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Christmas cookies – a holiday tradition

Cooking and baking for the holidays is a tradition for many. Whether it is cookies and candy for Christmas or latkes and kugal for Hanukkah, many cultures enjoy special foods around major holidays. Decorated sugar cookies are always a favorite of ours.

I’m still looking for a really good cut-out sugar cookie recipe. (Do you have one you like?) They are a big tradition in both our families.

Image shows a young boy sitting at a table with cut out cookies.  He is smiling at the camera

We make a few almost every year to enjoy over the holidays. We sometimes do elaborate decorations (I once worked as a professional cake decorator!) but usually we just let our inner children out to play and have a good time.

Image show a tray of colorful cookies in shapes like chickens, bells trees and fish.
These were made a couple of years ago!

One of the best parts of making cut out cookies at our house is the cookie cutters. We have some from when Walt was little, including a fish that his dad made!

Image shows a bunch of cookie cutters on a white background. Some have green handles. One is a roughly made fish shape.
The ones with the green handles came from Georgie, Carl made the fish, and the rest were mine.

That’s not to say that we don’t make other types of cookies or deserts when we need to take things to a shared meal.

Image shows a rack with cookies cooling and several bags of cookies sitting on a counter.
A big baking day – snickerdoodles cooling on the rack, the molasses ginger cookies from this post, and chocolate crackle cookies.

I also had some fun trying out a Bundt cake recipe with chocolate and peppermint.

Image shows a cake on a decorative plate. The cake is chocolate with a white icing drizzled over the top and crushed candy canes sprinkled on the icing.
Crushed candy canes top this chocolate peppermint cake.

As we wrap up our second (second?!?) year on the blog, we want to wish all our readers a happy holidays and blessings for the new year.

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  1. Sherrey

    Everything looks wonderful and I bet it taste wonderful too! Wish we were there to share.

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