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Many cooks enjoy baking Christmas cookies at the end of the year. There are so many different types of cookies that can be ideal to give to people as gifts. Your friends, family members and coworkers will all appreciate the time and care that you have taken to make Christmas cookies – just the way their mother or grandmother used to make them!

Being prepared to make Christmas cookies is critical to your success in baking. You need to have the right equipment and ingredients. Take a look at this list for some ingredients you’ll want to be sure to add to your Christmas cookie baking this year!

The basics: flour, egg, sugar, vanilla. Every Christmas cookie baker needs to have these in plentiful amounts. Remember that so many other cooks just like you will be baking for the holiday season. This is the ideal time for the grocery store to run out of granulated sugar, or some other ingredient you need. Get there early and plan ahead.

Clear and organized space to bake and cool cookies. Many cooks think about the space to bake cookies. But they don’t think about the space needed to cool cookies. At this holiday time, cooks will bake dozens and dozens of cookies and can wind up covering literally every flat surface they can think of with cookies! Be prepared for the sweet onslaught and clean off the dining room table and some space in the living room to cool your cookies.

Plates or tins to store and give cookies. You will need both storage and giveaway sources for your cookies. Ideally cool and dry tins to store the cookies as you put them on plates. Or you can simply transfer the cookies from tins into other tins. It is the easiest to organize tins by type of cookie and then to pick out the cookies you wish to give.

Halloween is almost here, and this is the perfect time to make some sweet treats for the little (and big) kids that will soon be at your door wearing adorable Halloween costumes.

Halloween cookies are an ideal treat, especially for people that love to make cookies. You can bring Halloween cookies to school for a party. Or you can eat Halloween cookies at home for a party the kids are having to celebrate Halloween.

There are many images that lend themselves nicely to cookie themes. Making pumpkin or cat cookies sound adorable and are very cute shapes. Witch hats are also fun cookies. Ghosts can also be great cookie shapes that kids will easily identify. You can make sugar cookies and then frost them with colored frosting. Try personalizing cookies with the names of kids who will be coming to your door. What could be more fun that a pumpkin cookie with your name on it?

Here’s a video giving another type of Halloween cookie you can make. Try these spider cookies for fun!