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The holidays are here and so are the many traditions associated with them. Food might be considered one of the most important things associated with the holidays. Thanksgiving has turkey, Easter has it’s eggs, Halloween has pumpkins and Christmas has Christmas cookies. The Christmas cookies, which come in all different shapes, sizes, colors and tastes, are a very important part of the food that makes up Christmas. Creating these decorative cookies is an art in itself and decorating cookies is the most enjoyable and difficult part. I usually start off with a glaze that is very simply made. The simplest and easiest way to make a glaze for cookies is to mix powdered sugar and water. Then you can go crazy with the icing, and I find that the crazy the better. Whenever I make Christmas cookies, I always make an extremely large batch so that I have many practice and mess up cookies. Then you can do absolutely anything with the cookies, literally anything. If you wanted, you could cut out the cookie in the shape of Santa and then color him purple and give him a goatee. The taste of the cookie is almost secondary to the activity of the making of the cookie.
-Chef Boyardee
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