Cookies!!!

Facts about cookies!!

Americans consume over 2 billion cookies a year … about 300 cookies for each person. The average American eats 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Half the cookies baked in American homes each year are chocolate chip. 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! Santa Claus eats an estimated 336,150,386 cookies on Christmas Eve. Most cookies baked: Hassett’s Bakery (Cork, Ireland) holds the world record for the most cookies baked in one hour: 4,695. Unusual Cookies:
Unagi Pie, a specialty of Hamamatsu, Japan, are cookies made with fresh butter, crushed eel bones, eel extract, and garlic. 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. Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes of cookies a year! Tallest cookie tower: The tallest tower of cookies measured 1.83 meters tall (6 ft 1/8 inches) and was constructed by the Girl Scouts of Nassau County on January 9, 2010 at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. Sixty Girl Scouts used 22,800 cookies to build the tower. The chocolate chip cookie is the official USA state cookie of both Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.The word “cookie” actually comes from the Dutch word “koekje,” or little cake. The Dutch settlers brought koekjes with them to the US colonies, integrating the word, along with the treat, to their new American life. America has designated April 30th as National Oatmeal Cookie Day!  🍪 🍪 🍪 🍪 🍪 🍪

You are probably wondering why I did this blog,  I do not know why, I just thought it would be fun (: and also I love cookies (: