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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n

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These were made a couple of years ago!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ones with the green handles came from Georgie, Carl made the fish, and the rest were mine. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A big baking day – snickerdoodles cooling on the rack, the molasses ginger cookies from this post<\/a>, and chocolate crackle cookies. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also had some fun trying out a Bundt cake recipe with chocolate and peppermint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crushed candy canes top this chocolate peppermint cake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we wrap up our second (second?!?<\/strong><\/em>) year on the blog, we want to wish all our readers a happy holidays and blessings for the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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