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A Family Christmas, a hodge-podge sort of book from Reader's Digest that has Christmas stories, crafts, menus, recipes, poems, essays and other Christmas-related oddments in it. The cookie section is hands-down the best bunch of Christmas cookie recipes I know of. Lots of easy to make, shippable cookies that just sing "Winter!" This cookie is very suitable for shipping as well as for prepping ahead and freezing. Freeze the cookie dough balls after they've been rolled in chopped filberts, and thaw them while you preheat the oven when you're ready to bake.
Filberts, also known as hazelnuts, are delicious little guys. They have a sweet, unusually spicy sort of aroma in the oven. They're a pain to crack out of the shells, but I was pleased and surprised to find chopped hazelnuts in the baking aisle at my grocery store. And for about the same price as walnuts and pecans! If you have food allergies to work around, you can use another type of nut.
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