03/20/2026
POV: Your decorated cookies have a 300-year-old secret.
Before they were aesthetic pastel eggs and fancy designs, sugar cookies were the ultimate “survival snack.” Born in the 1700s as the ✨Nazareth Cookie✨ these buttery treats were originally shaped like keystones to prove that life was meant to be sweet, even in the wild colonies.
But the lore goes deeper:
• The OG “Jumbals”: 17th-century sailors ate these as rock-hard, knot-shaped biscuits that lasted for years. Talk about a long shelf life.
• Dutch “Koekjes”: We literally got the word “cookie” from the Dutch for “little cake.”
• The Vibe Check: We only started leaving them for Santa in the 1930s to teach kids gratitude during the Great Depression.
So when you’re icing your spring cut-outs this week, you’re actually baking a piece of history.
