Three Whole Days ...

Baking Christmas Cookies 


The Gingerbread Men are the first cookies to be baked ...
it takes a few hours to bring them to life ... :)
The Vanille Kipferl (Vanilla Crescents) ...
are a favourite in our family ...

Cookie Press Shortbread Cookies ...
and
German Pfefferneusse ...
(Pepper Nut Balls) 

Shortbread Chocolate Pinwheels ...
and
Austrian Shortbread Jam Cookies ...
(My Oma's Recipe)
 

These snowflake cookies ...

are a joy to make ...

each one is the same ... yet different ...

just like the snowflakes that fall to the ground ...

I love this time of year ...

the aroma of cookies being baked ..

and

a fresh cut Christmas tree ... to be decorated ... !!!