12 Days of Christmas Day 11: Cookies

Baking cookies is like the painting eggs of Christmas. It's tradition! In my family, we bake sugar cookies and decorate them with a homemade frosting and sprinkles. During my exchange year, I made cookies and iced them with a powdered sugar and lemon juice icing.  The sprinkles were large sugar crystals. Cookies come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. Whatever the kind, they seem to be an important part of the Christmas season.

Here in the US, we take that importance a little further. Before the children go to bed on December 24th, they leave out a platter of cookies and a glass of milk as a thank-you to Santa Claus (for a few years, my family even spread oatmeal out on the lawn for the reindeer). Santa doesn't always eat all the cookies - I mean, who could eat so many in one night?! - but he usually writes a little thank-you for the thought.


Bis morgen!