Cookies make the holidays merry: 5 great recipes By Daniel Neman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Published: December 16, 2020, 6:05am Share: 6 Photos Homebaked cookies for the holidays, photographed on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS) Photo Gallery December is the month of cookies. Everywhere you look, there are cookies. Cookies at office parties (well, maybe not this year). Cookies at holiday gatherings (assuming there will be such things). Random people standing on street corners handing out delicious fresh-baked cookies to strangers (OK, this has never happened to me, but a fellow can hope). It has been an unusual year. Perhaps you have noticed. But even so, people are finding ways to keep up the Christmas cookie tradition.