The tradition of baking cookies during the holiday season is a cherished custom, especially in the United States and other ...

Santa Claus? Christmas cookies? These, and much else about Christmas, begin in North Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley ...

Heaping plates of Christmas cookies are synonymous with the holidays. It seems that nearly every country around the globe has their own variation on the holiday classic. In fact, some of these regions ...

From setting out cookies and milk for Santa Claus to wearing ugly Christmas sweaters, Americans have many holiday traditions. One evolving holiday tradition, which dates back nearly 140 years, is ...

Christmas means cookies, right? My family makes gingerbread cookies — sometimes in the shape of a pitched roof and walls that we attempt to glue together with frosting for a complete (if wonky) house, ...

Dear Eric: My late mother made a special Christmas cookie that required tedious decorating, considering each person’s personal preference for toppings, and giving them as gifts to family and friends.

This past weekend, I went to a holiday party hosted by friends I hadn’t seen for a long time. I was asked to bring cookies, and my 21-year-old daughter Izzy obliged. That afternoon the house smelled ...