In my house, there are several bakers, but no one gets more into the Christmas season than my father. He is the original Christmas Cookie Elf! Starting the day after Thanksgiving, he starts taking over the kitchen with his lineup of holiday treats.

This year, I noticed that the cookies were going awfully fast. First, there was the famous chocolate chip oatmeal cookies that seemed to vanish within 48 hours. Granted, my brothers are huge consumers of sweets, but that seemed fast, even for them.

Last night, I caught the Elf at it again, this time with dark molasses ginger cookies. “I have a secret,” he said. “I’m freezing half of each batch to save for Christmas Eve. That way, we’ll have all these different kinds of cookies, ready to bake.”

I thought that was awesome! And since it’s not too late to stock up, I thought I’d write this up so that you can do it, too.

Most of our recipes are either Ye Olde Family Recipes, or come from this awesome cookie book here, including the awesome molasses cookies:
Rosie’s Bakery Chocolate-Packed Jam-Filled Butter-Rich No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book
It’s out of print, but you can still find it used from other sellers, and totally worth tracking down. Our copy is very well used!

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