The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and sugar cookie fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know.

We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Sugar Cookie fun facts.

Sugar Cookie Fun Facts

Sugar Cookie Fun Facts: Sugar cookies have a lengthy historical background. The origins of cookies date back to the 7th century in Persia, along with the cultivation of sugar.

  • The sugar cookie as we know it today was created by Protestant settlers in the Nazareth colony of Pennsylvania in the 1700’s. They baked their cookies in the shape of a keystone, the state’s symbol.
  • The first sugar cookies weren’t called by this name. When word started spreading throughout Europe in the 17th century about these tasty desserts, and later when they were introduced to the Americas, some entertaining terms were employed to describe these small treats. After all, this child-sized indulgence deserves a few whimsical appellations like jumbles, jumbals, crybabies, plunkets and gemmels. Early cookie recipes that probably morphed into the modern sugar cookie were called gimblettes in France and cimbellines in Italy, too.
  • About 171 million tons (154 million metric tons) of raw sugar will be made from sugarcane and sugar beets worldwide in 2012.

Key Date

  • July 9th is National Sugar Cookie Day.

Sugar Cookie Fun Facts We Missed

Please feel free to let us know if we may have missed some sugar cookie fun facts in the comment section or our food truck forum. We always love to add to these lists. If we can verify the facts, we will give the reader credit in the article.

Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Sugar Cookies.

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