The holidays are an opportune for gathering around a toasty fire, surrounded by friends and family, and shoveling cookies endlessly into your mouth. Crinkle cookies, gingerbread, sugar cookies, coconut macaroons -- I don't discriminate and neither should you.
That being said, everyone has their favorites. Tastes can vary from region to region and state to state. General Mills took the time to gather all the data from Bettycrocker.com, Pillsbury.com, and Tablespoon.com to see what cookie recipe was the most clicked on -- and presumably the favorite -- of each state. Here's what they uncovered:
Alabama
Sugar cookie M&M's barsAlaska
Easiest-ever Russian tea cakesArizona
Sugar cookie cutouts
Arkansas
Easiest-ever Russian tea cakes
California
Peanut butter blossoms
Colorado
Easy spritz cookies
Connecticut
Easy holiday oatmeal cookiesDelaware
Easy Italian Christmas cookiesFlorida
Peanut butter blossomsGeorgia
Cream cheese pecan cookiesHawaii
Easy gingerbread cookiesIdaho
Candy cane cookiesIllinois
Easy spritz cookiesIndiana
Mexican wedding cakesIowa
Swedish KringlaKansas
Easy Christmas crinkle cookiesKentucky
Peanut butter blossoms
Louisiana
Nutella swirled meringue cookiesMaine
2-ingredient PB-chocolate trufflesMaryland
Christmas snickerdoodlesMassachusetts
Sugar cookie M&M's barsMichigan
Easy Kolaczki cookiesMinnesota
Christmas snickerdoodlesMississippi
Sugar cookie M&M's barsMissouri
Cake mix gooey butter cookiesMontana
Easiest-ever Russian tea cakesNebraska
Peanut butter-chocolate chookiesNevada
Peanut butter blossomsNew Hampshire
Easy Italian Christmas cookiesNew Jersey
Easy Italian Christmas cookiesNew Mexico
Sugar cookie cutoutsNew York
Black and white cookiesNorth Carolina
Sugar cookie M&M's barsNorth Dakota
Easy spritz cookies
Ohio
Buckeye delightsOklahoma
Easy Christmas crinkle cookiesOregon
Sugar cookie cutoutsPennsylvania
Peanut butter blossomsRhode Island
Easy Italian Christmas cookiesSouth Carolina
Peanut butter blossomsSouth Dakota
Easy Christmas crinkle cookiesTennessee
Sugar cookie M&M's barsTexas
Sugar cookie cutoutsUtah
Melted snowman sugar cookiesVermont
2-Ingredient PB-chocolate trufflesVirginia
Easy Christmas crinkle cookiesWashington
Easy spritz cookiesWest Virginia
Easy peanut butter cookie cupsWisconsin
German almond cookiesWyoming
Peanut butter blossomsSo there you have it: all the most clicked-on cookie recipes. Of course, there are some favorites that cross state lines, like the classic sugar cookies or peanut butter blossoms. On the other hand, some regions hang closely to tradition, like Ohio's buckeye delights or the East Coast's infatuation with Italian Christmas cookies.
Cathy Swanson Wheaton, the executive editor behind a number of Pillsbury and Betty Crocker cookbooks, said cookies are often interlinked to heritage and cultures of specific regions.
“People like a nod to something familiar,” she said in a press release. “It’s really fun to see that some of the eastern states selected an Italian cookie as their favorite, and I think that might speak to their Italian heritage. And some of the southern states tended to choose nut-based recipes. For example, Georgia picked a pecan recipe and they’re the number one pecan producer in the United States.”
That being said, this data is only gathered by General Mills' various recipe sites, so it is possible that other cookies reign in popularity, even if they didn't make it to this festive list.
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