There is a lot to be said about baking cookies where I come from. And I really mean a lot. There’s venerable ladies and fearless gents who spend days and days and days and some also nights and nights and nights by the oven baking up the most impossible cookies, ever delicious Christmas cookies, and they’d put them in little crispy bags and give them to friends.
Happy if you count one of those among your friends.
I admit I’m not of the venerable and fearless tribe in this regard, but I did manage to make a couple of mendiants, which technically aren’t cookies, but they taste nice and are decorated with nuts and fruits confits, which makes them definitely suited for the season.
There’s a very old how to sitting in the blog archives. You simply must try and make some, they’re utterly delicious!
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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