My kids love baking Christmas cookies with me. Correction: they think they do. In fact, many traditional Christmas cookies involve dough that needs to be chilled, cut, chilled again before baking. Then there’s the waiting for the cookies to cool before they can do what they really want to do which is make a mess […]

We recently made Christmas cookies using Martha’s basic sugar cookie recipe. Bias aside (we both work there), these are the best sugar cookies I’ve ever made. You don’t need to make the fondant. We just had the kids decorate with basic buttercream (that’s what they like) and far too many sprinkles. From Marthastewart.com: Ingredients 2 […]

Former Cookie contributing editor, she’s just come out with a must-have dessert book, Sweet Home: Over 100 Heritage Desserts and Ideas for Preserving Family Recipes