Did You Know Arkansas Has a Favorite Christmas Cookie? Texas Too!

At Christmas time there are gifts to buy and presents to wrap but there is something else that people love to do at Christmas time and that is to bake Christmas cookies,

Did you grow up with your mom or grandmother baking delicious cookies? One of the best parts of baking Christmas cookies was getting to decorate them with icing and colorful sprinkles.

Then of course leaving some of those cookies out for Santa with a glass of milk would ensure us kids that Santa would be extra nice to us. What type of cookies did you leave out for Santa. I imagine he had a pretty bad case of heartburn after eating so many cookies in one night, but Santa is not only magical his tummy seems to be as well.

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Did you know that American kids started leaving cookies and milk out for Santa during the Depression in the 1930s? Some reports say it was a simple lesson to children to be generous even during tough times.

New Research from word experts at Unscrambler.com and it told us what Christmas cookies were the most popular in each state. It came from Google trends and showed what cookie recipes were searched for the most in each state and what is trending big time right now all across the county.

Texas Favorite Christmas Cookie

Italian Christmas Cookies

Arkansas Favorite Christmas Cookie

 Gingerbread Cookies

But a Christmas cookie recipe that is starting to trend big time all across the country is...

Christmas Cornflake Wreath Cookies 

Looking for a recipe for these two Christmas cookies? Check out the videos below!