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I am the cookie Monster!
December rolls around, bringing with it colder weather and very often snow, and of course, Christmas. Along with Halloween, Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love decorating the house – inside and out. I love switching out my dishes – plates, bowls and cups – for Christmas ones. I love shopping for the perfect gifts, and then wrapping those gifts. And I love baking cookies.
I can’t remember how long ago it started, but one year I made four or five different types of cookies, packaged them up and gave them to my folks and my sister. The next year I made a six or seven varieties and added my extended family to the list. The following year there were more kinds of cookies, and I added a few friends to the list. Then even more varieties and some of the neighbors became recipients. Needless to say, it’s become a tradition now.
It begins in November when I start planning. I look through my recipes. I buy magazines with cookie recipes. I plan which cookies I will do again and which new ones I want to try. Perennial favorites include maple cookies, cranberry swirls, egg nog logs (the son’s favorite and though they are a pain to make and I say every year I’m not doing them this year, I still make them because they are the one cookie he asks me to do), chocolate stars, pecan spiced tea cookies, snickerdoodles, white chocolate cranberry cookies, and magic cookies (aka overnight meringues). There’s always a few new ones that I want to try – sometimes they get added to the perennial list, sometimes they are a one off.
Then I plan out my attack. I always do the gluten free cookies first at the beginning of December because we get together early with the extended family and some of them are GF. Then mid-December I make the dough for the ice box cookies because I can do those a few weeks ahead of time and just leave them in the freezer until I am ready to bake them. Then, the week before Christmas, I make all the other cookies, leaving the last day for the ice box cookies, which just need to come out of the freezer, get sliced and baked.
Then I put the cookies together in either baskets or those little holiday themed cardboard boxes that look like take-out boxes, only with holiday patterns on them. Then I deliver the cookies. A regular cookie monster. I even have a sign in my kitchen regarding my Christmas cookie habit!
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Your cookie tradition sounds like a great deal of fun. About how many people would you say you give them away to every year?
This looks such a fun read!
I love baking cookies. We do our GF cookies first and then the rest. It is so much fun. I love doing this.
We set one day aside and bake and decorate cookies as a family.
So many good books. Which one do I read first? Lol
I’m a cookie monster but that’s because I love to eat ’em, not bake ’em.