat, with generations bonding over it.
Make your favorite biscuits, or experiment with imaginative cookie cutter shapes!
This day is a great excuse to bake some delicious cookies to help you get through the cold, winter days!
Why not try some cinnamon or ginger flavored cookies to get your kitchen smelling of winter festivities?
Or there’s always the classic cookie with brightly colored royal icing, silver candy balls and sprinkles, cut into a myriad of seasonal shapes, or with sugar, spices, dried fruit, chocolate, the list of options goes on
Bake Cookies Day is your excuse to indulge in the art (and eating) of cookies of every stripe and measure, especially those that remind you of the season.

Cookies arrived in America in the 17th century, although their current word arrived much later with the Dutch in its original form of “koekje”, literally meaning “little cake”.
This was soon shortened to “cooky” or “cookie”, although cookies themselves seem to date back as far as 7th century Persia!
And, since then, it’s history and they’ve become a global phenomena that come in more varieties, flavors, and styles than you can possibly imagine.
Two recipes for cookies debuted in the first cookbook written by an American that was published in the United States. ‘American Cookery,’ authored by Amelia Simmons in 1796, included two recipes; the first titled ‘Cookies’ and the other ‘Christmas Cookie.’
From fruit filled cookies to the simple but delectable sugar cookie, they are simply the most amazing thing to come out of an oven since bread.
The most obvious way of celebrating is to bake up your favorite cookies!
Cookies are one of those few treats you can make where your imagination is the limit.
Bakers with a creative streak to break the mold have invented some of the most well-loved cookies we eat today. For example, the chocolate-chip cookie was invented by Sue Brides and Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1938, who owned a popular inn in Massachusetts, featuring in-house baking that ultimately led them to try something new.
So get baking and fill your house with the aroma of warm, soft and delicious cookies!