Frosted Lemon Sugar Cookies – The 10 Days of Vintage Christmas Cookies

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Holy cow! If you LOVE a good soft, frosted sugar cookie like I do, you are going to be super-happy you found this recipe! I always love the frosted cookies on holiday cookie plates, so I wanted to find a really good one to include on mine that would be a bit different from your usual cut-out cookie. And I found it! I totally wasn’t expecting it, but these cookies ended up tasting a lot like those Lofthouse Sugar Cookies {Read More}

Chocolate-Filled Snowballs – The 10 Days of Vintage Christmas Cookies

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It’s day two of our ten days of Vintage Christmas Cookies, and today we have one that turned out to be a personal favorite of mine. These lovelies are Chocolate-Filled Snowballs, and they are basically a pecan crescent cookie with a Hershey’s kiss stuffed inside. Score. I’ve seen this cookie, or versions of it, floating around recently in modern cookbooks and whenever I see it I always want to try it.  Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at {Read More}

Annie’s Cookies – The 10 Days Of Tested Vintage Christmas Cookies

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It’s cookie time here on the Mid-Century Menu This year I tested 10 different vintage cookie recipes that caught my eye during the year and that I knew I was going to have to make for Christmas. Well, actually there were a lot more than ten I wanted to try, but Tom was already starting to accuse me of trying to fatten him up, so the line had to be drawn at ten. And the first of the lucky ten {Read More}

Colorful Cookies–The Third Place Best Winner In the Glistening And Jiggly Contest

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Guess what? It’s time for cookies! Fun, bright cookies made with a package of Jell-O. Yep, that’s right. Jell-O. It turns out that not all gelatin dishes are meant to be put into a mold. This was sent into us by P’Gell, who also sent us an interesting looking recipe for a pie that I am still planning on making when I find some spare time. But these cookies just called to us. I mean, come on. Cookies made with {Read More}

My Top 5 Vintage Christmas Cookie Recipes – Tested And Tom-Approved!

This is it!!! It’s COOKIE TIME, People!!! I am really, really, excited. Really. In fact, I am so excited, I am posting about cookies this week. And not just any cookies, but GOOD cookies. Tested cookies that I make every year and that Tom wolfs down just as fast as they come out of the oven. So let’s do this! 1. Lena’s Christmas Cookies These cookies are amazing. This recipe was originally given to me my fellow NPR writer Sara  {Read More}