7 Facts About Cookies

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  7 Facts About Cookies

  
  
  You may love cookies but how much do you really know about them? 
  

  1. Biscotti Cookies are twice-baked cookies - twice-baked cookies are also known as cantuccini
  2. Chocolate Chip cookies are the most popular cookies in the U.S. - they were accidentally created by Ruth Wakefield in 1933.  While baking cookies one day, Ruth realized she was out of nuts but she found some chocolate lying around and gave it a shot!
  3. Cookies were first made in Persia in 7 A.D. - they were more like cookie cakes than the cookies we know today
  4. Gingerbread cookies from Germany were the first cookies ever associated with Christmas.
  5. The first fortune cookie was made in America - the tradition of a fortune with your cookie is Japanese even though most people associate fortune cookies with the Chinese tradition.
  6. You will eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.
  7. The Cookie Monster from Sesame Street was originally named Sid.