It’s National Cookie Day. Here’s how to find deals in Iowa:

Local Iowa restaurants and bakeries are joining in with their own deals to celebrate National Cookie Day on Thursday, Dec. 4.

Here are a few that are giving out more sugar with their sugar.

What Iowa stores are doing National Cookie Day deals?

• Whisky River Ankeny: Enjoy the bar’s new “11 Cookies Crammed in the VCR” Christmas cocktail inspired by the movie “Elf.”

• Table 128 in Des Moines: The restaurant’s Signature Chocolate Chip Cookies, which are baked fresh daily, are available by the dozen for pickup.

What national restaurants and bakeries have National Cookie Day deals?

These chains with locations in Iowa are also offering National Cookie Day discounts and freebies:

• Crumbl: In a nod to the “6-7” slang trend, the cookie bakery chain is celebrating National Cookie Day on Thursday, Dec. 4, by giving customers who buy a 6-Pack in-store a free 7th item (while supplies last).

• Insomnia Cookies: The first 100 members of the Insomnia Rewards loyalty program who visit any store on National Cookie Day get a free Snowball Classic cookie, a limited-time sugar cookie stuffed with buttercream and topped with powdered sugar and edible glitter. One cookie at each of the cookie chain’s 350 stores will reveal a prize – free cookies for a year – via its purple buttercream filling. (Before you make like Cookie Monster and eat your cookie, take a picture of it with your receipt, then scan the QR code provided in-store to upload the photo and complete the entry form.)

• Jimmy John’s: JJ Rewards members can get a free Holiday Magic Cookie made with M&Ms on Dec. 4 with any mobile or app purchase of $5 or more.

What is National Cookie Day?

Of course, Cookie Monster would have something to do with National Cookie Day.

“Sesame Street” added National Cookie Day to its calendar back in 1976, designating Nov. 26 as the unofficial holiday, according to the National Day Calendar, and Cookie Monster promoted the special day in the 1980 book “The Sesame Street Dictionary.”

Blue Chip Cookie Company co-founder Matt Nader opted to move National Cookie Day a few days later on the calendar in 1987 to a date during the holiday season “because that’s when people indulge,” the Los Angeles Times reported.”

That Dec. 4 date has stuck – and also been adopted by Cookie Monster, who has celebrated National Cookie Day on “Sesame Street” and on social media.

Lucia Cheng is a service and trending reporter at the Des Moines Register. Contact her at lcheng@gannett.com or 515-284-8132.

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