We filled her beautiful cookie jars with greenery for centerpieces~ We met at my gracious friend, Annie’s lovely home~ with the Halls all decked out in Christmas finery~ Every year, I can hardly wait for them to arrive, thrilled to see each one.” Well, and the love we all have for one another. I’ve set the stage, but they fill it with action, the emotion, the event that is by its very nature best because of serendipity. Once again we feel a child’s for Christmas. They bring warmth in spite of the cold and convey the season’s thrill.

“I love this part of the evening, when my friends arrive bustling with excitement and armed with goodies. I found these adorable vintage-inspired buckets at World Market. Marnie has rules for her cookie club~ one of which is the containers have to make an attractive gift and can be reused. I made one of my husband’s favorites~ Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate, recipe courtesy Southern Living, here.

(Is that considered cheating on your homework? :-) Some of us like nuts in our cookies & some of us don’t. As my mother-in-law says, “It’s a good thing we all don’t like the same thing, there wouldn’t be enough to go around.”ĭespite a disappointing read for me, the seven of us had an evening of food & fun at our cookie exhange~ with two attending making more than one kind of cookie, so I want to thank everyone for helping me ‘cook my book’ for this edible review. Reading this over Thanksgiving weekend after a cozy family holiday was not the way I wanted to kick off the Christmas season, so my rating is slightly lower than the average on Amazon. A death of a son (with details that were almost more than I could stomach), financial woes, infidelity, miscarriages, drug use & spousal abuse were not the ingredients I was looking for~ Instead of sweet & light, it turned out to be a baker’s dozen of drama~ the completely wrong recipe for me for happy holiday reading. The concept for this book was promising, with each chapter beginning with a recipe and short history of the main ingredient used in the cookie. I thought, “What fun~ light holiday reading to set the mood for baking cookies” while I was preparing for an upcoming cookie exchange. I spied this at the bookstore right before Thanksgiving. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories.”

It’s the Christmas Cookie Club! Every year on the first Monday of the December, Marnie & twelve of her closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. I’m joining Jain with my Edible Book Review at Food for Thought, a delicious blog for readers with an appetite for the written word. The Christmas Cookie Club ** with extra sprinkles for the recipes

The christmas cookie club book