Holiday Cookies You Can Make

By Nancie McDermott

Cookies bring smiles and delight to holiday gatherings, and making cookies to share and enjoy sweetens the season even more. This book is all you need to mix up, bake, and share beautiful, delicious cookies with your family, friends, and neighbors, all through the holiday season. You'll find clear, easy-to-follow recipes for ten different kinds of holiday cookies, from Sugar Cookies to Coconut Macaroons, and Ginger-Molasses Cookies to Brownie Drops. Each recipe comes with a color photograph of the featured cookie, and a Vanilla Icing recipe provides the finishing touch to making a rainbow of holiday goodies. Home baking brings joy and good times to the kitchen, and the results of your time spent baking these cookies will make for a happy holiday celebration for you and people who make your life sweet. New cooks and experienced ones will love these simple, classic recipes for cookies that are sure to bring smiles all through the holiday season. Little kids will love helping and older kids can make many of these recipes on their own. Ten great recipes, colorful photos, Nancie's Notes on baking and sharing cookies, and Resources for Ingredients and Equipment, all round out this useful, inviting cookbook. Heat up your oven to 350 degrees F and grab a bowl, because lovely, tasty and heartwarming holiday cookies are just a stir, a scoop, and a smile away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nancie McDermott
• Release date: Dec 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9780986202117

Nancie McDermott

i'm a food writer and cooking teacher, born and raised in Piedmont North Carolina, and living here now, in Chapel HIll, after years of travel and adventure far away, in Thailand, New York City, and Southern California. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English major!), I joined the Peace Corps and spent 3 years in Thailand, teaching English as a Second Language to middle schoolers in Surin Province. Back home, I lived in New York City and then in Irvine and Carlsbad, California, had a family, started writing about food (catering and I were not a fit, to my surprise), and moved back to North Carolina 14 years ago. I have loved to cook since I as able to do it (10? 12? I don't remember...), and loved teaching other people to do it since I got interested in food writing. My ten cookbooks cover Asian food as well as Southern baking, and my favorite career moment thus far was playing the Cake Detective on Alton Brown's television show, Good Food. I loved creating this cookie e-book, because holiday baking has brought me great joy for decades, and because I loved the idea of doing a book all by myself, start to finish. Here it is, and you are! Happy cooking, happy baking, happy eating. I hope you'll make some cookies, and visit me on my blog (Contact Nancie section) to tell me and if possible show me, how things went. Holiday greetings and blessings to one and all, and Let There Be Cookies!!!!!

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Copyright © 2013 Nancie McDermott

Smashwords Edition 2013

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Holiday Cookies You Can Make

Copyright © 2013 Nancie McDermott

Smashwords Edition 2013

Interior Design by Angela McLaurin, Fictional Formats

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Introduction

Recipes

Snowball Cookies

Red and Green Cherry Icebox Cookies

Chocolate-Cherry Icebox Cookies

Fruitcake Cookies

White Mice Cookies

Roll-Out Sugar Cookies

Roll-Out Gingerbread Cookies

Coconut Macaroons Dipped in Chocolate

Ginger-Molasses Cookies

Brownie Drop Cookies

Vanilla Icing for Holiday Cookies

Nancie’s Notes for Baking and Sharing Cookies

Resources for Baking Equipment and Ingredients

Contact Nancie

As far back as I can remember, I have loved holiday cookies: seeing them, baking them, receiving them, and sharing them on cookie plates for neighbors and friends. What a pleasure to pull out a few ingredients — some butter, an egg, small mountains of sugar and flour, vanilla extract and cocoa, walnuts and powdered sugar — and stir up a tempting and lovely array of cookies to eat and to share.

Whatever you bring to the kitchen, whether it’s baking expertise or just the