Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> Allrecipes.com has lots of selections for special holiday cookies.
> Cut-out and decorated sugar cookies are common. A basic cookbook should
> have a recipe; I've posted mine here within the last two weeks. Spiced
> cookies are common at Christmas. Spritz cookies are very common.
> Good luck. It's a good thing the 12 Days of Christmas do not end on
> December 25; that's when they begin. You still have time.


I was going to say that any cookie could be a Christmas cookie. As long
as it is rich and special (butter, sugar, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate,
jam, somewhere in the recipe), it works for Christmas. But then, I've
never celebrated Christmas so what do I know. What if we phrased the
question the other way and asked if there's any cookie or baked good
that's NOT appropriate for Christmas? If you made hamentaschen
(triangular shaped filled cookies traditionally made for Purim), and no
one knew they were hamentaschen, couldn't they be brought to a Christmas
celebration and wouldn't they fit right in?


--Lia