Tag: cookies

March 21st Tea For Two Day

March Holidays

We all know the song “Tea For Two”, we all know the Brits love their tea and since no one really likes to “tea” alone the idea of sharing that afternoon tea is more of less a tradition. Even little girls, or boys, who like yo have tea parties would prefer a really human sit across the table from them instead of the dolls. Ah the social graces so often forgotten these days. Visiting back to a time when spending a part of the afternoon in conversation over a cup of tea and perhaps a cookie or two. I think we could still learn something from that. Today was created by Holiday Insights in 2016 and put on the 3rd Tuesday of March.

How to celebrate – Throw a tea party. Make some fresh cookies. Invite a friend to share it.

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December 18th Bake Cookies Day

December holidays

There is nothing like cookies baking to warm up a household or brighten a day. They speak their own language that practically everyone understands. There are hundred of different cookies you can bake, thousands of different flavors and as many different shapes as you can think up. So spend the day baking cookies, open the windows and let the smell waft out, there is some reason somewhere to celebrate something with a handful of warm cookies and a glass of cold milk.

How to celebrate – Bake some cookies. Take some cookies to a neighbor, Visit a bakery for ideas.

July 9th National Sugar Cookie Day

July Holidays

Well, here ya go… another food day to celebrate! Which is pretty cool but keeps adding to our waste lines. However, sugar cookies aren’t too bad… well sort of anyway. They are pretty simple to make and always go over well no matter the time of year. When you do make them, make enough for friends and neighbors! And they generally last a fairly long time so make enough to keep around for a while.

How to celebrate – Make some sugar cookies. See what toppings you can add. Use food coloring to make them more festive.

May 15th Chocolate Chip Day

May Holidays

Chocolate Chips are a wonderful addition to cookies, muffins, cakes and pies… just about any kind of dessert and even in some cereals! Chocolate chips were created in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakefield who was preparing cookies at the Toll House Inn. Back then, they really weren’t the chips we know today, rather they were actually chips broken off blocks of chocolate, since then… they have been shaped and created in drops, or chips, for use in a number of different ways.

How to celebrate – Learn how to make your own chocolate chips. Create a new use for chocolate chips. Just eat chips straight out of the bag… who needs the cookie!

December 18th Bake Cookies Day

December holidays

There is absolutely nothing like the scent of a home when someone is baking cookies to get you ready for the holidays. In fact, some candle companies are capturing that scent in candles so that you can have the smell without having to actually bake the cookies, but who wants to smell them if you can’t eat them!?! Really the smell of most foods as they are being cooked are inviting and make a house a home, but cookies seem to welcome everyone no matter where you live.

How to celebrate – Bake some cookies today. Give some cookies to friends and neighbors to help brighten their day. Try and invent some new sort of cookie, maybe a Brussel sprout cheese cookie.

October 1st National Homemade Cookies Day

Unboxing the Bizarre

It’s getting to be that season again where the houses fill with the aroma of the coming holidays and nothing fills those senses better than to smell homemade cookies baking in the oven. They always seem to taste better than the store bought cookies and seem to put people in a more joyful attitude. I guess it reminds us of the old days when grandma use to bake her cookies and we’d get them fresh off the rack still warm and chewy. Ah, that’s when you know life is good.

How to celebrate – Bake some cookies today. Research your families favorite cookies. Make some cookies for the neighbors.

August 2nd National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

August Holidays

What’s better than Ice Cream!?! An Ice Cream Sandwich! It’s like having milk and cookies at the exact same time! Ice cream sandwiches use to be a simple affair, vanilla ice cream between two chocolate wafers. Today, it’s gotten a whole lot more complicated but it’s still just as good and refreshing. I even saw a ice cream sandwich made with butter pecan ice cream in the middle, never saw that before! (Though I am told it wasn’t to the eater’s taste) You can have banana split ice cream sandwiches, chocolate ice cream sandwiches… well, you name it and if their is ice cream made in that flavor you can make an ice cream sandwich of it! Ice cream sandwiches have been around since the early 1900’s!

How to celebrate – Have an ice cream sandwich. Get some pancakes and put some maple flavored ice cream in between them and have breakfast! Have an Ice Cream Sandwich Social.

April 18th National Animal Crackers Day

April Holidays

April 18th National Animal Crackers Day

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my… oh and Elephants too. These were the most common early on animal crackers. Animal crackers have been a child favorite snack since the 1800’s when they were produced and exported from the UK. Eventually they began to be produced in the US as well and in 1902 they featured  the Barnum’s and Bailey’s Circus Wagon as a container with circus animals making up the majority of the critters inside. They even became popular for children’s Bingo chips at one point. Today Nabisco makes the Animal Crackers we all know and love. Of course, there are numerous animals now and the circus wagon has become a thing of the past. There are new and different flavors to try along with the shapes but they still remain one of children’s favorite snacks of all times.

How to celebrate – Buy some Animal Crackers. Learn how to make your own animal crackers. Try playing Animal Crackers Bingo!

February 19th National Chocolate Mint Day

February holidays, Unboxing the Bizarre

Well, if you like chocolate and you like mint it only seems natural to put them both together. Chocolate mint has probably been around since the day Columbus first sent chocolate back to Europe from the newly discovered Americas. (That’s the late 1400’s for those of you who forgot.) Oddly, the first chocolate mint chip was not created until 1973 by Marilyn Ricketts for Princess Anne to Captain Philips at Westminster Abbey. While chocolate is good by itself, the mint makes it a little more refreshing. You’ll find it in ice cream, cakes, cookies, cereal… you name it, you can usually find it.

How to celebrate – Have some chocolate mint. Create your own recipe for a chocolate mint something. Visit Westminster Abbey.

December 18th Bake Cookies Day

December holidays

It seems like when ever holidays get close we start thinking about baking cookies. Christmas-cookies, birthdays-cookies, Valentines Day-cookies, Halloween-cookies, April Fool’s Day-cookies. Well, they don’t have to be good cookies for April Fool’s Day, in fact maybe if they were bad that could be your gag for April Fool’s Day, literally! It seems like we celebrate we like to have cookies around. So why shouldn’t we have a holiday about the things that make us feel good, like cookies!

How to celebrate – Bake some cookies. Eat some cookies. Make everyday a new holiday, no matter how bizarre!