National Gingerbread Cookie Day
With Christmas near, this is the perfect time for National Gingerbread Cookie Day! These will help you feel warm and cozy with amazing taste and even better shapes! Read on to learn more about it.
When is National Gingerbread Cookie Day?
National Gingerbread Cookie Day is celebrated on November 21 every year.
FAQs
Read the frequently asked questions and enjoy the fun facts below!
What country is famous for gingerbread?
Germany is the country most famous for gingerbread, with Nuremberg being the gingerbread capital of the world. It is so because the cookies originated there and soon spread across the globe.
How do I celebrate National Gingerbread Cookie Day?
I suggest that you spend the day baking a big batch of gingerbread cookies with a delicious recipe. You may also experiment with them, making various shapes and inviting friends and family over too.
As well as that, donate them to homeless shelters to allow everyone to feel a part of the festivities. Finally, for better fun, you can host a gingerbread-themed party with gingerbread cookies, biscuits, and cakes.
Fun Facts
Gingerbread houses were invented in Germany. Later, in the 16th century, gingerbread houses were decorated with gold leaf and foil for the Christmas holiday.
Queen Elizabeth I of England is credited with making the first few gingerbread men for honoring the visiting dignitaries.
A Swedish tradition implies that you can make wishes with gingerbread cookies. For this, put the cookie in the palm and make a wish before breaking it with your other hand. If it breaks into three, your wish will come true.
The Guinness World Records, in 2013, awarded a Texas club for having the world’s biggest gingerbread house. The house, with over 35,823,400 calories, can comfortably house a family of five.
In Tucson, Arizona, there’s the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain with a life-sized gingerbread house. You can book this for a private dinner or luck during the holiday season, and it costs around $300. The house weighs over 850 pounds, but you can’t munch on the walls!
After the Great Depression, parents encouraged their children to leave out gingerbread cookies and milk for Santa Claus during Christmas. This was to get them to be charitable during the economic depression in the future, and the tradition stuck.
In the beginning, cookies were made to test over temperatures. The chefs dropped small dollops of cake batter and baking to see if the oven was ready.
Santa Claus visits around 500 million homes every year on Christmas Eve, encountering almost a billion cookies. If he takes two bites of each cookie given, he would be eating 336,150,386 cookies!
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Gingerbread Jokes
Why was the Gingerbread Man robbed?
Because of his dough.
What do you sing when gingerbread cookies are in the oven?
Jingle smells, jingle smells.
Why did the Gingerbread Man go to the school nurse?
He was feeling crumby.
Which type of gingerbread man cookies can fly?
The plain ones.
How did the Gingerbread Man get into his locked house?
With cook-keys.
What type of glasses do gingerbread men wear?
Eye candy.
What did the gingerbread man say when his house burned down?
Dang, that cost me a lot of dough.
What did the Gingerbread Man say to the flour?
I loaf you dough much.
What do Jamaican bakers make for Christmas?
Gingerbreadmon.
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Riddles
What did the gingerbread man say at his job interview?
I just really feel like I’m cut out for this position!
What kind of music do gingerbread people listen to?
Gingerbread house!
What do you call a gingerbread man with a degree?
A smart cookie!
What does the gingerbread man sleep on?
Cookie sheets.
How do you make deer-shaped Gingerbread Men?
With cookie doe.
Why doesn’t the Gingerbread Man wear shorts?
Because he has crummy legs.
I was having trouble with my laptop, so I called Apple support.
They asked, ‘Have you tried disabling cookies?’
I said, ‘Well, I once bit the legs off a gingerbread man.’
There’s a new restaurant made out of a life-sized gingerbread house in town. I wonder if they serve children there.
The gingerbread man keeps smiling at me. Guess he’s just a cooky guy.
Don’t mess with my gingerbread, man. He’s one tough cookie.
The Gingerbread Man goes to the doctor.
Gingerbread Man: I broke my leg!
Doctor: Have you tried icing it?
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Quotes about Gingerbread
I don’t suppose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better than I do and gets less than I do.
Abraham Lincoln
We’ll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I’m not hopeful it’ll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can’t catch him.
Joe Hill
Gingerbread cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Yao Ming
I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, gingerbread, and spruce.
Taylor Swift
People have got to learn: if they don’t have gingerbread cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.
Suze Orman
And I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.
William Shakespeare
I don’t trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread.
John Goodman
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
Gerhard Richter
Cheesecake and gingerbread cookies are some things I can’t stay away from.
Paige
God Almighty, you’re ruined, and you didn’t even eat the gingerbread.
Eloisa James
The pleasure lies not in the cookies but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
Michael Korda
I like to have gingerbread cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
Brunello Cucinelli
Captions for Instagram
Love at first bite!
Gingerbread cookies? Always!
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
Gingerbread hugs and peppermint kisses.
You can’t catch me; I’m the gingerbread man!
Dreams dough come true!
Happiness is handmade!
These cookies make my heart skip a beat!
Keep calm and build gingerbread houses!
Be a gingerbread cookie in a world of snickerdoodles.
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