here's why we spend so much time baking

here is one of the gift baskets of cookies we made and gave away this Christmas. mmmm, let's see, there's some of those springerles, and chocolate snowflakes, and OHHH, look, chocolate thumbprints, and strawberry thumbprints. the mexican wedding cookies (aka russian teacakes) must be buried. i don't see the montecados either. those are killer anise shortbread cookies from spain.

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