How to Ship Decorated Cookies and Cookie Craft Giveaway!
You put oodles of time and love into making decorated cookies for friends, family or children, send the cookies on their merry way via snail mail, only to have them arrive in a broken mess!
Has this ever happened to you?
I don’t have a picture of the ruins to share with you, but it has unfortunately happened to me. The recipient didn’t mind – she had some sweet morsels to snack on, but I’m sure you’d agree – I’d rather the cookies all arrive in one piece!
That’s where the cute new book, Cookie Craft Christmas
I’ve written about their first book
Some of the beneficial information includes a tested and successful way of sending decorated cookies in the mail. I’ve been given permission to share Valerie and Janice’s advice here with you. I’m going to follow their written instructions and use my own pictures:
Shipping Decorated Cookies
We’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like getting a box of delicious decorated cookies in the mail. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to minimize breakage when we send our cookies out into the world.
1. Choose sturdy shapes with a minimum of thin appendages to reduce the danger of your cookies breaking en route.
2. Use tins to keep cookies fresh and help protect them.
3. Make sure there’s plenty of packing material inside the cookie tin:
a. Place a layer of crumpled waxed paper on the bottom of the tin.
b. Place another sheet of waxed paper in the tin, as if you were putting tissue paper in a gift box, but instead of making it neat, crumple it to fit against the sides of the tin.
c. Add your first layer of cookies. If you haven’t individually wrapped them, fold each one in a small piece of waxed paper to keep them from jostling. Add small, crumpled pieces of waxed paper to any pockets of space to prevent cookie movement.
d. Place another crumpled piece of paper on top of the packaged cookies, and then add another layer of cookies. Repeat until the tin is nearly full. Make sure the cookies lie flat and apart from each other and leave at least 3/4 inch between the top layer of cookies and the top of the tin; add a fat top layer of protective padding (such as bubble cushioning or more crumpled waxed paper).
e. Cover with the lid and gently shake the tin. If you feel no movement, shake it a little harder. If you feel movement, add more padding and do the “shake” test again until you feel no movement inside the tin.
f. Attach your gift note to the top of the tin. Don’t forget!
4. Make sure there’s plenty of packing material between the tin and the box:
a. Choose a box that allows at least 2 to 3 inches of space around the tin on all sides and above and below.
b. Pad the bottom of the box with a healthy layer of packing peanuts, packing paper, or bubble cushioning.
c. Place the cookie tin in the box, and thoroughly pad the space between the tin and the sides of the box.
d. Pad the top tightly and close the box. Shake the package gently. If you feel no movement, shake it a little harder. If you feel movement, open the box and add more padding where needed, then close and seal the box, and ship.
Note: To help the environment, we reuse our packing materials — especially the nonrecyclable ones.
*Reprinted with permission from Cookie Craft Christmas, published by Storey Publishing, LLC., October 2009. Thank you to Michelle Blackley and Kevin Kennefick for providing the excerpt.
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xo,
Marian
p.s. Wouldn’t the box below be adorable to fill with cookies and give as a gift?! I found it at the Hallmark store yesterday and will be hand delivering that one. (I’m thinking you could fold the tops down and send it too though).
I came across the site today while looking for inspiration for a gingerbread house I’m making for extra credit in my German class. I’ve spent waaay longer than I should have poking around and looking at all the different cookie tips and everything else you have. I’m in awe.
I plan on doing a batch of cookies for friends yet again this year. Why just hand out candy canes when you give give something so much better?
As for my favorite things to eat around Christmas time, I’d have to say the cookies. The fish from Christmas Eve dinner is great, but it’s always hard to beat cookies. Happy holiday =)
It’s really more about the drinks for me. Hot cocoa w/ Peppermint, Hot Cider, Caramel Brulee Lattes from Starbucks. I love it! And I love your website!
Great tips and very timely, as I’m packing my boxes of assorted truffles tonight! My favorite Christmas food is sugar cookies. Yum, yum, yum!
My favorite is definitely Butter Tarts. YUM … I love them.
Great giveaway. Thank you.
Your cookies are always so utterly BEAUTIFUL! I love your work! You are a true inspiration! Thank you!
(For some reason I am FINALLY able to leave a comment on YOUR blog…though I comment all over blogland, my comments for you would never work!?! I am just happy they do now! YAY!…I emailed you a couple of times instead:))
How wonderful! And those cookies are the cutest holiday cookies I’ve ever seen! I do love gingerbread cookies but my favorite holiday treat is divinity!
My favorite food to eat this time of the year is sweet potato casserole! YUM!
My favorite food this time of year is rum balls/rum cake but my favorite drink is egg nog!
Absolutely adore this site – so much great advice on decorating cookies!
As far as my fave Xmas food is concerned, I love my father in law’s German lentils.
Oh how I would love that book!
One of my favorite Christmas treats is Coconut date balls. My mom made them when I was growing up, now I make them.
I just love your site. It’s my go to site for tips when my daughter and I want to bake something beautiful.
As for my favorite Christmas food, it’s definitely a tie between my grandmother’s Biscotti and my great grandmother’s peanut butter fudge. Yum!
It would have to be gumdrop cookies, one of my all time favorites. It is from a recipe my Mom and I developed and eatting them always bring back fond memories of her. Memories are what this time of year is all about.
Beautiful Cookies!
My favorite food this time of year are molasses cookies
Believe it or not…turkey and FRUITCAKE…I make a bourbon poundcake one,and another with chocolate and rum,and my Aunt’s…not your usual fruitcakes..
Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated!!
Cookies- I love all the different kinds of cookies at holiday time.
My favorite food at this time of year is Pandoro, an Italian yeast cake. It’s light and not too sweet . . . until you shower it with powdered sugar.
I love red velvet cake! But I truly love to bake, decorate and eat sugar cookies.
Gingerbread cookies are my favorite. I love your site.
Mm… Sugar Cookies!
Your cookies always amaze me!! My favorite holiday treats are chocolate truffles.
I keep practicing in hopes that my cookies will someday be as cute as these!
My favorite food this time of year is my dad’s marble cheesecake with an Oreo crust! I’ve been told by friends that it’s better than Cheesecake Factory!
My favorite holiday treat would have to be cookies! Snickerdoodles, gingerbread men, sand tarts, sugar cookies . . . it’s just a great excuse to bake, share, and eat lots of cookies!
Oh, gingerbread cookies, of course! YOURS are precious!
i love eating stews at this time of the year because it keeps me warm!
I love Czechoslavakian moonbeam cookies!
Just a plain, simple, flaky and buttery sugar cookie. With a hot cup of tea…aaahhh! I do wish I could make cookies like yours. That would be the best prize ever Ü
I just made cranberry/orange/walnut cookies. They are my favorite for christmas. I would love to learn how to make cut out decorated cookies and the book would be a God send. Hope your Christmas is merry and filled with love and joy. God bless.
I love to eat just about anything, but my favourite at this time of year is my mom’s rum balls
My favorite thing to eat are decorated sugar cookies!
I love to eat my mom’s famous green bean casserole. Every time take a bite I think of all of the Christmases past, with her and my grandma having Christmas in Tennessee.
I love pecan pie, but I also love to make sugar cookies, so those are tops too.
My favourite food for Christmas is Pan de Jamon a Venezuelan artisan bread made for this time of the year, it’s so delicious. For sweets nothing beats a delicious chocolate cake or almond cookies.
I love making sugar cookies and decorating them for Christmas, but my all time favorites I’ve been making for years- fudge and Mounds bars (coconut inside, covered in chocolate).
My FAV food this time of year is apple cider =D
Thanks for the wonderful posts and blog.
I love all sort of fresh baked cookies,deserts that you can only eat at this time of the year, and ofcourse all the festive chocolates they have at specialty markets at this time of the year.
Thank you for a great tutorial! This is super helpful. Now, we love to Swedish pancakes this time of year.
My favourite thing to eat this time of year is snowball cookies aka mexican wedding cookies. I love the texture and it tastes great with tea or coffee.
I have two favorites this time of year besides fudge. They are divinity and ‘made from scratch’ spritz cookies.
My favorite thing to eat this time of year is salted caramels I make to give as gifts, they’re addictive.
My favorite thing to eat this time of year is my hubby’s fudge! He makes THEE BEST fudge ever!
Every Christmas I order turtles (or tortues, as they call them,)from Southern Candymakers in New Orleans. I wait all year for these guys! Mine never come out as good.
Thanks for the great info. on shipping cookies-It’s nice to have the right pointers! I’d looooove to win this book, it looks adorable.
I’d have to say that my favorite food right now would be clementines.
I love eggnog so the Eggnog bread and the eggnog cheesecake bars are so good.
homemade caramels. I just can’t get enough. YUM!
My favourite snack is hot chocolate with a couple clementines at Christmas time but my favourite treats are naniamo bars.
A ham sandwich on warm, homemade bread…..yum. I won’t even get started on the sweets!!
I love your ideas!! My two favorite things to eat this time of year are eggnog and peppermint ice cream.
Believe it or not – cranberries! Love ‘em!
I love Ben Heggy chocolates, especially their creams. My grandparents used to buy a ton of them and give us a big bag each year at Christmas.
My favorite treat at the holidays are peanut butter chip cookies!
Love all of the ideas from Cookie Craft. Believe it or not, I love to eat cookies at this time of year. I just organized a cookie exchange with some colleagues but I can’t stop eating all of the cookies! The best part is, that I now have 6 new recipes that I can try!
my favorite thing to eat this time of year would have to be eggnog and warm cookies, any kind will do. love your website.
I love all the sweets, especially Peanut Butter Blossoms!
pasta fagioli soup on a cold winter’s night!
I love spice cookies. Lebkuchen are the best. Anything with with a spicy, gingery,clovey kind of taste. Yum!
I love eating all the yummy cookies that I come across this time of year! I can never get enough cookies
My favorite food to eat at this time of year is a big bowl of steaming hot New Orleans Seafood Gumbo , and a nice peice of French Bread for dipping.
This time of year, I love anything with gingerbread or pepperming! Thanks for the giveaway, Happy Holidays!
sugar cookies! they are abundant this time of year!
I really like rum balls this time of the year
My favorite thing to eat during the Christmas holiday season are homemade cookies. There is nothing so sweet as knowing that someone spent a lot of time and energy making me a gift that is priceless! What could be better!!!
I have to say my favorite food is the tamales on Christmas eve. But then again, I have a lovely recipe for sugar cookies that are almost cake like that everyone loves.
I love your site… such creativity and excellence. Sugar cookies are my downfall, and beginning to leave a lasting impression on my body! Their first book totally changed the way I decorate cookies. I’d love theiur Christmas one! Thanks for the give-away.
Sugar Cookies and Peppermint Bark, can’t get enough of either!
I love eggnog but it’s so rich it’s a good thing Christmas is only once a year!
Love you website!
My favorite food this time of year has to be 7 layer bars. I have loved them since I was a young child.
mmm, festive mince and brandy butter. Thanks for the packing tips!
I absolutely love chocolate pecan pie!
My favourite food this time of year is the boiled plum pudding, the recipe has been passed down through my family for generations
Gotta have homemade eggnog every Christmas. Oh, and pizzelle cookies are a must each year!
whoops I meant mince pies!
thank you for the chance at the giveaway!
My favorite holiday food is between sugar cookies and cinnamon rolls
This time of year I love anything flavored gingerbread, pumpkin, sweet potato and cranberry. Any way you can bake it!
Rita-Greer, SC
Hmm….I mixing up my FOURTH batch of sugar cookies (in the last week) today so….I think Im going to have to say sugar cookies. (In all fairness, some were for a baby shower and some (most) were for my husbands Marines….lest you think Im devouring all that buttery goodness!)
Russian Tea Cakes and Shortbreads sweet or savory are my favorites to eat this time of the year! I’m so glad there are so many varitions of this kind of treats that you can find this time of the year!
With all the holiday cookies parties I attend, I love eating any type of cookie this time of year!!
Awesome blog!
My favorite food this time of year is Raspberry Chipoltle (sp?) Meatballs in the savory category. For sweets..it’s Coconut pie and Butter Cookies.
Cookies! I LOVE the Christmas cookies!!!
Can Canadians enter your contest? If so…my favorite thing to eat (and I’m not going to get any this year) is an Icelandic treat called Venetarta. Yum.
my favorite used to be sugar cookies til i had chocolate pudding spiked with baileys irish creme!
My favorite thing to eat is my mom’s date nut pinwheel cookies. She only makes them for Christmas so all of our family waits for this Christmas treat
Love your gingerbread man cookies…they are so cute! I’ve made christmas tree cookies and christmas cookie star trees as gifts this year (will have to send you a pic!)
I live in Australia and celebrate a hot christmas. My favourite foods this time of year are mangoes and cherries!
Hope you have a great christmas and new year! XXX
My grandma’s popcorn balls! They are absolutely amazing and she always makes them this time of year!
I love your website! I found Peggy Porschen’s book you recommended, and read it cover to cover late last night. Today I made my favorite — Sugar Cookies! I like the King Arthur Flour recipe. I prefer mine chewy and with icing.
Thanks for inspiring me always!
Happy Holidays!
Colleen
Favourite to bake AND eat-decorated gingerbread cookies. So pretty & so tasty!
Thanks for the tip!
My favorite thing to eat during this time is anything Pumpkin. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake.
I love dinner rolls. And hot chocolate with a dash of cayenne.
Definetly cookies, espacially gingerbreadowls and plain sugar cookies!
I am going to bake again this afternoon just in case there are not enough left…
I love your blog.
I love the cookies: gingerbread men (or women…). are delicious.
Goodk luck.
Kisses.
OMG! you’re gingermans so cute and funny
i hope i can be good as u 
My favorite food to eat this time of the year is chocolate espresso pecan pie and spiced hot cacao with vanilla!
Definitely love to eat mint brownies!
My Mom makes these very tatsy almond tea cookies every Christmas. My sister and I look forward to them ever year.
My favorite thing to eat this time of year is peppermint sticks. And gingerbread.
Gingerbread for sure! From cookies to cakes, to ice cream to martinis all inspired by gingerbread!
Great giveaway! Merry Christmas!
My favourite food of this time of year is the pavlova the strawberries are at their best also the passionfruit. yum!!!
Thanks for the tips!
My favorite food this time of year is eggnog – is that a food?
Merry Christmas!
I love to eat the cookies from my Grandma! The cookies she’s been baking for as long as my Dad can remember! Kolachkis are my favorite!
Happy Holidays!
i love my grandma’s cheesy potatoes that she makes for the family get together. they are so deliciously bad for you.
Thanks for the tips on posting cookies! My favourite christmas food would have to be gingerbread houses – fun to make and even better to eat!
My new one this year is peppermint bark popcorn. Can’t stop eating it!
I always find great ideas in your blog.
My favourite food for these days are Spanish “turron” and “polvorones”. Have you ever try them? Delicious….
Merry Christmas¡¡
I have so many favorites at Christmas but I think my most fav. is my mom’s homemade chocolate pie with her whipped cream that is out of this world!!
I seen one that mentioned gumdrop cookies making memories–and that they are. There was a family book made years ago with entries about great-grandma and many members mentioned her famous gumdrop cookies. I recently started cake & cookie decorating classes—so maybe in years to come, my own cookies will be memory makers. My favorite food is old fashion crisp fudge !! Merry Christmas!!
@ Kay (CookieO):
Those meatballs sound soooooo good. Would love that recipe. I used to be able to get a raspberry chipolte sauce, from tastefully simple, but I guess they no longer carry it. Oh, if I could make my own. yum !!
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I think my favorite food is mince pies. Thanks for the cookie shipping tips!
homemade chinese food. we always a big feast on Christmas eve.
How exciting…another book on cookie craft..sign me up.
I love anything peppermint this time of year, it’s addicting!!
My favorite thing to eat during the holidays are gingerbread cookies! The ones you made are adorable! Thanks for the giveaway!
Can I adopt you as my sister?
And my favorite food this year is definitely Any Christmas cookie (Lady fingers and Sweet Spots are tops). Thanks for the tips!
My mom makes amazing buckeyes and fudge. In fact, my husband told my mom that the only thing he wanted for Christmas was buckeyes!
I have the original Cookie Craft book and use it all the time! I’m thrilled that the authors have put together one specifically for Christmas!
I love my grandmother’s Christmas Stollen
I tweeted http://twitter.com/cdziuba/status/6866985538
This time of year its the little sugar cookies
I make with an antique cookie press, or as the
box says, cookie gun. I can make a ton of
shaped cookies in no time!
My favorite holiday food is cookies. Specifically, peanut blossoms. Yummy!
My favourites this time of year are gingerbread cookies and candy canes!
Peppermint! Any peppermint-flavored desserts this time of year I totally devour!
I would definitley have to go with stuffing!! For me it’s what Christmas is all about. Eating with those you love
I love to make peanut brittle but I am learning to decorate cookies so I would have to pick both of these. If anyone holds a Christmas cookie in front of me I am their new best friend.
Oh my this is a great tip Mar xD Now i want to receive cookies on the mail xD hahaha the tin can its too pretty and matchy xD
My favorite food to eat at Christmas time is all the sweets! Fudge, my grandmother’s lace cookies, peanut brittle, peppermint bark, so many good things to eat!! =)
I just love anything sweet… lol !
I love eating anything with a chocolate mint combo this time of the year.
My favorite holiday treat is eggnog! I’m even making cake with it this year. YUM!!
Wine biscuits, I really should post this recipe so others can share in the joy.
I love buckeyes, and of course Sugar cookies!
Great tips, thanks for the beautiful photos and info that you share.
My favorite thing to eat this time of year is roasted chestnuts.
I love to eat so many things this time of year… Can’t decide, between all the sweets my mom makes (chocolate with pecans, coconut, peanut butter, fudge, white chocolate and dried fruit, raining rock cookies, maseca cookies, sugar cookies, “coquitos”, lime gumdrops, strawberry gumdrops, “chicloso”, “cacahuates garampinados”, etc, etc) and all the tamales (pork, turkey – Christmas leftover, “rajas” and elote)…Besides the traditional Christmas diner: turkey, stuffed potatoes, deviled eggs, pecan and pumpkin pie, etc, etc… I guess… I like my mom’s cooking and baking this time of year!
I would love this book. My favorite cookie is ginger mounds.
1 gingerbread mix
1/3 cup water
1 cup raisins
1 cup almonds chopped
no eggs or oil. Mix all ingredients bake a 350 for 10 minutes
Chocolate cherry fudge cookies that my friend makes for me every year. It always tastes better when someone else makes it!!
I love your site. Always such helpful and good stuff. My favorite holiday food is simply the cookies. Every year I host a Cookie Exchange the week before Christmas. I love the variety and so does Santa!
oh my word I would die to have this cookbook!!!!!! i have been wanting both cookie craft and this!!!!! My all time favorite christmas treat is decorated sugar cookies……its not Christmas without it
As usual a wonderful tutorial. Those gingerbread men turned out awesome. I love the box, I’m going to go and buy one tomorrow (well I hope I can get out). Ummm what is my favourite thing to eat at Christmas???? My mother in laws cookies….they are an assortment of German cookies, all homemade and I love eating them.
I Love your site!!! My favorite thing to eat this time of year is Pumpkin Pie!
my fave food is caramel donuts (cuz I’m a chanuka observer, but still love the cookie craft books!)
again a wonderful tutorial, and beautiful gingerbread cookies. love your site.
My favourite food this time of the year is.. all sorts of swiss chocolates and cookies.
ML
I’m looking forward to eating the Butter Balls that my mother makes. I’ve tried making them myself but they just don’t taste the same.
Favorite holiday foods??? hmmmm I Love Buckeyes.. I make a huge batch each year for friends and family ( and me too lol!!). Mmmmmm and ham.. not together of course although…..
Thank you for reprinting these suggestions. I have lots of out of state family that I would love to be able to send cookies to.
mmmmmmm…..I love the mincemeat tarts & jam tarts that my mother makes this time of year.
@ Amy Murphy:
I love decorating and eating sugar cookies me and the kids love to make gingerbread men
@ Amy Murphy:
I love making and eating Scotch Kisses…marshmallows dipped in homemade butterscotch….YUM!
Those gingerbread men are the CUTEST cookies…wish mine would look like that!
I love to eat chocolate covered pretzels!!
I LOVE eating all different kinds of cookies at Christmas, but I absolutely love anything with peanut butter. Especially crunchy peanut butter balls dipped in semi-sweet chocolate.
A box of those gingerbread cookies in the mail would be divine – then I’d be heartbroken to bite into them. They are just waaay too pretty. I visit your site often and it is just feast for the eyes!
My favourite food this time of year? – That would be Gammon Ham, Pickled Green Chillies with Green Papaya Stuffing, and my Aunty Liz’s Pineapple Jam Tarts. She used to pack them in tins and send them via whoever was heading our way. My brother and I would observe a moment of silence when we hit the bottom of the tin.
My favorite food this time of year is tamales! Even though we can eat them anytime they’re always on the menu for Christmas and New Year’s.
hmmmm… favorite thing to eat this time of year? Cookies! There’s more cookies around this time of year than any other!
Ally & High Heels & Aprons
It’s not a proper Christmas if I don’t get to eat pavlova!
My favorite food this time of the year would have to be cookies!
You have wonderful tips and photos! Thanks for the chance to win this book!
My Mom’s homemade German Stollen is my favorite foor to eat this time of year!
those are so cute.. my friend and i are actually making cookies to send to our friend in california tomorrow night! so what a perfect time to read all this!
my favorite thing to eat this time of year is probably home made cheese ball! but on the sweet side.. i love me some toffee! mmm!
Apparently it is cookies…
Note to self…don’t partake in an 8 dozen cookie swap next year … GROAN
I love my friend’s famous oreo cookie balls… oreo cookies and cream cheese blended together and dipped in almond bark. They are wonderful!!!
Love your blogg!
My favorite food is a typical for the swedish cristmas foos; pickled herring.
And of course all the sweets; fruitcake, gingerbread… The list can be long!
Merry Christmas!
Karin
My favorite at this time of the year of course are those cute decorated gingerbread cookies. Just by looking at it one can almost smell the magical Christmas aroma.
I love to eat my families traditional Christmas dessert. Cinnamon and sugar empanadas. yummm.
My favorite this time of year is the fudge roll. It’s a classic in these parts (high Italian population).
I just googled fudge roll and couldn’t find it, it must be something just around here!
It’s not the holiday season without Hard Apple Spiced Cider, Peppermint Bark and gingerbread cookies!
I like at this time of the year the most hot chestnuts. On all the christmas markest it’s a must to have hot spiced wine and hot chestnuts
I love all foods for this time of year! Warm foods like stews and soups, and of course the sweets like gingerbread and anything chocolate and mint
Thanks for sharing these tips! I love the gingerbread box!
I am seriously IN-LOVE with peppermint bark! I just made the most deliciously peppermint bark brownies last night!
PS I love your gingerbread cookies-too cute!
S’mores ! We usually have bbq during festive seasons and s’mores are my fave!
My homemade cinnamon rolls!
Oh my gosh I love rum cake!!! With tons of nuts in the batter!!! I too love peppermint bark!
Your cookies are always so adorable!! I have “Cookie Craft” and refer to it often and I’m thrilled that they have a Christmas version out. Ooooohhh what fun!
My favorite Christmas cookies are decorated sugar cookies (duh!) and fudge.
Merry Christmas to you!
This time of year I like eating anything with gingerbread or peppermint flavors, especially cookies!
Forgotten Cookies. We’ve had these every Christmas since we were kids. My Aunt Jo was a school teacher, and her best friend (also a teacher) always gave her these “cookies” for Christmas. Aunt Jo, of course, would share with us all. Thankfully, the friend was willing to share the recipe. My Aunt Jo passed away 11 years ago, and I think of her especially at Christmas when I make these cookies.
Thanks for the ideas! I’ve been wanting to send some of my far-away friends cookies and such, but never have because I figured they’d all be broken by the time they got there.
Now, I’ll definitely try. 
Anyway, I’d have to say my favorite “Christmas” food is my Memere’s chicken and dumplings. She always made it for us on Christmas Eve, but now that she’s gone, my brother has taken over the tradition.
You truly inspire me, Sweetopia! I am hoping to one day start a cookie business so I love to visit your site for new ideas and tips.
My favorite Christmas treat is pizzelles, the italian anise-flavored cookie. I always have fond memories of childhood when I eat these…
Oh, those cookies are absolutely PRECIOUS. I love them.
Also, my favorite thing to eat during this season is my moms famous Crescent Cookies. Gosh, I love them.
anything with pumpkin! ;0)
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This time of year I cannot get enough of my family’s home made breads and nut rolls. I can’t decide if it’s the tradition or if it’s the yummy taste. It brings a smile to my face, heart and tummy to be with the family and eat all the goodies
I live on hot chocolate and cookies this time of year. Thanks to all of your tips, my cookies are looking much better these days, which makes them even more fun to eat.
I love hot, spiced cider and buckeye candies. (Not necessarily together.) Happy holidays!
Oh, I just love holiday treats! This year, I’m loving sugar cookies most of all! They’re just the perfect little sweet treats! YUM. I love coming here to get amazing ideas, tips, and tricks!
Cookies, cookies and more cookies. I can’t get enough of them this time of year. And, something about the holidays makes it okay to forget the diet for a while and indulge.
My favorite is a peppermint cookie that has a hershey kiss in the middle! Its absolutely delicious! Anything with a little peppermint extract can be yummy!
But really any cookie is great! The good ol decorated sugar cookie is the prettiest!
I love to make coconut balls and homemade marshmallows. I also always make gingerbread cookies!
I love our peanut butter balls and I always make spinach artichoke dip for Christmas Eve. Yum!
Your cookies are so nice. I love the butter tarts.. yum!
Since it’s so hot here I love icecreams and fruit desserts for Christmas. Loved your cookies!
Gingerbread … hands down. I am completely addicted this year!
My favorite is just a regular old fashioned sugar cookie, I prefer my granny’s recipe with nutmeg in it. That is Christmas to me!
Michelle
I really love ’speculaas’ the soft version with almonds. Speculaas is a local speciality and is related to your gingerbread.
One of my favorite things to eat this time of yr is Gingersnaps. Also homemade choc.chip cookies with hot chocolate on a cold day. I also love pecan pie.
favorite foods? chocolate……. anything….. oh wait maybe my mom’s ham!!
All the sweets! I love cookies and breads and anything with sugar
hmm..my favorite holiday food would have to be the chocolate chip cookies my brother and I make. we make them every year. its tradition lol.
My favorite is buckeyes – chocolate covered peanut butter balls.
Gingerbread cookies…they taste like Christmas!
Ham is the best! So good!
There’s a long list, but I definitely love fruit cakes a lot!
Desserts are the best. My two daughters bake non-stop especially when they are off from school.
I’ve always liked yule logs. I’m going to try making it for the first time this year. Exciting!
Cookies, for sure! Especially decorated cookies actually. Thanks for the giveaway! It looks like a really good book.
I also tweeted!
http://twitter.com/corynnchan/status/6917982145
My favorite thing would have to be homemade cookies or maybe basque potato soup.
I don’t always eat them but I like making cookies my mother made, and my father likes, when I was growing up. Still working on it but I do like decorating the cutouts, more so now that I have a little one that likes to help!
Ooooh….deserts are always big with our family. One of my favorites is my aunt’s Chocolate chip cookies. I don’t know what she does to them ( and she’s not telling)….but, they are amazing!
My fav this time of year is gingerbread, I cant help it….. makes me feel like Im 5 again!
Christmas is all about French Salad for me. You cook tiny pieces of carrots, pease & potattoes. Then you mix the veggies with tiny pieces of eggs and pickles and drench the whole thing in mayo. Love it!
my bff’s peanut butter balls!!!
My favourite food is escudella, a tipical spanish dish and I also love iberic jam
Hi Marian, I’m Francesca form Italy…
Thanks for all your precious tips about decorating cookies!!
My favorite food for Christmas is PANETTONE, a tipical xmas Italian cake, very soft and very veru delicious!!!
Merry Xmas to all!!
Francesca
I just came across your blog today, and I love it already!
I love baking as well, so every holiday season I look forward to the sweets. I’m particularly fond of molasses spice cookies though! And of course, I love decorating gingerbread cookies too!
My favorite food to eat this time of year is my grandmother’s fudge – it’s dark and rich and SO delicious!!!
I love so many things at this time of the year but I think making tons of cookies is my favorite.
I love hot chocolate with whipped cream.. and also cookies… and torrone…. Your cookies are beautiful and they look so yummie!!!!
Ilenia from simplynabiki.com
I love gingerbread cookies!
I’m all about the sweets!! Cookies and Candies please–If I went to a Christmas buffet and was told one visit only–I would skip the Turkey, and head to the sweets–cookies and candies only for me please!
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Turtles. Homemade. And cut-out cookies. Christmas wouldn’t be the same without them!
My favorite thing to eat this time of year has got to be snickerdoodles! It’s the only time of year where they seem appropriate and they’re just so delicious.
Gingerbread lattes from Starbucks, gingerbread cookies and homemade english toffee. Yum!
My favorite holidays food is anything with cherries on it, because in Brazil it is cherry season!
I’d also like to wish you the best Christmas, and say you are such an inspiration – thank you for the cookie lessons you gave me this year!
xo
Paula
My FAVORITE holiday food is not a sweet, it’s buttery yeast rolls! I can eat rolls till my gut explodes
gingerbread anything is perfect this time of year
i love red velvet i general, but it’s especially seductive during the winter for me for some reason… but of course, i always get sore throats in the winter, and eating sweets makes it worse! *sob*
Thank you so much for the shipping tip..
My favorite is mincemeat pie this Christmas.. I managed to get the crust just nice.. crumbles in the mouth eventhough they come out from the freezer and I don’t have to pop them into the oven again
Have a Merry Merry Christmas!
My favorite food during the holiday is egg roll. we gather every year to make a big batch, enough for everyone.
my fave food is stuffing and cranberry jelly..mmm
Hi! Thanks for posting the info on how to ship. I have the authors 1st book, but your pictures helped so much!
THANK YOU for all your d*e*l*i*c*i*o*u*s sounding favorite foods! I enjoyed reading them all!!