I remember growing up that my grandmother made the best crunchy cookies for Christmas every year and I just could not get enough of them.

I would eat them as fast as she would make them.

When I was about 15, my grandmother pulled me aside and explained that the cookies were called Rosettes which were a Scandinavian cookie and that her mother had made them and she wanted to pass the tradition on to me.

The cookies are easy to make, the most difficult part was to find the iron used to make the cookies, but my grandmother had given me hers.

The recipe is quite easy. It calls for: Read More »

My peanut butter Toll House cookies are the best.

What you need is
a double boiler,
peanut butter,
cooking wax,
semi sweet chocolate morsels,
and wax paper.

What you do to begin is make cracker sandwiches out of the crackers and peanut butter. I usually pick up the Toll House Christmas tree crackers for the holidays.

Once you have all your cracker sandwiches made you take your double boiler and add water to the bottom pot. Once you do that add half a block of cooking wax (paraffin I do believe) and some of the semi-sweet chocolate chips to the top pot and sit it into the boiler pot. Read More »

I just graduated from college in 2004, so I’ve been building my Christmas decorations for the past few years since I’ve lived on my own. I’ve gone in a different direction than the traditional Christmas tree we had growing up with Colonial Williamsburg ornaments, white lights, and lots of brass and hand-sewn ornaments.

I still use only white lights as it’s what my family and my boyfriend’s family does. I also have quite a few hand-painted glass balls done by my friends and family who are artists (some have paintings of my old house, my boyfriend’s home, and Norwegian nisse, or elves since I was born there). Read More »

While shaping the cookies, keep the rest of the dough covered with plastic wrap so it won’t dry out. Preparation: 25 min. Cooking: About 8 min. per batch.

Makes about 4 dozen.

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons peppermint extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon red food coloring paste
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Ingredients
2 cups butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
2/3 cup finely chopped almonds (or your favorite nuts finely chopped)
colored sugar crystals

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I remember when I was 11 years old, on Christmas we saved a dog and her name was Cheyenne.

Cheyenne was a husky and she was very beautiful. I remember how sweet it was when we would come home and she howl and greet us at the door. We had her for two years before this happened.

I believe it was Christmas eve and you know how people are running around a lot that day. Well she got out, and she was a runner. My father, uncle and me were chasing her down the street, sure enough she ran right into the food city. Read More »

This recipe is passed down from my grandma. The recipe I’m sharing with you is popular among the children and even the adults in our family gatherings. It’s funny because every Christmas gathering when I bake these cookies, everyone fights for them! Even the adults are acting like kids trying to get the first batch out of the oven!

It’s simply amazing how the cookies can disappear so fast and so quick in the blink of an eye! I absolutely love this recipe and I hope you will too.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

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