Christmas cookie

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A Christmas cookie is a small, sweet cake, often flat, made from dough. These cookies are typically prepared for holidays, especially Christmas, and come in a wide variety of recipes. Common ingredients include flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, with additions like chocolate chips, oatmeal, or raisins. The texture, often crisp due to low moisture content after baking, makes them stable for storage. Decorative cookies, such as gingerbread, are particularly associated with holiday baking. Gingerbread, a spiced cookie or cake, is popular in fall and winter and is also strongly linked to Christmas traditions.12

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gingerbread
…is often cut into fanciful shapes and elaborately decorated. Traditional gingerbread recipes include flour, butter, eggs, molasses (or treacle or honey), and ginger as well as other warming spices, such as clove, cinnamon,
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…is often cut into fanciful shapes and elaborately decorated. Traditional gingerbread recipes include flour, butter, eggs, molasses (or treacle or honey), and ginger as well as other warming spices, such as clove, cinnamon,
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