Christmas Day was yesterday, and I still have two more recipes to share, for Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Korova cookies and Chocolate Sambuca Crinkle cookies.  Coming soon!

My mother bakes faster than I can type!

Who will be lucky enough to get one of these tins of Ruth's Christmas cookies? Me, for one.....

In the meanwhile, since Thanksgiving week, Ruth has baked Stollen and nine varieties of cookies, mostly in double or triple batches.  And I managed to bake one, yes only one, recipe for the Ausstecherle Butter Cookies.  My mother is incredibly industrious and exceptionally focused in the kitchen, don’t you agree?  How does she do this?  And on Christmas Eve she made a full holiday dinner for my brother’s family with hand made Spaetzle, a pork roast with gravy, and an Apfel Kuchen to accompany all those Christmas cookies for dessert.  Mom, you are amazing!

She and my Dad also found the time to ship two tins of cookies to us in Lake Tahoe, where I am spending the holidays with my husband and two sons.  Not a lot of snow for skiing, but the Sierras are still a very beautiful and peaceful place to be.  My mother’s cookies and Stollen are being consumed at a very fast pace, and taste simply delicious in this sweet mountain air.  Happy Holidays!