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Dear Reader,
It took some doing, but I finally got the hang of baking cutout cookies. In fact, I've been having so much fun rolling dough and cutting out Santas and angels, I've been mixing a batch almost every day.
Readers share Christmas Cutout Cookie traditions...
"Suzanne, you brought such a smile to my face this morning reading about your frustrations making roll out sugar cookies. Our family's sugar cookie tradition, started with my mother-in-law (no longer with us), she had these very old cutters that she passed onto us. We used to come to her house and the kitchen table was covered with Santa's decorated with raisins for eyes, coconut beards, and rosy cheeks painted with red food coloring. A labor of love which she shared with all.
Our twin grandchildren, Ray & Emma have been helping me make Grandma Elliott's sugar cookies since they were old enough to hold a cookie cutter. We make them for every season/holiday and if you ask them when they come for a visit...'Make sugar cookies!' I so enjoy your column and getting a peek at new books. You always start my day off with a smile! Merry Christmas to you and your family."--Carol E.
"I have many fond memories of making cutout cookies with my mom. Growing up, I was the decorating committee. Dusting each cookie with egg and then delicately decorating each with a unique pattern of candied sugar. As I got older, sometimes I would get to help with rolling the dough or actually cutting out cookies. My mom has a gigantic container of holiday cookie cutters, and each year we try to see if we can use them all at least once.
Now that I live three hours away and my mom is older, we still make cookies each year. After all, it is tradition! Sometimes we don't get to make cutout cookies until on Christmas day, but she always waits for me to make the cutouts... Mom's cookies always seem to work out, but sometimes we lose a Santa foot, reindeer antler, or leg of baby Jesus in the process. When that happens we take it as a sign, and that cookie becomes part of the taste-tester batch, and is sacrificed to the delight of the bakers!
I am not sure yet if we will be making Christmas cutout cookies together this year, but you have inspired me to reach out to my mom today and check. I think I appreciate baking with my mom even more as an adult than I did as a child."--Tess C.
"Every morning when I get up, I sit in my living room by myself and get caught up on emails. You are such a big part of this. I have to say that you really make my day. I laugh with you, cry with you and truly connect. I can't wait to see what part of me, you are going to write about on any given day. Today, when you wrote about cookie cutters it brought back so many memories of headless angels and crooked bells. I finally mastered the art a few years ago by using an old fashioned metal spatula to gently lift them off the counter. Every year when I am cleaning my cutlery drawer I'm tempted to toss it, but then my guardian angel comes to me and gently reminds me that I'll be needing it! Enjoy the holidays and all the best in 2016."--Suzanne D.
"Funny you should write about cutout Christmas cookies. I, too, haven't made them in years and was going to revive my former tradition this year. Hopefully, my cookies (snowflakes) will be pretty and edible as I will attempt them this weekend. My kids laughed at me because I really dislike snow, so why would I make snowflakes? Well, I told them, "We can make 'em and eat 'em, no shoveling or shivering involved." Loved your photos! Thanks for letting me read with you."--Maria M.
If you missed the original Christmas Cookie column complete with recipe and photos, go to: http://dearreader.typepad.com/dear/2015/12/dear-reader-column-12-17-15.html
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Peace and joy to you this holiday season,
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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