Customer Reviews

FamilyFun's Cookies for Christmas: 50 recipes for You and Your Kids

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My son (now 8) and I have made cookies for his class' Christmas parties since 1st grade. Each year has been successful, but it has been a struggle to find the right recipes, decorations we loved and/or could duplicate, etc. We stumbled across this book and have found FAME.

The recipes are quick, clear, error-proof, and delicious. The instructions break down the adult part and the child's part. He reads, he sifts & he measures. He pats & he rolls. He pinches & thumbprints, he cuts & he sprinkles.....The doughs handle very well. Decorating is a joy-we both have the opportunity to work that Martha Stewart gene.

The Candy Glass is beautiful and wins raves (a slightly treacherous affair, but well worth it).

One suggestion - ALWAYS SIFT THE FLOUR. One batch was troublesome because I didn't sift the flour.

For our tummies, we adjusted the recipes by substituting 1/2 butter flavored shortening sticks

I shared my book with other Moms this holiday and they loved it too....

I subscribe to the Family Fun magazine which I truly love. When I saw they had a cook book I had to get it as fast as I could point and click. We use the recipes all of the time. It is our weekend project to bake something. I think cooking has so many values that it teaches children. Measuring, fractions, goal setting, completing a project and a great reward. A lot of the recipes I already have but how many different variations can there be? The pictures are great and the ideas I got from this book have made the money well spent.

This book makes a wonderful addition to a Christmas basket full of cookies (or a teacher gift or as an add-on to kids cooking set). I have included it in numerous Christmas baskets. It is inexpensive, bright, simple, and wonderful for family cookie making. Also, kids can read and understand the recipies. Add it to a basket of cookies for a wonderful house warming gift, or a hostess gift for holiday parties.

I bought this book November 1998 when my youngest daughter at the time was in the 4th grade and had a school project to do. So I took her to the book store looking through children's books for ideas and a project she could do. With all the books of ideas we found this is the book we chose and it caught my eye because it was up front of the store with all the Christmas displays and because the book had the words "Family & Kids" on it. As soon as we saw the "Holiday Garland" on page 22, that was what she wanted to do.

I bought the book, we made the "Best-ever Sugar Cookies on page 7 (which was very easy) to make the "Holiday Garland". We made the words "Noel", "Merry Christmas" and "Feliz Navidad" by following the directions and used their suggested ideas. My daughter presented her project to the class, she received a good grade on it and the children enjoyed eating the cookies.

In the past we also did the "Tasty Gift Ideas" on page 50, which everyone thought was cute and made the "Peanut Butter Sealed with a Kiss" cookies, which was good and fun to do. Just recently my niece borrowed my book for her christmas cookies that she's been making for years every Christmas. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially with kids, the cookie recipes are good, the creative gift giving ideas are good, along with the creative ideas to entertain kids with cookies are fun and not only Christmas.

I've made several of the cookies in this book for Christmas gifts in the last two years and I've had wonderful comments on the cookies. Good ideas for gifts, etc.

I made 4 recipes from the book, they all turned out perfectly. The chocolate crinkles were unbelievable. The sugar cookies with icing were also very good as well, and very easy to roll out.

My son (now 8) and I have made cookies for his class' Christmas parties since 1st grade. Each year has been successful, but it has been a struggle to find the right recipes, decorations we loved and/or could duplicate, etc. We stumbled across this book and have found FAME.

The recipes are quick, clear, error-proof, and delicious. The instructions break down the adult part and the child's part. He reads, he sifts & he measures. He pats & he rolls. He pinches & thumbprints, he cuts & he sprinkles.....The doughs handle very well. Decorating is a joy-we both have the opportunity to work that Martha Stewart gene.

The Candy Glass is beautiful and wins raves (a slightly treacherous affair, but well worth it).

One suggestion - ALWAYS SIFT THE FLOUR. One batch was troublesome because I didn't sift the flour.

For our tummies, we adjusted the recipes by substituting 1/2 butter flavored shortening sticks

I shared my book with other Moms this holiday and they loved it too....

Real basic recipes and great ideas for christmas cookies that can be made by mom's and kids. Simple and creative ideas that are great for give away christmas cookies. Includes basics like cookie baking 101. Great inexpensive christmas gift for friends.

Oh we've been using these recipies for years now! The Elves can't get enough of them. And Santa, well, I think you know how HE feels about cookies! Why not bake some of the special treats in this book with your little ones, and leave a warm plate out for Santa Claus - with a cold glass of milk - on Christmas Eve! I happen to know for a fact he loves every cookie in this whole entire book! Who knows, maybe he'll leave you a little something extra if you make the ones with the vanilla frosting and sprinkles he likes so much!

I found that the cookies in this book that are actually fun and creative, are by far outnumbered by the usual, standard recipes that can be found in any cookie book.
I expected more inspiration from this book!