When you think of small cakes or mini cakes you probably think of cupcakes, And when someone says “cookie” you might think it's own kind of category of sweet treats but what if I told a cookie is also a small mini cake and you could argue with me on that but this definition of a cookie says otherwise -“A small sweet cake, typically round and flat and having a crisp or chewy texture.”.

The first cookie-like cake thing came from Persia. ( which is now Iran )They started making sugar from sugar cane after they invaded India, and were amazed at the new honey-like sweet substance(They did not have sugar and used honey and other sweet things to make everything sweeter, many other places did the same) Toward the end of their conquering they crated cakes and the cake-cookie thing. Anyway Europe did its thing with all of the conquerings and exploration they also obtained sugar ( they used honey before too). This started the time where cakes and other sweets were created. This is where we got the first historically recorded cookie but still not a cookie from. I say that because those cookies weren’t really made to eat. They were little blobs of cake or bread batter that were put in the oven before the rest came it was used as a way to see the temperature( when I say oven I am talking about those olden day ovens the ones where you used wood and other burnable things.)And that's as much as I can put down because after this sort of period of time there are so many recipes and different cookies.

FACTS and extra

The chocolate chip cookie came from a mistake this lady, Ruth wakefield ran an inn with her husband, She made all the meals and treats for the people who stayed there. And she ha cut up the chocolate into little chips and mixed it in thinking that it would mix in and make ordinary chocolate cookies so to her surprise it didn't mix and tasted amazing.

• The average American eats 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.

• 95.2 percent of U.S. households consume cookies.

• Half the cookies baked in American homes each year are chocolate chip.

• Baking burns 168 – 348 calories an hour, (according to the Livestrong Foundation and My Fitness Pal.)

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• Santa Claus eats an estimated 336,150,386 cookies on Christmas Eve.

• Americans consume over 2 billion cookies a year … about 300 cookies for each person.

• Unagi Pie, a specialty of Hamamatsu, Japan, are cookies made with fresh butter, crushed eel bones, eel extract, and garlic.

http://www.cookie-elf.com/cookie-trivia.html#sthash.SrNug1Fy.383TaksX.dpbs Where I got my cookie facts from

https://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cookies/cookies2/cookie-history2.asp

https://dodocookiedough.com/a-brief-history-of-the-cookie/ Got some info from these 2