Advent Calendar - Dec 8th

December 8 – Christmas Cookies
Did your family or ancestors make Christmas Cookies? How did you help? Did you have a favorite cookie?


We baked cookies when I was young.  I remember helping to decorate, using a selection of colored sugars and frostings, fancy sprinkles, etc.  I remember some holiday shaped cookie cutters as well.  I don't think we ever made more than a few dozen per year.  As I'm not a huge fan of cookies, this wasn't a problem for me.

When I met my wife, her family was into making cookies, but also candy of several sorts.  I especially liked the chocolate covered cherries.  They were much better than the store bought ones.  We still make them some years, but it's a tedious, messy process at best, so  it's becoming less often that we do it.


This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2012 by Daniel G. Dillman

Advent Calendar - December 8, Christmas Cookies

December 8 – Christmas Cookies
Did your family or ancestors make Christmas Cookies? How did you help? Did you have a favorite cookie?

 
Everyone seems to love their Christmas cookies.  Except me.  Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I really generally only like chocolate chip cookies, and then only on occasion.  The annual flood of Christmas cookies just doesn't appeal greatly to me.  I might have one or two over the season, but more than that would be very unusual.

I remember making them when I was young.  We did the cutting out and baking, my mother had a set of Chirstmas cookie cutters.  That much was fun, as a kid.  Decorating and frosting them was also good. 


This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2011 by Daniel G. Dillman