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title: "Facts about Christmas Cookies You Never Knew ..."
description: "Queen Elizabeth I Invented Gingerbread Men; We Leave Cookies for Santa Because of the Great Depression; Cookies Were Originally Made to Test Oven Temperature; Gingerbread Men Were Illegal in Some Places during the Reformation; Santa Claus Eats over 300 Million Cookies on Christmas Eve; More ..."
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last_updated: "2026-05-29"
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# Facts about Christmas Cookies You Never Knew ...

You make Christmas cookies every year, but how much do you know about them? [Food and Wine](https://www.foodandwine.com/desserts/cookies/7-crazy-cookie-records-break-holiday-season?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_fw) has some facts for you that you probably haven't heard before. Here they are:

## 1. Queen Elizabeth I Invented Gingerbread Men

![Queen Elizabeth I Invented Gingerbread Men](https://img.allw.mn/content/qo/hs/tsdzrub7566aea2bc2a89499347457_320x240.gif)

She asked her cook to create "gingerbread cookies shaped like visiting dignitaries in order to honor them."

## 2. We Leave Cookies for Santa Because of the Great Depression

![We Leave Cookies for Santa Because of the Great Depression](https://img.allw.mn/content/j4/r6/trf0mxpk566aea26d333b036469893_438x247.gif)

Santa didn't start receiving cookies until the 1930s. Why? Because it was a way for parents to encourage their children to be more giving and share during the depression.

## 3. Cookies Were Originally Made to Test Oven Temperature

![Cookies Were Originally Made to Test Oven Temperature](https://img.allw.mn/content/gj/lu/hr5bqfen566aea29c1f8c707699694_480x320.gif)

Cookies weren't originally meant to be eaten. They were just meant to test the temperature of an oven. "Cooks would take a small dollop of cake batter and bake it as a means of gauging whether the oven was ready or not."

## 4. Gingerbread Men Were Illegal in Some Places during the Reformation

![Gingerbread Men Were Illegal in Some Places during the Reformation](https://img.allw.mn/content/em/w7/d8i63xwx566aea276fadc420787167_500x274.gif)

Since Martin Luther was against Christmas, "the city of Delft in the Netherlands forbade the sale of gingerbread men" for a period of time.

## 5. Santa Claus Eats over 300 Million Cookies on Christmas Eve

![green, fauna, stuffed toy, organism, beak,](https://img.allw.mn/content/p5/ht/cerrd80l5a3fcb74bcb98875732639_499x281.gif)

If Santa is visiting over 500 million homes, and eats at least a few bites of a cookie at every house, then that means he's eating around 336,150,386 cookies.

What other Christmas cookie facts do you know?

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