How did the cultivation of sugar influence sugar cookies?

Sugar was first produced from sugarcane plants in northern India sometime after the first century AD.[1] The derivation of the word “sugar” is thought to be from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar," originally "grit, gravel". Sanskrit literature from ancient India, written between 1500 - 500 BC provides the first documentation of the cultivation of sugar cane and of the manufacture of sugar in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.[2][3] The Sanskrit name for a crudely made sugar substance was guda, meaning “to make into a ball or to conglomerate."[2]