day 12: vanillekipferl (vanilla crescents) These crescents are delicious, the texture is amazing and they are super-easy to make.
day 11: palmiers Feel free to make your own looker, sweet, savoury--or both at once... blue cheese and fig palmier?
day 10: flat-and-chewy chocolate-chip cookie The quintessential chocolate cookie, it requires pairing with ice-cold milk.
day 9: tuiles Perhaps the most oddly-shaped cookie out there? Or, somewhere in the universe, these may be what every cookie looks like?
day 8: shortbread The most surprising cookie of all the ones I baked:, the oddest technique and unexpectedly irresistible.
day 7: poppy seed hamantashen Sort of a grown-up and less-expected option to the tried-and-true jam cookies.
day 6: green tea butter cookies (langues de chat!) Langues de chat always appealed to me but Clotilde's clever, coloured version really caught my eye.
day 5: honey-gingerbread town square with royal icing Oscar and Lena live in a quaint town on a planet where, apparently, the houses are made of honeyed gingerbread.
day 4: shaker lemon bars Almost magical that you can use two whole lemons in this recipe and still come out with a cookie that's sweet.
day 3: coconut cookies I sort of think that anything with coconut in them is sophisticated by definition--I grew to love it as I matured.
day 2: sugar cookies Sky's the limit with how you decorate these cookies. Also perfect for un-holiday celebrations like Wednesdays.
