Christmas - A Partner to Milk, a Treat to Santa

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how delicious cookies are. Despite the moistness and chewiest, cookies are not as popular anymore.

For instance, look at television. One of the most well-liked commercials were the advertisements for Oreos. But all of a sudden, those timeless 30-second moments are now gone.

But the other day I was reminded of why the cookie is recognized as the perfect snack. Out of the blue, a friend of mine decided to bake cookies from scratch.

By filling the house with an intense, yet delicious aroma, I was attracted to the kitchen. To my surprise, white chocolate-almond cookies were stacked on a plate on the kitchen counter.

In no later than an hour, the baked treats disappeared due to the appetite of everyone in the house!

Now cookies have always been around for generations, but how was the snack first created? Have they been a delicacy for centuries? Or was some random baker inspired out of the blue? The answer is quite simple.

Cookies were actually made by accident. The very first cookies were just a form of testing an oven’s temperature.

Dutch bakers would use very small amounts of cake batter to test their oven temperatures before baking the actual cake. These test cakes were called “koekje”, which means “little cake” in Dutch.

Early American cookbooks also showed that the earlier versions of cookies were called "Tea Cakes". These tea cakes would normally be known now as “butter cookies”.

Back then, the English also called them biscuits. The Spanish called them “galletas”, the Germans called them “kels” and in Italy, the types of cookies there were known as “amaretti” and “biscotti”.

Every country also has their favourite type of cookie. In England, it’s the shortbread cookie. In France, the favourites are sables and macaroons while biscotto is the favourite in Italy.