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These are my mother's Christmas cookies. The dough takes a long time to make and then the cut-outs take a while too, then you have to frost them; making these is like a week long precess, so she only makes them at Christmas. For me, as soon as she makes these cookies, it's officially Christmas.

Let me explain these cookies: they're fantastic. Everything is made from scratch, including the frosting (which is also wonderful). These cookies are so good that no matter how close to Christmas we make them, they're always gone before Christmas Day. This year, we have over a dozen left, dare I even say we have more than twenty. This is a momentous day; that has never happened before. Never. Last year we had two left and that was because I hid them from everyone. Before this year, I think those two cookies were the record.

Now, everyone always says that cut-out sugar cookies are the easy way out, gingerbread is the way to go. No. Those people are wrong. These cookies are like God and I don't care what anyone says, they're the best cookies in the world.

So, the point of the story: all the love and care and work that gets put into these cookies, that's what Christmas means to me. Material, yes, but still full of love and work and meaning.

Description
These are my mother's Christmas cookies. The dough takes a long time to make and then the cut-outs take a while too, then you have to frost them; making these is like a week long precess, so she only makes them at Christmas. For me, as soon as she makes these cookies, it's officially Christmas.

Let me explain these cookies: they're fantastic. Everything is made from scratch, including the frosting (which is also wonderful). These cookies are so good that no matter how close to Christmas we make them, they're always gone before Christmas Day. This year, we have over a dozen left, dare I even say we have more than twenty. This is a momentous day; that has never happened before. Never. Last year we had two left and that was because I hid them from everyone. Before this year, I think those two cookies were the record.

Now, everyone always says that cut-out sugar cookies are the easy way out, gingerbread is the way to go. No. Those people are wrong. These cookies are like God and I don't care what anyone says, they're the best cookies in the world.

So, the point of the story: all the love and care and work that gets put into these cookies, that's what Christmas means to me. Material, yes, but still full of love and work and meaning.