Twelve Cookies of Christmas #1: Screaming Ginger Cookies

These cookies really don't need an introduction, as they are a perennial on my holiday baking repertoire ever since I first made them a few years ago. Nothing screams more like the holidays to me than a warm oven filling your home with scents of sugar, ginger, molasses, and spices. While I'm not the biggest gingerbread fan, these ginger cookies are one of my personal favourites, and I think it's the chewiness of these cookies that is the major highlight for me.

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Twelve Days of Christmas, #1: Chewy Triple Ginger Cookies

It's finally December and the holiday spirit is well under way. Christmas is always my favourite time of the year. There's something so special about the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas that brings out the little kid in me.

With the countdown to Christmas already underway, I have my mini Christmas up, presents are being bought and wrapped, and my baking is very much well under way. Every year, I like to bake a variety of cookies for family and friends that include the regular staples that everyone requests, along with new cookies or confections to keep things interesting in the kitchen for myself. And so, in the following days, I will invite you into the madness that is my kitchen around the holidays for my Twelve Days of Christmas Treats. Day 1 is the classic and much loved Ginger Cookies.

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I'm Thankful For...Pumpkin Flan

There's always so much to be thankful for come each Thanksgiving—family, friends, good health, a roof over my head, a safe and loving environment, never having to go hungry, etc. I'm so blessed to have all these things when there are so many others around the world who struggle to have at least one of these to be thankful for. Things that we might easily take for granted in our every day life.

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Wordless Wednesday #40: A Sweet Escape

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