Are you a crazed Christmas cookie baker?  Do you have certain types of cookies that you bake year after year?  Recipes that have been passed down in your family?

I bake every year.  I usually cram it into one day and than regret it about 2 hours in.

Every year I make Jam Kolaches.  They are the passed down recipe.  And although I never really learned to make them with my great grandma + grandma I always feel close to them when I make these.  It’s a tradition that I don’t want to break.  I was thrilled when I found this post on Kolaches last week.  It is gorgeous.  There is even a beautiful video.

Other cookies I make every year are:

// sugar cookies [ they always end up being a major undertaking] // peanut butter clusters
// 7 layer cookies
// haystacks [instead of chow mein noodles I use potato shoe strings]

These peanut butter cup cookies look pretty great too.  Why not add a cookie to the Reese’s that I eat almost everyday [news years resolution – stop eating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

What cookies do you like to make?  Do you have any family recipes that are near and dear?

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