Governor Kay Ivey on Friday signed legislation naming the confection created by a Montgomery fourth-grader as the official state cookie.
Students at Montgomery’s Trinity Presbyterian School came up with the idea of a state cookie. Fourth-grader Mary Claire Cook submitted the winning recipe, which includes pecans, peanut butter and honey, WSFA-TV reported.
Cook brought a batch of the cookies to Ivey for the bill-signing ceremony.
And if you don’t already know, Alabama has a long list of official state emblems and symbols, including:
State agricultural insect – Queen Honeybee. Actually, Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica), a subspecies of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera)
State amphibian – Red Hills Salamander (Scientific Name: Phaeognathus hubrichti)
State crustacean – Brown Shrimp (Family Penaeidea, order Descapoda, species Peneaus aztecus)
State dessert – Lane Cake
State flower – Camellia (Scientific name: Camellia japonica)
State fossil – Basilosaurus Cetoides
State gemstone – Star Blue Quartz
State mineral – Hematite
State nut – Pecan (Scientific name: Carya illinoinensis)
State quilt – Pine-Burr Quilt
State reptile – Alabama Red-bellied Turtle (Scientific name: Pseudemys alabamensis)
State shell – Johnstone’s Junonia (Scientific name: Scaphella junonia johnstoneae)
State spirit – Conecuh Ridge Alabama Fine Whiskey
State vegetable – Sweet Potato (Scientific name: Ipomoea batatas)
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