Cookies in the 1950’s Moms in the 1950’s were still very much into home-cooking.  School children looked forward to some of mom’s cookies waiting for them after school. Naturally, each mother had her own favorite cookie recipe.

Towards the middle of the 50’s, Pillsbury introduced their brownie mix. While this was the beginning of quicker cookies for mom, it contributed to the decline of cooking from scratch. In 1957 Pillsbury introduced their refrigerated cookie dough, this made cookie making even faster for busy moms.

Some favorite cookie recipes of the 1950’s include oatmeal cookies, chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies. Snicker doodles, gingersnaps and shaped sugar cookies were also traditional favorites. There were many varieties of each type of cookie, depending on what you liked to add.

The Peanut Butter Blossom cookie debut was in 1957, when it was introduced at a Pillsbury Bake Off Competition in Ohio. While it didn’t win first place, its popularity spread as Hershey printed the recipe on their Kisses candy bags. This favorite of the 1950’s is still a favorite in my family today.

Cookies are still a child’s favorite after school greeting. Whether the cookie is freshly made from scratch, or baked from already prepared dough, there is something about a warm, freshly baked cookie that makes us feel at home. What is your favorite cookie?