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French Butter Cream Cookies
A great buttery taste makes this the perfect cookie for snack time with a cup of your favorite holiday coffee. Quick, easy and delicious! This versatile alternative to sugar cookies can also be used as a base for other cookie varieties.
Holiday Fun Facts:
  • There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
  • Over 1.76 billion candy canes are produced during Christmas.
  • Alabama is the first state to give Christmas the status of holiday in 1836.
  • "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry (1949) sold 2 million copies of the song in it's first year.
  • Holly berries are poisonous.
  • After "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens wrote one Christmas story each year, but none more successful.
  • There are over 10,000 cut-your-own farms for Christmas trees in the United States.
  • Christmas cards account for 60% of all card sales. A distant second is Valentine's Day at 25%.
  • In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat made of straw.
  • Candy canes began as straight white sticks of sugar candy used to decorated the Christmas trees.
Due to the number of varieties, cookies will vary by recipient. Please consult the recipes on this site for information on ingredients.