Cookie Trivia: Fun Facts about Eating and Baking Cookies

Each one uses six ingredients or less – and you can make each one in 10 minutes or less!

Have fun! Enjoy these bits of cookie trivia and facts about baking cookies. You’ll even find out cookie superlatives to impress your friends and some entertaining trivia to know when you’re shopping for store-bought cookies.

Cookie Trivia: Eating and Baking Cookies

• Americans consume over 2 billion cookies a year … about 300 cookies for each person.

Cookie Trivia: Cookie Superlatives

• Biggest cookie: The biggest recorded cookie was baked on May 17, 2003 in Flat Rock, NC by Immaculate Baking Company. It clocked in at 102 feet wide and weighed over 40,000 pounds.

Trivia about Commercial Cookies (A.K.A “Store-Bought Cookies”)

• Animal Crackers, introduced by Nabisco in 1902, were the first commercial cookie to be massed-produced in the U.S.

Trivia about Cookie Cutters

• Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) is credited with overseeing the first biscuits cut into the shape of men from ginger dough, the precursor to today’s gingerbread men.

Trivia about Cookie Jars

• American cookie jars, descendents of British biscuit jars, were born out of need. They first appeared in the 1930s as Depression housewives slowly abandoned buying bakery-made foods, baking at home instead to save money.

Official Cookies

• New Mexico named the bizcochito (biz-koh’-shee-toh) its official state cookie in 1989, making the state the first to adopt an official cookie. Bizcochito, derived from the Spanish word bizcocho (which means biscuit), is a shortbread cookie flavored with anise and topped with cinnamon sugar.

Unusual Cookies

Unagi Pie, a specialty of Hamamatsu, Japan, are cookies made with fresh butter, crushed eel bones, eel extract, and garlic.

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