The Great New England Christmas Cookie Bake-Off

My recent Ode to Christmas shopping demands a follow-up.  Ok, not really sure that it “demands” a successor, but I felt like writing it, so this will be a final penance for faithful readers before the holidays.  Baking Christmas Cookies.  We seldom if ever bake cookies during the regularly scheduled year.  Store-bought is just fine, thanks.  Susan likes chocolate-chip, which I like, but I sometimes deviate to ginger cookies or hermits.  At the holiday season, though, there’s a whole renaissance of cookie baking that somehow is just a part of our humanity.  Someday, scientists will identify the Winter Solstice Cooking Baking gene. Continue reading “The Great New England Christmas Cookie Bake-Off”