There's something about making cookies when the weather gets cold that just feels... right. Many people have long standing traditions of making dozens of different kinds of cookies with their family and friends in day-long baking parties. Others might sneak in a single cookie, made in their toaster oven, to satisfy a quick craving for one.

The cookie, or something close to it, seems to have originated in Persia in the 7th Century, and the world hasn't stopped craving them since. The first cookbook published in the United States, American Cookery: or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables, and the Best Modes of Making Puff-pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards and Preserves, and all kinds of Cakes, from the Imperial Plumb to plain Cake by Amelia Simmons, had two recipes for cookies that look almost modern.

But of course the cookie recipe most of us are familiar with is the one for chocolate chip cookies from the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. Created in 1938, the good old chocolate chip is arguably America's most popular cookie - a 2017 survey by Nestle found that 15 states (including Michigan) had chocolate chip cookies without nuts as their favorite cookie, while almost 20 more are some variation on that classic.

Whatever cookies you're planning to bake, the library has TONS of recipes - take a look at this list and see if any of them strike your fancy. Don't forget e-recipes from our collections on Hoopla and Overdrive, since covering your tablet in plastic wrap to use as a mess-proof cookbook can sometimes be easier than the book itself. Happy baking!