All posts tagged 12 days of Christmas cookies

Those of you who are keeping a close count at home will note that this is actually my 13th day of writing about holiday cookies (I made

For these cookies, we're going back another generation. I've written about the cookies my grandmother and

I am deeply suspicious of most brand-specific recipes. I guarantee you the best place to get a good chicken noodle soup recipe is not from the

I struggled with what to call these cookies. They could easily be called rosemary, lemon and currant sugar cookies, because that describes in a literal sense their

In my original Christmas Cookie Manifesto, I said this about successful Christmas cookies:

So, what makes a good Christmas cookie? Simple. It has to have bold

A couple of months ago, prompted by a magazine cookie contest, I started thinking seriously about Christmas cookies. If I was going to create my own cookie

Growing up, one of the biggest signs that announced "It's Christmas!" was eating the gingersnaps my grandfather baked each year. He passed away almost three years ago, and

Note: The text below I wrote on Monday (12/5), after making this recipe once. The picture above is of version 2.0 of this cookie, which is superior

My wife and I had a disagreement after I published my toffee square recipe last week. She said