NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DAY

We are baking up some goodness on June 12 for National Peanut Butter Cookie Day! This delicious food holiday allows cookie lovers and peanut butter lovers to step away from the pies and cakes to indulge in a little peanut butter and cookie therapy.

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Alabama's American agricultural extension educator, George Washington Carver, promoted the peanut extensively. Well-known for his promotions, Carver compiled 105 peanut recipes from various cookbooks, agricultural bulletins, and other sources. In 1916, he created a Research Bulletin called How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption. The bulletin included three recipes calling for crushed or chopped peanuts as one of its ingredients. However, peanut butter cookies were not one of them.

It was in the early 1920s peanut butter began to be listed as an ingredient in cookies.

Incidentally, the peanut butter we know and love today didn't become commercially available until the 1920s. In 1922, Joseph Rosefield kept the peanut oil from separating from the solids through this process. Afterward, he patented the process of homogenization and sold it to a company that began making a peanut butter called Peter Pan.

No one knows why we press criss-crossed fork marks into our peanut butter cookies before baking. However, homemade peanut butter cookies would just not be the same without a bit of decoration.

The best way to celebrate this cookie holiday is with some homemade peanut butter cookies, a glass of milk, and a friend. If you don't feel like baking in the summer heat, visit your favorite baker and grab a dozen. Don't forget to give them a shout-out and let them know how much you appreciate their mad cookie baking skills! Of course, we even have a recipes for you to try, too.

Try these unique seed kinds of butter when you need something different in place of Peanut Butter, you'll be glad you did!

Share your peanut butter cookie recipe on social media using the hashtag #NationalPeanutButterCookieDay.

National Day Calendar is researching the origins of this delicious peanut cookie holiday. In the meantime, check out these other peanut-related holidays.

June 12th Celebrated History

1939

The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, opens. The town's connection to baseball is based on a story about a Civil War general named Doubleday. According to lore, Abner Doubleday invented to sport there. While much of the story is now disputed, the nostalgia and history continue to grow there.

1963

Byron De La Beckwith murders the Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi.

1967

In Loving vs. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states.

1987

While visiting Berlin, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in which he spoke the now-famous line, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Two years later on November 9, 1989, East and West Berlin were reunited.

June 12th Celebrated Birthdays

George H.W. Bush - 1924

Serving first as vice president under Ronald Regan, George H. W. Bush took the oath of office as the 41st president and served one term. He and his son George W. Bush are the second father/son presidents in the history of the country. John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first.

Anne Frank - 1929

Anne Frank moved generations with the words she recorded in her diary – the diary of a young Jewish girl. In 1942, just weeks after receiving a red checkered diary for her 13th birthday, Anne’s family and the families of her father’s employees were forced into hiding. While in hiding, Anne wrote every day in her diary. When she and her family were discovered, the Nazis' separated and sent them to concentration camps. Her father would be the one family member to survive.

Jim Nabors - 1930

The American actor, singer and comedian is best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on the program The Andy Griffith Show.

Chick Corea - 1941

The American jazz musician began performing in the 1960s and has earned 65 Grammy nods during his career. In 1975, he won his first Grammy for the performance of No Mystery with the band he founded, Return to Forever.

NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DAY