Cakes of all shapes and sizes (including smaller items such as cookies) have been part of festive holiday rituals long before Christmas.
Christmas cookies, as we know them today, trace their roots to these Medieval European recipes.
Dutch and German settlers introduced cookie cutters, decorative molds, and festive holiday decorations to America. German lebkuchen (gingerbread) was probably the first cake/cookie traditionally associated with Christmas.
Sugar cookie type recipes descended from English traditions. Did you know Animal crackers began as edible ornaments?
"By the 1500s, Christmas cookies had caught on all over Europe.
German families baked up pans of Lebkuchen and buttery Spritz cookies.
Papparkakor (spicy ginger and black-pepper delights) were favorites in Sweden; the Norwegians made krumkake (thin lemon and cardamom-scented wafers).
The earliest Christmas cookies in America came ashore with the Dutch in the early 1600s."
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