8 of our best holiday cookie recipes
LA TimesChristmas means cookies, right? My family makes gingerbread cookies — sometimes in the shape of a pitched roof and walls that we attempt to glue together with frosting for a complete house, or sometimes in the shape of people, a tradition that goes back at least as far as Queen Elizabeth I, whose royal gingerbread maker supposedly served spiced cookies that resembled dignitaries at elaborate banquets. The best Christmas cookie tins are filled with colorful sugar cookies, sprinkled gingerbread, linzers, spritzes, shortbread or sables, crinkles or crackles, even wedding cookies or special chocolate chip cookies — because why not? Lauren Veca’s ‘Versace’ Rainbow Cookies Writer Stephanie Breijo dove into the Italian American holiday cookies of her dreams, including this tricolor treat that stacks three layers of red, green and white cake to resemble the Italian flag, covered in a thin layer of melted chocolate — a recipe from a member of the Garibaldina Society. The Ultimate Wedding Cookie Melt-in-your-mouth wedding cookies look like snowballs, so they’re always an apt addition to your Christmas cookie tin.
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