Today is...
National Bake Cookies Day!

Bake Cookies Day comes at an opportune time. It arrives amidst the major December holidays. It serves as a reminder to bake holiday cookies, if you haven't done so already.
People, young and old, celebrate this day by baking their favorite cookies. Make a party of it, and bake cookies in groups with family, friends, kids and grandkids. Don't stop at baking just one kind of cookies. Plan to bake a number of cookies. Try a new recipe, or two, or three, or....
If you bake more than you can eat, good for you! Wrap up gift trays filled with cookies for friends and neighbors. Most cookies freeze well, too.
Important Note: we are very surprised that Bake Cookies Day is not immediately followed by "Eat Cookies Day". We did not even find an Eat Cookies Day. So you can, and should, eat them everyday!.

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December is National Fruit Cake Month & National Egg Nog Month

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History for December 18th 1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" ( yun), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China. 1892 - The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. 1956 - Japan admitted to UN 2009 -  Thirty world leaders present in Copenhagen for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change agree on a draft accord.   2009 -  The Arbeit macht frei sign is stolen from Auschwitz concentration camp. ______________________________________________________ "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. -- Christian Nestell Bovee