National Cookie Day

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December 4 is National Cookie Day!  Started in 1987 by the Blue Chip Cookie Company, it’s a fantastic excuse to whip up your favorites.

Sugar and Spice has a cookie for every occasion.  What kind of cookie do you want today?

Chocolate cookies?

• Triple C Cookies– dark, white and milk chocolate
• Candy Bar(f) Cookies– every bite is a little different with many kinds of candy bars
• Friday Night Chocolate Chip Cookies– the classic favorite
• Caramel Filled Cookies– chocolate cookies with pecans and a chewy center
• Twofer Cookies– 1 recipe makes 2 very different kinds of treats
• Soft, Cakey Chocolate Chip Cookies– a thicker, softer version of Friday Night Chocolate Chip

Shortbread cookies?

• Good Girl Shortbread– the classic favorite. I love them so much they get their own category

Cookies with nuts?

• Macadamia Nut Snowballs– macadamia nuts + powdered sugar.  What else do you need?
• Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies– from my 2 week Nutella binge

 Cookies with fruit?

• Loveless Café Coconut Cookies– a southern favorite from Tennessee
• White Chocolate Cranberry Pecan– delicious for holiday bake sales
• Pumpkin Maple Cookies– technically pumpkin is a vegetable but this still counts
• Snappy Ginger Cookies with Orange Glaze– spicy and sweet
• Lemon Ricotta Cookies– a Nordstrom’s Café copycat recipe, these take 3 days to make but are worth every minute

Cut-out cookies?

• Gold Stars– butterscotch cut out cookies perfect for over achievers
• Cut Out Cookies with Royal Icing– these hold their shape when baking, great for the holidays

Gluten free cookies?

• Gluten Free Reese’s Pieces Cookies– peanut butter cookies studded with chocolate
• Vegan Quinoa Cookies– so amazing you’d never know they’re healthy

Classic cookies?

• Grandma Dorothy’s Sugar Cookies– a family heirloom recipe
• Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies– this classic Betty Crocker recipe has lasted forever for a reason
• Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookies– 100% classic comfort food
• Sneaky Snickerdoodles– containing a secret ingredient, these are fluffy, cinnamon-y and soft

Delicious things that involve cookies?

• Oreo Cupcakes– technically cupcakes, there’s a Oreo Cookie buried in the bottom
• Best Bribe Cookies (or BriDe Cookies)- pure gold.  You must make these simple show stoppers
• Candy Cane Oreo Ice Cream– minty Oreos stuffed into heavy cream and frozen

For extra fun, take the Cookie Quiz.  I’d love to know what kind of cookie you are!

I came up a Sugar Cookie-  “You’re sweet and everybody likes you.”  I think this is code for “bake cookies for everyone you know and you’ll have friends for life.”  Perfect!

Happy National Cookie Day!