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National Sugar Cookie Day 2025

There’s no bad time for a sugar cookie, but I tend to equate them with Christmastime. Here in the heart of 🌞 Summer 🔥, we find that today is National Sugar Cookie Day. Okay, like I need an excuse to eat a cookie…

Sugar ⚪ Cookie

Every cookie is a sugar cookie. A cookie without sugar is a cracker. ~Gary Gulman

Amen, brother!

Cookies are supposed to be sweet, soft and full of joy.

This isn’t really the season for cookies, TBT.

Now is the time for fruit, chilled beverages and frozen treats.

Kelly gets irritated when I run the stove in the warmer seasons because it adds to the miserable heat or counteracts the AC.

Ah well, sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.

⚪ Healthy? ⚪

The Ultimate Healthy Sugar Cookies | Amy’s Healthy Baking

Okay, if you don’t stop to watch the video, her secret to making it healthy is to use half and half of honey and stevia to maintain the sweetness and she uses a splash of butter extract instead of a whole stick of butter to maintain the buttery goodness without all the buttery side-effects.

I appreciate when people have tips and tricks of this sort.

It’s nice to know you can do an amazingly tasty cookie without all the guilt-inducing calories.

Makes it feel like Christmastime in July…

Simplicity

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn’t it be more efficient just to swap recipes? ~Michael Pollan

Yes, you’d certainly think so, but sometimes things get lost in translation.

Some stuff you want to get directly from the source.

I order plum pudding to have at Christmas each year, but it simply isn’t the same as my Nana’s.

Anybody can bake a sugar cookie.

Anybody can follow a recipe or even a detailed how-to video.

Even so, it’s rare to get the same experience as getting your goodies from whoever has the heritage.

That’s why you never need to worry about your story being a knock-off unless that’s what you’re actually trying for.

In writing, that’s called fan fiction.

We all do it.

You’re so excited by some piece of art and you want to experience what it’s like to inhabit the feeling that it gave you.

That’s fine. We all react to things in different ways.

That’s why you can hand the exact same writing prompt to a dozen writers and wind up with at least thirty different stories.

Yes, a good writing prompt will inspire more than one story to a serious writer and even those stories by the same writer will not end up being the same story.

You could easily say the same about sugar cookies.

Some have icing. Some have sprinkles. Some are basically nekkid.

Some are thin and crispy. Some are slim and chewy. Some are puffy and airy.

They’re all technically sugar cookies, but the delivery is according to the baker’s individual skill, taste and intention.

That’s true of storytelling as well.

It all depends on the baker, the ingredients and the execution just as it depends on the writer, the elements and the writing.

Two creators starting at the same place with the same resources will naturally arrive with completely different stories and/or cookies.

It all comes down to the perspective and lived experience of the creators.

And that’s how the cookie crumbles…

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That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for a very rare situation