Top 15 American Cookies: A Part of the American Dream (2024)

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What is the #1 cookie in the United States? ›

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America's favorite cookie and the one dubbed “the American cookie” is the Chocolate chip cookie.

First introduced in the U.S. in 1912, Oreo has become the world's top selling cookie and is enjoyed in more than 100 countries. In markets around the world, Oreo comes in surprising local flavors, like blueberry and green tea ice cream, and fun shapes and forms.

While there is no official national cookie of the US, the classic chocolate chip cookie is king. That's according to many polls conducted over the years with the most recent being from Crumbl Cookies by One Poll.

In the Southern colonies, every housewife knew how to bake tea cakes that had no extra flavoring except butter and sometimes a couple drops of rose water. The first American cookies that showed up in cook books had creative names like Jumbles, Plunkets and Cry Babies which gave no clue to what was inside the cookie.

Chocolate chip cookies

What is the most popular type of cookie? It might just be this one. Ever the crowd-pleaser, the chocolate chip cookie is renowned for its balance of richness and sweetness.

In May 2022, it was announced Nestlé Toll House Café has been acquired by the California-headquartered restaurant franchising company, FAT Brands for an undisclosed sum. It was also later confirmed that all Nestlé Toll House Café locations would be converted into Great American Cookies locations by the end of 2022.

Fat Brands Inc and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Fat Brands”, “we” or “us”) own our brand websites for Great American Cookies®, Pretzelmaker®, Marble Slab Creamery®, MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery®, Hot Dog on a Stick®, and Round Table Pizza® found at Great American Cookies Website, Pretzelmaker Website, Marble ...

Chocolate chip cookies are known to be the first treat to be devoured off the bake sale table, and these are no exception.

What Girl Scout sold the most cookies? ›

Her record held for more than twenty-nine years, until Katie Francis, 12, sold 18,107 boxes in 2014. In 2017, Charlotte McCourt, a girl scout from New Jersey, sold over 25,000 boxes of cookies, breaking the record. In 2021, Lilly Bumpus, a childhood cancer survivor, broke the record by selling 32,484 boxes.

Magic happened on March 6, 1912 when two decoratively embossed chocolate-flavored wafers met up with a rich crème filling. Today, Oreo is the world's top selling cookie.

OREO^® is America's favorite cookie, available in more than 100 countries around the globe. Over 60 billion OREO^® cookies are sold each year with more than 20 billion of those cookies sold in the U.S. annually. An estimated 500 billion OREO^® cookies have been sold since the first OREO^® biscuit was developed in 1912.

As the conversation went on, the question of which cookie is the best selling cookie in America was asked, and the answer didn't surprise us: Oreo.

Kellogg's removed Droxies® from the market in 2003. Leaf® Brands is proud to bring back the original sandwich cookie, Hydrox®!