Christmas and Cookies. As soon as December hits, both are on my mind. For years I’ve spent the month baking – pulling out recipes, faded and stained from decades of use, passed down from my grandma and my mom – immersing myself in traditions and memories.
But this year I decided to try something a little different – to break out and experiment with a few new recipes as well, to shake things up a bit. What started out as a simple plan, quickly ballooned as a new idea crept in…sparked by the informal tradition that every teacher is familiar with as that December calendar goes up on the wall.
The countdown to winter vacation.
So I took on a challenge: twenty-one cookies in twenty-one days – one for each day in December leading up to our school’s winter break. A different flavor profile each day. Some new recipes, some tried and true recipes.
And here they are, all twenty-one cookies from my December Cookie Countdown. …
