One of my favorite activities at Christmas was helping my mom make her Christmas cookies, which were my grandmother's recipe. They were special and tasted amazing. I still can't get them just right. Mom would make these special rolled sugar cookies often and anytime we asked for them. But, on the occasion when she didn't have time for them, she always made chocolate chip cookies which I always associate with her even though they are just the Nestle Tollhouse recipe. Cookies always bring back warm memories of happy times with family at the holidays.
Now that Mom is no longer with us, baking cookies now remind me of her and all the love she put into it. Just because we liked them. Now the next generation are continuing to make her cookies. Maybe not as well but with just as much heart and care. And now, my nieces and nephews get to be the ones to help make the cookies. I hope years from now, they will take the torch and keep the memories alive through baking. Food is sustenance but it can also bring back memories and feelings as well.
This holiday season, I hope you and your family take the time to bake together. Baking is so much fun to do with those you love. Grab the little ones and show them how to bake, let them cut out the cookies or decorate, or tell them stories while you bake the cookies, and they eat them! Make this season a time for family and friends. You can even bake some cookies and take them to your neighbors if you don't want all of the sweets in your house or give them as gifts to your mail man, garbage man, and UPS driver (For all those packages you will have ordered this season). It's a great way to say thanks. If you don't have family close by, get your friends together for a baking night.
A great idea I've heard of to get to sample different cookies is to have a get together where everyone brings a different type of cookie to share. Then you have a fun night of cookies and games or some fun activity and at the end of the night you divvy up any leftovers.
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