My colorful mermaid cookie - Billy’s recipe
I am very excited about Christmas being right around the corner. It is truly one of my favorite holidays.
Every year, my boyfriend’s family and my family have the same gingerbread cookie making tradition — though the recipes and the frosting are totally different. When Billy and I first met long, long ago, we had no idea that we each shared a similar family tradition around Christmas.
My family tradition is this: My mom, my sister and I all help make the dough the night before and let it sit overnight. Then, we head to Grammy’s kitchen the next morning. We spend all day there baking cookies and icing each one after they cool. It’s a great tradition that has gone from generation to generation. We make tons of cookies and it’s truly the one thing I look most forward to during Christmas!
Billy’s family does things a little differently: They make the dough, and let it sit
overnight…but the recipe is very different. Their cookies are more gingery than ours, and thicker as well. They make all the
My family’s batch of cookies from Xmas 2011
cookies and then leave them unfrosted and in Tupperware until another day. Then they plan on a frosting day.
Now unlike our cookies, which are traditionally just white icing, Billy and his family make icing in all colors. It is truly a blast!!! Everyone, friends and family sit around a big round table decorating each cookie with all colors. Their frosting is quite different. It’s more sugary than ours.
But, in the end, it is so dear to my heart that we each have a tradition in our family that is so similar.
And now there is a bit of gingerbread rivalry, but we keep it fair most of the time. 
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