Christmas Cookies!

It's that time of year again!  Yes, indeed, it is the time of year to make cookies!


(It may be unoriginal, since it seems like many people make Christmas cookies...  But cookies are so good!  I am not ashamed.)


My family does not have many recipes that have been handed down through the generations.  Well, perhaps I should be more specific.  We do not have many recipes that have been handed down through many generations--I have plenty from both my parents and my grandparents.  But from my mother's grandmother's grandmother...  those recipes are few and far between.


And one of those special generational recipes is for White Cookies.  They are not sugar cookies.  In fact, they are light and fluffy and cakey--and not too sweet.  (One of the ingredients is, I kid you not, sour milk.)  I have never encountered them anywhere else--not in bakeries or other stores.  My mother makes them every year for Christmas.


And this year, I tried my hand at making them.

All ready to go into the oven
(yes, there are trees and stars and bells and the Christmas Duck)

Out of the oven, cooling

With icing!  Just perfect, because the cookies themselves
aren't too sweet--the sugar isn't overpowering

My friend getting ready to sample the success

They turned out very, very well--especially for a first try!  They went very quickly, too--my husband didn't even get any before they disappeared!  I think making some more may be in order.


Speaking of making more, those are just one of the types of cookies I've made.  With one of my friends, we have overall made five different kinds of cookies, with two more to go...  We have made chocolate chip cookies (two batches), sugar cookies, the aforementioned white cookies, oatmeal cookies, and Andes mint chocolate chunk cookies.  Still to go are the snickerdoodles and peanut butter cookies.


Yes, indeed, it is that time of year again!