The Christmas Cookie

Soft, chewy, sweet, covered in frosting.....nothing beats a sugar Christmas Cookie. It's a shame that we only get them once a year.

You can't find a truly divine Christmas Cookie in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or bakery. Real Christmas Cookies are baked in your own kitchen by your wife, girlfriend, mom, grandma, aunt or sister. The ingredients they put into their cookies while most likely simple, are also mysterious. How they heck do they make them so good!?

You know what they taste like, how soft or crunchy they are, how they decorate them and what kind of sprinkles they put on top. If your anything like me you look forward every single year to eating just a few (or a ton) of their special Christmas Cookies.

Of all the foods we eat on Christmas, the ham, the fruitcake (ew), the dinner rolls, fudge, ice cream, or candy, Christmas Cookies stand out as the most significant. With Christmas Cookies something aside from sugar, flour and eggs is baked in. Maybe it's a dose of Christmas spirit or maybe a tiny bit of love but whatever it is we all cherish them to mean so much more than any other ordinary cookie. This is why we can't find them in a restaurant. No one except a family member understands how to bake magic into cookies.

After your done eating your special Christmas Cookies, when your opening your gifts, looking in your stocking, hugging your family, watching A Christmas Story, and turning on the Christmas lights take just a moment to remember the real reason for this special day. (It's not just about the Christmas Cookies...although they have a very important role).

Merry Christmas.