Cookies have been part of celebrations long before the first Christmas. After Pope Julius declared December 25 as Christmas in 350 A.D., Christians adopted cookie baking as part of the Christmas celebration. 
There are many traditions inherited and adopted by Americans and the Christmas cookie is another one. The Christmas cookie actually came from the Dutch word koekje, which means "small cake." It was the Pennsylvania Dutch who first introduced holiday cookies to America. The rest of the Europeans continued to bake when they came to the United States introducing many treats that we enjoy today. We can thank Sweden for the spritz cookies topped with sugar crystals, Scotland for their shortbread, Greece for their Baklava and the Russian for their powdered sugar tea cakes. The German cookies, lebkuchen and springerle are favorites. Many of the Christmas cookie recipes we enjoy today came from European countries; each carrying generations of folklore and legend.
There are many traditions inherited and adopted by Americans and the Christmas cookie is another one. The Christmas cookie actually came from the Dutch word koekje, which means "small cake." It was the Pennsylvania Dutch who first introduced holiday cookies to America. The rest of the Europeans continued to bake when they came to the United States introducing many treats that we enjoy today. We can thank Sweden for the spritz cookies topped with sugar crystals, Scotland for their shortbread, Greece for their Baklava and the Russian for their powdered sugar tea cakes. The German cookies, lebkuchen and springerle are favorites. Many of the Christmas cookie recipes we enjoy today came from European countries; each carrying generations of folklore and legend. 
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