Sunday, September 29, 2019

Please welcome guest Ellie Alexander + book & mug #giveaway




Ellie Alexander writes the bestselling Bakeshop Mystery series and the Sloan Krause Mysteries for Macmillan Publishing.

Ellie is a Pacific Northwest native who spends ample time testing recipes in her home kitchen or at one of the many famed coffeehouses nearby. When she’s not coated in flour, you’ll find her outside exploring hiking trails and trying to burn off calories consumed in the name of research.

Take it away, Ellie.

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I’m so excited to be in the kitchen with you today. I know that it’s still only September, but this year I’m breaking all of my holiday rules and embracing the season early in celebration of the release of the 10th book in my Bakeshop Mysteries, A CUP OF HOLIDAY FEAR.

Typically my rule has always been that nothing holiday can begin until after Thanksgiving, much to the disappointment of my husband and son. This year all bets are off. That means I’ve been baking a lot of sweet and savory dishes usually reserved for November and December, like these hot chocolate cookies. Although, to be honest hot chocolate is a constant staple in our house. We live in the Siskiyou Mountains in Ashland, Oregon where nighttime temps have been steadily dropping. Fall has been putting on a spectacular show here in the Northwest with a symphony of colors, brilliant sunshine dancing on the top of sepia-toned hills, and cool, crisp evening breezes.

There’s nothing better than curling up on the couch with a cup of cocoa and plate of hot chocolate cookies.

In A CUP OF HOLIDAY FEAR, Juliet, my pastry chef turned amateur sleuth, serves these rich and nostalgic cookies during Ashland’s annual Christmas parade, that culminates with Santa and Mrs. Claus illuminating the plaza with thousands of twinkling lights. But you don’t have to wait until the holidays to enjoy these cookies. Whip up a batch anytime of the year. Your tastebuds will thank you!

What about you? Do you have strict rules when it comes to the holidays? Will you save your holiday baking until December or start now?

Happy baking!

Ellie

Hot Chocolate Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) butter at room temperature
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup cocoa powder
3 cups flour
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup mini marshmallows

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whip butter in a mixer until smooth and fluffy. Slowly incorporate sugars, vanilla, and eggs. Turn speed to low, and add salt, baking soda, cocoa powder, and flour.

Blend at low speed until the batter is well combined. Mix in mini chocolate chips and marshmallows by hand. Form dough into one-inch balls and place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool and serve with your favorite hot chocolate.



GIVEAWAY


I'm going to give away a copy of A CUP OF HOLIDAY FEAR
plus a holiday mug to one lucky commenter.  
Remember to leave your email so I may contact you. 
Tell me: what's your favorite holiday cookie?



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150 comments:

  1. These cookies sound amazing! There are certain cookies I only bake in December for the holidays. My favorite are tricolor cookies. Cindy226(at)gmail.com

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  2. These cookies look so yummy! I mainly bake gingerbread cookies only in December.
    kpowers784(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  3. Yum! Rhose look awesome! I love Amish Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles! almaj80(at)suddenlink(dot)net Thanks for the chance!

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    1. I never tried to bake Amish Sugar Cookies but I want to try them!

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  4. My favorite is pizzelle. My mother always started baking for Christmas on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. I loved helping. She knew I loved pizzelle and tea, and always sent me back to college with a can full. mhunter972@aol.com

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  5. Looks delicious I want to make these right away! My favorite to bake is cherry wink cookies. My dad loved them. Donakutska7@gmail.com Thank you for the chance here's hoping

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  6. My favorite is Snickerdoodles. Thanks

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  7. Sorry forgot to add my email:
    Plrusk@msn.com

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  8. I love peanut butter blossoms. Thank you for the chance! I love the cover of the book. moonbay7399@gmail.com

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    1. Peanut butter blossoms are my husband’s favorite!

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  9. I like frosted sugar cookies! lindaherold999(at)gmail(dot)com

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    1. Yes, and they are so pretty on a holiday cookie plate!

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  10. My mother's molasses sugar cookies! schmokercarol(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. If you haven’t read this series you need to start. It’s amazing.

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  12. My favorite cookies for ANY occasion are my daughter's double chocolate, white chocolate, macadamia nut cookies. Although I'm not ordering any lately what with the High Holidays messing with my diet all by them selves.

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  13. My moms fruitcake cookies. We have some that try the cookies that have hated fruitcake and love these cookies. They always disappear so fast.
    Butterflycmc@yahoo.com

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    1. A friend just shared her fruitcake cookie recipe with me. I can’t wait to try them.

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  14. Red velvet cookies - positive.ideas.4you@gmail.com

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  15. Oh those hot chocolate cookies look good! I loved my Mom's molasses cookies. Sadly, she has passed and I can't make them like she did so they're not the same. Also love just about anything with chocolate. Rwilson@ws4r.com

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    1. I’ve struggled to recreate some of my mom’s recipes too, but I will say that being in the kitchen makes me feel connected to her.

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  16. I bake a cookie with a graham cracker crust and a praline top. Yummy!
    patdupuy@yahoo.com

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  17. I like snickerdoodles but don’t get them very often.
    sgiden at verizon(.)net

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  18. One of my favorite Christmas cookies has to be the cutout sugar cookies. They are not only delicious but they bring back so many wonderful memories of my brother and I spending hours decorating them when we were kids. As an adult, I realized how smart Mom was to create not only a bonding time with siblings, but she also had a time that she knew we were occupied, having fun and not arguing during school break which siblings often do.

    Also love my recipe for Ozark Honey Oatmeal Cookies because they are easy to package or ship for goody boxes to share with loved one, they don't get stale but rather taste even better with time and everyone seems to enjoy them.

    Another cookie would be one I somewhat invented with lots of goodies in them like white chocolate chips, dried cranberries and pecans. Love it because it has all the baking ingredients I loved in other cookies all baked into one cookie.

    The recipe for Hot Chocolate Cookies will definitely be added to my cookie file. Sounds wonderfully delicious!

    Since it's now just hubby and I, we don't stand on the after Thanksgiving rule that we once did. Now if we want what is considered holiday food or to watch a Christmas movie, we do it whether it's December or June. Life is just too short to put off the things we enjoy!

    Thank you for the fabulous chance to win a copy of "A CUP OF HOLIDAY FEAR"! I can't wait for the opportunity to read it.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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    1. Oh, you should just come over to my kitchen and we’ll get baking!

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  19. I love gingerbread cookies at the holidays. Thanks for the chance! cking78503(at)aol(dot)com

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  20. Colorful iced sugar cookies equals Christmas season.💕

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  21. These cookies sound amazing & I will definitely try them. My favorite holiday cookie is decorated sugar cookies
    jwhaley4@aol.com

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  22. These look so good! I'm glad to have a new recipe. I just love a decorated frosted sugar cookie. They're so fun to do with the kids. tami.norman@gail.com

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  23. I love chocolate chip for anytime and mom's sugar cookies at Christmas, though your hot chocolate cookies look so good I might end up with a new favorite.
    Thanks for the giveaway. I've been reading the Bakeshop books for awhile and can't wait to read Cup of Holiday Fear. Just discovered the Sloan Krause series, which is amazing too. Keep it up!
    kozo8989@hotmail.com

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    1. That’s fabulous! I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying both series. And, you’ll have to let me know how the cookies turn out!

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  24. I use to have strict rules about Christmas. No decorations until Black Friday. However, I started thinking about Christmas in June. Of course, all shopping has to be done before Black Friday. I'm not like that anymore. I read Christmas books throughout the year. I actually have a Christmas tree up now. We did Christmas in July to make me feel better. Since the tree is out of the way and you don't see it, unless you know to look, it's still up.

    This cookies look and sound amazing. I'm definitely going to to try these. My favorite cookies are sugar cookies. Frosted or not, doesn't matter.

    I would LOVE to win this prize.
    kvmatlock (at) gmail (dot) com

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    1. Wow, my husband would LOVE to come to your house. I still have a strict no Christmas until after Thanksgiving rule!

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  25. I love sugar cookies.Thank you for the chance.Would love to win.gogo2007@rocketmail.com

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  26. I love chocolate chip cookies and I love this series

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  27. Favorite holiday cookies are whipped shortbread and my moms molasses crinkles. Thanks for the giveaway. lhallson@shaw.ca

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  28. I know it's not a holiday cookie per say, but chocolate chip is my favorite. I have a great recipe. So I usually bake in December for family and friends.
    Joannlowehunter@aol.com

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  29. Spritz cookies shaped like trees and wreaths. It's required (at least in my family) that they be sprinkled with green sugar and red hots.

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  30. Fresh warm gingerbread men cookies...yum. Once they get cold and old I don’t like them,...but warm yum! Thank you for opportunity to win your book rosacline90@gmail.com

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    1. I’m with you on warm from the oven, basically for any cookie.

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  31. My favorite cookies are sugar cookies. However, I like almost all cookies. Thanks for the chance! bernice-kennedy(at)sbcglobal(dot)net

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  32. oh my!! I love Christmas based cookies!!! The colors, the flavors, the memories they evoke. My absolute favorite? Well, one is Mexican Wedding cookies. I can remember my mom making them, and we girls being in the kitchen when she was. mysandykat (at) gmail (dot) com

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  33. I love to make Spritz Cookies which I make with my cookie press. I need to try this recipe that cookies look delicious. Thanks for this amazingly generous chance. lindamay4852@yahoo.com

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  34. I love cookies all year, but for Christmas it's Kieflies! I'm Polish, so it's Family tradition, but right behind them is Egg Nog Logs.

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  35. Welcome to the Kitchen, Ellie! Like you, I had to throw my "not until Thanksgiving" rule out the window last year when I had a Christmas book come out months before the season. Turns out it's fun to get in the mood a little early! (But not this early -- I'm hoping the blizzard forecast for NW MT goes around us!)

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    1. It throws everything off balance, doesn’t it? Also it sounds like you are getting CRAZY snow. Stay warm!

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  36. These hot chocolate cookies look & sound yummy. Cornflake cookies are my favorite & one we always have to make during the holidays.
    turtle6422 at gmail dot com

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  37. I can't wait to try your recipe. They look delicious! My mom always made an Italian cookie called tutteluch (or ginettes.) i love them and I've passed that love down to my daughter. Apowell5@nycap.rr.com.

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    1. There’s nothing better than passing on family recipes.

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  38. These look yummy! My favorite holiday cookies are burried cherry cookies.
    ailijones118@gmail.com

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  39. any cookies are my favorite, as long as it has low sugar, cactusack01@gmail.com

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  40. My favorite Christmas cookie is the Fruitcake Cookie. So spicy and fruity. Yum!

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  41. We had a friend who used to make two favorite cookies for the holidays. One was Scottish shortbread. The other was basically Mexican wedding cookies, but colored red and green and called "Santa's Balls"!
    libbydodd at comcast dot net

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  42. Definitely need to try this recipe. Live chocolate mint Christmas cookies! The book looks great, love the cover. Sue.solin@gmail.com

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  43. My favorite treat during the holidays is Biscotti. Love it plain, dipped in chocolate and dipped in lemon. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  44. Sugar cookies are my favorites! tWarner419@aol.com

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  45. Oatmeal pecan cookies. A recipe from my Grandmother.
    cjreynolds52(at)comcast(dot)net

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    1. Connie, you're the winner of this giveaway by random selection. Congrats. Ellie will be in touch. ~ Daryl

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  46. I save my baking for December. Your cookies sound amazing, thank you for sharing the recipe. My favorite is Sugar cookies. ctymice(at)gmail(dot)com

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  47. My favorite is peanut butter cookies. Thanks for the chance to win. 1cow0993(at)gmail(dot)com

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  48. Sugar! These sound awesome!

    rhondajgothier@yahoo.com

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  49. I bake sugar cookies for the little ones who decorate them and then enjoy their creative work. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  50. Thanks for stopping by Mystery Lovers' Kitchen! My favorite Christmas cookie is a chocolate chip kiss cookie -- chocolate chip cookies with a Hershey's Kiss rolled into the middle of it. So much chocolate goodness! bobandcelia@sbcglobal.net

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    1. Interesting I’ve never tried rolling a Hershey’s Kiss into a cookie. I’ll have to try that!

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  51. Those cookies sound sinful! My favorite cookie at this time of year is soft molasses cookies. Auntiecarol@charter.net

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  52. Fruitcake cookies are the best! thephillipshouse@hotmail.com

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  53. Raspberry thumbprints are my favorite holiday cookies.
    eswright18 at gmail dot com

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  54. I love pfferneuse cookies. I usually get them from Trader Joe's, although I keep threatening to bake them! I don't do any holiday baking until after Thanksgiving. Thanks for the lovely recipe and giveaway! aut1063(at)gmail(dot)com

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  55. I am a cookie monster, and there are so many I miss from my childhood - my dad was into baking and used to send me the best mix of cookies - still miss him - thanks for the contest - trwilliams69(at)msn(dot)com

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  56. I'm confused. Do all recipes now call for using a stand mixer? What ever happened to mixing by hand? These cookies sound good. I'm going to have to bake some. I like persimmon cookies.
    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

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  57. These cookies sound so delicious, I need one right now with my coffee. I love thumbprint cookies with cream cheese icing.

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  58. You cookies sounds just simply delicious while my hubby and I were reading this he said I guess we are going to make those I said of course. We don't start the baking till Nov I say we as I am the sous chef as I am disabled with RSD and my fingers are badly crippled so I was so glad that you were giving away a holiday book that was in print.During the weekend he will make a dish or two for me to try and get in the oven as he is coming home. He makes the pan or pans light for me so I am blessed that he likes to cook. We do make cheesecake the most as that is my fav desert but cookies come #1 but we have not had any fun ones or new ones to make now we can;t say that anymore. Thank you so much for coming to Mystery lovers kitchen peggy clayton ptclayton2@aol.com

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  59. My favoritrs are frosted sugar cookies and Gingies. bella_ringer@hotmail.com

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  60. Lebkuchen is definitely my favorite holiday cookie. Just love it. Thanks for the chance to win! kayt18 (at) comcast (dot) net

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  61. Love gingerbread cookies.

    jtcgc at yahoo dot com

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  62. I always sew gifts for Christmas, and I have already started! I just love the holiday fabrics! I won't decorate the house until after Thanksgiving, and then the baking begins!

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  63. Love fruitcake cookies! Book sounds fun! marthajane758@gmail.com

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  64. I can’t wait to try these these cookies! My favorite might be chocolate crinkles.. maybe.

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  65. I usually wait until the week before Christmas to start doing any baking or candy making. Sugar cookies are actually my favorite cookie. That book looks so interesting and I need a new mug.rgp1950@yahoo.com

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  66. My holiday baking tends to wait til December. My favorite holiday cookies are florentines, Russian tea cakes and lebkuchen.
    little lamb lst at yahoo dot com

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  67. I love to make frosted Christmas sugar cookies. They look so festive and taste so good! Will be trying your recipe above this season though.
    robinchase2010@gmail.com

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  68. I like sugar cookies at Christmas, but I don't turn down any others that I may be offered. lclee59(at)centurylink(dot)net

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  69. I love frosted, decorated sugar cookies at Christmas.
    farrell@crosslake.net

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  70. Absolutely loved e sugar cookies
    Slov3crochet@gmail.com

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  71. Your recipe sounds delicious and a must try. My favorite cookie is a good sugar cookie with frosting. Although I've never met a cookie I didn't like. robeader53(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  72. I love chocolate crinkle cookies. Legallyblonde1961@yahoo.com

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  73. Probably won't win because my choice may seem boring (much as I live for Christmas each year), but when my mother was with us she made THE best, melt-in-your-mouth M&M cookies! Used to be my go-to every Christmas, haven't had them in years but the memories tied into even one bite will never leave me. Great giveaway, thank you and good luck to all. DSAREBOOT@GMAIL.COM

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  75. I usually try at least one or two new recipes when I do my holiday baking in December. The whole family's favorite has always been Mexican Wedding type cookies I call Pecan Frosties, but I love almost any kind of cookie, yum! Thanks for the recipe, which sounds as delicious as the book!
    lola777_22 at hotmail dot com

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  76. Gingerbread. Love all your books, Cant wait to read this one.

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  77. Fewer rules, more fun. I have a favorite bakery, Sucrose, for when I want to indulge, but those look so good, I might have to try. I love your clever title and the mug on the cover.

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  78. I usually don't do holiday baking until after Thanksgiving. The past few years I have made multiple kinds of fudge for the vendor fair at the high school where I work, and I also experiment with new recipes (white chocolate peppermint cheesecake, for example)for our church Advent Tea. My favorite holiday cookies are Poinsettia cookies that use dry Jello powder for color and are so easy to make and shape, and also Bon Bon cookies that I first made at age 9 when I found the recipe in my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook. I add cocoa powder to the batter and stuff a maraschino cherry inside as the hidden treasure.
    Doobtones60@yahoo.com

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  79. My Mom baked from right after Thanksgiving until the week before Christmas so that is when I always start mine. I love baking cookies that she did from the Pa. Dutch country and my favorite is a snickerdoodle. karengreen1121@gmail.com

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  80. We usually bake cookies the week before Christmas when my Sister and I get together. It's one of our Christmas traditions. Love this a great series, looking forward to reading the latest book.
    diannekc8(at)gmail(dot)com

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  81. I love your cookie recipe especially since it doesn't contain milk and I can eat them. My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but Yule so I love decorated Yule sugar cookies. Mmmmm.
    scarletbegonia5858(at)gmail(dot)com

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  82. It it hard to think of a cookie I don't love. Especially if it has chocolate in it. I usually bake Mexican Honeymoon cookies for Christmas, but I am going to try some new recipes This year. The Hot Chocolate cookies look real good. They are a definite possibility.

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  83. I like spritz cookies, those little buttery bites. I have to bake gingerbread cookies every year for family. I like them too, but not as much.

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  84. I really don’t have just one - molasses spice, snickerdoodles, rolled sugar and oatmeal scotches are my four top ones...probably because they were the ones my grandmother made. Loved them as a child and still do!

    Thanks for the chance! Jwhite410@yahoo.com

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  85. Probably wedding cookies. We are more of a holiday candy group than cookies.
    browninggloria@hotmail.com

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  86. I love so many different types but I think Gingerbread men are a childhood favorite for my family. Spritz cookies second best. I love to make new recipes of cookies too. vboudreau57@gmail.com Veronica Boudreau.

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  87. My mom’s chocolate turtle cookies. Kpatrizio@gmail.com

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  88. Those cookies look yummy. I love most Christmas cookies, but my favorites are chocolate chip or chocolate.

    kaye.killgore(at)comcast(dot)net

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  89. I have so many favorites! One of mine is soft Gingerbread! Thanks for the chance to win!
    faithdcreech at gmail dot com

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  90. There's nothing like a yummy stroopwafel warmed to perfection on the top of cup of tea...or maybe a homemade egg nog! Yummmm......
    rcraftlady@gmail.com

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  91. I love a good Vegan cookie! Jumble cookies are really good... Oatmeal, dark chocolate chips, PB, Cinnamon & Cardamom, pretzel pieces & lovez YUM!

    Cheers-
    Kelly Braun
    Gaelicark(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  92. Your cookies look absolutely delicious! My favorite is the kifle. I love Christmas books and would love to read yours. Thank you for the chance.

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  93. I’m going to have to try these this year!! I love my mom’s Spritz cookies. Yum! I also love snickerdoodles, gingerbread cookies, and oatmeal chocolate chip (though those are more everyday kind of cookies!). scudder_squad(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  94. I make Russian Teacakes only at Christmas time. I make a lot...I share with my mama, Sissy, niece and great niece. If I made them more often, we would all be 5,000lbs!

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  95. Gingerbread or sugar cookies are my favorites during the holidays. Saamm7(at)msn(dot).com

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  96. So tough to chose! Sugar cookies are fun because my two year old daughter can help decorate 😍. Molasses cookies are my favorite anytime of the year! Thanks for a chance to try a new series- rmbrave@gmail.com

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  97. This sounds wonderful. I usually start my baking a few days before. At christmas time, all my gifts are wrapped by the end of November, so that leaves me time to enjoy December with family and friends and of course cooking and baking. quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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  98. My favorite is the Snickerdoodle!
    Necole107@gmail.com.

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  99. Oh, it's still morning but now I want a cookie for breakfast. I have old Baker's Chocolate one bowl brownies and one bowl chocolate cookies recipes but this may replace them. I try to keep the holidays in order and stick to the after Thanksgiving rule but my husband and granddaughter keep inching the decorating back.

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  101. I love Russian Tea Cakes and I start baking the week before Christmas. holdensheryl@hotmail.com

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  102. Ginger bread cookies are my favorite at holiday time! JL_Minter(at)hotmail(com)

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  103. I love oatmeal raisin cookies. doward1952(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  104. These sound amazing!! Thanks for the recipe and welcome to this blog! My favorite holiday cookie is a molasses cookie roll out. Grew up with these and still love them. They are even better when made ahead of time and frozen. Thanks for a chance to win! ljbonkoski@yahoo.com

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  105. I am very excited to make these! They look delicious! I bake year round. I put things away in the freezer for when we need to share with someone, for holidays, and to enter in the county fair each year. tiger_of_mu@yahoo.com Favorite cookie? Is it possible to have one? Probably my aunt's soft chocolate chip cookie recipe...they always stay soft!

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  106. The recipe looks good. I have to try it. My favorite cookies are thumbprint and rum balls.

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  107. Your cookie recipe sounds scrumptious! I plan on making them for my grandsons. They will love them. I bake a lot of cookies for the holidays every year. My favorite are lemon bars.
    donnaing1(at)gmail(dot)com

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  108. So, I'm not at all a baker, but I work at an elementary school where the entire month of December is a smorgasbord of treats! My personal favorite is any kind of shortbread -with or without decorative icing/sprinkles!

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  109. peppermint bark cookies--a shortbread crust topped with dark and white chocolate and crushed peppermint sticks.

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  110. Sigh, I always think of the dozens and dozens of Christmas cookies my mom would bake in December, frosted cut-outs, pferfernuss, lebkuchen, yiddish, and so many others in addition to her fantastic fudge. I enjoy making her cut-out recipe now and having my 6 local grandkids over to frost and decorate them.
    I will add this yummy sounding chocolate cookie recipe to my holiday baking. bskts4unme@hotmail.com

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  111. My favorite holiday cookie is Russian Tea Cookies, I think they are also called Snowballs. I remember my grandma would make them every year and I would go in the kitchen to the extra large and heavy glass cookie jar and struggle to get the lid off as quietly as I could so I could grab several of them without being seen.. of course she knew exactly what I was doing. After she passed away in 1997, it was a long time before I had them again. My older sister surprised me and made them one Christmas. They made me instantly think of Grandma. ����
    lilyanngill56(at)Gmail(dot)com

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  112. I don't bake until December. I make Wedding Cookies rolled in powdered sugar and fruitcake cookies. Sometimes I love making potato candy with the peanut butter filling. lkrussell127@gmail.com

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  113. My favorite cookie is sugar cookies and use different kids of frosting and decorate them with my neices. Thanks for the chance.
    Tighefan42atgmaildotcom

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  114. My mom makes these wonderful candy cane cookies. Peppermint dough in red and white twisted together like a candy cane and then dipped in crushed candy canes. Yum!

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  115. The winner of this giveaway by random selection is Connie Reynolds. Ellie will be in touch. Congrats. And thanks to all for chiming in. ~ Daryl

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