First, you can try new cookie recipes. You don‘t have to eat them all: Make them as a birthday gift or a no-occasion thank-you for a neighbor, relative, teacher, hairdresser, healthcare provider (yes, they eat cookies, too) or other helper.

Second, you can learn more about cookies.

• The history of cookies
• The history of biscotti
• The history of the brownie, a bar cookie
• The history of the chocolate chip cookie
• The history of the macaroon
• The different types of cookies: a cookie glossary

The chocolate chip cookie has evolved in
wonderful ways since the original chocolate
chip cookie. See who invented the
chocolate chip cookie.