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Cookies

Commercial jingles promise that “Danish blue tin cookies always impress.”

How Danish Cookies Became Hong Kong’s Favorite Lunar New Year Snack

It's not a family gathering without “blue tin cookies.”

Vincent Leung January 28, 2025

Snowy Christmas market in Erfurt

Your Guide to Germany’s Coziest Winter Customs

From cookies to crafts, Germany is home to a host of charming seasonal traditions.

Sponsored by The German National Tourist Office and Lufthansa

Randy's Donuts

Sweet California

A Sweet Escape in the Golden State

Sponsored by Visit California

Jean Trogneux

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

Has your favorite Girl Scout cookie been cut from the roster?

The Truth Behind the Girl Scout Cookie Graveyard

Even popular cookies can end up permanently cut from the roster.

Anne Ewbank March 18, 2024

Math and dessert are a match made in heaven.

Celebrate Pi Day With These Mathematical Tales

Plus pie recipes, of course.

April White March 8, 2024

La Segunda Central Bakery

This century-old bakery produces 18,000 loaves of traditional Cuban bread every day.

Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.

Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024

Hanover, Germany

Der goldene Leibniz-Keks (Golden Leibniz Cookie)

This gilded emblem was once stolen by a Cookie Monster impostor, who demanded a charitable ransom for its return.

Podcast: A Return to Recipe Graves

Honoring death with sweet recipes can be a cathartic memorial.

The Podcast Team December 19, 2023

Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory owner Kevin Chan poses with his mother Nancy Tom.

A Day in the Life of a Fortune Cookie Maker at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory

In the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, a favorite dessert is still made the old-school way.

Sponsored by Visit California

Secret Nun Cookies at Monasterio del Corpus Christi

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Glazed and unglazed <em>Elisenlebkuchen</em>.

German Lebkuchen Are a Labor of Love With a Centuries-Old History

Some of these gingerbread cookies take months to make.

Diana Hubbell December 23, 2022

Kozlowski used food coloring to paint an edible copy of the classic mural at Madame Sousou's Cafe in Astoria.

The Bakers Transforming New York’s Buildings Into Gingerbread

Not a gummy bear was spared during the Great Borough Bake-Off.

Sam Lin-Sommer December 13, 2022

Maltese bone cookies are a tradition with a murky past.

In Malta, ‘Dead Men’s Bones’ Are a Sweet, Spiritual Tradition

The cookies are just one way that the island nation remembers the dead.

Alice Levitt October 11, 2022

The Menster Christmas Cookie Gravestone

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

For extra decadence, some coconut macaroons come with a drizzle of chocolate.

How Coconut Macaroons Earned a Place on the Passover Table

Industrial innovations and a heavy push from Jewish companies helped cement the cookie as a new tradition.

Sam Lin-Sommer April 15, 2022

Podcast: Grandma Ida’s Nut Rolls Gravestone

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team January 4, 2022