Iced and decorated sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, spicy molasses cookies, chocolate crinkles and cookies laced with eggnog are winter holiday classics.
The holidays can be an especially sweet time of year, particularly for those of us who love to bake. This is the season to have fun in the kitchen as we gather with parents, grandparents, children or friends, sharing memories and passing on traditions while we stock up on festive cookies and fami.
Many hands help make holiday cookies. That's true when you're gathered with family and friends and vats of colored icing. It's true when you're running a contest for cookie recipes, when it takes thousands of readers, dozens of cooking school students and five hungry judges to choose the best. An.