Reader Query: United States of Oatmeal Cookies?

Reader Jenny emailed me last night to ask this question:

“You did cookies for a few states....Florida and California, etc....what about other ones? What would you do for the rest of them?”

Hi, Jenny! Thanks for writing in. I do have a few state-themed cookies on my list, for example: Hawaii, Florida, California, and Texas.

I think that doing individual cookies for the remaining 46 states would definitely be a project to keep me busy for a while, but it's something that's definitely doable.

To make a state-specific cookie, all you've got to do is find out what produce/product the state is famous for...like Georgia and peaches.  Some other ideas: Maine = blueberries (or lobster!), Massachusetts = cranberries, Mississippi = Tupelo honey, Michigan = cherries. Boy...that's a lot of M states! But you get the picture.

I promise that I'll post some more state cookies soon.

Comments

[Paula]

I LOVE reading your blog! It is one of my food favorites, mostly because I have a weakness for great cookies! I am from Maryland, and I hope you won't attempt crab cookies. (MD is famous for its crabs.) I'm sure we must be famous for something else, but I can't thing of what it would be that would make great cookies. Anyway, just wanted you to know, and only wish I lived closer so I could test out your cookies!

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Thanks, Paula!! I moved your comment to the front page as a "blog-love" entry.

[Alicia]

You could do a peanut brittle/praline cookie for VA. I know most people think of GA first, but the Commonwealth produces some mighty fine peanuts as well.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Hi, Alicia. Good one! I remember eating bag after bag of boiled peanuts when I was a kid and my parents dragged me and my brother around Williamsburg Pottery Factory for what seemed like days.

It looks like I'm developing another cookie project to keep me busy!

[Katrina]

Well, I live in Kansas, with Sunflowers being our state flower, you could do a cookie with sunflower seeds. I didn't take the time to see if you already have. But I grew up in Idaho and here's a doozy for you, some kind of cookie with potatoes! Can't wait to see what else you can come up with.

[Katrina]

P.S. Kansas is the Wheat State, how easy would that be!

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Hi, Katrina! Thanks for writing in. An oatmeal + sunflower seed cookie for Kansas could be really interesting. Or...I could do an oatmeal, whole wheat, and sunflower seed cookie. How much healthier could that be?

And Idaho...maybe I could put some potato flakes to work.

I'll keep following up on this, so stay tuned!