Popular Christmas Cookies In 2009

Baking cookies at Christmas is a tradition for many people

. It brings families and friends together with the warm goodness of cookies fresh from the oven. As you bake this holiday season, take a minute to learn the origins of some of the foods we enjoy each Christmas. According to the research of Food Timeline, Christmas cookies as we know them today were created from Medieval European recipes. Dutch and German settlers brought cookie cutters, decorative molds, and festive holiday decorations to America.

German lebkuchen (gingerbread) was probably the first cake/cookie traditionally to be used as a Christmas food. Sugar cookie type recipes have roots in English traditions. Animal crackers have their humble beginning as edible ornaments, and are now a favorite of kids everywhere, all year long. Christmas cookie recipes produce more than just a tasty sweet; they are a baking tradition steeped in history.

Begin or continue your cookie baking traditions with the top 20 Christmas cookies below. From basics like drop cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and the all-time favorite sugar cookie to fancy designed, decorated and spiced Christmas cookies offered, you'll want to bake your own Christmas cookies right now and give them to your family and friends.What's more, you can also make a slideshow on how to make delicious Chistmas cookies or about the funny things happened when you are baking Chistmas cookies and then converter the slideshow to video to share it on video-sharing sites(e.g.Youtube,Metacafe etc.) or with mobile devices(e.g. iPhone,iPod,Blackberry etc.) with your family and friends.Besides,you can also burn the slideshow onto DVD to preseve your such good momories for a long time or just send DVD copies to others as a Christmas gift.


The Top 20 Christmas Cookies

Magic Seven Layer Bars

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Peanut Butter Cookies

Scotch Shortbread

Sugar Cookies

Gingerbread Men

Chocolate Fudge

Springerele

Chocolate Chip Cookies Molasses Sugar Cookies

Scotcharoos

Peanut Butter Chocolate Kisses

Spritz Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies

Snowball Cookies

Chocolate Toffee Bars

Kolachky

Pecan Sandies

Chocolate Pinwheels

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