7 creative holiday cookie recipes

Perhaps more than any other time of year, this is Cookie Season. Come December, even those of us who don’t usually bake begin to think about turning out a batch or two for friends, family, neighbours—and ourselves. This year, why not give your holiday baking a cottage twist? Simply take some favourite old-fashioned cookie recipes and add a pinch of cottage country. If a certain rotund gentleman finds a plate of these on the table when he squeezes himself down the chimney at the lake, he’ll certainly approve.