Is This Seasonal Treat Minnesotans Favorite Holiday Cookie?

I’ll be the first to admit it. I love Christmas cookies. (If loving them is wrong, I don’t want to be right. Ode to Barbara Mandrell.)

Something happens the moment December rolls around. I’m in the kitchen, shuffling through old recipe books more than any other time of year.

IT SEEMS THAT EVERYONE LOVES A CHRISTMAS COOKIE

Based on new Google search data for 2025, it turns out I’m actually far from alone in this sugary holiday obsession. Apparently, the entire country is just as cookie crazy as I am.

Arkansas and Arizona are leaning into those beautifully frosted sugar cookies, and Hawaiians surprisingly want gingerbread cookies.

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CHRISTMAS CRACK COOKIES ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR

Then there are the real curveballs. Maine, Montana, and the Dakotas are deep into Christmas crack cookies.

Nevada and New Mexico are craving snowball cookies, West Virginia is sticking with the reliable Pillsbury roll-outs, and Texas is going rogue with haystack cookies, no baking required!

MINNESOTANS LOVE THEIR HERSHEY KISSES AND PEANUT BUTTER

If you were wondering what the study revealed as Minnesota's favorite cookie, it was the Peanut Butter Blossom! That's a peanut butter cookie with a Hershey's kiss on top.

I’m not arguing with that ranking. If there’s a plate of warm Peanut Butter Blossoms sitting on a counter, I'm there with a tall glass of milk. That chocolate drop in the middle gets me every time. You can never stop at just one.

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SOME STATES GOTTA LOVE THEIR M&M'S FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Alabama, Iowa, and Tennessee are all about M&M cookies. That's definitely something I never make for Christmas, but to each his own.

Alaska and Louisiana are searching for Italian cookies. I don't even know what an Italian cookie is?!

Wondering about New York? They’re going fancy with Linzer tart cookies. At my house, that was my Grandma's tarts with a dollop of her homemade jelly on each one.

AMERICA'S MOST SEARCHED CHRISTMAS COOKIE OF 2025

Gingerbread cookies are America’s #1 most searched Christmas cookie this year with over 218,000 searches.

Even people who swear they aren’t great in the kitchen are Googling “easy Christmas cookies” more than 164,000 times.

Maybe that’s why Christmas cookies feel so magical to me. They’re more than recipes. They seem to mean something special to everyone.

And honestly, if Peanut Butter Blossoms are part of Minnesota’s identity, then I’m happily right at home.