National Sugar Cookie Day
Have a delicious cookie on #NationalSugarCookieDay
9 July is National Sugar Cookie Day, a day that is celebrated annually in honour of the ever-popular and delicious sugar cookie.
Sugar cookies are a holiday favourite and very easy to make, ensuring that they will disappear very quickly once they are taken out of the oven. They are made with flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and either baking powder or bicarbonate of soda – ingredients that many people have on hand at all times. The children can help to make a batch on any day.
What makes baking these cookies more fun is cutting the dough with fancy-shaped cookie cutters and then getting creative by decorating them with icing and sprinkles.
The sugar cookie is believed to have originated in the mid 1700s in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. It was here that the German Protestant settlers created the round, crumbly and buttery cookie that came to be known as the Nazareth Cookie.
Celebrate today by whipping up a batch of sugar cookie dough and getting creative. Make it more fun by having the children help.
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