A cookie cookbook?

More than a cookbook, CHRISTMAS COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING is a celebration of family, friends and the joy of giving. Stories, recipes, tips and more...

Smells of cinnamon…cookie cutters…rolling and baking…eating dough…warm times with friends and family…Christmas cookies are a universal symbol of sweetness and family tradition at Christmas. But the joy of Christmas cookies goes beyond eating. In CHRISTMAS COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING, Kristin Johnson and Mimi Cummins reawaken the fun of giving Christmas cookies, as they remember doing when they lived next door to each other when young children.

From the original short story “The Giving Christmas Cookie,” which shows a family brought together by a special cookie in a nursing home at Christmas, to nearly 50 scrumptious Christmas cookie recipes with mouth watering photos, to the timely, easy directions for making homemade “Gifts in a Jar,” CHRISTMAS COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING is a cookie cookbook that shows that old-fashioned Christmas cookies are the antidote to cynicism about Christmas gifts. The secret to celebrating your family and friends may not be in the department store, but in the grocery store where you’ll find the ingredients to make traditional Christmas cookies such as Sugar Cookies, Fattigmann, Springerle, Brownies, Vanillekipferl, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Spritz, Cathedral Windows, Pecan Balls, Biscotti, Shortbread, Peanut Blossoms, Divinity...and many more! Give this book as a present, and you may be rewarded when someone you love bakes the Christmas cookies in this book for you.

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Reviews

“...a collaborative effort that is pure magic. Used appropriately, it will make your kitchen smell like the holidays, your family happy and your Christmas gifts sing songs of good will.”
—Carolyn Howard-Johnson
award-winning author of This is the Place

“An old fashioned Christmas gift idea has been revived and updated in this charming book...The book captures the joy of doing your own cookie making and includes such decadent specialties as Triple Chocolate Caramel Brownies and Vanilla Crescents...a great guide for discovering the secrets of great baking.”
—Westchester World