The bar cookie is Washington state’s favorite Christmas cookie

Of all the frilly Christmas cookies on this planet to savor, we in Washington are apparently obsessive about essentially the most primary: the bar cookie.

Catch up fast: Bar cookies, in case you’re unfamiliar, contain spreading your candy dough of selection in a pan, dumping some stuff on prime, and later chopping all of it into squares or rectangles.

Driving the information: Google launched a map Thursday of uniquely searched Christmas cookies by state.

What they discovered: From Dec. 3–9, Washington was certainly one of 4 U.S. states the place folks Googled “Christmas bar cookies” at a a lot greater price than the nationwide common.

• Nationwide, the favorites have been gingerbread cookies, Christmas sugar cookies and peanut butter blossoms.

Melissa’s thought bubble: I am disillusioned in us. Do bar cookies even rely as Christmas cookies? In case you aren’t rolling out dough, chopping it into little shapes or adorning it with a ridiculous quantity of sugar and edible baubles, what is the level?

Clarridge’s two cents: As a single, working mom of three, I welcome something that makes life less complicated and extra streamlined. There is no want for rolling pins, cookie cutters or cautious dough spooning with bar cookies. AND they do higher with egg substitutes like flax than most conventional choices.

• Attempt these apricot bars, including a half-cup or so of chopped California apricots to the batter, along with the jam, for a tangier bar.